Here we go as my fitness and weight loss journey is going to be a big part of my year I have decided to create a new series on here where every Wednesday I post my weight to hold myself accountable and add in the highs and lows of the week to show if I am making progress on my journey or not. I am hoping this little series for the course of 2025 is going to keep me motivated to progress on my journey and will be something good to look back on in the future when I have moved on from the grind of trying to lose weight.

So here are the stats from the 1st of January until now...

Start of the year weight : 16 st 13 lbs

This weeks weight : 16 st 13 lbs

Difference: 0 lbs

This is kind of what I expected as the first week of the year has faced weather disruption and has been all about trying to find a routine once more. 

Highs of the week

Planning things out

Granted a few plans never played out due to the weather however, I am classing planning as a high as I did actually sit down and do it either if things did have to change. 

Being productive with website work

A high from the week definitely has to be getting into a good flow of creating content for the sites again. I have managed to juggle eating well and moving with also sitting down to create content, something that I had massively neglected previously. Let's hope I can keep this up going forward.

Lows

Football got cancelled

Unfortunately the weather had different plans when it came to me returning to football post injury. I am eager to get back to kicking the ball around but I guess I am going to have to wait just a little bit longer. I know that I could have potentially seen a lot more scale change if the 5 a side match and training took place but the time to get back on the pitch will soon be upon me. 

Didn't get the gym sorted to use

Unfortunately I didn't get the gym tidied up and the lights put up in time to get using the gym during the first week of the year. The day I had planned to sort it though the weather again had another plans and the doors were snowed shut. I have now managed to get all this sorted though so fingers crossed I can have a good few sessions in there before the next round up.

Favourite Meals of the week

To be honest my nutrition is where I am going to be focusing a lot on making progress as it is nowhere near where it needs to be. I have tried this week though and one of my favourite meals was as a bit of brunch where I made myself some chicken, eggs and ready to eat bacon. This got me a decent amount of protein in and kept me full for a long time. My only other favourite meal of the week has to be the giant Yorkshire pudding we made and filled with vegetables, sliced potato and chicken sausages, it was a much needed warming meal after some time in the snow and added some much needed vegetables into my day, something I really need to work on.

Workouts Complete

2 Treadmill runs

I have done nowhere near as many workouts as I would have liked as I mentioned previously however, I still managed 2 treadmill runs which means I have finally completed week 2 of the couch to 5k programme. The 2 treadmill runs are much better than nothing which normally would have happened with the weather cancelling other plans. I just hope I can say a whole lot more has been completed in terms of workouts.

I have set myself a bit of a daily checklist for tasks to complete that are going to help me along with my journey. So how did I get on with those? 

2 litres of water - I have hit this every day

Stick to my calories - I didn't track those this week but will be doing from now on

Taken all my vitamins - This was done every day

8,000 steps a day - To be honest I have barely used my watch so I am unsure on this 

Weigh in daily - This has been done daily just to see what sort of thing change the scales however, there weren't many changes at all.

Exercise - I have done daily walks but in terms of tougher exercise it was just those two treadmill runs

So how have I felt this week

I definitely feel like there is a lot of room for improvement this week as things just didn't go to plan however, I feel like it has been better than it has been lately as I did stick to the plan as much as I could rather than giving up all together like me last year would have. I have been absolutely full of cold too which really hasn't helped things but we seem to be over that at long last.

So here are my goals for the week ahead, in the hopes of really starting to see the weight drop I am longing for...

Go boxing

I am finally heading back to the hour long boxing classes that I used to attend. I saw a lot of progress when I attended these so let's see if that happens again this time around.

Play football

The weather best ease up as I am desperate to get playing football again and hit the ground running. I haven't played since September due to injury so fingers crossed this Sunday's game goes ahead and I cam get some minutes under my belt.

Go football training

Again this will be dependent on the weather but hopefully by Tuesday things will have eased off and I can get that hour of training complete. These training sessions have been something I have really missed so let's hope Tuesday is the start of things returning to normal for me.

Hit my calorie target daily 

I am going back to tracking my calories this week so I want to make sure I am tracking all my calories each day to see what is working for me and what needs changing. I think once I get back into the habit of doing this it will be like second nature.

2 more runs

I want to make sure I am still completing my runs alongside my other forms of training as I am doing a 10k in June and I really need to get prepared for that. 2 more runs would see me complete week 3 of the couch 2 5k and finally be making some much needed progress on the programme.

Lose 2 lbs

I am really hopeful that if I hit all the other goals above that this one will take shape and I will see a 2 lbs drop on the scales to really get things moving in the right direction. I feel like this is realistic for the start of things so let's see if it goes to plan or not.

So there you have it that is week 1 of the new little fitness and weight loss series. I am really excited to see just what the year has in store for me with the journey so let's see how this little series progress. 

See you soon

Lucy