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I’ve jumped back on the wagon, rejoining WW during their free DVD and joining fee period.
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I met Jacques for the first time in a few months, and boy! What a change! He is now a svelte smooth dude, and quite possibly a love machine for all the ladies with any sense.

But not me – I am so fat.

I had to go to the opera tonight, and needed a dress shirt. I tried on my collection of disused dress shirts I bought in a fit of “good boy!” reward mode earlier this year, most of which almost fit me back then. Now – most of them would have had projectile buttons when I sat down in the car. So disappointing.

But I’m not going to waste my time with WW meetings. Most of the time I turned up (when I could – see rampant travel problems), but didn’t lose any weight because I didn’t have the will to stop eating stupidly in the week. Nor the will to wake up early enough to go for a walk or to go to the gym.

I tried going to the gym after work, but that never worked. Tired. Hungry. Crabby. So, morning and weekends it was. Or in my case, wasn’t.

I lost weight (4 kg) in Italy (3 weeks!) even despite eating completely stupidly whilst in England, and eating nothing but pizza once or twice a day in Italy. The trick? Walking at least four or five km (sometimes 20+) each and every day.

It comes down to motivation – do I have any? I’ve met a nice lady in Sydney, my shirts don’t fit me, and I’m one or two meals away from needing the belt extender in Virgin Blue. I have to lose the weight.

Truth time:

I’m resetting the counter and Excel spreadsheets for me.

133.5 kg this morning. I want to be 132.5 kg next Sunday morning.

I weighed in at 90.1 this week, a loss of 1.5kg. This brings me to within 3.1kg of goal weight. I am therefore still on track to achieve hitting maintenance and completing it within the 12 week set of coupons that I bought; I need to lose 3 kg in 4 weeks. Interestingly, I can see where there’s still more than 3kg of flab, so even though I thought that 97 kg was ridiculously light for me, I can understand why early 80s would be a non-fatty weight for me.

So, this morning, on my dodgy scales (which are getting less dodgy as I get lighter), I did the nude up post morning ablutions, and I hit goal! Woo hoo! I can sniff it now!

Lost 1.5kg for the week. This is a total of 24.7kg for the year, and I am now 6.6 kg off achieving goal weight. Next Monday night is my last Monday night; I am switching to Saturday mornings starting Saturday week. I will take out a 12 week membership ion Saturday week. The aim then is to have at least some of the that time (hopefully six weeks!) in maintenance. I think I will have a better idea of how realistic that aim is after Monday night. If I can maintain ~ 1kg/week then it is.

Is anyone else using this blog anymore?

I put on 0.6kg. Seems that the rest of the tubbies + Keef were MIA 🙁

Last night would have to be the best meeting I’ve been to. Really spirited discussion, and I picked up some highly useful tips on boredom eating.

How do people think that they will go tonight? I’ve had an up and down week. I think that I will put on, which is a shame. The same themes keep popping up:

* boredom @ work;
* colder weather => need for more energy (or is this just an excuse)?

and the chocky mud cake at the futures retreat I attended will not help matters, I am sure.

A quick weigh on my scales at home would indicate a rise of ~ 1kg for the week 🙁

Of the thirty kg I had to lose, the first twenty was a doddle. I’ve been hanging between 20 and 25kg for a while now. It took be nineteen weeks to lose the first 20kg. In that last ten weeks I have lost 3.5kg. Time to refocus I think.

Lost 2kg last night, and, in the process, I passed by the 20% mark inasmuch as I have now lost slightly more than 20% of my starting weight!
Hey ho!

I have no idea how I will go tonight. Attempts at tracking and keeping on top of things were derailed by anniversary dinner and a one year old’s 1st b’day party (how many pts is fairy bread?)

I am hoping for a loss, but expecting a(nother) small gain. We will see.