Archive for September, 2009

Over the past few weeks donations and sponsorship has increased dramatically, to the point where we have broken through the $5,000 mark based on the 40.5 kilos I’ve lost so far, and possibly getting over $6,500 if I reach the full 60 kilos.

I’d love to get to double that figure and with just under 12 weeks to go hopefully we can get enough support to get there and beyond. When I set out I had hoped that we’d at least get to $5,000 so I am very grateful for all the support that has made this happen so quickly.

But still a long way to go, so if you haven’t sponsored me yet, click on the Support Alan tab on the menu.

Thanks to my new sponsors – Lee-Anne, Marc and Claire.

Thank you for your support, please spread the word to your contacts, let see just how far we take this from my small network and really raise some serious funds for Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute.

• Julie Long    $2 per kilo
• Mark & Marlene Fry     $1 per kilo
• Peter Applebaum    $5 per kilo
• Heather Albrecht    $100 donation
• Annie Sargood    $1 per kilo
• Peter Burley    $1 per kilo
• Larry Clark    $3 per kilo
• David Hamilton    $100 donation
• Chris Gray    $10 per kilo
• James Manolios    $1 per kilo
• Alan Long    $2 per kilo
• Marcus Lovett    $5 per kilo
• Martyn Thomas    $1 per kilo
• Jill Hennessy $3 per kilo
• Elizabeth Hoyle $1 per kilo
• Mark  Peaker $150 donation
• Amanda Daniel    $1 per kilo
• Leigh Oneill    $1 per kilo
• Declan Long    $1 per kilo
• Rob Manning    $2 per kilo
• David Chinn    $25 donation
• Craig Reardon    $1 per kilo
• Nik Kontoulas    $2 per kilo
• Simon Herd     $25 donation
• Clare Crawford   $0.50 per kilo
• Ben Cornwall    $2 per kilo
• Dani Carey    $100 donation
• Tony Hardy    $3 per kilo
• Jacqui Pinge    $1 per kilo
• Sam Stark   $1 per kilo
• Harley Giles $50 donation
• Gavin Appel  $100 donation
• Jamie Crick  $0.50 per kilo
• Rheika Tompkins    $50 donation
• Geoff and Sandra Denman    $1 per kilo
• Sue    Parker     $100 donation
• Leon DePettri    $2 per kilo
• Joy Joyous    $2 per kilo
• Dominik Gluchowski         $1 per kilo
• Sone Chen     $3 per kilo
• Andrew Aitken        $20 donation
• Jodie Fletchere    $10 donation
• Vanessa Yemm    $10 donation
• Matthew Michalowski    $100 donation
• Cheyne Winterton    $50 donation
• Jamie Mackintosh    $20    donation
• Che Carbis     $50 donation
• Jay Radici     $30     donation
• Michael Walmsley     $70     donation
• Kerry Fisher    $50 donation
• Neil Spark    $1 per kilo
• Kevin Hayes    $20 donation
• Juan Esteban Monsalve Tobon     $1 per kilo
• Lee-Anne Bishop      $20 donation
• Marc Johnson    $5 per kilo
• Claire Austin    $1 per kilo

So far based on my weight loss of 40.5 kilos we have raised $5,080.50 (up from $4,418.80) and we add another $81.00 for every additional kilo lost, up $13 per kilo from last update. Hopefully it will continue to grow towards the $10,000 mark by the end of November, so spread the word. On the basis of losing 60 kilos we currently raise $6,660, or $5,850 for a 50 kilo loss for Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute.

Thanks to everyone for your support, it’s awesome.

Have sponsored me yet, come on and head to the Support Alan page and join in.

Finally I’ve broken through the 40 kilo mark, for a while it felt like I was never going to get out of the 30s.

Here’s a quick look at how long it took to move each of the 10 kilos:

• 10 kilos            3 weeks
• 11-20 kilos      7 weeks
• 21-30 kilos      6 weeks
• 31-40 weeks   16 weeks

Now I know that the loss will slow, but I have been really off the boil the past couple of months, and now feel that I am back on track strongly. This mornings weigh in has really given me a confidence boost that I needed, I didn’t expect to lose much at all, so dropping 2 kilos waqs fantastic.

So now I am into the last 12 weeks of SavingAlan and need to move at least another 9.5 kilos to make my first major goal. Over this weekend I am devising a calendar that will cover all of the things I need to do each week and I am also going to get back to running a food diary, because as I tell clients, if you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. When I have it completed I’ll share it.

One of the beautiful things about the weight / size going off is this morning I got my son to see if he could put his arms around my stomach and touch his hands or fingers behind my back. And for the very for the very first time he could do it, he was so excited and started to tell me that I really must have lost some cms, but maybe not weight as it could be all muscle – he’s a bloody little legend.

So here’s this weeks results, can you believe I’ve lost 37cm around the waist, no wonder clothes hang off me.

So here we are around 3/4 of the way through Saving Alan and it’s going to be a tight finish to make a 50 kilo loss before the end of November.

In the past two months I have been bouncing up and down in weight, not due to anything other than my commitment to eating well and exercising enough to move the weight, I have a good week followed by a bad week, I really need to put a good patch together again and average just on 1 kilo a week to reach my minimum goal.

Over the past 2 months I have only dropped 2.5 kilos total, an average of 0.31 kilos a week, which would mean only another 4 kilos for the rest of the project for a total loss of 42.6 kilos, short of my set goals, so I really need to step it up and focus more on eating well under all circumstances and making sure I increase the intensity of exercise as well.

Maybe I have been feeling a little satisfied that I have moved close to 40 kilos (25% of my body weight) and have mentally taken the foot off the accelerator.

But now is the time to give it one big hard push through to the end of November and see just how low I can go in that time frame. I am not sure if 60 kilos is possible, but 50 is achievable (another 11.5 kilos) and if I can average 1.25 kilos a week I’ll lose another 16.25 kilos for a total of 54.75.

Things have happened over the past weeks which saw me fall back to old habits and not care so much about me and the outcome, but I’ll write about that in the next few days, it’s no excuse, it’s just what I went through and how I reacted.

Here’s this weeks results.