I was so excited last week. I went from 105.9 kg at my last post to 105.4, to 104.9 to 104.6! Wow. Things were finally happening! Weight was coming off at the rate of 500gm a day!

I think I got a bit too excited because I then thought: “Things are working so well I don’t have to be so diligent”. Believe me these are bad thoughts to think while on a diet. I stopped losing weight. I have been 104.6 kg for the past three days.

Ok there are reasons for this – I won’t call them excuses because that makes it seem like I had no control over them. I had cheese and cookie dough when I was making gingerbread for the kids. Not a lot but I was picking. I also went to two Christmas parties on the Thursday evening and had champagne (supposably something you should not drink on this diet). I did ration the finger food I chose to the skewers of meat and vegetables. It was hard but I was feeling that what I was doing was working so I was motivated to try to stick to “ok” food even if I didn’t stick to the drinks regime.

I have also been sort of doing kettle bells. Yes I know I said I was not going to but I stumbled across (literally) the two little 4kg ones that I use for doorstops and thought that I could use them. I have been doing twenty swings up and down between my legs with one of these kettle bells in each hand. Then 20 back and forth arms (front to back swings), and 20 twisting swinging side to side once again with a bell in each hand. But I did not do that Friday and Saturday – and the weight loss stopped.

So perhaps that is the weight loss secret. I will start again tomorrow. It has been taking only about 5 min each morning. I walk the kids to school (20 min round trip) then come back inside to swing the bells before taking myself off to work. I should also mention that I deliberately park 10-15 min walk away from work so that I have to walk each morning and afternoon, and I walk up the four floors to the office. I also have 5 kg of weights in my back pack. These are in the form of a small barbell and some flexible leg weights.

So it is not as if the kettle bell swings have been the only exercise I have been doing. I mentioned in an earlier post that I also do one session of weights at the gym each week along with a spin class and a step class. This coming week might be the test to see if this is the magic weight loss bullet.

Today is cheat day. Lamingtons, cheese, yogurt, fruit, English muffins and we will have pumpkin lasagne for dinner. Oh and chocolate. Not much but a little. I have not had an excessive amount to eat today but it has definitely been different types of food than that which I have been eating all week. We shall see what the results have been tomorrow.

Susy