New Year, this year I will reach my goal!

Well, it's the start of a brand new year (well, 18 days ago ahem) and this year I am determined to reach my goal of 10 stone. I gained a good few pounds over Christmas, and just after the new year, weighed in at 11 stone 3lb. In the first week of the "healthy eating" I managed to gain 1.5lb, which brought me to 11 stone 4.5lb, or 158.5lb. But 8 days later (I missed the Monday weigh in), I weighed 11 stone 2 lbs, having lost 2.5lb. I do hope to continue the weight loss from now on, and for now, I am concentrating *just* on drinking more water (well, squash, I don't like plain water much), and drinking less caffeine. I am hoping that by drinking lots of water, I am a) filling myself up on liquid more so I snack less, b) improving my milk supply for my little ones, and c) generally being a bit healthier than using 4 or 5 cups of tea a day to replenish my water levels.

Simple changes will hopefully make proper lifestyle changes easier!

First goal right now is to reach 150lbs, and I'd like to do that by the beginning of March. Which is 6lbs away, and leaves me with 10lbs to lose.

Still..

I'm still the same weight as I was back in April. This is getting OLD. Very verrry old. I have decided to aim high for the next week and a half, in the hopes that it will prompt me to stop being apathetic, to really put some effort in, to think twice before walking to the fridge, or get something out of it. I've not been perfect the last day and a half, but I have been BETTER. I figure that if I aim high (and by high, I mean, to lose 5lb in 10 days), then if I manage to even lose half that, I'll have done good, you know? I want to see 11 stone 0lb on the scales.. SOON. And I figure by setting myself a date of 25th - the day I've booked us all in to go and have family photos done with a Christmas voucher, the race is on, and hopefully I'll get near to that figure. And that within 3 weeks, I will see the 10 stone somethings on the scales once more. If I manage to get 5lb down by the 25th, then I will be on track for being 10.5 stone by my birthday, if I manage to average 2lb a week from then on.

New goal

Well it's now New Year, and I am down below 13 stone!!! I have started to weigh myself naked, as that is the most consistent. So I am officially 12 stone 10lb at 178lbs.

My overall aim now is to be down to my ideal weight by my birthday in July. I have 26 weeks to lose 34-38lb. Which is an average weightloss of 1.5lb a week. This is to my IDEAL weight of 10 stone or 10 stone 4lb, around that mark. When I say 34lb that just makes it seem like a drop in the bucket. I can do this! I really can! Even though I've had a bad few weeks what with it being Xmas, and the over-eating you get into the habit of. I have lost 29lb so far, and with only another 34-38lb to lose TOTAL, that's just over the same again. I can TOTALLY do this. And what a fab birthday present than to get to the size you want to be, and to do a massive shopping spree!

I will be asking for money for my birthday this year for anyone who gets me birthday presents, which I will spend on CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES! I will revamp my wardrobe and take some pride in myself, and my body. By the time I get there, I will have acquired good eating habits, and hopefully good exercise habits too. Christopher will be 10 months old, and Robert almost 3, and I will hopefully have tonnes more energy to deal with 2 small ones! I cannot wait until I can say that I have worked towards my goal, stuck with it, and done it all by myself, and reap the rewards of looking my best, and hopefully a complement or two along the way. I want to be comfortable in myself, and I am well on the way to that.

I am 43% of the way towards my ideal weight. 10-12lb more lost and I should hopefully be in a size 14. I would like to be in a size 14 by March. And a size 12 by May/June. And some generous 10s by July :)

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!