Week 35: Sub 14 stone.

First thing's first, sorry I've not posted for a couple of months, I've had a couple of up and down months, but I've been back on it for the past three weeks. It's taken me until September, but I'm here, I'm now weighing in at less than my 2008 target weight, only by 2lbs, but 13st 12lbs is an achievement, having lost a staggering 6st 5lbs.

Since I last posted, back in June, as mentioned, I've had up and down moments, where I've been on and off plan, some of this was thanks to friends coming round and bringing home baked cakes. With Kerry bringing round her carrot cake and Louise bringing her mint chocolate cupcakes, Fliss also did some baking, including Creme Egg brownies, Smarties cookies and Graveyard Snickers cupcakes. All the cakes and cookies were delicious and completely off plan, so it's no surprise that I put on weight that week, although we enjoyed eating them and don't regret a thing.

The few weeks after Kerry and Louise came over, George went to his grandparents for a few weeks, so Fliss and I had a few weeks where we were wavering a bit, we weren't really on our game, so we did have things, besides the mountain of cakes, we really shouldn't have done. But since George has come back, we've been fully back on it. While George has only been back for two weeks now, I've had three weeks worth of losses, having lost 10.5lbs over the three weeks.

I have had my 13st target in mind for months now, but only just given my Slimming World consultant my target, so after weighing in on Thursday, Nicci got a bit excited about the fact I only have 12lbs to go until I get to my target. The target is 1st less than my 2008 target, because when I got to my 14st target in 2008, I wasn't 100% happy with myself and my body, so I'm hoping the extra stone will help. The fact I wasn't 100% happy at target in 2008 might have contributed to me falling off the wagon and putting all my weight back on, and then some more. My heaviest weight in 2008 was 18st 3lbs, and was disgusted with myself then, so you could imagine how I felt at 20st 3lbs at the beginning of this year.

I'm much happier with myself now, still not 100% happy with my belly, but hopefully once I've got the last 12lb off, that will change. I've gone from having a BMI of 42.3 to 29.5, which I'm pretty impressed by. When I got my original work uniform, I had 4XL tops and 50" waist trousers, now wearing 2XL tops and 42" waist trousers, which I've had since April, and now they're getting too big for me. So plenty of non-scale victories to go along side my weight loss.

I'm looking forward to getting to my target weight, if I'm not 100% happy at 13st, I might change my target, maybe to 12st, but we'll see.

But in all honesty, I wouldn't have made it this far in losing weight if it wasn't for the support of Fliss & George, the people liking and commenting on my weekly Slimming World posts on Facebook, our consultant Nicci and the Slimming World group. It really is appreciated and I'm thankful to you all.