Clearly I’ve not been very good at keeping my blog updated, but in my defence I can’t believe how quickly the last 11 weeks have gone by!
The biggest news is that I’ve lost 17lb. 17lb fecking pound! Amazing! I’ve been following a no/lo carb food plan (with special allowance for a dash of cranberry in my Cosmoplitan!). It has actually been really easy and I don’t think of it as being on a diet at all. It’s now just the way I eat. Cutting out sugar and heavy carbs has had a great effect, and I’ve definitely dropped about 1.5 dress sizes all over, most noticeably on my legs and bum. So much so that I’m finding that lots of my clothes are looking too big, which is a nice problem to have but could get expensive!
I thought it would be harder to limit the foods that I love – especially potatoes – but the key is to make sure you make everything you eat super-tasty. Roast dinner used to include loads of roast tatties and yorkshire puds, but now I make sure we have extra-tasty veg and a ‘special’ gravy.
Being quite overweight to start with, I still have some way to go to where I want to be, but I’m happy for it to be a slow process. I think I’m losing around a 1lb a week on average and that’s fine if I can keep that up – it means I’ll have another stone off at least by the time I go on holiday at Christmas. The weight took a long time to go on so it figures it will take a while to come off, and due to a medical condition it might be a bit slower than on someone else anyway. Of course, the thing that will accelerate it is stepping up my sporadic trips to the gym into something more resembling an actual exercise regime…and maybe not having quite so many cocktails 😉
