Back to Blogging... Where am I at and where have I been?

Right, here's a little update as to what's been going on.

I last posted at the end of July and was still a pretty respectable weight of 14st2lbs, but had fallen off the wagon a bit.  In my last post, I mentioned that I had moved up to the 1000 calorie plan and that I was struggling to get to grips with it.

For a few weeks, I was putting on the odd pound here and there, occasionally losing a little but basically ended up hovering around 14st4lbs.

Then we had one of those little challenges that life throws at us from time to time. The wife had a ruptured appendix and was rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy. She was very seriously ill, which caught us both off-guard as we assumed that because it's such a common operation, it was a minor one.  How wrong we were.

The rules of the Cambridge Diet say that you can't be on a VLCD within three months of any surgery. As the wife and I are doing the diet together, we both came off the diet together.

Because the wife was so ill, it meant that I was doing everything. All baby-related duties, all the shopping, the cleaning, the washing etc.. absolutely everything for our little family. All whilst working full time.

Between the general tiredness and stress of it all, I was eating for both comfort and extra energy so I put on a little weight. 

I ended up at 15st4lbs.  I felt pretty bloated, pretty ugly and my 34" jeans that I was so proud to be in were getting pretty bloody tight!

So, as soon as the three month's time limit was up, we got straight back on the Cambridge Diet to finish the weight loss journey that we started back in January 2012.

This time, we've started on the 810 calorie plan as opposed to sole-source.  This means three food packs a day and a dinner (no carbs).

I have to confess, I've been having the three food packs, but having a smaller than recommended dinner as I'd prefer to be on sole source because I don't want to run the risk of eating like a pig.

My current weight is back down to 13st12lbs as of 13th Dec 2012.

My lightest weight on the diet was 13st8lbs.  I'm going to remain on the 810 plan until I'm down to 12st.  Then we'll see how I look.

In terms of BMI, I want to be smack-bang in the middle of the normal range.  For my height (6'2") That would be somewhere around 12st7lbs.  I'm going below this because I know that when I add carbs back into my diet, my body will retain up to 10lbs in water.

Cheers,

Rich