Weigh In – When Failure is Success.

According to my calculations and the note I made in my calendar, today would have been the day that I should have seen 65kg on the scales….that is if I could manage to lose an average of 1kg a  week.

As you can see I am WAY off track of this goal….13 kg off track.  I never actually expected to be able to lose that much weight each week but had hoped to be much closer to 70kg by now and around 72kg before my 2 month trip to Australia.  But as we all know, shit happens right!?

I never anticipated that my sciatic nerve pain issues would return with such ferocity and for so long after improving.   I got my life back after a year of intense pain…only to have it taken away from me again. Lack of being able to walk, let alone exercise put a big reality sized spanner in the works. I have written before the dangers of setting time span goals with weight loss and I hope that this proves a point to all of you who persist.  At the end of the day, I am 13kg off an unrealistic weight loss goal time span.  I AM 25.3kg less than my weight last July and how great is that!? I will make it my goal sometime this year…soon I hope.

I somehow managed to lose weight again this week…hope it’s not all muscle weight! But I am thrilled my body is still responding to the little I am able to do to assist a healthier existence.  And the best news of all….I have made some headway with my sciatic nerve pain and pelvis problems.  I have been given a few really good tools to help pop my pelvis back and my body is finally responding to these.  Knowing the pelvis is in place, but still not being to walk for more than 3-5 mins before the pain becomes too intense to think straight.. I figured that my main pain issues are being caused by a knock on muscular effect.  When my pelvis is in the wrong place, the piriformis muscle in the buttocks freaks out (and my sciatic nerve runs through the muscle instead of beside it and gets squeezed to death).  So I have spent the last few days stretching and massaging and getting acupuncture for the piriformis  AND things are finally improving!!  I probably just jinxed myself though

Anyway, here’s this week’s stats.

78.2 kg      or      172.40 lbs

LOST 0.6 kg/ 1.32 lbs

13.2 kg / 29.10 lbs TO GO!

BMI = 28.2 (9.1 points down)

TOTALS = 25.3 kg/ 55.78 lbs LOST SO FAR!

65.71 % OF WAY TO GOAL!

Stay smiling and keep up the battle against the bulge.