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Week Seven - Bad news and bad motivation

It’s amazing how motivation works. I’ve had a bad week this week.

Until this point in my year-long quest that would see me losing three stone and then training for October’s Birmingham Marathon in aid of ICP Support my motivation had been what was carrying me forward. But then this week it all came crashing down like life had turned into a massive game of Jenga.

There are a couple of factors at play here - Number One - putting on five pounds and going from 17stone 2 pounds to 17 stone 7pounds in the last weekly update. That knocked me for six a bit. No matter how I tried to find reasons for this.

The main reason being that this was a natural reaction to a fad diet the week before etc. etc. I just couldn’t get myself motivated again. Number Two - finding out some bad news, that I’m unable to repeat here as it’s still ongoing. It was the kind of news that felt like the foundations of my life had become shiftiing sands.

Before you all get worried I’ve still got my health and so have my lovely family. But still it was all-encompassing news that left little room for other worries. Suffice it to say I found it hard to get motivated this week. It’s interesting how hard it is to keep motivational levels up and I’m sure that this won’t be the first time I find motivation hard to come by during this 12 months of sorting myself out.

Anyway, it actually meant that I did little to no training during the week as I had to firefight another aspect. And then on Saturday morning, I turned it all around.

You can’t imagine what force of will it took to get out of bed and go for a run on Saturday morning. My plan was to run a 5k. And I did it. I must admit the first mile was pretty hairy but then I found myself getting into my stride and by the time I finished I was going great guns and averaged 9 minutes 30 seconds per mile by the end. I was pretty impressed by this.

So to the weigh-in - On January 1, I weighed 18stone 4pounds. Last week, I weighed 17stone 7 pounds.

And this week I weighed 17stone 4 pounds. So, despite feeling like a complete unmotivated lump of nothingness this week, I still managed to lose three pounds meaning that overall I’ve still lost a stone since the start of January. I’ve got no plans to give this up but this week am definitely going to keep going. If I could lose another two pounds before the end of February I’ll be pleased as punch. Onwards and upwards as they say. Your a bit more hopefully, Fat Jamie