Day 75, 76 & 77

Weight: 12 stone 13 lb

Lost: 2lb

Total weight loss since day 1: 2 stone 2lb

At last! I'm in the '12 stone zone'. I haven't seen that on the scales for 3 years, so I was very pleased to see it again.

My target for the next couple of weeks is to reach 12 stone 7 lb and this will keep me on target as I'm now just over half-way to reaching my goal of losing 4 stone in 6 months.

Woke up Monday morning with a sore throat and feeling under the weather. Even so, I went off to the gym and did my normal workout and had smoothies and a salad during the day. 

Come Tuesday morning, I was full of cold, with a streaming nose, headache and an ache around my neck and face. I spent most of the morning on the couch feeling sorry for myself and resorted to eating Heinz tomato soup and gluten-free bread. It's funny, when you're not feeling well, you tend to eat comfort foods and these foods aren't necessarily good for you.

Today I woke up feeling a little bit better, but my nose was still streaming with a cold. I spent the morning in bed and the afternoon on the couch. This time, I ate Heinz vegetable soup and in the evening I did manage to make a salad with some chips. Yes, I know I could've made a nice homemade soup but when you are ill, everything is such an effort, so I went for a simple option of opening a can of soup instead.

I do hope I'm feeling better tomorrow but again I will have to miss the gym, which is a shame because I'm really making headway. I will be returning to my smoothies however, as I'm actually missing them and I have a load of fruit ripening on my table which needs to be eaten.

I hate feeling ill, it really throws me off kilt because I've gotten used to feeling healthy and I want to feel like that all the time and not feel like crap, as I do at the moment with this blasted cold...and I can't remember the last time I had a cold this bad! 

I know I'll be better soon and I'll feel good again, so there's light at the end of the tunnel and I'm really happy that I've ducked under 13 stone and now I've just got to chip away and aim for the '11 stone zone', which I'm sure will happen next month. Wow, what a difference that will make to me!

Hasta pronto