204lb

Well, as much as I hoped to hit four stone off in four months, I genuinely didn't expect that I'd do it today! With a five pounds loss this week, I have now lost four stone half a pound, and still have a week of my four months left. I'm on cloud nine.

I'm especially happy with the loss this week as I had a lovely meal out with TMM and my cousin BB and her hubby. We ate a main course (the portion was a very generous size) and I decided to have dessert. I had sticky toffee pudding. It was lovely, though in retrospect, I question whether it was worth the calorie expenditure. Still, I ate every pick, and enjoyed it. I finished the day about six hundred calories in deficit. To put that into context though, that still means eating only 1800 calories in the day, which is still slightly less than the amount a woman requires to maintain her weight. (I used an on line tool to work mine out at about 1900 cals for a woman of my age and activity level.) So even a very bad day in terms of my diet at the moment is a good day at the over eating stages of my life. I ate a little less yesterday to make up for it a wee bit. 

I have been very remiss in my updates this week. I genuinely have not felt as if I have anything new to write. Everything has been very much the same. I stick fairly rigidly to my 1200 calories a day, I go over a little sometimes and try to make it back, eithe by eating less the next day, or doing a bit of exercise, and I worry excessively about not having a good loss each week. I still haven't started to do any real regular exercise, though TMM and I have gone for a few walks, which have earned me a few hundred calories. I have set my alarm early on a number of occasions, in order to go for a run before work, but it's yet to happen.

The most strenuous workouts I've managed to da so far are the Wednesday evening ones at the class with Penfold and Smiley. Last wek my abs didn't recover for five days! But it was a good pain. It made me feel like I'd really worked hard.

I've been taking the XLS tablets once a day, before my main meal, now for exactly a month. I started taking them on 3rd of June. It's impossible to say if they have aided my loss or done nothing. Certainly they do not seem to have impeeded it. I was 217.2lb when I first took them, so I've lost 13.2lb in those four weeks. Would I have lost that regardless of the tablets? It's a stone in the month, which is what I was already averaging. I'll never know. It was only a month's supply that I bought, but using them before one meal most days means that the supply has eeked out a bit. I haven't decide if I'm going to buy more, though let's face it, I probably will.