Right, I’m officially back!  After nearly 3 weeks off the wagon due to my back flaring up, swine flu, and various other excuses, it all starts again today.  I’m 3 pounds heavier than my last weigh in, at 20 stone 5 pounds (285 pounds), so goal number one is to get back to where I was and lose those extra 3 pounds.

The next month or so is going to be quite tricky weight loss wise – I’m not trying to set up some more excuses in advance, honest!  The next 2 weeks should be OK, and in an ideal world I can be down to 20 stone by 2 weeks from today.  But the week after that, I’m on holiday for a week.  I then come back for a week, during which I’m going to a wedding, and then I’m off on holiday for another week again.  So I basically have 3 very disrupted weeks in the last 3 weeks of August.

Taking all that into account, my goal at the moment is to be less than 20 stone on 1st September.  19 stone 13 pounds will do just fine.  I can then put on some real steam in September when life gets back to normal.  And I’ll need to put on some steam too, because I start my degree on 21st September, and I need to drop at least 1 t-shirt size or I’ll have nothing to wear on my first day.  I went shopping last week and bought 6 new t-shirts that I plan to wear at uni, but I bought them all in XL, rather than my usual XXL.  At the moment they look like they’re painted on, so I have some work to do.

In other news, I plan to run the blog a little differently this time around – it’s not going to be so strict and regimented, it’ll probably have less photo’s, recipes, reviews and other stuff like that.  It’ll just be me talking about life, and probably some weight loss stuff too.  That is of course until I get bored of doing it that way, and change it all up again in a few weeks – I’m not good at consistency!  I’ll also be trying to blog a bit more regularly too.

Your feedback is always welcomed, and you can get hold of me using the comments section below, or through Twitter or Facebook (links to both are on my ‘About Me’ page).

Until next time

Kevin