Sarahs Weightloss Blog

Hi All!

Thought I would talk about keeping determined and being patient with losing weight, which can be really tough, particularly when the weight just seems to stop shifting.

When I first started my new healthy regime, I paid a personal trainer for the first 4 months, to ensure I stuck to the exercise.  He pushed me really hard, but with the small, slow and steady changes in eating habits the weight literally just dropped off.  I could expect to lose as much as 2-3kgs/wk, which kept up for a few months!  I would come home after a session and an hour later I could see a change in my body.  I used to have really horrible ‘back fat’ which I hated, and with every session I had, after every week, I could literally see it melting away.  This was great as it gave me a real boost and it was easy to keep going – I really did not want that back fat back! Every time someone offered me a tasty something I really did not want to have it.  I wanted to get my fitness up so it was possible to exercise more so I could become a lean, tall, agile women, like the others at the gym.

However as I started to lose more and more weight, and get down to a size where I had a figure, could buy clothes in any shop – which is what I wanted – the visible difference in my body shape between weeks started to get smaller.  This has only got difficult for me recently, as I cannot notice the difference week by week or even bi-weekly as the difference is now so subtle.  However overall  I am much happier with my body and the way it looks and feels and the way I feel inside – so much more healthy, bouncy and full of energy, and much much happier and confident than before.  However I don’t think I am totally there yet, and want to lose 1 more dress size (so I’m a UK 12-14 rather than a 14-16).  To be honest though this last 11 kgs is turning out to be really hard to lose, much harder than the 30.7 kgs which preceded it.

However I have heard that this is very common.  People lose tremendous amounts of weight and then the last stone takes much longer to lose.  

If like me you find yourself in this situation, just hang in there, its not easy to lose weight.  Your body adapts to the new regime, learns to live on lower calories, burns less during exercise.  Over the past weeks I have been racking my brains over how to kick my weightloss back into gear, however the truth of it is that I was feeling really unenthused about exercise and eating salads – I was bored and fed up with the same routine week in and week out.  I really was not sufficiently determined or patient, and since my weight was stable, I wasn’t getting any reward for trying to control my eating habits.

Sometimes however you have to be patient both with yourself and how fast you can make changes, and with your body to respond to those changes.  With the support of my husband and family, I have managed to slowly change back to the old routine of better food in sensible portions with regular exercise.  Now the weight is coming off again, at a slower rate, but there isn’t so much excess fat and I am much fitter now – the difference can still be seen, it just takes longer and is more subtle than before, but it is good enough for me to keep going.

If you are really struggling to lose that last bit of weight and are thinking of throwing in the towel, do this:

Current weight: 75.7kgs, 0.7kgs till next target of 75kgs, weight lost so far: 30.7kgs, BMI reduced by: 11.9, down from UK size 22 to size 14

BEFORE:

AFTER:

End target 65kgs, size 12 – NOT FAR NOW!

Till next time