Week 289

1.6lb loss!

Very happy with that. I've been on track all week,  but I'm still surprised when I lose anything more than about half a pound.

I'm now only 0.2 of a pound short from losing  112lbs, or in British Currency 8 stone - which is a British hundredweight - something I never actually believed I would ever reach.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 9.2lb - 163.2lbs
Body fat: 21.1%
Total Weight Loss: 111.8lbs

Week 288

0.2lb gain

I can live with that. There have been a handful of extras which meant I knew I was unlikely to lose anything this week. However, what this does mean is it consolidates the large loss last week, which I was concerned might have just been a blip.

Should be completely back on track this week.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 10.8lb - 164.8lbs
Body fat: 21%
Total Weight Loss: 110.2lbs

Week 287 - 50kg

2.4lb loss!

Although I've been back on track all week, I wasn't expecting a loss of this magnitude, so I'll have to see next week whether it's sustained or is a blip.

However, dropping under 11st 11lbs, or 165lbs means I've hit the 50kg marker.

During the winter, the coalman delivers bags of coal weighing 50kg, and I can barely pick them up for more than a few seconds, and I need my son to help me decant it into smaller bags.

It now seems mindboggling that 5½ years ago I was carrying that amount extra on me every day.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 10.6lb - 164.6lbs
Body fat: 21.3%
Total Weight Loss: 110.4lbs

Week 286

0.4lb & 0.8lb gains

The past couple of weeks has included 2 trips away for 2-3 days at a time, as well as excessive tiredness and illness, resulting in precious little physical activity.

The upshot is gains (as well as a missed blog update), but cruicially (for my own self esteem at least) I'm still under 12 stone. And everything should be back on track, as from this morning.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 13lb - 167lbs
Body fat: 21%
Total Weight Loss: 108lbs

Week 284

0.2lb gain

Although it's a gain, I'm delighted with it.

Last week it was my wife's birthday, so in addition to a huge slice of chocolate cake, we'd also had ice cream earlier in the day when we went out for a picnic, and popcorn in the evening when we went to the cinema to see Toy Story 3.

Consequently I had fears of putting on a pound or more. So to have only gained 0.2 of a pound is a good result in my book.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 11.8lb - 165.8lbs
Body fat: 22.1%
Total Weight Loss: 109.2lbs

Week 283

0.6lb loss!

Still heading in the right direction. After the larger losses of the previous couple of weeks I wasn't expecting much, so to still lose over half a pound feels good.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 11.6lb - 165.6lbs
Body fat: 22.1%
Total Weight Loss: 109.4lbs

Week 282

1.4lb loss!

Well that was a surprise. I'm still doing what I've been doing every week so given the 1.4lb loss last week, I wasn't expecting the same level of drop this time.

So this puts me in sight of losing 8 stone - only 3.2lbs away from that figure - and 8 stone is 112lbs which is a hundredweight in British measurements, not the US 100lbs.

I never expected to get down this far


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 12.2lb - 166.2lbs
Body fat: 22.1%
Total Weight Loss: 108.8lbs

Week 281 - under 12 stone

1.4lb loss!

Not only is that a good amount to lose in a week, but highly significant for me is it takes me under 12 stone.

For those who measure purely in pounds or kilos, I know stones are an odd scale. 1 stone = 14 pounds. Don't ask me - I didn't invent it, I just grew up with it.

However, because I grew up with it, each time I cross a stone it has much larger significance than crossing, say a 10lb or even a 10kg marker.

But to have reached a point where there is an 11 in front almost makes me weep, for it puts me in the realm of the weight I was as a young man, before I started gaining.

As well as being the upper limit of the "normal" range for my height, according to the BMI charts, 11st 4lbs is the weight I have in my head as what I was around the ages of 19 to 21 years old. I am now 11st 13.6lbs.

I do not expect to get down to 11st 4lbs, but to be within the same "stone" almost makes me dizzy.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 11st 13.6lb - 167.6lbs
Body fat: 22.2%
Total Weight Loss: 107.4lbs

Week 280

1lb loss!

Phew! After last week's unexpected gain I had a moment of fear that it was going to unravel. However, it was just a blip and if I'd lost 0.4lbs last week and another 0.4lbs this week then I would have ended up in the same place and felt quite content.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 1lb - 169lbs
Body fat: 21.4%
Total Weight Loss: 106lbs

Week 279

0.2lb gain :(

OK, I know 0.2lbs is little more than the weight of a good fart, but unfortunately it breaks the 15 week run I was whooping with joy about last week.

I really cannot think of anything I have done differently this week, so I'll just have to put it down to a blip and hope I continue in the right direction next week


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 2lb - 170lbs
Body fat: 21.7%
Total Weight Loss: 105lbs