The Biggest Loser

It has been about 4 weeks since I last blogged - apologies - I know this because I am just entering my 7th week on Weight Watchers. So far, so good. I have lost a total of 13 pounds to date - starting to slow down a bit now, was coming off quite fast at the beginning but knew only a matter of time before the slow down began!
On the topic of weight loss - does anyone watch The Biggest Loser on Sky Real Lives? I love this show and wish I could go on, they are all so inspirational and the amount of work they do to achieve the weight losses that they achieve in 16 weeks in amazing. In the current series I particularly admire Ali, as she is the same height as me and weighed roughly the same as me when she started. Well, in 16 weeks she has lost an amazing 100lbs and looks fantastic. Now I know that all us cynics out there would say that this is way to fast to lose weight and I totally agree - in some aspects. But, look on it this way. All us weight battles have problems with keeping motivation up - right? Well it is certainly 1 of my biggest struggles. If you only have 16 weeks to do this and you are having the nutritional aids and the personal trainers shouting at you all day every day then you are going to do it and the motivation is going to stay high because you are seeing massive amounts of weight coming off every week. If I could lose all my weight in 16 weeks I think I would keep up the motivation to keep it off. I have even gone so far as to look into applying for the next series but unfortunately you have to be a resident of the US to apply. We did have the series here once, not sure if it still airs, but it was nowhere near as good as the US counterpart. My sister could do it with me, but she wouldn't be able to leave her 2 kids for 16 weeks!
What else have I been up to?? Well not a lot really to be honest. I have been out on a few nights out and days too. My niece is over from the US and been trying to entertain her but she is bloody hard work! You give her a load of options of things to do and she is like - yeah whatever, I don't mind! She is just not enthusiastic about anything!! Would like to be able to take her back to the US (she is too young to fly on her own) but she has to be back by the end of August and I don't want to go on holiday that early on - money is tight at the moment too.....isn't it always!!
Exercise has been going well - though they have had a bit of a change around at the gym with regards to the timetable. My fave spinning instructor now does Mondays at 18:15 as opposed to Wednesday at 19:00 - don't know that I will be able to make every Monday now, especially if on a late at work but I am damn well going to try. Been a bit slack at going recently because I have had a few nights out but think that might be what is causing my slow down in weight - 2lbs a week on average is a good loss I hear you cry - but when you have 5 stone or more to lose it is hard to keep motivational with it being that slow. I also tried a Body Pump class which I really enjoyed and might start going to that after spinning - just a bit tight to finish spinning and then run to Body Pump to set up your weights etc but think I might sign up for tonight's class.
That is all for now I think - writing this from work so really need to get on lol. Laters x