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Back in the Slimming World game...

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Finally! After a very up and down time since we came back from holidays, I finally got back in my groove, got my head back in the game and managed three weeks in a row of losses! This string of wins took me back to where I was when we went on holiday in July. As you can see from my graph above, I finally hit my lowest weight since joining Slimming World just over a year ago.  I was particularly chuffed to finally get back under 20 stone, back under where I had been before the holiday but also to crack on.  Been a long time since I was particularly happy with my journey.  But, I'm back! We went to a christening recently, and posed for this selfie above, and it made me think back to the bottom half of that photo. Our second date, early February 2006, we went to see a movie and then wandered to a little pub where we hung out for hours.  I like this comparison, mostly because we both look happy in both pictures, but also because I think, although we both look a bit olde
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Reboot - Slimming World Fail!

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I'm back, sorry. Life got a bit hectic during the exams, and holidays and stuff.   I posted this on my instagram earlier this week. ' Time for a  #reboot . I've got complacent it is time to  #refocus . I should be miles further down the road on my  #slimmingworldjourney  than I am. I should have smashed my  #holidaygain  but I haven't. Not starting again because that would negate all the effort I've put in so far. But I'm going to sit down, reread my book,  #focus  on  #foodoptimising  and get my arse in gear.' I've hit a plateau.  I lost over 8 stone before my holiday.  I'll talk about that later on, but since we got back I have massively not been able to focus.  I found myself doing what a lot of people seem to do, start 'guesstimating'portion sizes and syn values. I've always worked on the basis that because I get more syns, I'm male and fat, I will always be under, but when I think about it properly, I'm probably not,
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A gain, and a sulk!

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After the giddiness of being half of the Couple Of The Year last week, I was brought down to earth with a bump as I gained 3.5lbs at weigh in.  I'm very much not a happy bunny this week. What I thought was a pretty good week, turned out to not be the case.  We had our lovely in-laws down to visit for most of the week, and it is always nice to see them, but it has thrown off my food patterns this week.  I have found myself picking up a meal deal sandwich a few times, and I have definitely eaten too many carbs this week.  I'm pretty annoyed with myself. You know when you are pretty sure you have had a good week, but then it turns out that although you didn't join in with the Chinese takeaway, or even eat anything really bad, you still ate too much? Yep, that was me this week. What a knob! So I pouted a bit, had a bit of a sulk, made one of my favourite pre-Slimming World dinners and pretty much got over it, in theory.  I had my signature sandwich, which
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Couple Of The Year? Proud husband!

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This weeks post isn't really about me, and my 'journey'.  So this week I hit 95lbs total loss, which I'm pretty proud of, not at the goal yet, but pretty solidly on the way.  This week I want to talk about my wife, and the battle/journey she has undertaken.  Around the same time as I joined Slimming World, my lovely wife Caroline was diagnosed with PCOS, or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.  She will hate me talking about her here, but it is a big part of our lives, and I wanted to acknowledge it.  For the layman, PCOS affects the way your body processes insulin, how it burns fat and how it produces eggs.  I'm obviously not an expert but that is a very simplified version of it. It means that it is harder for her to lose weight, but much easier for her to put it on. So, this week I was ruddy delighted to be crowned as Couple Of The Year at my Slimming World group.  I may have lost 95lbs but Caroline has fought her way to 36lbs lost in the same time period. I
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Still on it...

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Hey folks, so, yeah, I've been terrible at updating this recently. Sadly, work exploded in December and I'm just now getting life a bit more back to normal. So, in the time I was gone, I've pretty much stayed on plan and I'm currently sitting at 6st 3.5lbs down. I can't really complain, but my weight loss has slowed right down over the last month or so. My own fault, I've been not drinking enough water, and not having enough speed food. Don't get me wrong, I'm still doing a hell of a lot better that when I was this size... I've got a bit complacent I think, so this is my kick up the bum. All the water, more speed food.  I've found myself snacking more, in part because I get bored working from home so a snack is a nice distraction. That being said, my snacks are usually fruits and cereal/hifi bars so it could be worse. In the old days, not that long ago, I'd have scarfed most of a 2 litre bottle of Coke and a packet of biscuits witho
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Slimming World Slump...

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So, I hit a few bumps in the road of my Slimming World journey. I was back on it, still am, but then a lovely friend came to stay with us, and we ended up getting pizza delivered.  Although we got vegetable, meaning at least a touch of speed food, I still ate four big slices of pizza! I only ate 4 slices!  That week I had been utterly on plan, finished the week on plan, went to weigh in, lost 1lb.  Although I'm pleased with a loss, for some reason this utterly bummed me out, way more than my Maintain.  Not really sure why, although it probably had something to do with helping out with the weigh in, and weeing where I ranked on the list for Slimmer Of The Month, the system shows you total weight loss that month, and mine was only 4lb for November. Considering how well I had been doing, only having a 4lb month properly affected me. Well, the picture above kind of tells you what happened next! I left the meeting to head to work, stopped at the shop and picked up a packet of
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I'm back, sorry!

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It seems to have been ages since I wrote this, so, my apologies to the three of you who give a crap! Life got kind of complicated.  I have been run off my feet with the doubling of my workload, I think I wrote about that previously.  Basically I now have to manage four schools instead of two, which doesn't leave me an awful lot of time, particularly when one of them is near Sunderland, one is near Middlesbrough and I don't drive. Yeah, makes life a bit more complicated, and eating properly is pretty hard. Eating on the run!  So, since I last wrote this, I have had a few Slimming World milestones fall. My weight loss has definitely slowed down, but I am still committed to it. I hit my 3 stone award, my Club 10 and most excitingly I was nominated for Mr Sleek for my group. So yeah, pretty busy. In fact, I was voted Mr. Sleek, and much as I don't need/like/want the attention that comes with such a thing, it was nice to hear some of the conversations while we voted.
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