2.5 stone, gone

The last progress update I posted was in December, when I hit my 2 stone loss mark, and since then things have been a little bit quiet over here. I lost my motivation for a while, as after Christmas it felt impossible to lose weight. I only gained 1lb over the festive period (no, I don't know how I managed it either!), which was easy enough to lose but in the past 4 months I feel like I've lost hardly any weight in comparision to this time 6 months ago. However this week I lost 2lbs, taking me just over a total loss of 2.5 stone - over 20% of my original body weight!

It wasn't easy losing those further 8lbs though. Where it was easy to lose 2lbs in a week previously, I now struggle to see the scales moving by even a half pound per week - so I was surprised that they dropped by 2lbs this week! Infact, I've remained the same weight, to the exact half pound, for almost 2 months now. And this got to me, it made me question my diet (which is still healthy), I stripped things back to strict meal plans with no treats or cheat meals, I upped my exercise and still nothing, nada, no weightloss.

And then I noticed it... My biceps have grown, my dreaded bingo wings are almost gone, my quads are rock solid, my stomach is definitely a hell of a lot flatter and I have shoulder definition. I might not have lost many pounds in the past few months, but my body is definitely changing in many positive ways. So I've put it down to muscle gain, which sounds weird to me as I'm not muscley and I'm definitely not as toned as I'd like but it's growing under there somewhere.

I can feel myself getting stronger as my personal trainer works on my strength more and week by week I'm lifting heavier weights and feeling definite progress. I feel much fitter when it comes to cardio - running for trains no longer leaves me a sweaty mess and the amount of time I can manage on the Versa Climber (my new favourite cardio equipment in the gym) goes up with each session.

I feel like my focus has to change from weight, so that I stop feeling constantly disappointed when the scales don't change, to measuring my strength in terms of performance and taking measurements to track inch loss or even just simply looking in the mirror and and judging my progress. I never had a goal weight to start with so it makes a lot of sense to stop focusing on the numbers so much.

It just goes to show that improving your body and getting leaner definitely doesn't revolve around a scale so if you feel like you're stuck on a plateau with weightloss then take a step off the scales and take a long hard look in the mirror instead. Numbers aren't everything!

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