Week 358

1.6lb gain

Well, that's nothing like as bad as I was expecting, which leads me to suspect some of this past weekend's indulgences are going to catch up with me on the next weigh-in.

Wishing you all a merry feastmas, and hoping damage limitation is in action.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 2lb - 184lbs
Body fat: 25%
Total Weight Loss: 91lbs

Week 357

No change.

OK, this is the weight to measure against see how successful I can be at damage limitation over Feastmas


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.4lb - 182.4lbs
Body fat: 25.3%
Total Weight Loss: 92.6lbs

Week 356

1.8lb loss!

Well that's a relief, although with Xmas so close now, it might be the last loss for a few weeks. Need to see if I can stay on track this week to provide a slight cushion for the following week...

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.4lb - 182.4lbs
Body fat: 25.3%
Total Weight Loss: 92.6lbs

Week 355

2.6lb gain

Maggie and I went away for the weekend, which is always a bit dangerous. Looks like I paid the price for it...

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 2.2lb - 184.2lbs
Body fat: 25.3%
Total Weight Loss: 90.8lbs

Week 354

0.6lb loss!

Good to be back under 13 stone again. Although we go away this weekend for a couple of nights, so there's a good chance I'll be back over by next week...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 13.6lb - 181.6lbs
Body fat: 25.7%
Total Weight Loss: 93.4lbs

Week 353

0.2lb loss

I seem to have levelled out with little significant change for over a month


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.2lb - 182.2lbs
Body fat: 24.3%
Total Weight Loss: 92.8lbs

Week 351

No change

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.4lb - 182.4lbs
Body fat: 24.7%
Total Weight Loss: 92.6lbs

Week 350

0.4lb loss!

Well, I'm more than happy with that. It was my birthday last week and the chocolate cake was soooo over indulged, I was certain I'd have put on 3lbs, so to have still made a loss is like an extra birthday treat


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.4lb - 182.4lbs
Body fat: 24.7%
Total Weight Loss: 92.6lbs

Week 349

0.4lb loss

Well I'd hoped for a bit more of a loss - especially as it's my birthday tomorrow so I'm likely to put on a pound or 2 from that - but at least it's a loss


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.8lb - 182.8lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 92.2lbs

Week 348

5.6lb gain.

Even though that is over 2 weeks, and we were away on holiday with several treats, it's still quite shocking. That kind of gain is more associated with Christmas, and I didn't indulge on those levels.

Still, nothing I can do about it now other than get back on track...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 1.2lb - 183.2lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 91.8lbs

Week 346

3lb loss in 2 weeks!

I was at the Wigtown Book Festival for 10 days as "Artist in Residence" (see main blog). Despite temptation, I pretty much stayed on track and am glad to see it paid off

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 9.6lb - 177.6lbs
Body fat: 24.1%
Total Weight Loss: 97.4lbs

Week 344

2.2lb loss

That'a relief after last week's gain!

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 12.6lb - 180.6lbs
Body fat: 24.5%
Total Weight Loss: 94.4lbs

Week 343

4.4lb gain

Maggie and I were away for a weekend which resulted in meals out and trips to cafes, and even a rogue ice cream so it's hardly surprising, although still a bit more of a gain than expected

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 0.8lb - 182.8lbs
Body fat: 24.9%
Total Weight Loss: 92.2lbs

Week 342

No change


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 10.4lb - 178.4lbs
Body fat: 24.9%
Total Weight Loss: 96.6lbs

Week 341

3lb loss!

I've been on track all week, but I wasn't expecting a loss that big.

However, the gain was higher than I was expecting last week, so perhaps that was a blip included in it (or this is a blip and I'll be higher next week). I suspect my actual loss is probably more like one and a half to two pounds

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 10.4lb - 178.4lbs
Body fat: 24.9%
Total Weight Loss: 96.6lbs

Week 340

3.6lb gain

Over 2 weeks, including a holiday with lots of indulgences. The hope is this week begins the turnaround...

