Week #11 (21/02/13)

So a day late but never mind.

Weight: 17st 13.5b (-0.5lb)
Chest: 45" (no change) 
Stomach: 44" (-1")
Waist (Hips): 41.5" (no change) 
Collar: 16.75" (+0.25")

My goal for this week was simply no gain over my "illness loss", and after all is said and done I appear to have achieved that goal.  Half a pound is a small loss, but I'd have been just as happy with it staying the same. 

Borrowing from another blogger I read, FrogDog, in analysis of failures/successes I can say the following:

+ I met my goal of no gain
+ Exercise has been good with re-commencing regular use of the bike to and from work
+ Lots of fruit & vegetables this week
- Big chinese takeaway on Friday
- A piece of fried chicken with dinner last night (Wednesday)
- Not keeping up on hydration as well as I have done in the past

This coming week it's time to try and start losing again, with the following goals.

1 - Do at least two gym sessions between now and next Wednesday, focussed on cardio
2 - Regain control of hydration, making sure I meet most of my daily targets for fluid intake
3 - Don't cheat getting lifts to work like I did this morning, bike it every day
4 - More green vegetables
5 - A few less carbs/starchy foods

I've got two pretty big workloads for University to get through between now and Tuesday as well.  A load of degree marking/assessment, and I need to write a 4 week lecture series that starts on Tuesday.  I need to properly manage my time and make sure these don't interfere with my healthy-times(TM), or better yet don't become excuses to allow me to cheat.

Further to the above analysis emulation, another blogger I read posts pictures every 20lbs lost.  I haven't posted a picture in quite some time, and I'm now at 21lbs lost in total, so this seems an ideal time.  For comparison, and to stop myself being a negative nancy, I'm reposting my Day 1 photos alongside todays.

12th December 2012 19st 6lb / 272lb	21st February 2013 17st 13.5lb / 251lb

Well hot diggity damn, I guess even I, Captain Cynicism, can see the loss when laid side by side.  Still a long way to go, but I'm getting there.  Compared to my beginning point, I'm 21lb down, taken .75-1" off the collar/neck, 2" off my chest, 4.5" off my stomach and 1.5" off the waistline.  Veeeery happy with those four inches off the gut!

Yes I know I'm still blurring the faces, which is pointless since I've got a profile photo, but I still feel somewhat goofy looking when taking these photos.

Did I ever mention how much I hate the image controls on this site?