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Lesamy Week 69 – Starting Over

Well not quite starting over because I’m still counting weeks from the original Lesamy start date. But let’s face it – I let things go. I let myself drift to the point where I not only stopped dieting, I stopped exercising and I sort of stopped caring. I was discouraged and not really sure why I was doing it any more – and that doesn’t help. But I realised I had a chance with the New Year to start again and so I took it.

As to where I am – taken since I started Lesamy I’ve lost weight, taken over the last week I’ve lost weight. Since this time last year? I’ve put on 3lbs. Of course over that time I lost a lot of weight – I was down nearly 3stone at one point – but I put it back on again. It’s scary a) how quickly the weight goes back on and b) how quickly I was back to my bad old eating habits. Maintaining is going to be harder than I thought. But for now I’m not thinking of that. For now I just want to start again losing weight. Fortunately I’ve done this before so I know how.

loss this week: 2.1kg (4.6lb)
loss this year: 0.1kg (0.2lb)
Total loss: 24kg (52.9lb or 3st 10lb)
To target: 24.8kg (54.8lb or 3st 12lb)
Current weight: 120.1kg (264lb or 18st 12lb)


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Lesamy Week 59 – Better than Better than Nothing

🙂

Weekly loss: 0.3kg (0.7lb)
Total loss: 31.9kg (70.3lb or 5st)
To target: 16.9kg (37.4lb or 2st 9lb)
Current weight: 112.2kg (247lb or 17st 9lb)


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Lesamy Week 58 – Better than Nothing

I failed to resist the temptation of a weekend binge yet again. However by Sunday I pulled it back enough so that I ended up about even overall

Weekly loss: 0.1kg (0.2lb)
Total loss: 31.6kg (69.7lb or 4st 13lb)
To target: 17.2kg (38lb or 2st 10lb)
Current weight: 112.5kg (248lb or 17st 10lb)

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Lesamy Week 57 – *sigh*

Another week of diet-and-binge – I’ve really got to stop doing this.

I’m searching in vain for that will-power I had this time last year.

Weekly loss: -0.9kg (-2lb)
Total loss: 31.5kg (69.4lb or 4st 13lb)
To target: 17.4kg (38.2lb or 2st 10lb)
Current weight: 112.6kg (248lb or 17st 10lb)

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Lesamy Year One

That’s right folks. It’s one year today that I started Lesamy. You may have thought I didn’t blog yesterday due to the usual slackness but in fact this was deliberate for once.

I’d love to say that the recent downward trend has continued but unfortunately I can’t. I put on a couple of pounds this week. I kind of expected that though. Things have happened at work which mean that I now have a new position. This meant some stress-relieving eating, some time spent revising for a test that could have been spent exercising and finally some celebratory eating and drinking. Nothing too excessive but enough so I knew I’d gain this week.

But I’m very pleased about my new position. It’s a great opportunity and something I’ve wanted for a while.

Meanwhile I’m still under 17 stone and have lost 80lbs this year. Which means almost exactly 1.5lbs a week – which is slap in the middle of where I should be. A shame that that represents periods of a lot more plus a few of gaining back. Still, onwards and er, downwards. I still aim to be 15 stone at some point. It’s definitely harder as there are always excuses to take time off the diet. But even if it takes another year it’ll be fine.

Of course less than a year would be fine too!

Weekly loss: -1kg (-2.2lb)
Total loss: 36.4kg (80.2lb or 5st 10lb)
To target: 12.4kg (27.4lb or 1st 13lb)
Current weight: 107.7kg (237lb or 16st 13lb)


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Lesamy Week 51 – 2 Million Steps

I passed a milestone this week – 2 million (recorded) steps of exercise since I started Lesamy. That’s about 860miles walked.

Well I had a good week and a not bad weekend. I had a bit of a “freebie Friday” with a visit to the pub and yesterday I pigged out a bit – but I seem to have gotten away with it. I have checked my scales and replaced the battery and it seems to be right.

Weekly loss: 13kg (2.9lb)
Total loss: 37.4kg (82.5lb or 5st 12lb)
To target: 11.4kg (25.2lb or 1st 11lb)
Current weight: 106.7kg (235lb or 16st 11lb)


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Lesamy Week 49 – Down and Up Again

I guess I spoke too soon. Me and my triumphalist attitude about work-lady’s comments. Still no one to blame but blame itself – or something.

Actually I’m not that bothered. I had a big weekend and I expected this to be worse. What’s slightly worrying is that I’m at home this  coming weekend for a family party. Maybe I can still be sensible.

