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I am now into week 15 of the Motley Health Fitness and Weight Loss Plan. My total weight loss is now 10kg (22 pounds) and I have gone from a BMI of 32 to a BMI of 28.6.

Well, on Saturday morning I weighed in at 86.6kg. However, Saturday was my son's first birthday party, and it was a bit of a carb and sugar fest really. I think that by the end of the day, I had eaten:

1 bagel
4 scrambled eggs
rice
chilli con carne (my own fab recipe)
a piece of sponge cake with icing and jam filling
a few pieces of chocolate gateaux
a bowl of trifle
about 5 sausage rolls
a few mini onion bhajis, and some other Indian snacks
half a glass of beer
several glasses of red wine
handfuls of peanuts

and probably more stuff that I can no longer remember. So all in all, it was a really bad day for Atkins. But, I had fun, my son had fun, everyone loved my chilli, I enjoyed eating and drinking. It was worth it. The result?

Well, this morning, I weighed in at 97.3kg. I started the day badly, finishing off some French bread for breakfast, with jam, but then had scrambled eggs on brown bread of brunch and chilli con carne, without rice, for dinner.

I think that after 14 weeks of dieting I am allowed one weekend of binging. The diet has started again, and I will probably move slight back towards an induction method for a couple of days, just to ensure that I get the glycogen out of my system. I'll should be in a state of lipolysis (burning fat) again by Tuesday at the latest.

All in all, I have accomplished a lot over the last 14 1/2 weeks. My original target was to reach 85kg by mid-summer, and I am almost there. I have two weeks to lose 2kg. However, I think that judging by the amount of fat still on my belly, I need to get my weight down to about 80kg. This will be the lightest I have been in about 15 years. I think that I was about 80kg in 1993 when I fought as a medium weight in the Preston Hung-Kuen kung-fu competition. In fact, I may have even been slightly lighter.

Once I lose the fat, I plan to double my efforts at building some more muscle. Currently I am looking to train harder at
kung-fu, as there is another grading coming up, and I have not graded in what seems like years now. We are currently learning a staff form and a butterfly knife form, so I need to spend my spare time practising if I stand a chance of making the grade - little time for weight training as well.