Weigh-in - Week 70

With many apologies to my reader, who must have been getting very worried about my absence, I'm back! I haven't actually been away anywhere, I just haven't posted anything since week 66. This was due to being somewhat bored of the whole blog thing and not really losing any weight. This week, however, I'm feeling much better as I have had a loss of 3.2lbs to bring me down to 16st 3.4lbs so, at last, I am finally below the weight I was when I went on holiday back in August! I'm also back on target to be overweight by Christmas - I need to lose 6.4lbs in 8 weeks.

The last few weeks have been fairly uneventful and I have been stuck on a plateau which, hopefully, I have now fallen off. Since the end of the holiday I have really struggled with my exercise regime and have only been doing about 2 crosstrainer sessions per week, last week I managed to do the standard 3 sessions and, this morning I matched my personal best distance on it, so I'm feeling much more positive about the crosstrainer.

I still haven't restarted the Kettlebell workouts yet, but I think that I shall do soon, although it is pretty difficult to get motivated when it is so cold in the garage! I might move my workout mat into the dining room, which we don't use for dining!

I have been going to yoga once a week to try and get a bit more flexibility into my body. This is to help with next years surfing trips, which I hope to be doing with my son. I'm not sure if I am getting more flexible, but it definitely seems to have helped get rid of my achilles tendonitis which I have been suffering from for well over a year now - I no longer have any pain in the mornings. I did say, a long time ago that, if I got rid of the tendonitis, I would try the Couch 2 5K running program. I'm going to leave it to the spring (to give my heel lots of time to fully recover) and I will try doing it then.

Food wise, I've been trying a few of the Hairy Dieter's recipe's. I was a bit disappointed with the Paprika Chicken as it could have done with a little bit more flavour (this may have been because I used normal paprika instead of smoked paprika), but the Beef in Ale stew was nice and the Chicken Jalfrezi was very nice (especially the 2nd portion, which I froze and ate a few days later). I think I might try their Lamb Tagine next.

Now is probably a good time for me to set some mini-goals:

1. To get below 16 Stones (15.99st will do) - that would be a total loss of 5stones.
2. To get down to 15st 11lbs - that would make me overweight.
3. To get down to 15st 10lbs - that would be 25% of my starting weight gone
4. To get down to 15st 7lbs - that would be a total loss of 5.5 stones
5. To get down to 15st 5lbs - that would be the lightest I can remember being, the weight I was when I was 30 - I'm now 51!
6. To buy and wear, comfortably, a pair of 34" jeans. I must have been able to wear this size once! I'm not sure what weight I need to get down to to be able to achieve this particular goal.

That's all for this week folks, I'll try and get back into the routine of blogging and be back next week.