Size 16!

I am wearing my size 16 jeans! They're not loose but not too tight! Hurrah I am thrilled! I am aiming for a size 12 at least, but it would surpass my dreams if I was to get to a size 10! I don't want to get to size 8, I think I would look too thin, as I am quite tall!

Christmas

I've been exercising some restraint over the holidays. Not gorging myself for the sake of it, but enjoying some goodies.

In the last week I have maintained my weight, which I think is good for Christmas. I am now (still, from last week) 13 stone exactly, and I am hoping that next week I will see a loss, so my first weigh in of 2011 will bring me below 13 stone, finally into the 12 stone-somethings.

I am looking forward to getting to my just-over-half-way goal of 12 stone, which fingers crossed, I should reach by March.

1 week to go..

It's 10 days til Christmas, and by next Wednesday's weigh-in, I want to have lost a total of 1 and a half stone since Christopher was born. Well, I've probably already exceeded that technically as I first weighed in when Christopher was 4 days old, and you lose a lot of weight in the first couple of weeks as water with your blood volume decreasing back to normal. But I have to date lost 1 stone and 6lbs since I weighed in after Christopher's birth, which means I have 1lb to lose by Christmas. I'm going to give one final big push to get there, so fingers crossed I can do it! And maybe even get down to that lovely 13 stone by the New Year.

How wonderful it would be to start off the New Year at 13 stone. I am currently 13 stone 5lb, so I would need to lose 5lb in 2 weeks and 3 days. Which is doable, if I lose 2lb a week!

I am so determined this time, once I reach my Christmas/New Years goal, I'll be moving the goal posts again, probably to get down to 12 stone, and around March time I think. But for now I'll leave it there. At least 1lb by next week, but if I really push myself, 5lb by 1st January.

Wish me luck!!!

At my Xmas goal!

OK so I have been naughty and weighed in yesterday morning, and this morning as well. I'm not going to weigh in again til next Wednesday - promise!

But in the last two days I have lost 2.5lb! I have been eating what others (who are already slim, so probably have a better sense of what is a reasonable portion of food) say is a good amount for a day, but have tried to limit my snacking to just fruit, and then only when I am hungry.

I've had a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea already this morning, and for lunch I plan on having maybe a cuppa soup and some fruit, or a big plate of tuna and egg mayo salad.

I now weigh 13 stone 7lb, which was my goal for Christmas, which is still 3 weeks off! I have lost 18lb since Christopher was born (well, more than that most likely as I didn't weigh in til he was 4 days old, and a lot of weight was lost in the early days with water and whatnot). I am maybe hoping to lose another 7lb (ok thats an ambitious goal, but one that might be attainable!) by Christmas now, so I'm down to 13 stone exactly. That's less than 2 and a half lbs a week. A minimum weight I'd now like to be by Christmas is 13 stone 4lb, which is a 1lb loss a week. And that should give me a buffer to still be at or just under 13 7 by the week after Christmas...

I looked at my profile in the mirror on the landing yesterday and thought "wow, am I slimmer?" I'm not really sure, but hey, I should be, right? I took my measurements yesterday too. Waist, arms, and thighs. So when I lose another stone, here's hoping the measurements will back up the numbers!

1.5lb down

Wednesday has become my weight-obsession day! I weigh in first thing in the morning, after my wee but after getting dressed. And then for the rest of the day can't stop thinking about it! About how well I've done that week, or if I've gained weight, thinking what I can do differently to lose it again. Today, I have spent the day feeling pleased with myself and my weight loss, and thinking ahead, if I manage to lose 1.5lb a week consistently (or on average) then I will be able to reach my 12 stone mid-stop weight goal by the time Christopher is 6 months old. If I manage 2lb a week on average, then sooner than that! And I have been snacking, I've not been drinking as much as I wanted to, so today I have had literally a handful of grapes apart from meals, and have had a few cups of tea. I have also been saying yes to Robert's requests for milky every time he has asked, and tried to feed Christopher frequently as well.

I have been losing weight for 2 months now, my littlest man is 2 months and 6 days old. And I have lost 1 stone, 1 and a half pounds. I have 2.5lbs to lose by Christmas for my first mini-goal! Which, hopefully, if I curb the snacking well this week, I will lose that in one week! I really should do some measurements, and re-do them for every stone I lose, so that I can see just how much weight I am losing. I find it hard to see that I have lost weight, I feel just the same. How brilliant would it be if I could be down to my ULTIMATE goal by the time Christopher is 1? My ultimate goal is around 10 stone, and I am currently 13 stone 9.5lbs.

Fingers crossed for a 2.5lb loss next Wednesday! Until the next weigh-in obsessive post!