Day Thirty-nine: the 26 hour fast, pre-Christmas results and pelvic progress

I fasted for 26 hours without food from around 6:30pm on Thursday to 8:30pm on Friday. I then had a delicious 300cal meal from Cook (http://www.cookfood.net/menu/shop/chicken/Chicken-Noodle-Laksa-COOK-Pot/ - highly recommended) and didn't eat again for another 12 hours. I was rather proud of myself but honestly it wasn't that tricky. 

I was reasonably busy the whole time, including my second physio treatment. After last week's hip realignment I was pleased with the improvement in the ease of walking but my back and neck had been quite stiff and achey. Yesterday she worked on mobilising my spine and waking up various muscles that haven't moved for an unknown amount of time, which I can already feel helping my posture. Unfortunately the treatment involved a fair amount of intense shoving which has left me feeling rather battered today. Apparently I have visible bruises on my back. As always, I'm being very well cared for at home by my marvelous support team, and I'm sure it will be worth the short term discomfort for the long term gain.

In the meantime, I weighed myself this morning, prior to the expected indulgence of the coming week. I'm absolutely delighted to report that I lost another 1.5kg in the past 3 weeks, taking me down to 15 stone 5 pounds, below my 10% goal and 3 pounds short of a full 2 stone loss since starting. When I set the goal at the start of September I wrote that this seemed like a massive amount to lose (24 pounds) and it still does, I can't quite believe it. I'm enormously pleased with my early Christmas present and feel I can go from strength to strength.

Having achieved 2 of the 3 goals I set at that time (http://darklingplainfast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/goals.html) I need to now look forward. My shrink goal of getting my waist below 80cm is still a way off, so here are my next mini weight loss goals:

1. Lose 2 stone (3 pounds to go)
2. Get to under 15 stone (6 pounds to go)
3. Lose 15% of my starting weight (11 pounds to go)

I'm not planning to weigh again until late January/early February so I hope to make good progress by then.

Happy Christmas everyone :)