Weigh-in: year 2, no. 2

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs) 
Last week's weight: 126.9 kg (279.8 lbs)
Current weight: 123.8 kg (272.9 lbs) 

Loss this week: 3.1 kg (6.8 lbs) 

Overall loss: 55.0 kg (121.2 lbs) 

Start BMI: 56.4  

Last week's BMI: 40.1

Current BMI: 39.1

Well, you can't say I haven't been dedicated to sorting things out. I feel quite reinvigorated with this result. I have upped my game when it comes to exercise and have been doing an hour on my exercise bike every day. In the kitchen I'm being as disciplined as before. So it's good to see all that hard effort paying off.

I don't think this is a loss rate I'll sustain. I'm reminded of when I first started this weight loss journey. In my very first week, I lost 3.6 kg.  The following week I only enjoyed a loss of 1.3 kg. But I'm really hoping that by the end of February, I will have once again met last year's goal of being down 60 kg. Then I will start this year's progress in earnest.

Old friends

I present Exhibit A and Exhibit B. A 10.7 kg gain in 8 weeks.

So this setback was a little worse than I thought. My last weigh-in shot was on 17 November. Everything seemed so promising then. Yes, it has been Christmas and New Year over the last month and a half, but to gain that much in two months, nearly 10% of my weight, is almost unforgivable.

Oh well, life often presents us with a cross-roads. And as I mentioned on Sunday, I am knuckling down. I'm back to being very careful with my food and as of Saturday, I have intensified my exercise regimen. I'm now doing an hour on an exercise bike, rather than (and sometimes in addition to) going for walks. I don't want to exhaust myself, but yeah. This is something that must be done. If I don't see a loss on Sunday this week, I will be going back on Xenical.

A recommittal

So my last post was back in October. I was down to 117.8 kg and then things went off the boil. Over the past two months, I have gained back 10 kg. This morning I weighed 127.5 kg. My BMI is back over 40. Those lovely 2XL shirts I had been wearing no longer fit, my 107 cm pants are too tight - I'm back to 112s and I feel disappointed in myself for backsliding too far.

I've been back to old habits with all the bad food, and that's taken me back to where I was at the end of August, so I really, really need to recommit. And today I have.

I know I can lose the weight. I've done so before. I'm visiting Wellington in early March for an arts festival, and I want to continue impressing my friends up there. So I want to be below 120 kg by the end of February.

That's 47 days to lose 7.5 kg

My overall goal for 2014 is to make it under 100 kg. Compared to what I achieved last year, it should be a bit easier. Famous last words, huh?

So in addition to the new habits, I took out my exercise bike today and I rode it for a good hour. Time to get back on the saddle in more ways than one.

I'll do an official weigh-in tomorrow morning.