Week 11 - results

Week 11 took me up to my real target date. My older brother got married on 18th June, and I was sharing best-man duties with my younger brother. There were going to be lots of photographs, so I planned to get in the best shape I could.

I went for a suit fitting 8 weeks ago, and unsurprisingly, when the suits all arrived on Friday, mine was at least a size too big in the trouser waist, the waist coat and jacket. I should have seen this coming of course, but if anything, it proved how much change I'd managed to effect in these last 11 weeks.

As it turns out, the outfitters, Peter Posh of Shrewsbury are on the way to where the wedding was being held, and they were very accommodating, providing me with a replacement waist coat and jacket I could pick up on the way. I decided against changing the trousers as they had sufficient adjustment and any wrinkles in the waistline were concealed by the waistcoat - and it would have been more of a pain for me and the waiting family to have to get changed at the shop.

On the day before the wedding, I managed to hit my 20lb goal, slipping back by 0.2lb to 19.8lb on the Saturday morning through some mystery. However, I had got there in the end. this graph shows the progress during week 11.

The wedding went really well, and there was plenty to eat and drink. As the Sunday following was Fathers Day in the UK, I ended up taking that off as well as a cheat day, and now having just finished week 13, I've just recovered back to my 20lb overall loss.

This is more-or-less where my current story as regards the four hour body diet ends. Having spent 1/4 of a year on the diet, I'm going to take some time away from it and move back to a more regular diet. However, there are some aspects that will stay with me for some time.

- little or no milk in my diet - tea and coffee are now always black
- much reduced intake of bread and bakery products (at least until I'm on holiday in France in August)
- increased water consumption
- breakfasts will probably remain dominated by fish and vegetables. I kind've like it now.

This next diagram shows the daily variations across the whole 11 week period.

I hope you've found this journal of interest. If nothing else, it shows the exact way someone lost 12% of bodyweight in 11 weeks. If you try it, I wish you every success.

E