Fatboy gets slim

Holidays, sheesh.

2009-10-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

As I suspected the family holiday has put paid to the diet for the time being. I got used to eating and drinking again and I am now finding it hard to get back into diet mode. I guess it is like stopping running 18 miles into a marathon the body seizes up and won't let you carry on even though most of the hard work is done. I have not weighed myself since coming back home but would guess that I have put on around 5lb or so.

I just hope I can get back into the right head space before I undo to much of the good work I have put into this diet over the last four months.

The slippery slope

2009-10-07T12:49:00.001-07:00

The holiday period is taking its toll like I suspected. I put on three pound after my last break lost one pound of it and now I am stuck just in time to go away again on Friday.

Dropped a pound at last!

2009-09-24T23:03:00.000-07:00

Well I have dropped a pound in weight just in time for my three day holiday in Torquay. I guess that means all the weight lost over the last three weeks will be back on board by Tuesday. Ho hum.

Chart

2009-09-22T03:23:00.000-07:00

17st 8lb - 246lb

2009-09-22T03:15:00.000-07:00

I seem to be stuck at the moment and it is just at the wrong time motivation wise what with two weekends away coming up very shortly etc.. I am also letting calories slip in every now and again that I did not before ie eating a mouthful of left over food from the Mrs or Kids dinners etc. and accepting the odd offered drink when I would have refused before. Even so I am eating at a level that the weight should still be dropping even if it is only a pound or so a week and yet it still is not happening.

17st 8ib - 246lb

2009-09-17T02:25:00.001-07:00

Still slogging on with a further pound lost this week.

2009-09-17T02:20:00.000-07:00

Well the holiday season (for me) takes its toll on my diet some what. Although I am a pound lighter than my last post the reality is I put on several pounds during our two days to the seaside this was then compounded by my night shifts. I have struggled manfully on though and the weight is still going overall in the right direction. If I can continue to lose around half a stone per month at this stage I guess this diet is still a success story isn't it? One good thing though is that posting my holiday snaps on facebook brought on a few "gosh you have lost weight" type comments which is gratifying to say the least.

Hitting my target.

2009-09-09T08:53:00.001-07:00

I hate to admit it but I just cant see myself reaching my target weight by Christmas now. I am still going to aim for it but I would be a liar if I said I had quite the passion for dieting that I had in the first two months of it. Back then if anyone offered my a drink of booze or something fattening I would have said just said no, now I mostly say no. By Christmas I will often be saying yes I would imagine.

I am also now running into the season of feasting and merriment that includes by chance sadly a load of birthdays in my family that will no doubt have food and drink attached to them. I know I have done well to lose over three stone in weight but I also know that truthfully I should be at the very least another two stone lighter just for health reasons. Technically It should actually be three stone lighter.

I also know that I look pretty good for me now as it is having dropped two sizes in shirts and trousers. One more drop in clothes sizes will open up a huge range of clothing that has not been available to me for years and that is probably only 10 or 15 pounds away. Keeping at the diet will be even harder then. I need to give myself a pep talk me thinks.

17st 9lb - 247lb

2009-09-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

I have come to the conclusion that working shifts really does muck your system up. I finished a run of nights yesterday slept until noon then seemed to spend the rest of the day peeing. I am not joking when I say that at one point I was going every 20 minutes for about 3 hours. I rekon I retain liquid on nights and then offload the all the excess when I have my first day or two off. The upshot of all this is that my weight often goes up by my last shift (note all the weird spiking on my chart over the last four months) and then drops sometimes dramatically after a day or two off work, hence the two pound drop in weight over night. It was sadly I think mostly urine.

17st 11lb - 249lb

2009-09-05T01:52:00.001-07:00

A bit of a mad week and what I hope is not the start of the slippery slope back into eating to much. I have only lost a pound for the whole week and it is quite obviouse why. The exercise has plummeted to nothing ( I have not been on the rowing machine all week) and the eating has gone up. I had a bottle of wine as a gift on Thursday and instead of storing it until I hit a target weight I drank the lot. On Friday we went out to a country pub as a treat for the boys as it was a nice day and my last day off work and I had two pints of cider with chips and a roll. I hope now that I am back at work some order can be brought back to my life and things will get back on track.

Chart of sadness

2009-08-30T07:07:00.000-07:00

17st 12lb - 250lb About time too!

