I just realised it is now more than three years since I started out on my weight loss ‘journey’, and I hate calling it that because it’s so Biggest Loser – but really that’s what it has been.

I remember having many times of despair along the way, when it was hard, or weight loss was slow and thinking to myself that at this rate I will still be fat in 3 years – I managed to talk myself around by pointing out that I may still be fat in 3 years, but I’d certainly be a lot less fat and more healthy if I stuck with it than if I didn’t. That 3 years was going to pass either way, so I may as well stick at it – right?

And now here it is 3 years later, and yes I am still technically fat according to my BMI – but only just, I am very nearly at my goal and let me tell you I am infinitely happier and more confident in my own skin that I was then

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You’d think that after being on this healthy lifestyle kick for almost three years now I’d have the ‘perfect’ diet down to a tee – but I am less than perfect. It’s hard finding the balance between staying low calorie but still having enough food to feel satisfied and get all the nutrients our body needs to function.

I am aware I don’t eat enough fruit and often lack in vitamin C and B. I am also aware that I eat more than my daily share of carbohydrates most of the time.

I think what I have learned to accept though is that there really is no perfect diet that you can stick to at all times, you just have to find the perfect balance.

I was just looking on VitaDigest, a well known and respected company that was awarded INC5000 last year. They have a wide range of almost 15000 vitamins and supplements available and I do need to stock up on my vitamin B tablets again they also sell a lot of diet and weight loss products, I could probably benefit from the low carb chocolate and banana bars – they offer free shipping on orders over $100 but I don’t think I will need to spend quite that much.

I remembered why I set my main weight loss goal at 9.9, I couldn’t understand why I would set my next goal at just 1lb lower than my current one and it didn’t appear to be any sort of milestone in either pounds, stone, KGs or BMI.

Last night I remembered my logic behind it.

It’s because my weight will be two digits instead of three for the first time ever.

9.9

Not 9.10, or 10.0 or 10.10.

Jut two digits.

It’s a bit of a silly reason which is why I forgot, but I think it’s a pretty big achievement still

So I stick with my Crazy Low Calorie diet last week, I was consuming anything from 700 – 1200 per day and burning anthing from 400 – 700 through exercise.

I actually lost 2lbs.

This makes me very happy as I have not lost any wieght no matter what I have tried recently – however I am not getting too excited, my weight often fluctuates a lot and I will have to wait and see if it stays off over the next week when I return to my regular eating habits.

I will keep you updated.

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So my weight loss plan for this week is to go low calorie, and when I say low calorie I don’t mean 1400, or 1200, I mean as low as I can go.

Yesterday was day one of my plan and I consumed only 700 calories and burned 400.

Trust me, this is not something I am going to keep up past this week, I know that it is not recommended to eat so few calories. But I have tried every thing else I can think of to try and get the scales moving again and nothing has worked – ‘Crazy Low Cal’ is my last ditch attempt!

That means a lot of veg, salads, quorn, tofu and tuna and nothing but water to drink.

This is really no hardship for me, I actually love all of the above – especially tuna which is good for you, low in calories and delicious. It’s even been proved to be helpful for pregnant women in many ways, including fighting off depression. Usually women are encouraged to shy away from fish during pregnancy!

I already know many healthy tuna recipes but am always willing to learn more – remarkably out of all the amazing things you can do with tuna my favourite recipe is a simple tuna (low fat) mayo salad – it’s as easy as taking it out of the tin, mixing it in and enjoying.

I’ll update you on Wednesday to how it went.

After many complaints and much wrangling I managed to get my elliptical replaced, the new one arrived today and I can’t wait to get it up and used!

I am going to build it tomorrow, this will be about the 4th one I have done now and I know from experience that building it is a workout in itself – you’d think having done it so many times (not to mention taking it down again!) I would be able to do it really fast now, but no, I still struggle – I’d get my fiance to do it but he’s a procrastinator, by the time he got around to it I’d have gained 10 pounds back hehe

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So Christmas came and went and I gained a pound, that’s all, I can deal with gaining a pound. I certainly enjoyed my food and drink over the last few weeks allowing myself many treats and even an alcoholic drink – it’s the first Christmas in three years that I’ve just gone for it and not worried too much about calories.

I didn’t go crazy, almost 3 years into this healthier lifestyle of mine now I don’t think I could ever really just let loose and eat any thing and every thing in sight – but because it was over a 2 week period and I did little exercise in between I was expecting a bigger gain!

Back on the wagon now!

With Christmas just around the corner is now really the best time for both my heart rate monitor and my elliptical to break down? Argh.

In the last few years since I have been on this journey I have always been able to get through Christmas quite easily by working out extra hard in the week up to and the week after the big day – allowing myself to eat many of the nice treats and high calorie food. I have never gained over the holiday period and one year I even lost 3lbs.

This year I am going to struggle – I have no other actual equipment to use at home, I don’t have a gym membership and there’s several inches of snow out there.

The last few nights I have just been doing an aerobic routine followed by a bit of floor work that I vaguely remember from a few years ago when I last did the DVD, but without my heart rate monitor I don’t know how I am doing.

I know from experience I always work a lot harder when I have my HRM on.

Both are out of warranty now as well so it’s not like they can just be quickly and easily replaced.

What terrible timing

I am looking at my next main goal listed on the side there and trying to remember why I have it set as 9.9 – usually I set at at something that is a major milestone like 50 pounds lost, 5 stone lost, less than ever before, no longer obese BMI etc but no matter what I can’t work out what significance 9.9 has.

At 9.10 I will have lost a total of 6 stone, which is 84 pounds – so maybe it’s because that will be a total of 85 lost but I don’t know that doesn’t seem like the sort of major goal I would get excited about. At 9.9 my BMI will be 26.4, again not the sort of thing I’d set as a main goal. I will weigh 135 pounds at 9.9 which again…not a big deal.

I just can’t work it out!