WEEK 4 OF THE 5 STONE CHALLENGE – COMPLETE!!

Today was my 4^th 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…