With gains of a half and one pound respectively for the last two weeks, I am now in the embarrassing position of 'achieving' an average of one pound a week. Given that I removed four of those in the first week, this is not anything like a success story yet!

I know it's an excuse, but I really do need to concentrate in order to lose weight and at present I simply have no head space whatsoever. Work is all-consuming. My brain is so overloaded that I can barely focus on all the tasks...

Hello again…

Well I got weighed last night for the first time and I am pleased to announce that I am now 3.5lbs lighter! How good is that! I feel great. It’s all the motivation I need for this week I reckon.

Got on the Wii Fit again this morning – I’m really getting into it now and, dare I say it, actually enjoying it a bit!

Bit worried about the wedding do that we are going to on tomorrow night as I have no idea what food is going to be there. I need...

A bit about me. I am 38 years old and I weigh 13st 10… (phew – that’s a step in the right direction I think!) I am a primary school teaching living and working in Middlesbrough and my partner and I have a little boy who is 4.

In 1998 and 1999 I was diagnosed with PCOS and Hypothyroidism. I’d always been chubby, even as a child and this was a good explanation for my overweight state. My weight has never gotten me down to the extent where I have been upset particularly – other than...

weigh day tonight at 5.30

dont feel confident that I have lost at all, feel very bloated and feel like I have ate none stop for like the last week, even tho I havent

does anyone else get like this

good luck any one else thats weighing in today x

Today is recovery day.

Since officially starting this lose-weight-or-die thing in July (no need to mention my unofficial start with The Spider Diet six weeks before that, when I wouldn't eat unless someone - anyone - checked the kitchen for spiders first), this is my first tumble: for three whole days I didn't exercise. And felt it. My mood plummeted and I went straight back on the Procrastination Cycle, yall know the one: ♫ Tomorrow .. tomorrow .. I'll start back .. tomorrow......