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I posted my last entry before I had weighed in for my mid week weigh in, just assuming I wouldn’t have lost - well I did, I lost 2lbs! I actually weighed myself 3 or 4 times because I couldn’t quite believe it, I thought the scale must be wrong…but every time it came back the same, 11 stone and 7 pounds. Wow. It feels amazing to have finally got to that mini goal, it had been a long time coming.

I now weigh 11 and a half stone, I have now lost over 4 stone, my main goal is getting closer.

You’ll also notice that I have set my next mini goal as 10.13, this is actually a big one…usually I do it 3, 4, maybe 5 pounds at a time, given how long it can take me to lose weight it just makes sense to keep them small….so 8lbs is huge, and if things continue as they have then it’s going to be around 3 months before I get to it! But that’s OK because it’s an important one - not only for the obvious reason that it makes me 10 stone something, and I have not seen the 10 stones anything mark in at least 5 years, but also because it’ll mean my BMI is 29.9, officially in the ‘overweight’ category rather than the obese category I have been sitting unpretty in for many years.

So, now that my migraine seems to have subsided (touch wood) I am back to working out - I only stopped for 2 weeks, but it’s amazing how out of the loop you get with it, 30 minutes/300 calories is killing me the last few days and usually I’d see that as only a minor workout, that’s about the minimum I ever usually do!

I haven’t been following the zig zag this week though, I have been sticking to around 1300 calories - I just have such a hard time getting my head around eating more, for what seems like just the sake of it. Next week I am going to give 100% to the zig zagging though, calories and amount of exercise, follow it to the letter. If I am still not losing weight after that then I am going to quit the elliptical and do something else instead…maybe an old aerobics video…if I am still not losing weight after that I am going to chop off a limb

So, I haven’t lost any more weight since that first 2lbs. Ugh. I was so hopeful that that loss meant the end of my plateau and I’d see a few big losses.

I’ve only lost 1 stone in 6 months.

I’m going to a wedding in December that I want to look haaaaaaaaawt for, I was hoping to be at my goal of 10.2 by then but that seems highly unlikely at the moment. Oh well, I shall keep at it…a stone in 6 months is sure better than nothing.

Oh boy, it feels good to see that scale move again…soooooo good.

I weighed myself on Sunday and was 11.9 instead of the beastly 11.11 I have been stuck at for over 2 months
I am only blogging about it now though because I was worried it was just a temporary blip and the 11.11 would return, but it’s stayed off for 3 days so that’s good enough for me to believe it.

I am now 1lb away from having lost 4 stone. 1lb away from reaching my next mini goal…and I already know what my next mini goal will be.

Here’s to hoping it keeps coming off now it’s started again, but I won’t be holding my breath

So, here’s what has been happening with my weight loss - nothing. Still nothing.

I was planning on just taking a few days off from my healthy lifestyle…no working out, eating what I wanted (without going crazy of course)…just to get the scale moving again, give my body a shock and see what it does….and then starting my new routine (zig zagging), but after 4 days….my weight still didn’t change, so I decided to continue it a few more days, after a week still no change - I decided that I wanted to get back into it any way, regardless of my weight still being stuck so had planned to start up again yesterday…only yesterday my head decided to get a migraine!

So now, I don’t know what the heck I am doing or when I am starting me new diet - but I do know when the scale finally moves from that blasted 11.11 I have been seeing for over 2 months now - I might just have to throw a party to celebrate lol

I am terrified about tomorrows weigh in, it’s a long time since I have felt as nervous as this over it…usually it’s excitement and the feeling of not being able to wait! I think having not lost anything for so many weeks, a gain, even if it’s only a pound or two, would hit really really hard - I hope to heck I am doing the right thing here and taking my foot off the peddle for a short while will work out for me in the long run. Eeep.

Thankfully that lb I gained..came straight back off again, I suspected it would

The consensus on the thread I started at Caloriecount.com was that I needed to change it up and try something new, having been doing the same thing for so long my body is probably just used to it. So, until Monday I am officially not counting calories for the first time in a year and a half, and I am not working out - freaky. Of course I am not going to go crazy and just stuff my face, but if I am a few 100 over my norm….oh well. As of Monday I will be zig zagging my calories, that is - eating a different amount each day, but still ending up with the same overall intake/deficit.

I hope to heck it works out for me, I am terrified of gaining weight.

This week I have been as good as gold, I have worked out hard and eaten right. I have counted every calorie, I have drunk nothing but water and green tea, I have balanced my diet every day. This week I have been the ‘perfect’ text book dieter - yet I have no hopes about tomorrows weigh in being a good one - I think my body has just given up and decided it’s happy being fat. I haven’t lost a single pound in over a month now, so if I don’t see movement tomorrow I am done doing what I am doing (sensible, slow, calorie controlled) and it’s time to try something new - I just don’t know yet what that something new is though.

Another weigh in, another disappointment - no loss again - is it safe to say yet that what I am currently doing isn’t working? I haven’t lost a single pound since I increased my calories by 200 per day by introducing breakfast to my diet. No loss at all since June 26th, and only 1lb since May 29th - jeez.

It’s hard to know though, if it’s just a plateau that I need to ignore, keep doing what I am doing and wait for it to pass…because I have gone this long on a plateau before many times…or if it’s actually that what I am doing isn’t working any more, at what point do I throw my hands in the air and give it up? And if I do switch to something else, what? Do I drop my calories again, increase them? Do more cardio? Do more exercise in general? Start doing Cheat days?

I’m just confused and exasperated with it at the moment.

Oooh look at that, I changed my main goal in the sidebar from 10 stone…as it has been since I started this journey, to 9.13 - yes it’s only a 1lb change, but I was thinking about it the other day and realised…why stop at 10 stone? That was my initial goal because I wanted to weigh less than I did when I started seeing my other half 5 years ago. But 1 more lb would make me into the 9 stone range, it’d make me less than when I started seeing my other half, it’d make me into a single figure number, it’d make me officially weight less than I have done in my whole adult life.

So yeah, a small change it might be…but it’s a good one