Deal or no Deal

At the weigh in between Christmas and New Year I received my new SW pack.  All the info has been re-worked, and there's a nice clean new record book for me to use.... if I choose.

The same happened last year and to be honest I just shoved it in with the rest of my books and never looked at it again.  My logic at that time was I didn't want to lose my history.  I wanted to look at my progress and keep patting myself on the back... but it didn't really work out like that!

In reality I spent the last year watching the numbers going up, and down, and then up again, and managed to gain essentially a pound a month so I'm now approximately a stone heavier than I was this time last year.

I've decided to use my new book.  I'm not going to throw away my old record, I'll keep it safe, but for me I need to stop dwelling on the past and comparing how well I did in my first year with how badly I did in my second and just focus on how well I'm doing now.

I've written in my original starting weight, and the weights of each New Year, and from now it's a clean slate.  I'm currently 11st 12.  I don't mind telling people what I weigh, I feel as though if it's out there, there's nowhere left to hide from it.  I'm being realistic and giving myself mini goals to achieve.  Easter is early this year, and is usually the start of social activities which hopefully this year will include scuba diving and camping.  

So, what do I want to be by Easter?  29 March is Good Friday, which means my weigh in will be 28 March... that's 12 weeks.  I know I'm not a big loser, I don't lose large amounts each week even if I'm sticking to plan religiously.  So what's a reasonable loss in that time?  I don't want to set an unrealistic goal which will only result in disappointment, but I equally don't want to go too easy on myself.  I need to challenge myself so that I stay focused.  If I got to 11st by Easter that's 12 pounds gone and a nice round number.... but then if I can lose 12 pounds, what's to say I couldn't go 2 more and make it a stone? 10st 12 by Easter?

Deal.