2009-08-30T02:28:00.000-07:00

Well that was one heck of a long plateau period. It has been a bit of a misery to be honest. I don't think it is all my fault though even though a tiny bit of diet dodging was going on I.e my moms birthday and a day trip out with the family that ended up with a bottle of wine being drunk. I was still even with all that averaging around 1700 calories per day. Hopefully this is the start of another period of weight loss.

Still the same as Saturday.

2009-08-25T06:03:00.000-07:00

I have had a bit of an up and down weekend really. Sunday was my Mother's birthday and the family were invited over for a rib of beef dinner. To say it had all the trimmings was an understatement that coupled with the cheese board and birthday cake managed to add nearly two pounds in weight to my porky body when I weighed myself yesterday. Today though I have reverted back to my pre feasting weight of 18st so I guess I can't complain to much. I am very much looking forward to breaking the 18st barrier though, and then conquering the next half stone hurdle. I can't say I have worked out what I want for my next treat though.

18st - 252lb + chart.

2009-08-22T07:11:00.000-07:00

A nice surprise for me this afternoon when I woke up was the loss of another pound in weight. The strange thing is I am still totally bunged up and frankly don't even feel that good inside like I have IBS or something. I think when I start my days off I am going to eat nothing but veggies for a couple of days to try and clear me out a bit.

Chart

2009-08-21T05:04:00.000-07:00

253lb - 18st 1lb!

2009-08-21T04:57:00.000-07:00

Well I am chuffed to bits about this. I am so bunged up at present and for the first time in quite a while I am feeling hungry a lot so yesterday I ate my full alloted alowance of 1800 calories (it may have even been 1900 or so). I guess if you just slog on day after day the weight will eventually go bit by bit.

Back down to 18st 2lb

2009-08-20T00:30:00.000-07:00

I really look forward to my treat days but boy do you practically wipe a week away paying for them I have been back to 18st 2lb for a couple of days now but when you consider that, that amounts to nearly five days at the same weight it shows what a heavy price you pay for pigging out for even one meal. I am back on night shifts as well tonight so that will not nelp matters. It would be nice to lose at least one pound by the weekend though.

The chart gains another saw tooth.

2009-08-18T00:47:00.001-07:00

Back to 18st 3lb

2009-08-18T00:41:00.000-07:00

One of the big problems of treat days of course is that I pay for them heavily afterwards. After tucking into my bucket of KFC and quaffing several pints of fine ale I put on two pounds in weight. (I suspect much of that is just debris sat near my rear end refusing to come out though). One pound of it is already gone and hopefully the next pound will go in a day or two and I will be back then to my pre treat weight. Incidentally I did a spot of clothes shopping yesterday. I have dropped two sizes in trousers and a size in my shirts. It will be nice to be able to take two steps again with out having to hitch up my jeans all the time!

Chart

2009-08-16T03:02:00.000-07:00

Just thought it would be worth updating you on what I am eating at the moment. I have tended to change it around a little every few weeks so that I don't get bored of eating the same things time and time again. I am still eating a lot of Stews and porridge mind you but I have also re-introduced a lot of sanwiches and toast based meals into my daily diet. A typical day at work for instance now will be a bowel of porridge with bannana and blueberries for breakfast and a triple decker ham or sardine sandwich for lunch plus an apple or something as a snack later on. When I get home I will then have something like smoked salmon with low fat cream cheese on toast or a bacon medalion and egg sandwich. It really does not feel like dieting sometimes but each of these meals is always kept to around the 500 calorie level.

254lb - 18st 2lb

2009-08-16T02:55:00.001-07:00

Well I have finished my four 12 hour day shifts now so I actually have the time to weigh myself and post on here! I am very pleased to see that I have dropped another pound in weight so I am now over half way to acheiving my target weight loss of 5st.

Today is also my treat day. I decided to have it today rather than last week as I actually have the time to saver and enjoy it today and I really wouldn't of what with work and home as it is at present.

255lb - 18st 3lb

2009-08-12T23:56:00.000-07:00

Not sure how it happened or even when as due to getting up at 5am yesterday meant that I forgot to weigh myself. But somehow I have managed to lose 3lb in the last 48 hours. Work has been tough admittedly and I have done an awful lot of running around but even taking that into account dropping that much weight is staggering to say the least and I would not be at all suprised if my scales were playing tricks with me. I will enjoy it well it lasts though.

258lb - 18st 6lb + A reduction in my measurements.

