Only Two More Weigh-Ins

Tonight was week 10 at the weight loss challenge. My eating has not been good for the last two weeks. I've been off with the kids and we've eaten out quite a bit. Jo has also perfected the best banana muffins ever known to man and Laura's peanut butter cookies just melt in your mouth so .... I was dreading tonight's weigh-in.

I took along my $5 fine for missing last week (think I was in Nandos in Hamilton at the time stuffing my face with hot spicy chicken) and also some change just in case I put on. It's a dollar for every 500g I think.

I'm not proud of it but I've hardly eaten today. It's not clever and I don't recommend it but I had my porridge for breakfast and then got through the day on an apple and a tiny banana muffin. Strange choice you might think but you haven't tasted them. I also thought (and was right) that if I had it for lunch it would keep me feeling full till after the weigh-in.

Stupid act number two occurred as soon as I got home from work when I worked out on the windtrainer in a long sleeved thermal top with no fan on for 45 mins. Sweating buckets was the outcome. Obviously I didn't want to drink anything to replace the lost fluids and so I had a slight headache but I could replace everything afterwards. Water and salty nuts were on hand for any emergency blackouts.

I also wore my lightest clothes to the weigh-in but still felt that I had to play my final card. Flip-flops! Way lighter than the trainers I usually wear.

So with all my efforts I stepped on the scale and recorded a weight of 85.2kg. Zero point one kg lighter than two weeks ago. Woopy do ... a whole 0.22lbs 'loss'. Big relief. The money stayed in my pocket ... although it's not all about the money ... I'd like to finish this challenge with no weekly weight increase.

So my total weight loss moves up to 12.3kg (27lbs) which is a 12.6% loss.

Second and Third place at the moment are on 8 point something percent so unless I do something really stoopid in the next two weeks (like wear a jumper to weigh-in) I should be OK and the prize money should be mine :)