Lowest weight in 5 years!

I was checking back over my weight loss stats over the last few years and noticed that I’m now officially the lightest I’ve been in 5 years!

I just hit 245.7lbs (111.5kg). As you can see from the graph below, I last saw 245lbs almost exactly 5 years ago, in December 2020!

This was the tail end of the Covid pandemic. I’d taken advantage of the lockdown to focus on exercising and getting some my fitness back, and did a pretty decent job of it. I’d hit a similar weight, around 254lbs (115kg), in May of that year, then lost 27lbs (12kg) to get to 227lbs (103kg) by August.

But then, for whatever reason, I put all of that back on and more, initially peaking at 264lbs (119kg) in May 2021 before losing a bit of weight again in late 2021, only to then climb once again, this time to 274.5lbs (124.5kg) in September of 2022.

That was 19 stone 8lbs – almost as high as my heaviest weight ever, which was just over 20 stone, which you can see on the far left of the graph in May 2018.

That is what prompted me to start this blog and track my loss of 50lbs in 6 months – as you can see from the nice drop off through 2018 to early 2019.

I managed to gradually come back down a bit from September 2022’s heights, but still peaked again, just under 270lbs (122.5 kg) in July 2023, which was precisely when I had my type 2 diabetes diagnosis.

I managed to lose some weight in response to my diagnosis, getting down to 253.7lbs (115kg) in December ’23, but once again the weight crept back on through the festive season, taking me back to 262lbs on January 1st 2024, before once again losing a little – just over 11lbs (5 kg) by July. But that was a hugely stressful period as I was moving house in August, so the weight crept back on again.

Now I’m down to almost my lowest weight in over a decade, every week from here on will be like travelling back in time through my weight, until I get to 228.4lbs, which was my weight in August 2020. That’s the lightest I’ve been in the last decade.

From there we have to go back to 2010 for me to have been lighter – 15 stone 2lbs (212 lbs / 96kgs) approx in July 2010. That was another occasion where I lost a lot of weight only to see it creep back on. That diet – called Go Lower (an early keto meal replacement plan) – I started at around 19 stone 5lbs, (271lbs / 123kg), losing a total of almost 60lbs / 27 kg over the course of a year from July 2009. As you can also see below, by July 2012, I was back up to where I’d started!

Anyway, as I’ve mentioned here, after the little wake-up call/health scare I had a few weeks back, I’m done making half-hearted attempts at losing weight, stalling, and then rebounding. I’m determined to steam through to my original target weight of 12 stone 12 lbs / 180lbs / 81.6kgs, whatever it takes, and to maintain that weight for the long term. At my age, not only does my health depend on it, but my life depends on it.

Each of the previous diets I’ve had where I’ve lost 50-60lbs have taught me valuable lessons about what works, but also what doesn’t, and as a result I’m confident now that I know what I need to do, and I know how to do it.

Now that I’ve seen such astounding results in such a short space of time, I just need to take that motivation and keep on doing it!