2009-08-11T00:53:00.000-07:00

Well two bonuses today. I have hit my target for the week very early indeed and that takes the pressure off me for when I am at work, which is always a difficult time for me weight loss wise especially on day shifts. Getting up at 5am is such a bitch. For instance today I got up at 8.30 startet blogging and 08.50 and will be down for breakfast by 9.30 easy peasy compared to being at work.

I finally got the Mrs to re-measure me this morning too. My chest has gone down to 48" and my waist to 47". The reality of the waist measurement though is that I have dropped nearly two sizes in trousers.

259lb - 18st 7lb

2009-08-10T00:45:00.000-07:00

Well I was shocked to say the least when I weighed myself this morning. The scales wavered back and forth and just as I thought they had settled on the 8lb mark they dropped to 7lb (which I guess means it is by a very narrow margin). I only need to lose one more pound this week now and I have hit my target for the week.

18st 8lb - 260lb

2009-08-09T12:23:00.000-07:00

Well I am pleased as punch to see off last week with another pound dropped. Not sure it will last even until tomorrow though as we had a roast dinner for lunch and it must of been at least 1400 calories. I kind of planned ahead though by making sure I had a brisk walk about at a car boot sale this morining and by only having tea and toast for breakfast . Lunch was a late one so I doubt I will eat again for the rest of the day. Hopefully I will have negated the impact of this giant meal by doing all these things.

Note that this chart has been done from the start of my diet back in june so it looks a bit different to normal.

261lb - 18st 9lb

2009-08-06T04:31:00.001-07:00

I lost another pound yesterday which I am more than pleased about. Nothing has gone today though and as I have had to take some pain killers and dylcofenic for some pains I am having I don't expect to lose anything tomorrow as the dylcofenic bungs me up rather badly. All in all though I am more than pleased with my progress. I had a gander at my most recent photos compared to my first set of photos yesterday and although it is hard to see much difference in the front view pictures I can definately see change in the profile pictures. My double chin is vanishing too which is great news.

Chart - 18st 10lb

2009-08-04T02:17:00.000-07:00

Two stone lost!!!

2009-08-04T02:09:00.001-07:00

Well that is my second milestone reached. I have now lost two full stone since I started this diet. The funny thing is food wise yesterday was an odd one. I had a bacon and egg sarnie for breakfast at around 09.30 but this lasted me until I got peckesh at around 15.00 then I just snacked on fruit. My timing went all wrong for my evening meal and by the time I sorted out the kids I was late putting on my stew so ended up just eating four slices of toast.

Chart - 263lb

2009-08-03T05:54:00.000-07:00

And the weight drops at last.

2009-08-03T05:34:00.001-07:00

Well since my last post I have lost a further 2lb. the big suprise with the last pound was that on Sunday I had a roast pork dinner with cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes. To be fair that is pretty much all I ate on Sunday but it does show you that you can have the odd treat as long as you gut back in other areas.

Chart

2009-07-31T06:12:00.001-07:00

Weird looking thing that it is these days.

18st 13lb (265lb)

2009-07-31T06:05:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday I dropped a pound down to 266lb and today I have dropped another to 265lb. Effectively it has taken almost a week to pay for last Saturdays indulgence. A lost week as it were. Kind of depressing when you think the best part of the day was watching the kids play in the sand not eating supermarket food and drinking very average tasting cider.

Chart (for what it is worth)

2009-07-29T21:12:00.001-07:00

No comment!

19st 1lb

2009-07-29T21:03:00.000-07:00

Looks like I have hit another plateau doesn't it? On the plus side I now have a rowing machine safely installed in my den so that may start to help things along a little.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ROMF51-Carl-Lewis-Magnetic-Foldable/dp/B0006J303O/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1248926856&sr=1-10

I got it off eBay for only £20.55. It was a pig of a job to collect and install upstairs as it is huge and weighs an absolute ton.

19st 1lb WTF?

2009-07-28T06:31:00.001-07:00

I have got those working night shift blues. I am feeling very bunged up and miserable about my weight now. Oh well tomorrow is another day.

The slow march back to last weeks weight.

2009-07-27T00:35:00.000-07:00

Oh well I have dropped a pound back to 19st. It is still galling that I should put so much on just due to one days excess. Will I be back to 18st 13lb by tomorrow?

Chart - 19st 1lb

2009-07-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

Crikey a day at the seaside costs big time!

