Right - an update

Since its been well over a year since my last post I thought I'd give an update as to where I am since the last blog post all that time ago.

The holiday I went on just after my last post was one with my then girlfriend and the rest of my family. On the second day of that holiday my girlfriend stopped being my girlfriend and became my fiancé because I asked her to marry me. The date ended up being set for Summer 2012 in order to save up and pay for the wedding and we both also decided that we would try to lose weight for the big day.

My vague plan was as follows and doesn't even remotely stick to the vague plan I had previously:

- I was starting from a weight of just over 25st when I got back from holiday
- By the end of 2010 I would lose 5 stone, taking me down to 20st.
- By the end of 2011 I would lose another 5 stone taking me down to 15st.
- By the wedding in August 2012 I would tone up and possibly lose a couple more stone in order to get down to the lowest weight I've ever been as an adult.

Well so far so good. In 2010 I only managed to lose 4 stone in the end which was a bit disappointing but in November/December I started doing something I never though I would do - I started running, and more importantly I started to enjoy it.

Since then at the start of January I decided I would do a minimum 20 minute run every single day in January, and I did. That despite the fact I had a bombshell dropped on me by my fiancé when she said she wasn't happy and wanted to move out (we're working on it but she's still moving out in February and I think she's probably going to break things off soon after that if I'm honest). Normally that would have been my excuse to call it a day and give up, but I stuck at it and in January alone I lost almost 1.5 stone almost exclusively because of the running I did - just shy of 100km total in the end.

So there's you all up to speed. My weigh-in day is a Friday morning so I'll try to keep this updated a bit more than once a year from now on to try to keep track of how things have gone.

Starting weight: 25st 3lb / 353lbs / 160kg
Current Weight: 19st 11.5lb / 277.5lbs / 126kg

Total lost: 5st 5.5lb / 75.5lbs / 34kg

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