Friday 28th August – Additional weigh-in and a new target

Okay! I have made progress, remembering to take my vitamins this week has definitely helped. Today I weighed in at 85.5kg/188lbs/13st 6lbs.

My original plan was to try and achieve a target less than that of my wedding weight, by our wedding anniversary. That hasn’t happened. Even with two weeks on 4:3 and doing two, two-day fluid fasts. The first was because I had a stomach bug, the second was because I felt like I needed a kick-start to make the fat shift again (and I was too hot to eat)

It has been too hot to even walk to the shop (100m away), without returning and needing a shower because I’m drenched in my own sweat (ick!). Consequently, ‘exercise’ has become a dirty word.

The only way to sneak in my yoga, squats, and abs, is to wake before 5 am when the heat and humidity are at their lowest. Unfortunately, at that time, I’m still dying to crawl back into bed. By the time I’ve managed to wake up and rehydrate, the temperature has soared and I’m sweating just sitting still, in the shade.

I’m desperately hoping that the heat and humidity will start to settle down soon, so that I can go to the beach, swim and still be able to walk back home without losing half my body weight in fluid. Wouldn’t it be nice if that water-weight stayed off? Sadly, losing weight by dehydration is not in the least bit healthy and I would probably start retaining water. I’m already retaining fat I don’t need to add water to the mix too.

Considering that I failed to reach my wedding weight by the time our anniversary came around I have created a new ‘due date’ for this milestone. I want to hit 81kg by the time my parents visit at the beginning of October. I want to be able to confidently claim that I am the lightest I have been for over a decade. When I think that I was over 95kg when I met my husband, over eight years ago, this is no small claim.

So I have 4kg/9lbs (I’m rounding) to lose in 6 weeks. I’m raring to go. It’s not an impossible task. Or it might be considering the weight fluctuations I’ve been experiencing lately.

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