There's 10% Less of Me!
Today's Weight 207.0lbs (Yep, this is getting tedious but it's STILL TOM!!)
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Woohoo - I've officially lost 10% of my starting body weight! Yay me! Yesterday (after the previous night's indulgencies) I weighed 206.5lbs, but today the scales stopped decisively on 207lbs. I never accept a new low weight until I've hit it for two mornings, so I reckon the 207lbs is 'real' and it's therefore time to celebrate. 230lbs to 207lbs in 12 weeks and 5 days. WTG me!
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Yesterday I didn't post because I was pretty busy - went to watch the Mountain Bike National Points Series race in Thetford Forest, and then spent the rest of the day drooling over swanky new bikes on the 'net. I know this isn't some folks' idea of "busy", but it does for me!
Luckily I didn't have a hangover from the night before, but I deserved one! I was pretty good foodwise ( I had one very small spoonful each of chicken balti, vegetable jalfrezi, aloo gobi, bombay aloo and pilau rice, as well as two poppadoms) but I went a bit overboard on the alcohol. They forced me! Ha ha. I ended up having 1.5 pints of Cobra, 4 G&Ts, 4 shots of butterscotch schnapps and 4 shots of sour apple schnapps. Altogether about 1500 calories of alcohol. BAAAAAD girl!
Amazingly, it didn't seem to have any adverse consequences, though. I dropped a whole pound overnight, which I expected to rebound today, but I only regained 0.5lbs. Yowzser, what a result!
Note to self: Don't make the mistake of thinking I can therefore do this every week with the same favourable outcome!
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Anyway, I expect to see a slow down in my weight loss in the coming weeks, as I went into town today and bought a heavier set of dumbbells. I've been (very irregularly) using some 1.5lbs dumbbells, but I've decided to up the ante. I'm still being a wuss and starting on 4.5lbs per hand, but these new dumbbells I've bought have extra weights to take each bell up to 3kg. I know that's small fry to some ladies, but hell, a gal's gotta start somewhere, and maybe this time next year I'll be benchpressing 100kg. Yeah, right. Anyway, I'm up for the challenge, and my batwings' days are numbered!
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Update:
Just finished my first weight workout with the 4.5lb dumbbells. It took me around 20 minutes and I did 1 x 10 crunches, 2 x 15 overhead triceps extensions, 2 x 15 triceps kickbacks, 2 x 15 standing shoulder presses, 2 x 15 dumbbell shrugs, 3 x 15 bench presses, 3 x 10 biceps curls, 1 x 10 dumbbell squats and 2 x 15 dumbbell straight back straight leg dead lifts.
Phew, I must be such a weakling, I'm knackered now!
