Another one (point 5) bites the dust! 🥂

Post-36hr weigh-in this morning, and I’m now at 16 stone 11.9 lbs (235.9 lbs / 107.2 kg). That’s another 1.5 lbs lost in just the last three days since my Saturday weigh-in!

That’s now 22 lbs (9.98 kg) lost – almost 10kg in less than 10 weeks! We should really discount the two weeks when I was ill and unable to fast/exercise, and my festive blip at Christmas / New Year’s—so it’s more like 6 weeks of actual effort!

Since I recovered from my flu and blood pressure issues around three weeks ago I’ve managed to lose 8.2 lbs (3.7kg)!

Those figures are relative to my “reboot” after my wake-up call in December 2025 of course, but taken from my diabetes diagnosis, I’ve now lost 29.6 lbs (13.4 kg), which is over 11% of my starting body weight.

I need to track both time periods, even though my diagnosis was two and a half years ago now, since doctors measure progress from that point and there are key milestones in terms of percentage body weight lost since diagnosis that are key – I’ll come back ot that momentarily.

But at the same time, I want to keep track of things like average weight loss week by week, and obviously tracking that back to my diagnosis would make the numbers meaningless.

Anyway, from a post-diagnosis perspective, I’m now well on track to lose 15% of my starting body weight, which is one of the most significant milestones for type 2 diabetes. Effectively, “10-15%” is given as the range of weight loss in which diabetic remission occurs, and I’ve breezed past the 10% mark, so now I have 15% firmly in my sights.

I’ve already halved my blood pressure medication, which is an incredibly positive sign not just of weight loss but of transforming my health for the better.

Of course – progress is great, but life goes on and this week happens to be not just my birthday but also my partner’s so I have many social things happening – firstly my partner is visiting for a few days this week, then I have a friend due to visit on Friday/Saturday, before my brother and his family descend on me on Sunday!

This will certainly limit my opportunities for fasting, and put a damper on my regular exercise routine, so it’s an interesting real-world test for me.

While I’m not going to beat myself up if I don’t lose any weight this week – in fact I had already budgeted in my weight loss projection spreadsheet to explicitly NOT lose any weight this week! The question is whether I can stick to my new lifestyle and avoid relapsing into old eating habits amid so many external pressures.