2009-07-26T08:20:00.001-07:00

The weather at home was blistering so my Mrs insisted we drive to Weston-Super-Mare for the day. I argued it was a bad idea to do this on a Saturday but eventually caved. The upshot was it took us 4 hours to drive 90 miles and 1 hour after we hit the beach it started raining. As is usual on day trips out we ate and drank more than we should. I thought I had rained it in compared to normal but I got a shock when I weighed myself this morning. I have put on 2LB!! Can't a guy take a break for even one day? One small Ben & Jerry's and three pints of Cider and I am ruined .

Chart - 290lb down to 265lb

2009-07-25T00:34:00.000-07:00

18st 13lb (265lb) Double woot!

2009-07-25T00:20:00.000-07:00

Ding, ding, ding. I am chuffed to bits with this because I was worried I ate to much yesterday. I know I have not mentined what food I am getting down my beak lately (making these posts a bit boring I suspect) well the truth is at work I eat pretty much what I have from the start of the diet ie stews cereals and fruit. At home it is more varied but yesterday for instance I know I ate near to the top of my limit. For breakfast I had Weetabix and fruit (2 1/2 biscuits + Banana + Strawberries + Skimmed milk. For lunch I had a huge plate of cooked tinned tomatoes two fried egges a small can of beans 2 slices of toast and some fried mushrooms. I say fried but the reality is it is a non stick pan with just a squirt of that specialy spray stuff. For supper I ate a Tuna sandwich. The tuna had a dob of low fat mayo and a dob of low fat salad cream mixed in it to help with texture and flavour. I think I topped the 1800 calorie mark yesterday.

19st - 266lb Woo who!

2009-07-24T00:47:00.000-07:00

I am dead chuffed about this. It was not expected. It would be great to break into the sub 19st barrier before Monday.

Chart

2009-07-23T03:25:00.001-07:00

Down to 267lb!

19st 1lb!

2009-07-23T00:54:00.000-07:00

Cool that is antother pound gone. I still have not got my Mrs to take a new batch of photos though. She is always to buys so she says.

19st 2lb

2009-07-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

It's only to be expected really. I hope to lose another pound by the weekend though.

Chart

2009-07-19T23:57:00.001-07:00

Sadly I still have not got the Mrs to sort out my measurements yet. I will be a week overdue soon.

19st 2lb!

2009-07-19T23:51:00.001-07:00

After maintaining the same weight for a few days I have at last dropped another pound. It is also at last being noticed by people.

19st 3lb - Again

2009-07-18T00:01:00.000-07:00

I am not expecting much change for the next day or two.

19st 3lb - After my treats!

2009-07-17T03:24:00.000-07:00

Well I gorged myself on my 1/2 stone treats last night a full bottle of (hic) wine and a bag of chips. The Mrs spoiled it a bit by moaning and bitching all night but that is par for the course whenever I do some thing for myself. Anyway suffice is to say that when I weighed myself this morning last nights excess seems to have done me no harm. I have stayed the same weight. Roll on the next half stone. What shall I treat myself to then KFC, Big mack and fries? I will know what my cravings are nearer the time I guess.

No longer class two obese

2009-07-16T00:46:00.000-07:00

Now that my BMI is under 35 (34.5) I am technically no longer class two obese. Class one is hardly something to be proud of I guess but all the same it is pretty good. I have been a bit slow getting my latest pictures sorted but I have at least measured myself now. All the measurements are the same as they were a fortnight ago apart from the important waist measurement. I have dropped another inch to 48 1/2".

19st 3lb - Another 2lb lost

2009-07-16T00:41:00.000-07:00

I have been so busy the last couple of days I have hardly had the time to post here or eat properly (not something I am proud of as I may go into starvation mode). The end result is though that I have lost a further 2lb this brings me down to 269lb (I think).

Chart

2009-07-14T02:28:00.000-07:00

Looking back on my records every now and again when using a conversion chart from stone to pounds it looks like occasionally it has given the wrong total. The stone weights are always correct though.

19st 5lb - The yo-yo is back!

2009-07-14T02:13:00.001-07:00

You couldn't make it up could you? I have according to my scales lost 2lb since yesterday. Food wise I had a slightly different breakfast today. I had a bread craving (Weetabix and fruit gets boring after a while) this morning so had poached eggs on toast. Sadly one of the eggs burst in the water so it did not look or eat as well as it could of.

For the last for days I have pretty much eaten the same thing everyday. When you work 12 hours shifts it is just easier to do stuff in advance that you know will be filling and easy to eat. For me that was 4 Weetabix with Strawberries and Raspberries + skimmed milk followed by a fish salad for lunch and home made chicken and wood pigeon stew for dinner.