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 13.4lb - 181.4lbs
Body fat: 24.3%
Total Weight Loss: 93.6lbs

Week 338

0.4lb loss

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 9.8lb - 177.8lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 97.2lbs

Week 337

1.8lb gain

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 10.2lb - 178.2lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 96.8lbs

Week 336

0.2lb gain.

Quite frankly I'm astonished it isn't more, considering it was my wife's birthday last week and that included various treats, including a very scrummy chocolate cake...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8.4lb - 176.4lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 98.9lbs

Week 335

0.4lb loss!

Happy with that

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8.2lb - 176.2lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 98.8lbs

Week 334

1lb gain

The pound I lost last week had reappeared this week and I have no idea why. Been on track all week.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8.6lb - 176.6lbs
Body fat: 24.3%
Total Weight Loss: 98.4lbs

Week 333

1lb loss


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7.6lb - 175.6lbs
Body fat: 24.5%
Total Weight Loss: 99.4lbs

Week 332

1.4lb gain

Sigh...

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8.6lb - 176.6lbs
Body fat: 24%
Total Weight Loss: 98.4lbs

Week 331

2lb gain?

OK, so it was my son's birthday last week, but even that shouldn't have accounted for 2lbs. Sigh... it seems I'm steadily creeping upwards. I'm now nearly 14lbs heavier than my lightest last year, and I've dropped back under the 100lb weight-loss mark.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7.2lb - 175.2lbs
Body fat: 24%
Total Weight Loss: 99.8lbs

Week 330

1lb gain in 2 weeks.

No idea what happened to last week. Forgot to weigh in

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 5.2lb - 173.2lbs
Body fat: 24.1%
Total Weight Loss: 101.8lbs

Week 328

2.4lb loss in 2 weeks.

Not entirely sure what happened last week, but it was about Thursday before I realised I'd forgotten to weigh myself on Monday, so I just left it until today.

However, given a large celebratory meal this evening, I'll be very surprised if I haven't gained by next week

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.2lb - 172.2lbs
Body fat: 23.6%
Total Weight Loss: 102.8lbs

Week 326

0.4lb gain.

Still not really sure what I'm doing wrong. As things stand at the moment there's little I can do to change my diet, and because of the CFS I cannot increase my activity levels. So it looks like it's just slowly creeping back up.

Which is intensely annoying as I'm not even eating cakes, bakes or other super tasty stuff I crave.

Sigh

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6.6lb - 174.6lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 100.4lbs

Week 325

1lb gain

Sigh...

Am basically on track, but don't seem to be moving anywhere

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6.2lb - 174.2lbs
Body fat: 23.3%
Total Weight Loss: 100.8lbs

Week 324

0.4lb loss

A step in the right direction

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 5.2lb - 173.2lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 101.8lbs

Week 323

1lb loss!

Well I was completely on track all week, despite some severe cravings, so it's nice to see a loss.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 5.6lb - 173.64lbs
Body fat: 24.1%
Total Weight Loss: 101.4lbs

Week 322

1.4lb gain.

Well, this was a bit more predictable - a 2nd helping of cake on my stepson's 30th birthday, plus we've had to grab fish & chips for dinner twice this week. It all accumulates.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6.6lb - 174.64lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 100.4lbs

Week 321

1.2lb loss

I'd like to think this was for real, but the last several weeks haven't seemed to have reflected my eating habits.

All I can do is keep going and keep making the healthier choices and fight the cravings

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 5.2lb - 173.2lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 101.8lbs

Week 320

2.6lb gain?

I don't really understand that one either. Perhaps last week was the blip, not the week before

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6.4lb - 174.4lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 100.6lbs

Week 319

Accumulated gain - 1lb

Last week I wasn't around on Monday, having been away for the weekend. However, on Tuesday I weighed in at 175lbs - a 3.2lb gain on the previous week.

It didn't make sense and I decided to just see what this week said instead.

Sure enough I seem to have dropped over 2lbs since last week - which again seems unlikely.

