Week 255

0.2lb gain

This means my entire Feastmas gain has been less than 2lbs!

WOOHOO!!!

Without doubt this will have been the least amount gained over a Christmas period at any point in my life.

And it's not like we didn't let ourselves enjoy our food and go for it over Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. But we contained it within those days.

Sure we had a few little extras over other days, but we contained them to either a little something with the morning coffee, or an addition to dinner.

What we didn't do (except on Hogmanay) was eat in the evenings in front of the TV, and snack in between meals. And of course, the core diet was still healthy.

It took a lot of planning and resolution on the run up to the Gluttenous Season, but it's paid off.

And we're right back on track again.

I'm going to allow myself a rather large *smug* moment...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 9.4lb - 191.4lbs
Body fat: 26.7%
Total Weight Loss: 83.6lbs

Week 254

1.6lb gain.

Now that's not bad at all!

Ok, complete blow outs on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, but on the week running up, I was pretty good.

However, experience has shown that the biggest weight gain is often in the week following Christmas, as resolve has been weakened, sugar levels are now all over the place, and the house is still stuffed full of goodies you couldn't bring yourself to throw away.

The intention is to try and be back on track this week, with only the occasional minor treat - something nice with the coffee type of thing - but really try and keep off the excess until New Year's Day. Blow out on that day only, and be back on track by Jan 2nd.

If we can do it, this will be a major step forward from the annual problem of feeling it's not worth trying to contain anything until after new year. But if we can keep the weight gain to only 2 or 3 pounds, then that is considerably better than putting on 8 to 10 or more.

Hope you all had a great Christmas. Wishing you all the very best for the new year and decade :)


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 9.2lb - 191.2lbs
Body fat: 26.1%
Total Weight Loss: 83.8lbs

Week 253

No change.

I was hoping I might have got a bit lower, but at least I haven't gained yet.

So, now it's time to face the big one - the toughest time of the year for anyone with a seething, writhing, mass of food "issues"

The strategy is to try and contain the worst of it to Christmas Day and Boxing Day, then be vigilant for the rest of the week.

And of course, Damage Limitation plays it's part across the whole period.

If you're new to the idea of Damage Limitation, then do read this post I did in a guest spot on MizFit's site last year: http://mizfitonline.com/2008/12/26/damage-limitation/

Wishing you all the very best this Feastmas


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 7.6lb - 189.6lbs
Body fat: 26.5%
Total Weight Loss: 85.4lbs

Week 252

1.2lb loss!

So, one more week left to try and get a faultless 7 day run before the mother of all temptations leaps out, throws me about, slaps me around, beats me up then forces all sorts of sweet, creamy, calorie-rich things down my throat, which I will be powerless to resist.

And for anyone who's interested, I've put a weight tracker at the bottom of the page which shows my progress and lapses over the past 4 years (scroll right down)


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 7.6lb - 189.6lbs
Body fat: 26.9%
Total Weight Loss: 85.4lbs

Week 251

2.2lb loss!

Well that happily cancels out the gains of the past couple of weeks. Being completely on track since we got back from our wee break seems to have paid off. Our "treats" managed to stay contained within the weekend away and we didn't struggle to fall back into the routine when we got back.

In fact I'm left with a nett profit and am now at the lowest I've been since I started back on the way down again, and am around the same weight I was back in June (when I was still on the way back up).


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 8.8lb - 190.8lbs
Body fat: 27%
Total Weight Loss: 84.2lbs

Week 250

1lb gain

Only to be expected really. Maggie and I had 2 nights away on our own. Without kids. 2 nights. Consecutively. First time we've had that in about 12 years. So it was a bit difficult not to have meals out and a slice of something tasty with a coffee in a cafe...

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 11lb - 193lbs
Body fat: 26.9%
Total Weight Loss: 82lbs

Week 249

0.6lb gain.

I have absolutely no idea why. I've been completely on track this past week. I was getting all ready to write a smug self-congratulatory blog post, but I've gained.

I can only hope it's a random blip.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 10lb - 192lbs
Body fat: 27%
Total Weight Loss: 83lbs

Week 248

2.2lb loss!

Another full week on track and it's clearly paying dividends. I feel a bit suspicious of this amount of weight loss, but if I combine it with the 0.4lbs of last week and take an average of 1.3lbs per week over the past fortnight, then that makes much more sense.

This past couple of months has seen the first real sustained drive for nearly 2 years and it's working.

What I'm hoping is to have built up enough momentum so Feastmas doesn't derail everything


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 9.4lb - 191.4lbs
Body fat: 27%
Total Weight Loss: 83.6lbs

Week 247

0.4lb loss

For what has been a near perfect week, I was hoping for a slightly larger loss. But, a loss is a loss, and I'd have been really pissed off if I'd gained, so I'm content :)


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 11.6lb - 193.6lbs
Body fat: 27.4%
Total Weight Loss: 81.4lbs

Week 246

1.4lb loss!

Well, I'm more than happy with that - it takes me down below  my pre-holiday, pre-birthday weight from 3 weeks ago.

There have been a couple of times when I've had a few extras, and I feared they might have cancelled out any weightloss this week, but on both occasions I was pretty restrained and they were by no means complete blow-outs.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 13st 12lb - 194lbs
Body fat: 27.1%
Total Weight Loss: 81lbs