THE CC DIET: BELT AND BRACES. THIS WEEK'S WEIGH-IN

Last week I said I was tightening my belt, by lowering my daily target even further to 44Cs a day.  When the going get tough, the tough get going.  So I also reduced the credits earned on exercise.  The objective being to get back to losing at least three pounds per week, after a couple of disappointing weeks.

So brace yourself.  Sound the trumpets!  This last week's weight loss was ...

Three and a quarter pounds.   Hurrah !

That means my target of losing three stones in three months is so so close, with only two and a half pounds to lose in ten days.  Achievable at the new weight loss rate. 

You can too.

Only one problem.  How do I keep my trousers up?!

 

 

THE CC DIET: TANTALISINGLY CLOSE. THIS WEEK'S WEIGH-IN

Tantalus the Greek

Last week I mentioned that having lost two stones in two months, I am targeting to lose three stones in three months.  With 17 days to go, I am getting tantalisingly close, with less than 6 pounds to lose.

I also challenged myself this week to meet my target every day for the first time, yet making it more difficult by reducing my 59Cs daily allowance by 10Cs to 49Cs.

The result was 70Cs better than target in total over the week, being an average of 10Cs a day. But with one day slightly beyond target.  Yet only 2 pounds were lost in the week:

Disappointing.  Yet when the going gets tough, the tough get going.  The loss for the next week must be over 3 pounds.  So the target has been reduced by a further 5Cs to 44Cs per day.

Wish me luck!

Here's the starter if you want to give this strategy a go.

THE CC DIET: ADOPTING A 'STRETCH TARGET'

In business, if you want to achieve a target, it's worth setting a 'stretch target' that even if slightly breached will still achieve the master target.  The technique can also be used in personal matters too.

On Saturday I said I wanted to get back on track to be losing three pounds a day by saying "I have ... achieved my daily target on some days, so the challenge now is to do so every day."

To better guarantee that, my 59Cs daily target is now 49Cs.  That not only encourages me to eat less, but encourages me to exercise more.  Good, light exercise, but nonetheless enough to let me enjoy a broad diet.

Will this approach work?  So far so good.  As long as that jar of peanut butter is well hidden!

 

 

THE CC DIET: SURPRISE, SURPRISE. THIS WEEK'S WEIGH-IN

The great Priscilla White, RIP

I was dreading this week's weigh-in.  Would my weight have actually gone up, after a couple of disastrous days with a pot of peanut butter?  And the day I had eaten my evening walk, but fell asleep for the night before doing it.  Real life travails.  Though yesterday a long walk meant I was actually 24Cs up on target for the day.

So surprise, surprise.  Nearly 2 pounds lost this week.  Not too shabby, but below my three pound weekly target.

This week I heard of £1000 someone had been offered to lose three stones in three months.  I'm now only half a stone off that with 24 days to go.  An average of two and a quarter pounds per week is needed.

 

Two and a quarter pounds a week is achievable, but not in the last two weeks.  I have nonetheless achieved my daily target on some days, so the challenge now is to do so every day.  And then keep doing it as a lifestyle change.

Wish me luck!

 

 

THE CC DIET: PLATEAU

This week's diet has been difficult.  Being colder has made me more hungry.  Being wetter has cut my exercise capers.  My evening self-control has deserted me.  

I need a new incentive.  Someone mentioned £1000 to lose 3 stones in 3 months. 

As of last Saturday I had lost 2 stones 4.5 pounds in exactly 2 months.  Leaving less than 10 pounds weight to lose in 30 days.  A pound every 3 days. 2.2 pounds a week.  Can I do it?

Need to get off this plateau.  Watch this space!

THE CC DIET: NOT 'ARF. THIS WEEK'S WEIGH-IN.

5 holes, 4 inches

It's exactly two months since I started the CC Diet.  A new and unique way of losing weight, or if necessary gaining it.  Especially if, like me, you have put on some lockdown pounds.  

In early August I was straining to do up this belt on the longest hole.  Now I can easily do up the first hole.  A good four inches off my waist.  Now I'm having to dig out old belts to start the next four inches.  My doctor's delighted.

This last week, though.  I have over-eaten compared to my target on six of the seven days.  The weather's been a lot cooler, so I was hoping that keeping my body warm would consume enough extra energy to compensate.  Turns out that I must stick to my daily targets if the weight loss is to continue:

Indeed weighing myself first thing this morning was only showing a loss of one pound across the week.  A short snooze and another half pound was lost.  An important extra half.

But over two stones lost in just two months, nearly 15kg lost.  Not bad.  Not 'arf!

 

THE CC DIET: TOO MUCH CRUMPET

Yesterday I came back from a long walk and had two crumpets with butter and marmalade.  12Cs consumed instead of 6.  

It wasn't the only misdemeanour.   Maybe the colder weather had made me more hungry.  I ended the day 14Cs beyond target, despite my estimated exercise 'earnings' adding 30Cs to my daily target.

This morning I had to make a decision.  Put it down to experience, or try to claw the 14Cs back by Friday before the next weigh-in on Saturday?  If so, how?

As I've got 4 days to claw back 14C, that's 3.5 a day.  Let's deduct 3Cs from my target (not 4Cs if I had been a rounding pedant).  So my target for the rest of the week is 56Cs instead of 59Cs.  

Serves me right.  Or should it be serves me wrong?

Here's what this Cs lark is all about.

THE CC DIET: SAY CHEESE. THIS WEEK'S WEIGH-IN

Cheese. Many a man's downfall.  I'm not smiling.

This week's weigh-in is in.  A target of three pounds to lose.  Only lost two and a half.  Bother.

The week was going so well too.  The first five days were on target or better.  Day six I was also 1C better than budget just before bedtime.  But in looking for something to use that last C, I looked in the fridge, and found the cheese I hadn't used on the crumpets.  Took just a small piece.  Didn't weigh it.  Enjoyed it.

I've just estimated it, though, and that put me over Thursday's target by 5Cs.  But that wasn't the end of my misdemeanours.  It was last night, celebrating a bit of good news, that I came home a trifle bungalowed.  It wasn't trifle but another potent target spoiler - the new "Layers of Joy Jaffantastic", which at 8Cs was Cs I didn't have.  Nor was the extra beer I had also enjoyed, chatting with pals,  masked and socially distanced.

Total overspend for the week suddenly up at 18Cs.

 

But should I be despondent?  "No, sir."  I have lost over two stones in less than eight weeks.  My weight now lower than at any time in the last few years.  My doctor ecstatic.  I'm smiling really.  Say cheese!

It can't stop here.  Indeed I was reminded this morning that the problem with rapid diets is putting the weight straight back on when the diet finishes.  So the plan with this diet, right from the start, was there wouldn't be an end.  The concept was and remains that a Cs target could be adjusted as the weight comes off, to accelerate it or slow it down.  Making the approach a permanent change in lifestyle.

The other aspect of a change of lifestyle is doing more exercise.  This approach encourages exercise by earning extra Cs that can be consumed.  The recent good weather has made exercise a joy.  But the rain this weekend?  I'll skip the ironing. 

But I do have two lock-ups of mainly business papers that I need to thin out to get everything into one.  I've been putting it off.  I'm such a hoarder.  Today?  A lot of energy needed to move things around!

 

DO YOU WANT TO GIVE THIS PROVEN APPROACH A TRY?

Head straight to the introduction page, and read the various other blogposts of my trials, tribulations and success.