Sarahs Weightloss Blog

Hi All!

Hope everyone had a great holiday/xmas period.  I haven’t written a blog for a while since there isn’t all that much to comment on – in short I haven’t lost any weight really, and have been a bit naughty :S  

On the plus side my weight has not changed over xmas (*big sigh of relief*) However on the negative side, I haven’t lost any more weight either.  I checked my last post which is over a month ago and I am 1kg lighter since then (78.2 kgs) and the weight loss has plateaued.

Now if I am really honest with myself, I have not really been such a good girl with the eating – exercise is still going well and I’m keeping that up, but eating not so much so, as you know from the last few posts.  I think I’m just tired of the strict eating regime, which I managed to largely stick to for 6 1/2 months.  Now I’ve had a month off that more strict regimen to a more relaxed eating pattern, with exercise and found that I can maintain my weight quite comfortably and to be honest, have quite a lot of junk (*all you can eat chinese buffets, hmmmmm*).

This is not really the idea of my new healthy life style however and so now it is the new year and I feel more refreshed, my resolution is this: to go back to my more strict eating regimen and finally start getting down to the goal I set over 2 months ago! – 75kgs.  This is going to be hard, because as I have come to realise, when you get lighter, you burn less calories as you move.  So when I started I could eat 2000 kcal/day, exercise 3 times a week and lose 2-3 kgs/week.  Now I’m 29kgs lighter I now eat 1050-1500 kcals/day and exercise 5 times a week, and don’t lose anything.  Hopefully if I clean up what I eat, and lower the kcal to 1050 everyday (which is were it should be) I will start losing again.

Anyone else been in this situation and have any advice to offer? Or any suggestions from other people? I could really use it.

On the other side of course is the fact that I have maintained my weight steadily for over a month I have mixed feelings about this – sort of chuffed and frustrated at the same time.  However the professional NHS advice here in England is to lose 10% of your bodyweight, then maintain it for 6 months.  I have lost 27% of my body weight so far, so on that note I probably deserve a bit of a break.

Till next time

Sarah.