Week 7 (268lbs) | Gain +3lbs | Total Loss -4lbs

This week will be 9th - 15th with weigh in on the 16th

mmm...not good. Missed 9th, 10th and 11th - in that I can't remember what I had. I need to do a bit better at the weekends. Hopefully Monday to Thursday will be enough to get me out of trouble.

I did go to the gym on Saturday...so that's a plus I guess.

Gutted. +3 today.

So...lets have a look at what went wrong....
1. Alcohol on Saturday
2. No food diary Friday, Saturday or Sunday
3. LOTS of cake on my birthday on Thursday
4. Too much bread and too much butter and too much cheese

Having looked at it that way perhaps I should think myself lucky I only put on 3 lbs...but that's not how I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it as a missed opportunity to carry on the good job I did the week before.

So what have I learned for future food diaries? Cut down on bread - definitely cut down on butter - no birthdays until I've lost weight - and most importantly - KEEP THE FOOD DIARY EVERYDAY!

Week 6 (265lbs) | Loss -5lbs | Total Loss -7lbs

The way these posts will work is the week will have my weight loss and  a post about general stuff...comments will contain my daily food diary. I drink Pepsi Max at the weekend and tea during the week - tea has skimmed milk and sweetener. I'm off alcohol.

Oh - and one other thing...it's my birthday on Thursday and I'll be having birthday cake and a pizza...so I will be weighing myself on Thursday morning instead of Friday. That hasn't given me a great deal of time to lose much - but I will be back properly on Friday the following week for a proper weigh in.


Totally over the moon with this week. 6lbs down in 5 days. For normal weight loss, not good - but when you have 50lbs+ to lose, 6lbs is good.

I'm very glad I decided to write down what I've eaten - it has really made me think about any snacks I was having.

So I'll continue in this vein hopefully. This week was a short week because today is my birthday - so I wanted to weigh myself a day early, get out and get some birthday food and get back to keeping my snacking down for next week...lets hope it's still a loss...there's been a fair bit of cake today!

Week 5 (270lbs) | Loss 0lbs | Total Loss -2lbs

No Loss!

Ok - I can't hide it - I am disappointed with that. I'm disappointed for several reasons...

1. I started the week off bad with the weekend - I hadn't eaten with ANY sort of discipline at all...jam doughnuts and snacks in the night whilst watching a movie will not help

2. Even though I knew about the weekend, I racked up 60 miles on the bike last week AND I went to the gym 3 times in the week...

3. I felt like I had lost 3 or 4 lbs - just the way my trousers felt - I just felt a difference - and there wasn't

But at the end of the day - I'm just not doing enough. I have 56lbs to lose - and I need to...well, I was going to say "try harder" - but if I'm honest - "try" is what I need to do - to say "try harder" suggests I tried - and I didn't really. Sure I'm exercising - but I can't do that on it's own and see a difference.

So - with that said - I'm going to do something else that I was deliberately avoiding - I'm going to do a food diary blog. If for nothing else than to make me aware what I'm eating. But more so to try and embarrass myself into not pigging out on crap...I really don't want to post up here that I've had 3 chocolate bars and a family bag of crisps or 3 jam donuts and a plate of ice cream or whatever the "fancy of the day" is.

I've gave up alcohol (2nd week) and I've dropped chocolate - I should have seen a difference last week.

So I'll be starting a food diary on here tomorrow. There will be no flouncing around and no "extra info" - nothing except what I've eaten and when.

Lets see if I can't stop being a tube and start acting like someone who cares.