19st 7lb - again

2009-07-13T08:20:00.001-07:00

Not much to say today as I am rushed off my feet with work other than to say no change on the old weight front. Not that I really expected much at the moment. i am still plugging away though on about 1650 calories per day at present.

19st 7lb

2009-07-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

The yo-yo is gain in full swing. I ahe put that pound I lost yesterday back on!

Chart

2009-07-10T23:44:00.001-07:00

This chart should be looking a little better than it actually is of course. Bah humbug.

Good nes, bad news

2009-07-10T23:34:00.000-07:00

The good news is I have now dropped another pound. I am now down to 19st 6lb. The bad news is my chart is innacurate I don't know when I went wrong but it looks like I can't convert pounds to stones very well. It turns out that I am now 274lb ( I had thought I had dropped to 272lb). The main thing is I guess that I am still losing weight regardless of how I log it down.

I am stil cheesed off though.

Back to normal

2009-07-10T05:34:00.000-07:00

Oh well my good run could not last could it? Apparently I have now put on a pound! I am back up to 19st 8lb (274lb) I suspect this is yet again bodily fluids more than anything. God knows what the next few days are going to produce as I have to be up at 05.00 hrs each morning and then work 12 hour shifts.

The chat is working again!

2009-07-09T00:36:00.000-07:00

It was my mistake I transposed a month and so it looked topsy turvy.

Shocked

2009-07-09T00:18:00.005-07:00

This is as strange as the 6 day plateau of last week. I have lost another pound! I am now down to 19st 7lb (273lb). I can't think why exactly. I was busy putting up shelves and stuff so only ate three very boring meals i.e cereals + fish on toast (tinned fish is for me an essential in the cupboard for busy no time to think aboout food days).

Fish & Chips

2009-07-08T02:33:00.000-07:00

Well last night I gorged myself on fish & chips mushy peas and bread and butter washed down with two cans of cider. Yum, Yum. I should point out that my Mrs moaned all the way through it and my boy nicked half my chips so it was not a total pleasure but it was near enough.

I expected to have a shock when I did my morning weigh in this morning and a shock is what I got. Can you believe I have actually lost another pound? I now weigh in at 19st 8lb (274lb) my chart is still messed up at the moment so I am unable to upload it but when I do I am sure it is going to look great.

Dropped another pound

2009-07-07T05:15:00.000-07:00

I seem to have messed up my chart some how. I think I got confused with the American system of pputting the month before the date and now my chart looks insane. Sadly I can't alter it for a day or two so I won't post it until I can make it look normal. The good news is I have managed to drop another pound in weight. At present I weigh in at 275lb (19st 9lb). Today is also my treat day. It has been delayed for four days so I am gagging to pig out on my selected treats.

Blast it!

2009-07-05T05:24:00.000-07:00

Working nights seems to be causing its usual problems. According to my scales I have put on a pound! I am pretty sure this all about the time of day I way myself and the retention of bodily fluids though.

Today's chart.

2009-07-04T05:48:00.000-07:00

Cool beans.

The same.

2009-07-04T05:44:00.000-07:00

Can't complain abot this but I am for the record still 19st 10lb (276lb) today. If last week is anything to go by I will be stuck at this weight for a few days now that I am back on my night shifts. To be honest as long as I lose a solid 2lb per week, week in week out I shall be more than happy.

Todays chart.

2009-07-03T01:22:00.000-07:00

A change at last.

Ding Dong the first stone has gone!

2009-07-03T01:11:00.000-07:00

At last I am now down to 19st 10lb (276lb). Although the last few days have been a nightmare what with what seemed like the worlds longest plateau I have at last reached my first proper milestone. Sadly I start my night shifts tonight so my one stone treat will have to wait untill early next week, Doh!

At Last!

2009-07-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

I have at last dropped another pound! I am now 19st 11lb (277lb).

Todays chart or the flat line as I now call it

2009-07-01T15:16:00.000-07:00

Whatever!

Typical day's food

2009-07-01T01:20:00.000-07:00

As you can see I am not exactly eating like a pig at the moment.Muscles on toast
Poached eggs on toast
Weetabix & Fruit.

I usually have a couple of apples for snacks and a couple of cups of tea (with milk) per day to. The weight is still not shifting though.