We’ll see.

Weekly loss: –0.6kg (-1.3lb)
Total loss: 36.2kg (79.8lb or 5st 9lb)
To target: 12.6kg (27.9lb or 2st)
Current weight: 107.9kg (237lb or 16st 13lb)

Equivalent to: 20-April (17 weeks ago)


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Lesamy Week 48 – That’s *Lost* Actually Lady!

Remember how excited I used to get when someone at work noticed a change in my weight? Well it happened again a few days ago. A lady who, frankly, has always been a bit odd with me, told me that “I’d put on a couple of pounds” She went on to express disappointment because apparently I’m her inspiration and thus I’m letting her down. She probably sees this as good natured banter and so would I if I knew her better and actually er, liked her. But obviously I’m too polite to say what I actually feel.

The other reason is that’s she’s right. Sort of…

What she’s probably noticed is that between my absolute lowest and my recent biggest (a couple of weeks ago) there’s about a stone’s difference. Something about which I already feel bad and which I’ve already started to turn around. But it’s been tough to get back to dieting consistently. I do ok during the week it’s the weekends I find tough. In particular I start to fancy alcohol and if I give in I end up both eating and drinking more than I should. Last weekend for example I pretty much just binged, but because I’d had a good week before that I managed to still lose weight. This weekend just gone I did better, though I still ate more. I had tried to control it allowing myself the old idea of a treat day of 2300 calories. But 2300 became 2500 and one treat day became two. Still if I did better this weekend than last then next ought to be pretty much on track again. (The weekend after that I’ve got a family party but oh well we’ll cross that bridge…)

So I wasn’t expecting too much from today’s weighing but got a nice surprise:

Weekly loss: 0.8kg (1.8lb)
Total loss: 36.8kg (81.1lb or 5st 11lb)
To target: 12kg (26.6lb or 1st 12lb)
Current weight: 107.3kg (236lb or 16st 12lb)

Equivalent to: 27-April (16 weeks ago)

Which is nice because I lost more than the almost-nothing I’d expected, because I’m back below 17st again, because ~2lb a week is a good rate (as we know) and because weird work-lady got it wrong. I actually lost a couple of pounds.

So there!


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Lesamy Weeks 45-47 – 15 is the new 12

Lesamy Week 45

Weekly loss: 1.2kg (2.6lb)
Total loss: 36.8kg (81.1lb or 5st 11lb)
To target: 12kg (26.6lb or 4st 12b)
Current weight: 107.3kg (236lb or 16st 12lb)

Lesamy Week 46

Weekly loss: -2.4kg (-5.3lb)
Total loss: 34.4kg (75.8lb or 5st 5lb)
To target: 14.4kg (31.8lb or 2st 3lb)
Current weight: 109.7kg (241lb or 17st 3lb)

Lesamy Week 47

Weekly loss: 1.6kg (3.5lb)
Total loss: 36kg (79.4lb or 5st 9lb)
To target: 12.8kg (28.3lb or 2st)
Current weight: 108.1kg (238lb or 17st)

Equivalent to: 20-April (20 weeks ago)


First, apologies for the lazy, cliched, ‘X is the new Y’ format but I haven’t got the time or inspiration to come up with a better title.

Second, I won’t dwell on the numbers above – a good week, a week’s holiday where I overdid and a week where I pulled it back a little. I’m happy to be going in the right direction, a little less happy to be going up and down so much…

Anyway, since promising myself a ‘pause’ at week 52 hasn’t really worked, I’ve decided to change my target – my current target – to 15 stone instead of 12. I should be able to hit this by Chrismas or just after. If I then try to ‘maintain’ for a while and I settle somewhere between 15 and 16 then I won’t be desperately unhappy.

12 stone would still be a nice long term target – like over the next year or even two.

I really must get back to updating this every week too.


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Lesamy Weeks 43 & 44 – Forest Gump Style

Lesamy Week 43

Weekly loss: -2kg (-4.4lb)
Total loss: 37.3kg (82.2lb or 5st 12lb)
To target: 30.6kg (67.5lb or 4st 11lb)
Current weight: 106.8kg (235lb or 16st 11lb)

Lesamy Week 44

Weekly loss: -1.7kg (-3.7lb)
Total loss: 35.6kg (78.5lb or 5st 8lb)
To target: 32.3kg (71.2lb or 5st 1lb)
Current weight: 108.5kg (239lb or 17st 1lb)

So clearly two not very good weeks.

And, in the words of the man in the title, that’s all I have to say about that.