So yesterday was meant to be the start of my slighty changed regime – breakfast, and an increse of 200 calories per day. I was all set to start, but then got thrown a curve ball…I weighed myself on Sunday evening as I usually do, 12.8 still for the 4th weigh in in a row, no change since I hit my 3 stone lost mini goal. Then I weighed myself on Wednesday night in preperation for starting this…12.5, what? I lost 3lbs in 3lbs?! That’s insane, especially as I wasn’t working out or any thing – Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my days off.

I am pleased but also confused, I can go a month working hard and not lose any thing…then I go and drop 3lb in 3 days with mininmal effort. I will never understand how my body works.

So I have decided not to change my routine this week, I will see how things go for a while and then rethink. Ja.

I am having a hard time getting that scale to move again at the moment, I have not lost any thing since I hit my 3 stone target. Annoying. I can fully admit to not giving 100% the last few weeks, I some how seem to have lost my motivation somewhat – but I have by no means gone crazy, so still would have expected to lose a pound or two.

Next week I am going to increase my calories, from 1200 to 1400, this terrifies me quite honestly…I’ve spent the last year trying to cut calories and now I have to try eat more, it seems wrong to me, but I feel like I need to do it…I have other people telling me 1200 is too few, and since I am stalled any way…

I hope it doesn’t go horribly wrong.

I will keep you updated.

Being my birthday…well, technically yesterday now, but since I have not been to sleep yet it still counts…I allowed myself a slice of lovely gooey coffee cake, I can’t remember the last time I had cake. I had requested that no one get me any naughty foods, and mainly people obliged….but my poor Dad was distraught at the thought of no coffee cake, it’s his favourite and a long birthday tradition in my family – so he went ahead and made one himself – this is insane, my Dad hasn’t never made a cake in his life, but he did a pretty good job

I have to say though…I feel sickly now, really sickly. I only got a small piece, so it’s not like I gorged…I am not sure now if it is just in my head, because I know I just ate something naughty, or if it’s really made me a little sick simply because I am no longer used to such sugary foods? Either way, I won’t be going back for seconds – which can only be a good thing

I just finished watching last weeks Biggest Loser USA, I know I know I really need to keep more up to date. I was so rooting for Bernie to come back, can’t believe he lost out by a measly 2lbs! Argh. I actually did the maths wrong in my head, I knew he had to lose x amount, and quickly decided he needed to be 196 or under…so when he was 196 I thought he had it, silly me. I was also shocked at the way Jillian reacted, not very professional at all – she’s really too into the gameplay these days, as is Bob. Though I did read that she says she was talking to a producer and not Alison Sweeny, and is apparently livid that it was edited to make it look like she was speaking directly to the host. Not sure I believe it, but I wouldn’t put it past the producers to do that, they do like them some drama.

I do love to play a bit of golf, I am not completely obsessed with it – but my enjoyment of it probably stems from when I was a kid and my dad was very much into it, I’d tag a long with him at the weekends and be his caddy hehe. I stopped going when I became a teenager and it was no longer cool to spend your weekends with your dad, but my enjoyment of the sport never went away and now that I am adult I like to get out there when I can, and I love the driving range. Of course it’s a great bonus that it burns calories by the bucket load and helps in keeping me fit

Now, I know how expensive golfing equipment can be so obviously it is important to get some golf insurance!

What is your top diet tip? mine is water. Yeah plain old ‘drink water’ – they say that a lot of the time when you think you are hungry, it’s actually just dehydration and a glass of something wet will see you right – so whenever it’s late, or I have eaten my calories for the day but I still feel hungry I go ahead and have a big glass of juice – of course this doesn’t always make the hunger go away, but I’d say it works about half of the time

I finally got around to watching last weeks episode of The Biggest Loser USA, I am compleeeeeetly heartbroken that Bernie was eliminated – he’s been my favourite since the beginning. I used to really like his partner Brittany as well, but in the week that Paul was voted off she really wound me up and became very ‘High School’ – any way the main reason I am mentioning this, I finally worked out who that obnoxious Dan kid from the blue team reminds me of, it has been bugging me the whole season – I kept thinking it was someone I actually knew in real life, after exhausting my list of every one I have ever known I decided it must be someone from a TV show but it just would not come to me. Well, coincidentally after I had watched the episode…I watched last weeks episode of Family Guy, and finally…finally it twigged.

I wish I had been able to find a picture of Dan with his blue shirt on to show off the similarity best, but I think this still works. Honestly, if I didn’t know that Chris Griffin was a cartoon character and therefore it isn’t physically possible, I’d be convinced they were twins.

I did it, 30 minutes very low intensity on my elliptical. It felt nice to get working out again, though I was very conscious of the fact every time I tried to push it it hurt my poor head – so I kept it very low key, I was only doing about 12km on level 2 resistance for most of it. As they say though, anything is better than nothing and my 30 minutes burned 200 calories so I feel good about it, I am going to try again tomorrow.

I am about to go and exercise for the first time in over a week, woo. I am actually pretty nervous to though, when I attempted it on Saturday it made me so unwell – I only did about 10 minutes before I had to give up – and my migraine is still lingering, but heck I need to get on with it, I can’t wait forever for the migraine to fully pass.

I hope it’ll be OK, I am going to take it easy and only do 20 – 30 minutes today. Fingers crossed

I can’t believe that some how I managed to not post to announce that I made it to 12.8, I think it is because I weighed in right before bed and my computer was off, I had planned to blog about it in the morning but I forgot. I do have that habit, if I fail to do something ‘right now’ I will forget, curse my old brain.

So yes, I did it…in a week when I hadn’t worked out at all due to a migraine (which is still lingering by the way, is it normal for a migraine to last 10 days, jeez) and wasn’t expecting to have lost any thing, I lost the 1lb I needed to bring me down to 12.8. That’s 3 stone lost in almost exactly a year, that’s 42lbs. I’m happy with that, I watch shows like The Biggest Loser and get insanely jealous when they drop a stone in one week – but really, those aren’t ‘real people in real situations’ – I think that a steady weight loss of 3 stone in 1 year is acceptable

I only wish I could tell more, it’s crazy to think I have lost so much but I can barely see it on myself.

I have called my next mini goal 12 stone, that’s 8lbs away and means I will have lost a total of 50lbs – it’s a pretty big goal for me as well, 12 stone was a number I had in my head when I first started out, it sort of symbolises the time in my head when I turn from a big fat blob, into some one who is just over weight. I’ll still have a long way to go, but I will feel a lot happier about myself at 12 stone.