Another pound - 13.4 so far!

Not too bad this week as I was in Boston for 4 days and it's really hard to eat less and sensibly when you're in a hotel and eating out with people every evening. I did drag myself to the hotel gym every day and walked everywhere I could - it was freezing so I took a taxi a couple of times. So I feel as if I really deserved to lose some weight - I fought hard all the time, and although it's 'only' a pound I feel a strong sense of pride in achieving the loss. Karen continues to be a couple of pounds ahead of me which is a good thing as she's actually the one who gets more upset if she's lost the least...not what I'd have predicted either! It's always the quiet ones....

I've done a big workout today and have enough points over for 2 glasses of wine - hurrah! Our home made Californian merlot is actually very good and so I'm looking forward to a glass. So until next week...

2.4 lbs - its a miracle!

It's been a great week - and unexpectedly too - it was Karen's 40th birthday and we eat out about 3 or 4 times in the week - so to actually lose was a miracle. Karen also had a good week - taking her total loss to just over 13lbs ; I'm at 12.4 and am catching her up. We had to buy Karen a new pair of jeans this week as she is literally too small for all her trousers. I'm wearing all of hers (see previous blog) - although some of them are a bit long.

So reasons for this weeks success - firstly I went to the gym or got on the exercise bike for 5 days out of 7; I drank a lot less than I normally would in a birthday week ; I chose salmon when we went out for dinner and didn't even have popcorn when we went to see the new James Bond (don't bother - great action but no plot, although that Daniel Craig does look great in a pair of beige jeans).

So the week starts again - I'm off to a conference in Boston and will have to concentrate hard not to let it slip! TTFN

A teeny tiny 0.8 of a pound this week :-(

So it wasn't a great week - and because of the Remembrance Day holiday here in Canada on Tuesday we had to weigh in on Monday, so we had a day less in which to lose weight. I could try to convince myself that I was going to lose one and a half pounds by the next day, but it's not really that believable! Hence a flat week - but I'm trying hard again this week!

Although - on the positive side this is the same week in my cycle as the dreadful first week when I actually gained weight - so some comfort can be gained.

The worst thing about dieting - it's so f**king boring, you end up thinking about food all the time, or rather the lack of food. The hardest thing is just the monotony of the planning, because it is only when we don't have plan about what and when to eat that we go 'off piste' and eat badly.

But - I can wear Karen's trousers (she gets a bit upset about that as we are virtually the same size now!) and can get into some smart Austin Reed trousers that I bought a few years ago but never really fit in.

My next goal is to get below 200 lbs which should be early in the new year at current rate of progress. so thanks for reading and keep up with the positive comments, they do help!

9lbs in the first month - so pretty good!

Of course Karen has lost 11 pounds too - so we are both feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I'm sure if I could lose 9lbs every or any month I would try to, but I'd expect it to be very hard - but this has been different. What's good about the weight watchers idea is that in effect you start again every day - and because you have so many 'flex' points it's very hard to do so badly on one day that you blow the whole week. The most common reason I've given up in the past was the 'oh well I've ruined it for this week' feeling, and the thought that I'll start again NEXT week. With this method you don't lose momentum. In fact I have more days in a week when I don't use up my points than days I go over. Also we have been much more focussed on doing some exercise every day - simple reason being that if you exercise then you can have a glass of wine in the evening and then you don't feel as if you're on a diet at all!

So here we are after one month and this was the equivalent week that I gained 0.4 of a pound last month (i.e. period is due), so am trying to drink lots more herbal tea in an attempt not to bloat.

This morning an amazing thing happened - I stood on our scales naked (sorry about the visual image!) and I weighed less than 15 stone for the first time since 1999! I have got down to 15 3 or 4 several times but never below - so this is a great milestone for me. If I keep at it maybe when I get to see you all in the UK at Christmas/New Year I'll be below 14 stone.

Aside from that what a great week it's been with Obama getting in - it did feel like 1997 and Tony Blair's win. I don' t think there will be many election nights like that one in my lifetime. We both stayed up and were in tears when CNN made the projection at midnight our time. Fantastic although my personnal preference would have been Hillary.