It's past a joke now

2009-07-01T01:18:00.000-07:00

Still stuck at 278lb. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I am eating around 1500 calories per day and have been for the last 6 days.

My first set of new statistics. Updated twice monthly

2009-06-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

Some good news at last I guess. Today I did my second set of photos and my second official inch loss measurements. My new stats are as follows. The old stats are in bold.

Chest - 49 1/2 " 51"

Waist - 49 1/2" 50 1/2"

right arm - 16 1/2" 17 1/2"

Left arm - 16" 7 1/2 1

Right thigh - 25" 26 1/2

Left Thigh - 26" 26"

Weight - 19st 12lb (290lb) 20st 10lb 278lb

BMI - 35.7 (39.6)

BMR - 2445.34 (2457)

Sigh.

2009-06-29T23:58:00.000-07:00

Still stuck at 278lb. I really have hit the mother of all plateaus.

Bargains

2009-06-29T07:38:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I think life enjoys playing games with me. Since I have been on my diet free or cheap fattening foods seem to want to throw themselves me on an almost daily basis. I am one of those people that always checks out the reduced section at the supermarket usually with little success. Ob boy have I almost wept at what I have had to ignore just lately. A large Duck crown reduced by two thirds, triple packs of tasty looking top of the range pork pies, butchers choice sausages, prepared meals and anything else that would normally be forced down my gullet given half the chance. All at super knock down prices. At work it is conference season and the new caterers we now have a leagues ahead of the old bunch. Only the other day I had to turn my nose up to hand baked chocolate cookies Little raspberry parcels and various Chinese and Indian style finger food. I can say no to free good quality food in the first few weeks of a diet but I would be a liar if I said I could be the third or fourth month. Could you?

Hubris

2009-06-29T07:31:00.001-07:00

I am presently weighing in at exactly the same as I was before I started my nightshifts 278lb (19st 12lb). This just goes to show if you buy your "I've lost a stone treats" before you have actually lost it, life will just bite you in the butt. By that I mean I now wish I had not bought those two bottles of Cider when I did the weekly shop last thursday. Still, the chart looks nice I guess.

Night shifts.

2009-06-27T10:06:00.000-07:00

I am struggling to think what has gone wrong over the last couple of days with the diet. My head tells me that working shifts messes my body about in as much as I eat at different times and and my toilet habits change quite a lot. Also the time of day that I way myself is different by a good few hours. I am guessing that some of the problem is just that I am holding on to bodily fluids (and solids) and that eating at 11pm and 3am tells my brain to hold on to the fat or something.

The good news is that tomorrow is my last night shift then I have 4 days off. It will also help that I will no doubt not be eating much on Monday due to me sleeping for most of the day.

Oh no, I have put on a pound!

2009-06-27T05:25:00.000-07:00

Horror of horrors I have put on a pound. I now weigh in at 19st 13lb (279lb). Yet again I blame the night shifts. I just presume that if I keep at it and return to day shifts etc it will start falling again.

It's no loss

2009-06-26T05:37:00.001-07:00

Here is today's chart. No weight has been lost today. I think changing to night shifts mucks up the metabolism to much.

More food pictures

2009-06-25T03:49:00.000-07:00

Just thought I would upload a few more snaps of my daily grub.This is what I had for breakfast today. A huge portion of Weetabix with a banana ans soya milk. I topped this off with a spoonful of fructose sugar. Today is an odd day as I start my night shifts and it means I will be awake for nearly 24 hours. For that reason I will be having 4 meals today. To make up for this on my first day off I only tend to have 2 meals.
This is yesterdays lunch it consists of toast & Kippers with a side salad
Dinner was another late rush job and did not do anything for me taste wise. It was Pilchards and baked beans on toast.
For snacks I ate one small apple and a few nuts.

WOOT - 19st 12lb (278lb)!

2009-06-25T02:33:00.000-07:00

Fantastic result. I can hardly believe it. I am now only 2lb away from my first treat. (I have a small treat at the half stone mark such as a couple of beers or slice of cake. At the one stone point I will have something like a curry and a bottle of wine. I find it stops the cravings if I allow myself these once in a while luxuries.

Another pount lost!

2009-06-24T01:48:00.001-07:00

I am very surprised and pleased to find I am now down to 280lb (20st). I am very hungry this morning though.

