I am 104kg this morning. Only 3kg less that when I started this how many weeks ago? I feel discouraged. Last week was a bit of an all over the place week. I did not stick very closely to the diet I will admit – but I am down from104.6 kg this time last week. And I was up to 105.5 kg on Wednesday!

Tuesday I went out for dinner & movie with my husband. This does not happen all that often so I was not all that concerned about thinking about sticking to the diet. I just enjoyed myself. Dinner was short and long Chinese soup, and we had fried prawn fritters for starters. We went to “Happy’s” in Civic – great little restaurant tucked away downstairs. The food was great. Ok – I did stick to the diet in that I gave most of the noodles to my husband. I did eat all of the plentiful wantons though!

Movies was different. Popcorn and coke. This time though we shared a large – not like we would have in the past with an box of enormous popcorn between us and a coke each. So while I was not strictly sticking to the letter of the law my behaviour was different this time than last time we went out to the movies together (probably about 6 months ago).

All of this though means that weight loss has slowed down. I was feeling concerned about this – but then I remembered that my clothes feel a little less tight so I went and measured myself on Saturday. Virtually no change! Oh No! But something MUST be happening!

So yesterday I did the whole analysis with my fancy new scales. OMG. Something is definitely happening. My fat % was down from 46.2 % when I started this (a number that was fairly close to what the DEXA scan had my percentage as) down to 41.6%!!! That is a loss of 5% body fat! So the fat is being turned into muscle – which weighs more than the fat – thus the slow weight loss. The lack of reduction in inches I can’t really explain except to think that the reduction is happening in areas that I am not measuring. I am definitely thinking that my clothes fit better. So I will be reshaping my figure at the moment rather than reducing it.

All of which is good. And gives me incentive to keep going!

Susy