The 1lb up from 2 weeks ago seems about right, so I think last week's reading was just a blip and can be safely ignored.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.8lb - 172.8lbs
Body fat: 23.9%
Total Weight Loss: 102.2lbs

Week 317

1lb loss!

After a couple of weeks of nothing, despite being on track, it's a relief to finally lose something. I hope it's the start of a trend and not a blip

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 3.8lb - 171.8lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 103.2lbs

Week 316

No change.

Hmmm. I've been pretty much on track for the past couple of weeks now, but have basically stayed at the same weight. Have I plateaued?

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.8lb - 172.8lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 102.2lbs

Week 315

0.2lb loss.

Not much, I know, but at least I've stopped gaining.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.8lb - 172.8lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 102.2lbs

Week 314

1lb gain.

Well with my daughter's birthday last week, and the fact my wife and I managed a surprise short weekend away together, so that meant a meal out on Saturday and popcorn at the cinema, then I have to feel quite fortunate that it was only a 1lb gain.

But, apart from those things, I was completely on track all week. I seem to have reached a point where I am containing any extra eating - it's not triggering a series of binges. The following day - even the following meal - I'm back on track again.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 5lb - 173lbs
Body fat: 23.3%
Total Weight Loss: 102lbs

Week 313 - 6 years

0.4lb loss.

To be honest, I was hoping for a bit more. I've been completely on track this week, and given the recent gains I thought a good week would make more of an indent.

Another reason for hoping for a greater loss was today is my daughter's birthday - this has meant a birthday dinner with lots of treats and a birthday cake - which is all going to show up in next week's figures, even if I stay completely on track again.

Meanwhile, perhaps I should mention that tomorrow (15th Feb) marks the 6th anniversary since we made the shift to focusing on healthy eating. Although I'm not actually that much lighter than I was 4 years ago

- see http://losingcwt.blogspot.com/2007/02/week-105.html

Most of the weight was lost in the first year, with most of the rest lost in the second. Since then it has crept up and down, rising to 26lbs more than I currently am, about 18 months ago, but also falling to around 8lbs lighter than I am now, back in late Autumn.

What is clear with all this, is that this is a lifetime thing. I will not reach the end. I will not reach a point where that will be it, I can just take my eye off the ball and just eat without monitoring.

Left without checking, my weight starts creeping up. Hell, it's been creeping up now, even though I am checking. But without the weekly excuses stats I put on this blog, I know it would be a lot worse.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4lb - 172lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 103lbs

Week 312

0.4lb gain.

Double sigh...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.4lb - 172.4lbs
Body fat: 23.7%
Total Weight Loss: 102.6lbs

Week 311

0.4lb gain.

Sigh...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4lb - 172lbs
Body fat: 23.5%
Total Weight Loss: 103lbs

Week 310

1.8lb gain.

Oh dear. Not so happy about that. I knew I wasn't going to lose anything but I'm a bit surprised by that level of gain.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 3.6lb - 171.6lbs
Body fat: 22.8%
Total Weight Loss: 103.4lbs

Week 309

1.6lb loss!

Pleased with that. Been mostly on track with only a couple of small extras which I feared would count against me, but don't appear to have.

Relieved.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 1.8lb - 169.8lbs
Body fat: 23.2%
Total Weight Loss: 105.2lbs

Week 308

0.8lb loss.

I'm pleased with this. When I stood on the scales this morning I was thinking my weight last week was what it was 2 weeks ago, so thought at first I'd put on over a pound. I was relieved when I checked and found I'd actually lost nearly a pound instead.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 3.4lb - 171.4lbs
Body fat: 22.5%
Total Weight Loss: 103.6lbs

Week 307

2.2lb gain.

Well that could have been a whole lot worse.

Basically that's a 6.4lb gain across the Festive season. If I can get back on track this week, then I can feel satisfied that damage limitation strategies were largely successful. Although I'll feel happier once I've dropped back below 12 stone.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 4.2lb - 172.2lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 102.8lbs