Bootcamp Week 6 - the weigh-in thread

[BIWItheBold]

Here is the spreadsheet

Add your latest weight here and then and crow/moan about it afterwards!

not necessarily otters - i'm up to 10st7 this morning after being 10st4 on monday

hurrah for biwi!

Willie - I think you could be right about the processed meats. Try cutting those out for a few days. The amount of salt in those could be causing a bit of fluid retention, so also try upping your water today and tomorrow.

Don't forget that your menstrual cycle also has an effect - don't know if that's a possibility?

BIWI well done! I know you have been desperate to get into the 9's so that's a real milestone for you.

It is! The scales showed me this weight almost a month ago - And it has been very frustrating to see things go in the opposite direction ever since. I know that it's been a lot down to me - too much weekend wine drinking - but it also does demonstrate that weight loss is not linear (another IPD mantra). I have come to realise that this seems to be how my body works - a loss of 3lbs or so followed by a period of no change or even a slight increase. However, having Bootcamp has really kep me focused, and following MY mantra KEEP ON KEEPING ON!

I also know that as I

A) get older
B) am menopausal (possibly almost through it - no period since August)
C) get nearer my target (9stone)

that weight loss is likely to be slower

My original target when I started back in February was to lose 2 stones by the end of May. Looks like that last half stone is going to take me a bit longer to shift, as I doubt I can do that in the one remaining week of the month!

But my head is very firmly 'in the zone' and I know I'm making good progress. And ( perhaps) more importantly, I have realised that I have a whole wardrobe of clothes that now fit me!

My ultimate target is to be slim enough to wear a bikini when we go to Barbados on 11 August.

Please, God, that I will have lost the last half a stone by then!

thanks biwi - i'm going to get on top of that next week. would love to get down to 10 by the end of this month but i don't think that's realistic really

i definitely didn't get enough water yesterday, and the hot weather means we should be drinking even more water probably (as someone else suggested on here the other day)!

Yes -definitely need to drink more at the moment

Well done, BIWI

I totally understand what you are saying about weight loss not being linear. I was losing 2lb a week every week, then nothing, then 4lb, then 1lb a week for the last few weeks (and eating the same every week - no cheating!) This week I have lost 2lb (40lb down now!) doing exactly the same as I have done every other week

I laughed when I read about you taking your contact lenses out to weigh yourself. I take my very heavy glasses off and put my contacts in before I weigh myself Otherewise I couldn't even see the scales, let alone the numbers!!

Congratulations, BIWI.

Thank you! Must stay focused though. Friday wine could be my undoing ...

Biwi, we both have 11th august as our final target date then. I turn the big 3 0 the next day and really want to start my next decade as a good healthy weight, unlike my twenties when I have gone between 11 and 15 stone (and had one engagement, one wedding, two babies by sections, one divorce and three house moves.......)

BIWI! Into the 9's!

Dare I ask, how did you fare with the Friday wine?

Well, I've never given up wine - just restricted it (mainly) to the weekend. And then been very careful to restrict it to max 3 glasses (mostly).

If I'd given it up totally then I would no doubt have lost more weight by now. But I probably wouldn't have stuck to it either. So I feel that this has been a much more realistic and sustainable way of losing weight for me.