WEEK 4 OF THE 5 STONE CHALLENGE – COMPLETE!!
Today
was my 4th weigh-in and after last week, where I didn’t lose any
weight, I was hoping to have lost something like 4lbs to continue the momentum
towards my goal. I was mindful of the impact
drinking at last week’s wedding and thought that I had been better this
weekend, but until you see the hard evidence, you just never know, so I assumed
my place on the scales once again and said a little prayer before I reviewed
the results.
Thankfully,
I managed to lose 10lbs this week, which I was very happy with – remember, to
achieve my goal, I was planning to lose 2lbs a week over 8 months and 10lbs is
the equivalent to 2 household bricks that I no longer have to carry around with
me. My total weight is now 23 stone
11lbs, down from 26 stone exactly 4 weeks ago.
Better still, my BMI is now 40.3, down from 42.05 (over 40 is morbidly obese
so nearly there) and my Body Fat % is now 35.5% down from 37.7%.
I
must say, the encouragement and support, both mentally for me personally and
financially for The Dream Factory continues to astonish me. I am so lucky to have such an amazing group
of friends and family behind me.
Donations continue to flood in for this amazing charity and we are
almost at the £3,000.00 mark, which is just amazing. Please do continue to give as the more money
we raise, the more dedicated I am to completing this tough challenge!
I
also wanted to tell you a funny story.
You may recall that for my birthday on day 9 of the challenge, my friend
Victoria brought me the Nintendo Wii Fit, which I had told her I wanted. Well, in a very excited state, I spent hours
connecting the wires and installing the game and running through the set-up and
just couldn’t wait to get started. The
final thing you have to do as part of this set-up is to stand on the board and
get weighed to create your profile, which I did. I then received an error message telling me
that I was over the weight limit and that all of the profile building I had
done would be deleted and the game restarted.
I was mortified, gutted and thoroughly embarrassed. Most of all, I was frustrated, but thankfully
I ended up laughing hysterically at the stupidity of the whole thing. I later found out the weight limit for the
wii board is 23 stone 7lbs. So, this
week, my incentive is to lose at least 4lbs so that I can finally start to use
my wii fit board! Here’s to the week
ahead…
Hi Ben, glad you were able to laugh it off and turn it around and be positive. Good on you.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother used to have a saying which was regularly shared: "If you don't laugh, you'll cry" and that is a theory I generally try to stick to. Of all of the great troubles in this world, being too fat to use a wii fit board really doesn't compare! I WILL do it though. ;-)
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