Tenth Weigh-In

Well, I'm in shock.
Not at the England Football Team's desperately disappointing display in South Africa. Let's be honest, in the last 3 major tournaments we were pitiful in 2 of them and didn't even qualify for the one in the middle.
No, I had my worst ever weigh-in on Friday. I genuinely couldn't believe it when the scales said that I'd gone up, I got off and tried it again, but predictably with the same result. I simply couldn't believe it as I knew i'd been more dislipined in the preceeding fortnight than I had been in the 2 weeks before - and I lost nearly 3lb then!
I'm not going to lie to you and say I was perfect, but my worst excesses were avoided, Cerberus was walked, and I felt I was heading in the right direction (inward!). I can only put it down to the fact that like an idiot I'd sliooed out of the routine of taking my 'blue pills' as often as I should have been - which shows how much I still need them.
So basically, I'm gutted and I now I have to pick myself up off the floor.
Weird, 3 key bits to this weight-loss lark, and I was still doing pretty well on the difficult two...

Eighth and Ninth Weigh-Ins - very belatedly!

Hello everyone. I'm sorry that it's been so long since I last updated this blog - I can't believe that the last time I burbled on here was at the election - it feels like a lifetime ago! I must admit that cynical old me never really believed that 'The Dave and Nick Show' would last even this long! That said I also tipped England to beat Algeria 2-0 'even if we played badly'. With that level of punditry, perhaps I'd better tip Slovenia to win 5-0 on Wednesday...
Anyway, at my next-to-last weigh-in on the 28th May I had a bad, but predictable, result, losing only 0.2kg from my previous visit. It was exactly what I deserved to be honest - I'd been feeling low at the time and slipped back into my old habit of comfort-eating a few times too many. It could have been a lot worse.
The good news is that it was something of a wake-up call for me, and while I didn't turn things around immediately, I was certainly much better behaved over the next couple of weeks; managing to avoid my worst excesses. When I next got weighed, on Friday 11th June, I was down by quite a bit more, losing 1.6kg or about 3.5lb. So that left me at that last weigh-in at 188.4kg, or 29st 9lb. A long way still to go, but battle has been rejoined!
A few people have asked me what exactly my target weight is. Officially the ideal weight for my height is around 12 stone - 20 stone down from where I started. I've basically lost around 3 stone in 4 months - another 17 stones at this rate seems a little bit hard to imagine - but we'll keep going and see how we do. Realistically, I've broken the 30 stone barrier - I've simply got to keep going and get beneath 20 stone and into the teens - and then see where we're at...