Todays chart

2009-06-23T15:16:00.001-07:00

What i'm eating

2009-06-23T14:59:00.001-07:00

It occurs to me that when you read diet blogs you can't really be sure if what you are reading is the truth, lies or exaggerations. especially when it comes to food. For my part I am trying to log what I eat so that I don't kid myself let alone anyone else. To be sure I am not photographing everything I eat but as many meals as make sense I do (though I won't always post them here). For instance today I had my usual porridge with fruit for brekkie followed by a very quick lunch of toast low fat cream cheese and tomatoes. (I was in a rush to get out the house).
My dinner today was a bit of a sad one. I needed to clear some space in the freezer to I dug out this 5 month old pasta dish. For 550 calories (as labelled) it was not that filling but I guess it will have to do. On top of my three meals I also had 3 small apples. I reckon that is probably around 1500 calories for the day. Usually lunch is bigger than today's so I would suggest that, that is less than normal for me at present.

Supportive partners - not.

2009-06-23T03:32:00.000-07:00

My breakfast, Porridge with fruit. Her breakfast bacon, potato cakes, fried mushrooms etc. etc. Last night my treat 6 cashew nuts her treat 3/4 of a box of luxury chocolate truffles.

Just as I suspected

2009-06-23T00:50:00.000-07:00

Weighed in at 281lb (20st 1lb) this morning. It was far to much to hope for a further drop after yesterday.

Daily chart.

2009-06-22T03:46:00.000-07:00

Nice little bit of spiking going on with this chart now. 9lb lost in 6 days so far this week. I suspect that will be my first weeks total tomorrow too mind you.

A big surpise.

2009-06-22T03:36:00.000-07:00

I had a real shock when I stepped on the scales this morning 281lb! can you believe it? after yesterdys weight gain of a lb I was sure I had reached that all to famileir first week plataue. The only thing I can attribute it to is that I only had that large roast dinner yesterday followed by yogurt and fruit at around 9pm. I would guess that plus the fact that my waterworks where in overdrive last night ( I must have gone to the loo around 12 times between 8pm and 8am) accounts for it being a mix of more bodily contents plus a smidge of blubber.

Fathers day

2009-06-21T12:16:00.001-07:00

Bit of a tricky one today, what with it being Fathers day and also my first day off after my night shifts. Generally I don't eat that much on my first day off especially if it is a Sunday because I sleep till around 1.30pm then I have a large lunch at around 2.30 to 3.00pm I usually have nothing more than a snack after that generally at around 9pm a couple of hours before bed.

Ideally I would not have had the Mrs make dinner (I do most of the cooking) but it being the day it was she made me a roast chicken lunch. I had asked for boiled new potatoes and lots of veg to go with it but we ended up with roast potatoes, roast parsnips buttered sweet potatoes and carrots and broccoli. It was nice but not what I really need to be eating at the moment. I do wonder if she is not subconsciously sabotaging my efforts sometimes.

I tried to burn off some of the calories with a bike ride but as usual that narrow saddle makes my eyes water after 10 minutes so again I came home and re-entered the house like a cowboy that has crossed Texas non stop on horseback.

I will be using the chicken carcass as the base for my next set of stews.

Oh the humanity!

2009-06-21T07:04:00.000-07:00

Horror of horrors, the weight loss has it its first real blip. I am now 1lb heavier than yesterday. I han not cheated and was pretty mobile yesterday so I guess my body has now regulated itself with regards to fluids and my other bits and pieces. Still it was a good run 6lb lost in total is nothing to be sneezed at is it?

Ok I have changed my mind. Behold the new chart!

2009-06-20T11:32:00.000-07:00

I decided it was pointless keeping the old chart going as it was based on error weights and just looked lazy leaving it as it was. Anyway here it is. The chart as it always should have been.

Dinner

2009-06-20T10:44:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to mention that I ended up getting 5 huge meals out of that big stew I made a few days ago. The best of it is I bet it only cost around 50p a bowl to make. When I think how little my porridge oats cost as well it shows how dieting really can be done on the cheap.

The virtual me

2009-06-20T10:35:00.000-07:00

Found this cool tool for people who are shy about showing the amount of blubbage they have to the world. Meet virtual me at my target weight of 210lb (15st). This is me as of today at 284lb. Ok I admit he is better looking than I am.

This link will lead you to the right place to get your own.

http://corpo.mvm.com/en/brandme.php?pop=M&track=14

2009-06-20T05:37:00.000-07:00

I just got around to transfering this photo of a typical lunch. For me lunch can easily be the smallest meal and I try and keep it under 500 calories nearer to 400 in fact. This lunch was two slices of wholemeal toast with a can of sardines in tomato sauce. To liven it up I have added fresh basil a couple of thin slices of cheddar cheese sliced tomato and finally a splash of Worcester sauce. This is then grilled until the cheese has melted.

