I’m back.
The short version is, I was doing really well I lost a lot of the excess pounds and was starting to see real improvements in my running.
I’ve reached a point where I was doing 5 mile runs two or sometimes three times a week but then I started to suffer some knee pain.
The pain felt like a trapped nerve at the side of my knee which would occasionally pinch and cause my leg to lock out.
In the end it got to the stage where I was even having difficulty walking and I had to rest for a .
That few days became a few weeks.
During that time I gradually started to overeat and put the weight back on.
It was a slow process at first but after a while I realised I was putting on weight again and for some stupid reason I ate even more.
All the weight I had lost a put back on again and return to my starting weight.
I’m reluctant to make excuses but other things are happening in my life around the same time and frankly dieting, weight loss and fitness took a lower priority.
The stuff that was happening in my life came to a head around six weeks ago and I found myself yet another turning point.
In fact there have been so many turning points with my weight loss and fitness that I’m starting to get dizzy.
I question when, if ever, I’m going to reach the goals I set for myself.
The reality of it is I have to believe that this is the turning point that will see me achieve my goals.
In the last six weeks I’ve lost all the weight that I put back on again plus a little more.
I’m back down to 189 lbs and I feel a new determination to reach my goal weight of 173 lbs.
So 189 means that in six weeks I’ve lost 12 LBS and I intend to lose the remaining 16 in a similar period of time.
I’ve got a new plan for fitdad.net which revolves around me posting updates about my fat loss and fitness on the weekends and on weekdays I’ll be turning the site over to another purpose – more about that later.