OK, a little update - I don't do the scales - but my jeans are now much more comfortable. However, there are still loads of clothes I just can't shoehorn myself into yet. Thanks for the tip about the food diary. I realise that for the last three years or so (since re-marrying) what should have been occasional treats have crept up and up and I guess I just couldn't get away with it forever. We used to occasionally share a dessert, this crept up to one each every time - with ice cream! The odd glass of wine became a bottle between two. Packets of sweets in the car became a constant rather than a treat for a long journey (cannot give up sweets for long no matter how hard I try). I have been increasingly snacking on dried fruit, brazil nuts, walnuts, pumpkin and sunflower seeds by the handful, more interesting yoghurts rather than plain fat free spruced up with fresh fruit. I could go on and on. Anyway have cut it all right back and it's not too bad, and when I have a lapse I try not to go mad for the rest of that day. Just made the mistake of going shopping when I was starving hungry - but by some miracle managed to limit myself to additional healthy ingredients for the veggi chilli I am making today, so it's a right old mix of onion, tomatoes, courgettes, sweet potato, swede, lentils and about five types of beans!
Unfortunately I hurt my back 10 days ago so dancing and exercise went out the window at the worst possible time.
How are the rest of you getting on as we approach the dangerous ground of the weekend? It would be good to hear your updates.
