Well you may have wondered where I had gone for the last  7 months, I wish I had some exciting exotic tale to tell you but sadly I had just well and truly fell off the wagon! I suffered a severe injury fracturing 3 vertebrae which left me out of action for many months. This put a halt on any forms of exercise and in typical me style, I thought to myself, “well it’s all or nothing” so I chose nothing which meant I have been eating what I liked for the last 6 months, combined with minimal exercise and a much more sedentary lifestyle than usual. Needless to say all this has lead to a huge backwards step on the scales for me…I am now tipping in at 13stone 11lbs (193lbs) and I am horrified with myself. I could rant on about how disappointed I am with myself but all that negative energy would be wasteful! What I will say is that I have given myself an almighty kick up the backside and I am now back on course to acheive my weight loss and fitness goals.

So what is the plan I here you cry?…

1. I am re-starting this blog to not only share my story but also to keep me on the straight and narrow!

2. I am going to post pictures with my blog entries so I can motivate myself and you with my progress.

3. I have made plans to meet with a nutritionalist trainer to have my lifestyle, diet and exercise regime assessed.

4. With the help of the nutritionalist I will put together and implement lifestyle changes that will help me acheive my weight loss, fitness and health goals once and for all.

I have an appointment with the nutritionalist next monday so I’ll report back then.

Until then,

The Wizard

I have broken every dieting rule in the book this week, starters, deserts, chocolates and alcohol! Ahhh! I have continue with my daily exercise regime though and I think this has been my only saving grace. Stepped on the scales this morning, peeking through closed eyelids as I expected a weight gain but to my relief I had stayed the same, 12 stone 3lbs (171Lbs). The realist in me thinks that perhaps being dehydrated from late night drinking the day before may have helped my cause but let’s not dwell on that!!

So, by the skin of my teeth I have avoided any weight gain this week but here’s hoping for some weight loss next week as we all know things go to pot for Christmas the week after. Every year I say that it won’t but, hey it’s Christmas, let’s enjoy ourselves and then we can focus on our weight loss goals for the new year!

I’ve got loads of weight loss presents on my list for Santa this year so I’ll be sure to let you know how I get on with them all in the products & services review section. From exercise DVDs, diet books and equipment, it’s going to be a focused 2010!

Speak to you all soon and I hope you’ve had a better weight loss week than me.

Until next time…

The Wizard

Met up with some friends I hadn’t seen for a long time at the weekend, we stayed in a hotel in Glasgow so between the full Scottish breakfast, afternoon tea in a café and evening meals in a restaurant not to mention the champagne, all spelt disaster for my diet!

Following on from this it was my Mum’s birthday on Tuesday so it would have been rude not to celebrate so another slap up meal at a restaurant was called for!

I knew that weigh-in day was fast approaching so I decided drastic action was needed the last two days. So I stuck religiously to my diet and did two exercise sessions each day. Fortunately I think I redeemed myself as when I stepped on the scales with eyes closed and fingers crossed I was delighted to see that I had still managed to lose 1 lb! Woohoo! No great shakes but as I was expecting a gain any weight loss is a bonus!

Promising myself and you that I am going to have a much stricter week this time, after all Christmas is fast approaching and I want the goose to be the only one getting fat!

Hope your weight loss journey is going well, as always please leave a comment below and let me know how you’re getting on…

Until next time,

The Wizard

I’ve had a good week. At the moment I have opted to go for a general reduction diet to ease me in gently and to see how the weight loss goes. I tend to find at the beginning of any weight loss programme that relatively simple changes to my diet start to show on the scales and as the weeks pass by I reach a plateau and need more drastic measures to maintain the weight loss. So I am following a basic low fat, reduced calorie diet.

Week 2 of my weight loss journey; All 12stone 4lbs (172lbs) of me!

I have also started walking for an hour each day, I am usually a runner but unfortunately a recent injury has stopped me in my tracks, literally! So again I am easing myself into more exercise gradually and plan to join a gym next week to step things up.

As ever, as soon as I tell myself I am on a diet, I start dreaming of chocolate, cream cakes and ice cream, all things that I wouldn’t eat on a daily basis anyway but all of a sudden they are forbidden so I crave them!! It’s amazing how our minds work. Even so I stayed on track throughout the week and knowing that I have to confess all here helped me to focus! The only blip on the horizon was that I was invited to a friends house for tea., now I can hardly say “yes I’d love to come for dinner but you have to cook me a delicious low fat, low calorie meal”, can I? So, I say nothing and willingly (!) devour the 3 course meal that on a rough estimate exceeds my entire daily calorie allowance. I go home feeling stuffed and guilty but hey, it’s only one day. Life’s too short, I had a great time with my friends and tomorrow is always another day. My philosophy is to try each day to do your best, if things don’t go entirely according to plan, don’t beat yourself up about it, just try harder tomorrow!

And the outcome of it all…jumped on the scales today and I’ve lost 3lbs! Woohoo! So I now weigh in at 12stone 4lbs. (172lbs). For me that’s all I need to see, a slight weight loss on the scales and I feel motivated to tackle another week and to just keep on going until I reach my weight loss goals.

I hope that you’re having a good week too and if you’ve got a weight loss or dieting story you’d like to share please post a comment below, I’d love to hear from you.

Until next time,

The Wizard

Well I can hardly believe it, 21 years after I first started dieting and trying to lose weight I am here again! Well I say I can hardly believe it but I can really, once a dieter always a dieter I think!

I stepped on the scales yesterday and nearly died when I saw the numbers 12 stone 7lbs! (Or 175lbs for my stateside readers).  I have not been this heavy for years, it is true that I have never quite reached my elusive weight loss target of 9 1/2 stone either but that’s another story. Things have just gradually started to slip recently, life has got in the way of my regular exercise and weight loss efforts but no more, things have got to change!

Weight loss success-here I come!

So shocked was I to fully realise how much my weight had crept up and up with out me realising that it has prompted me to start this blog and indeed this website. I hope that through sharing my story I can inspire others to achieve their weight loss goals but on a slightly less altruistic note…I hope that by keeping this blog of my weight loss antics it will keep me on the straight and narrow with my diet and exercise plan!

So, here we go again…I have been on every diet and weight loss programme known to man so I will have plenty to write about and if I come across anything that I haven’t tried before I’ll give that a go too, all in the name of research of course! I plan to share all my weight loss and dieting adventures here so if you want to follow me and share your experiences remember to come back soon and you can post your comments using the box below, I’d love to hear from you. Or if you sign up for my free eNewsletter at the top right of your screen I’ll keep you updated with weight loss tips and advice and of course how I’m getting on with my goals.

Until next time,

The Wizard