Ah, this is very interesting.....
Can you give a bit more info?
What things have you been mainly eating?
From what you say, are you eating 'normally' at the weekends?????? (not watching cabs at all) - has this undone you good work in week?
What foods have you not been eating
at all in week?
How much exercise have you been taking and what type (cardio/weights)?
How long has it taken to shed 3 Stone (Good effort mate!)?
Sorry for all the Q's !
The loss has slowed down quite a lot lately but looking at myfitnesspal, I went down almost 30lb between the 9th of May and 2nd of July. Overall I'm at about 41lb I think.
For months I stopped drinking alcohol completely, tried practically starving myself, eating what I thought was healthy food, working out a lot. Well, with help from people on here and using myfitnesspal I was able to establish that I was eating a huge amount of carbs per day.
At this point I then followed the advice on one of the main thread on bodybuilding.com where you are basically just advised to have 1g protein per lb of lbm, eat healthily and work out a lot. I found that the lower I went with carbs, fat and calories, the quicker the weight loss went. I was losing pounds a week at one point and I wasn't losing any strength in my lifts.
On a typical day I will have a protein shake for breakfast (UGN pure protein 56 g), a pack oh ham with 15g of light mayo in a brown roll for lunch, fillet steak with onions, mushroom, broccoli and some french mustard for dinner, then a protein shake at about 9pm after working out. This is around 1500 calories per day
At this point I think I was drinking once a week and having maybe one takeaway a week. I then found that by Friday's my weight loss was really slowing down, then would go up a little over the weekend, then would start rapidly decreasing again. I then started drinking on Saturdays as well and having plenty treats like a couple of takeaways, some snacks etc. Again the weight loss would fly off after the weekends. Possibly a form of calorie/carb cycling. I would likely be reaching a certain maintenance level by the Friday from the low calories and going way above over the weekend would help shake things up. It helps prevent you from going into starvation mode.
Essentially, I can eat and drink whatever I want during the weekend and by say Tuesday morning, I will be back to Friday's level and hopefully by the Friday after that, I will be 2 pounds or more lighter than the previous week. But it's worth noting that I still try to stick to the same principles during the weekend, and other than a couple of nights of drinking and a couple of cheat meals, I'll otherwise try to stick to my plan. As an example though, I had a wedding recently where I ate and drank lots all weekend and by the Monday morning I had gained 3lb, but by the Tuesday or Wednesday I had lost it all again.
Over the course of things I've been doing weights 3-4 times per week and running 5-6 days a week. I've gone from barely being able to run 4 minutes to being able to do 10k.
Sorry if this is a bit of a muddle, at work just now and can explain things better later.
PS - I've found lately that if I go low on carbs (< 70 g say) I find the treadmill can be very, very tiring. If I up it to 80-90, I can last a lot longer on the treadmill so I go a bit higher on cardio specific days.