Weigh In: Week 18
Previous Weight: 21 stone, 2.5 pounds.
New Weight: 21 stone, 4 pounds.
Weight Gain: 1.5 pounds.
Total 2015 Weight Gain: 1 pound.
Oh boy. I am really not very good at this at all. I had grand designs this year to lose a considerably amount of weight and that is rapidly flying out of the window. Chief among the culprits in the past week was another trip to Five Guys (great burgers but not worth it, particularly not financially), two more Krispy Kreme doughnuts (the hazelnut one is very good), seven other doughnuts of differing varieties and a trip to my old haunt ICCO on Goodge Street for another of their sizable pizzas.
I'm caught between two stools on this particular issue. One, I'm obviously someone who enjoys food and wants to continue enjoying food within reason. I don't want to endlessly entwine my self worth with the numbers I see on the scale. On the other hand, I know if I stay at this weight for a long period of time, my health over the next few years is going to get worse and worse.
Even as a very large person, you can live in denial for a long time about what you look like. I've been doing that a lot lately. I caught myself in the mirror earlier and thought I looked absolutely horrendous. But doubtless I won't feel that way tomorrow and I'll subsequently give myself permission to eat something that I really shouldn't.
There are 34 weeks left in the year. If I lost the same amount of weight I put on this week every week for the remainder of 2015, I'd be under 18 stone and be in a good position to get down to a healthy weight in 2016. But it's a case of applying myself and being in the right frame of mind. I'm not sure I'm there yet.
New Weight: 21 stone, 4 pounds.
Weight Gain: 1.5 pounds.
Total 2015 Weight Gain: 1 pound.
Oh boy. I am really not very good at this at all. I had grand designs this year to lose a considerably amount of weight and that is rapidly flying out of the window. Chief among the culprits in the past week was another trip to Five Guys (great burgers but not worth it, particularly not financially), two more Krispy Kreme doughnuts (the hazelnut one is very good), seven other doughnuts of differing varieties and a trip to my old haunt ICCO on Goodge Street for another of their sizable pizzas.
I'm caught between two stools on this particular issue. One, I'm obviously someone who enjoys food and wants to continue enjoying food within reason. I don't want to endlessly entwine my self worth with the numbers I see on the scale. On the other hand, I know if I stay at this weight for a long period of time, my health over the next few years is going to get worse and worse.
Even as a very large person, you can live in denial for a long time about what you look like. I've been doing that a lot lately. I caught myself in the mirror earlier and thought I looked absolutely horrendous. But doubtless I won't feel that way tomorrow and I'll subsequently give myself permission to eat something that I really shouldn't.
There are 34 weeks left in the year. If I lost the same amount of weight I put on this week every week for the remainder of 2015, I'd be under 18 stone and be in a good position to get down to a healthy weight in 2016. But it's a case of applying myself and being in the right frame of mind. I'm not sure I'm there yet.
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