2 Stones Gone!!! :-D

Finally!!! All of my hard work has paid off and I lost 3lbs today at WI. I am so happy, particularly after gaining 0.5lbs last week and was so annoyed I couldn't bring myself to post about it on here. :(
So now I weigh 18st 11.5lbs, so I am finally into the 18s for the first time in over 5 years!!! Yay!!Not only that but I also hit my 2st goal!! Double Yay!! My 10% goal is now only 1.5lbs away, and although in a normal week of tracking and exercising I would hope to achieve that, I'm not going to set my heart on it. Firstly because I know my TOTM is approaching and secondly because i'm going out with the girls on saturday. Although I have been saving points and exercising this week in preparation and plan to stay sensible, I know in practice that it doesn't always work out that way.....

Weigh In Result - STS :-S

I suppose after a loss of 6lb last week was not a total shock. I am a bit miffed though, as I have tracked everything religiously and earned 20bps and only used half of them! The only thing I can think of that may have been lacking was the water intake. Will have to monitor that more closely this week. And maybe up the exercise as it did kind of diminish after Sunday this week. I think I have been coming down with something, as I keep on waking up with a sore throat. So really didn't feel like going swimming at 7am a couple of times this week, which I would otherwise have done. I won't be able to go swimming in the morning for another month now, as next week I swap back to my early shift which is 07.00-15.00, but will hopefully make up for it as I will be able to get to a variety of other classes, like body pump, and studio cycling. I may even try a body jam class (it's dance based apparently) and of course there's my absolute fave - AQUATONE!! I should be able to get to all 4 classes in theory when I'm on earlies, though the friday night one usually gets bumped off if I have some socialising to do!!

So, I'm generally being philosophical about my lack of weight loss this week, and will be doing all that I can to make sure that I WILL see a loss at the scales next time!

It would have been nice to lose just 0.5lbs though to get me into the 18's for the first time in years!! Grrrr.. but like i've said......there's always next week!!

Weight Loss Ticker

I decided to add a weight loss ticker to my blog, in addition to my long list of mini goals. At the moment the ticker only shows roughly up to my half way point (about 5 Stone). As I progress I will change it to reflect my ultimate goal weight. I still don't know what I want that to be. At my slimmest, when I was 18, I weighed about 11 stone. However, I just checked what my BMI would have been, and it was 25. Right at the top of the healthy range. I think maybe this time around I would to set the bar a little lower, as with the slightest hiccup I would be back in the overweight category...It's bad enough being obese (morbidly) now!!! Maybe my ideas on this will change when any kind of goal is in sight..

But for now, I thought i'd be nostalgic and add some photos of how I used to look when I was slim and young and the world was my oyster (and how i'd like to look again, although older and much more cynical! Lol):

God I loved these jeans! They are size 14, and I still have them somewhere!! One day they will fit again!!!

Me at my 6th Form Leaving Do

Me and a random guy from my shady past....lol

WI Shocker!!! :-)

At WI this evening I hopped on the scales to find that I had lost 6lbs!! I was quite shocked, even though I was sure I had lost some, I was't expecting it to be quite that much!! My friend who joined last week lost 4.5lbs too, which is brilliant. However, I did feel slightly guilty about it. She did seem a bit disappointed when I told her how much I had lost. I suppose she may have felt that her 1st wi was eclispsed by mine. Or maybe I'm just being to sensitive and reading far too much into things. I tend to do that! Anyway, I don't feel guilty now, because I know I worked bloody hard this week, and although it was a bit of a surprise, I feel that it was well earned! I have tracked obsessively now for the last 3 weeks - a consistency which I have never managed before now. I have also done more exercise than ever before since starting WW. I have worn my pedometer every waking moment and recorded the activity points accordingly. Despite all of this, I have not been puritanical about things- During the last week I have enjoyed a chinese takeaway, alcohol, and even a large portion of chicken kebab meat and chips! All in all I have just been living my life, and enjoying it. I think the penny has finally dropped - I can actually do this, and quite well it seems, without suffering!
So that was 2 goals achieved in one week: I collected by 3rd silver 7, and hit my 25lb target!
Now I need to lose 0.5lbs to get into the 18s (yay!), 2.5lbs to get my 4th silver 7 - 2 Stone target!, and 3.5lbs to get my 10%. I am literally raring to go!!! Woooohooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exercise, Exercise, Exercise!!!!!

Well, I enjoyed my aqua class so much last night that I decided to get up this morning and go to another one!! Monday aquafit classes are somewhat different to the ones I go to on wednesdays, thursdays, occasionally fridays and sundays. For starters they are in an ultra posh leisure centre in Solihull, and they are deep water aqua aerobics, which means you don't touch the bottom at all (unless you inadvertantly sink!!) so you are completely buoyant the whole time. The class is comprised of mainly mature ladies (60+ I would guess), and I am the only person there under 40 I think!! But they are a friendly lot, so it's fine. Most of the other ladies wear floatation belts, but I don't use them as I am quite a good swimmer, and I figure that my flab will keep me buoyant enough!! It is hard work, and I was sweating when I got out of the pool, but I felt great and it was well worth it for the 4.5 bonus points for the 50 min session, and an extra 1 bp for doing 10mins non stop power lengths after the class had finished. That means i've managed to clock up 9.5 bp's in the last two days alone!! Wooo!! Go me!!! I will end up eating some of these points though, as in the past when I have tried to be clever and save them all, I have ended up sts or not losing as much as I would have liked, and yet when I have eaten them all, often ended up losing more weight. It's a delicate balance which i'm yet to understand fully! I'm gonna go and have a hunt around for my pedometer now, as it seems to have gone missing, and I am going for a walk with a friend in a short while and would like to earn some more carefully calculated bp's (I don't trust myself with estimating!). I suppose I better dig out my walking shoes too. Just hope the rain stops for a while. I've got wet enough for one day!!

First Blog Entry!!

This is quite exciting for me, as this is my first ever real attempt at a blog. Although i'm not really starting out on my weight loss journey (I joined WW in Feb 2007!), I had read quite a few blogs of the girls (& ladies) on the 5+ message board, I thought it might give it a go and see if it helps.

One thing I did note is that the ones with the photos seem more interesting somehow - maybe i'm a closet voyeur?? - so start off i've added a few of me at my heaviest. They are my most awful "fat photos":

Just before joining ww in 2007

August 2008 at Reading Festival

At a wedding in July 2008 - Gorgeous dress, shame about the flab!!

It's a bit depressing to see how little my weight has changed over the past few years. This is why I am doing something about it NOW!!

Stats so far:

Start Weight - 20st 11.5lbs

Current Weight - 19st 6lbs (as of 30.04.09)

Mini Goals:

19st 4.5lbs - 1 1/2 Stone (1.5lbs to lose)

18st 13.5lbs - Into the 18's (6.5lbs to lose)

18st 11.5lbs - 2 Stone (8.5lbs to lose)

18st 10lbs - 10% goal

I haven't set an ultimate goal weight yet, as I don't think that would help me much at the moment.

Anyway, I'll sign off here as I am going to be a good girl and go to my aqua aerobics class. It's great fun and earns me 4 bonus points, so well worth it!! ;-)