189.4lb

Under 190lb! Finally just over five stone lost! And on a 175 day streak, as far as MyFitnessPal is concerned.

I lost two pounds this week, and I'm well chuffed. As frustrated as I am to see my losses slow down substantially, I keep telling myself that it's the way weight loss works, and I'm still doing really, really well. As TMM said this morning, "You can't keep losing four pounds a week or you'd die!" He does have a way with words, that man :-) And of course, he's right. Doesn't mean I have to like it. Why can't I just lose four pounds a week until I get to ten stone? Hmmm? Is that so unreasonable? Apparently it is. Dang!

175 days of being food conscious. That's a week and a half off six months and so far my attention span remains intact. If I just get on with things, and lose a sensible enough amount before my gung ho phase finishes, and my standard complacency kicks in, I should do okay. It's definitely my biggest fear, that I have to go through this all over again in a couple of years, because I enter the yoyo cycle again. For what? Like the fifth time? I'm so bored with myself and my inability to get to a healthy weight and then maintain it. Not this time! Seriously. I'm done. I'm getting healthy, and gonna stay healthy.

In an ideal world, I will get to a sensible weight and then go paleo again. I loved eating like that, and I genuinely believe it's very good for me. But not easy for me to lose weight on. Others might manage to, but I found that I didn't. So I'll save it until I'm where I want to be, weight wise. I love the idea of using less processed foods. I've already cut down a lot on those. Prepacked cooked ham especially was something I ate far too much of. I found that when I was following plans like Slimming World, because things like cooked ham were either low in syns, or syn free, I'd eat a lot of it. But it's not good to eat too much of anything, even if it's low cal, and ham has so much salt and sugar added to it, it's nutritional value is surely questionable. But that's just me. Unable to eat anything in moderation. Give me a choice between leaving some in the pack, or finishing the whole lot, I'll be the one scoffing the lot! Even if it's a 400g pack of cooked ham. I think I even did a 750g tub once in one sitting. Tell me again how I got to be 289lbs at my heaviest!

Today, I ate most of my calorie allowance after I weighed myself, in a brunch frittata the size of a small European country (I'm thinking somewhere tiny like Vatican City) made up of left overs from the fridge. I do like using up food so it doesn't get thrown out, and the remains of last week's pork mince cottage pie, with a few small left over boiled potatoes, in a frittata might not sound great, but it tasted bloody amazing. TMM was not of a mind to join me in my culinary experiment (boring porridge for him. Seriously Dude, live a little :-D ) So it was all mine!!!

Yeah, okay. That photo does not do it justice. It was far nicer than it looks. The feta on top does the pic no favours :-) There was lots of it and it was jolly tasty. No complaints here!

That's it for today, except to say that I'm wearing a skirt, for the first time in yonks, and I actually look quite nice. It's a boost to the old confidence. (BTW, the skirt cost me $2.00 in a charity shop (that should be a pound symbol. Why doesn't my Kindle keyboard have a pound symbol???)