Hello everyone. I’m 3 months into 5:2 (and occasionally 4:3) and have so far lost 8.9kg. One of the reasons for this is the support and accountability provided by the rest of the ‘Midsummer Challenge’ group. It sounds silly but it really does help knowing that others are going through the same problems and that you are going to check-in with your weight losses (or gains). Anyway, we’ve finished that challenge and everyone who stuck it to the end did very well. We’ve all had ‘blips’ but have managed to get back on to it.
At the suggestion of Duds, I’m setting up a new challenge which will end on the autumn equinox- 21st September, I think. That gives us a nice 12 weeks of summer days to get on with the challenge.
I have about 10kg more to lose, maybe a bit more and know that some of the other midsummer challenge people have similar amounts to lose. I’m setting myself a relatively modest target of 5kg by the end of the challenge as we have a holiday and lots of visitors to stay all over summer and I will have to do some ‘juggling’ of FDs and may no get to do my usual amount of exercise.
However, by sticking to it, when autumn days start arriving at the end of September I will hopefully be able to wear my favourite Armani jeans again and should look and feel much less wobbly.
If you’d like to join me, I’d love some mutual support. It would be great to see some new people as well as the old crew.
9:01 am
24 Jun 17