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I hate to make excuses (again) for not posting last week, but it was an incredibly busy week were I didn’t get home till 9pm or after!!! Hopefully I can get a few in this week (posts that is) as I have a few things I want to post about…so fingers crossed!

Over the last couple of weeks I have reached a tipping point of sorts, people are finally starting to notice that I am losing weight. It is a very rewarding, sometimes embarrassing and occasionally very funny thing when people start to notice my weight loss. One of my favorite funny moments occurred a couple of weeks ago, a client who hadn’t been in since late last year came in to see me. She sat down in my room and as she got a good look at me for the first time since arriving suddenly exclaimed “OHHH MY GOD…..you look TERRIFIC” there was a long pause as she looked me up and down examining me….she then exclaimed….”OHHH MY GOD you’ve done your hair!?!”….I then paused as my brain tried to decide whether I should go with this ruse, whether I had actually done my hair, and if I had then what the hell did it look like before!!! but before I could help my self I started laughing uproariously, it took me a minute before I could tell her that in fact I had lost a couple of kilos (I decided understating was the way to go). She was a little embarrassed but also very complimentary and she of course made my day, there is nothing like a good laugh especially at ones self

People are also commenting that I am looking healthier, and although I didn’t realise I wasn’t looking so great before, I would be lying if I said I was feeling great before I decided to embark on this journey. The main reason for doing this in the first place was for better health so these comments are really reinforcing for me the importance of what I am doing.

I have made the brave and fool hardy decision to try and do my exercise in the mornings again, I am doing it for the rather embarrassing (must be the word of the week!) reason that I am starting to get a bit creeped out walking around my block at night. I think it is mainly due to the cold, the lack of street lights and watching way to many programs on the crime investigation network about serial killers!!! Although my habit of starting out at 10pm probably doesn’t help the situation. So it’s mornings again

I lost another 800 grams / 1.76 pounds last week so I am now down 17 kilos or 37.4 pounds or for my mother in law 2 stone 6.5 ounces. Later in the week I am going to do something that I should have done as soon as I was able to get an accurate reading off my scales, I am going to give my self a BIA. BIA or bioimpedence analysis is a technique were a small electrical current is sent through your body and an accurate measurement of fat and muscle is given. It can also determine hydration levels. I am a little apprehensive about this as it will tell me with a 95 - 97% accuracy how much fat is still on my body and how much I still have to lose!

I will post the results of the BIA later this week…..I promise…