A Weight Loss Update

For months while I played gooseberry to Tara Cain and David Wright over at Blog To Fit (site no sadly defunct)  I enjoyed a certain degree of success with my weight loss and fitness goals, but I hit a frustrating plateau.

I lost a pound, I gained a pound, I lost a pound, I gained a pound and then I stayed at the same weight for 3 weeks before continuing the cycle. It’s fairly disheartening and writing about it made it seem somehow farcical.

My departure from Blog To Fit was more to do with my personal circumstances than my inability to bust the plateau, but whatever the reason, it resulted in me putting the pounds back on again. No surprise there.

Eventually I got back into the exercise habit and did really well in losing the weight. I did a lot of running and built up the miles. I was really getting into it when unfortunately I started to experience pain in my left knee.

I stopped exercising and started eating too much. The weight gradually returned until I found myself 30lbs overweight again. I was tempted to entertain thoughts that somehow I’m destined to be 30lbs overweight for the rest of my life. It would have been easy to allow myself to think that my body wants or needs me to be 30lbs overweight but I refused to go there.

A couple of months ago I set about changing my attitude and my approach to losing weight and I’ve enjoyed the most successful period of sustained weight loss I’ve experienced in years.

I’ve lost over half the 30lbs of excess weight and I’m well on my way to losing the rest.

To be precise I’ve got another 12lbs to lose and feel that my goal is now well within my reach.

At some point I’ll write more about my weight loss, my motivations and my methods but for now I’m just enjoying the feeling of a loose waistband.