Lost yet another Pound!

2009-06-20T05:26:00.000-07:00

I am actually surpised by this latest drop. I was not expecting to lose a full pound for a day or two (water or not).

More of the same

2009-06-19T17:54:00.000-07:00

I am settling into things a little more now. The food cravings are dying down a little and three square(ish) meals now seems tolerable (plus a couple of apples in between). Exercise wise I have not done an awful lot. My job can be pretty active and I have so far had to walk around a fair bit to the point that I raised a bit of a sweat, so I have no problem with myself on that front. The main thing is I guess is that when I jumped on the scales again today I had lost another pound. Even though I know that in the first week or so it is mostly water and crap that makes up a lot of this it is still pleasing to say those numbers heading south.

Todays chart.

2009-06-19T12:43:00.000-07:00

I so wish I had bought the new scales before I started this chart. I am losing weight!

Breakfast - The most important meal of the day!

2009-06-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

When I have a day off and can eat a proper breakfast at home I have found the most filling and diet friendly thing to have is porridge outs with skimmed milk and fruit. A bowl full of this stuff will keep me going for around 5 hours. Not really a recipe but what I have is 60g of porridge oats (or Ready Brek) and two spoon fulls of fructose sugar microwaved with a lot of skimmed mild for 5 minutes. When the porridge is done I add a finely chopped banana and a handful of berries. Stir it up and then enjoy. If you hate Porridge Weetabix works nearly as well.

Food, glorious food.

2009-06-18T22:09:00.001-07:00

This so far has been a typical evening meal. This is my patented diet stew. You can have a huge bowl of the stuff and still find it only adding up to between 500 to 600 calories.

The recipe is as follows. plonk your meat into the middle of your cooking pot. I highly recommend using those ultra cheap giant sized turkey legs you find in most large supermarkets (leave the skin on) Cut up loads of veg into chunks. The only thing you need to remember is that the majority of the veg used has to be of the lower calorie variety such as Onion, Leeks Carrots,button mushrooms, Swede and Turnip also include such things as Sweet Potato, Parsnips and Potato's but in much smaller quantities. Make a stock up of 2 1/2 pints of water two chicken stock cubes plus what ever suits you, such as Worcester sauce, garlic, pepper, tomato paste & Rosemary etc. Add that to the mix then cook for 4 to 5 hours at a low to medium heat in the oven. When the meat starts to fall from the bone it is ready. Gently take the meat out of the stew and discard all the skin and bone and cut it into small chunks. Pop the meat back into the pot and then partially blend some of the stew to make it thicker. Do not overdo this, you don't want it to turn into baby food. You should now be left with a hearty healthy low calorie meal that will last you most of the week.
This is roughly how it should look before it goes into the oven.

My daily chart

2009-06-18T20:14:00.000-07:00

As you can see I was doing so well until I bought the new scales!

Excersie and me.

2009-06-18T19:42:00.000-07:00

Lordy, lordy do I hate the idea of gyms and I know no matter how much I wish it was otherwise I have neither the time nor the inclination to go to one even semi regularly. I used to like swimming mind you and even got up to doing 4 miles a week in my 20's but swimming takes up a big chunk of time and I just don't have it these days especially with two little ones taking up a lot of my spare time. After doing a fair bit of research about what activity gives you most bang for your book I have come to the conclusion that a rowing machine is probably my best bet and so I am now actively looking for a magnetic or flywheel model on eBay. I did think of just using my bike for most journeys but as I was nearly knocked over the first time I took it out of the house a couple of days ago I have put that idea of the back burner for a while.

So how is it going so far?

2009-06-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

Oh disaster. No I am not cheating or anything so tedious so early on It is more that fact that the Mrs is being as supportive as a cream cake tied to my hand and worse my replacement scales read 10lb heavier than my old mechanical Salter's did. I am sure you can imagine how thrilled I was to find that I was not 20 stone after all (not counting the 4lb I had lost since Monday). Anyway that is all in the past. I now have a rudimentary mental game plan in play. I have found a useful website http://www.physicsdiet.com/ that will help me with graphs and such like and I have most of the equipment I need i.e half decent electric kitchen and bathroom scales. I also have a body fat analyser (but I seem to have misplaced the instructions for those).