12.12

A bit stuck.
I have pretty good on the weightwatchers prescribed diet.  I have barely wavered but it ain't shifting.  More jumping up and down is probably required.  I am off to London today - I will walk briskly!

12.13

Oh bollocks.

12.12

The hard work starts here.  Holiday weight has gone now time for dietus Maximus

12.12

I know 12.12 is nothing to be proud of as it is still a good three stones overweight but it means I have now lost a staggering 7lbs in three days.  I have til Thursday for the next weigh in so, unless I mess it up spectacularly in the next few days, I should have a good half stone weight loss at Weight watchers.

Mind you there is that clothes thing.  I weigh myself naked ... This is not a good idea in the middle of a weightwatchers meeting in the rather cold assembly rooms.  So we need to add another couple of pounds for raiments.

I am sticking to the diet pretty well though I did mess up at tea time yesterday with cakes and biscuits and we then had champagne.  I skipped dinner.

12.13

This is a vast improvement - side effect is one mother of a headache.
6 lbs down in two days.  I am now on day 3 of weight watchers.
I am wearing my lovely new trousers, high heels and new cardi and I feel much thinner.
I also have a gorgeous new pink jacket.

13.1

A bit better.  Food for next three days planned.  Swimming today.

13.5

I joined weightwatchers. Then I went out to lunch and ate an enormous burger and chips. I might explode.  Stand well back.

I will get to grips with the diet tomorrow.

13.4

Wow, one week in the Caribbean and I can manage that much of a weight gain!  Well much of it was alcohol.  And I ate a lot.  Then there is water retention.  Let's see how quickly it goes.  I think effort might be required.  Oh dear and just as Christmas is approaching.

12.11

Despite all this careful eating and massive walking I have lost zilch so far.  My scales are fluctuating madly but I still haven't lost any weight.  I know it's the booze. Right, I will give up this stupid high protein diet because it is going all wrong. I will return to PlanBot and sip not gulp.  

I have a hangover.  Dancing last night.  I wonder how many steps I did.  Dancing Queen. 

12.9

This is dreadfully difficult.
I keep drinking lime and soda which is sugary or diet coke which is full of aspartame or wine which is full of alcohol.  Hopeless.  Diet: brilliant.
Today is swimming, tonight is sewing.  Go go me.

12.10

Getting there.  Well two pounds is a bit slow but then I have only done three days.  I so hope I manage 5 by Friday.  It may be held back by the drinks I have been glugging.  J2O, lime and wine.  I will try and have a pub free day today.
I have walked 500 miles - my Fitbit wrote to tell me.  Wheehee.  I will walk 500 more in a Scottish accent.

12.11

Day Three of sausage and egg diet.

Where it is going wrong .... Booze and softies.  Water is the tipple of the day.  And tea.
I am having milk in my tea so I am having a little bit of dairy.  Today I have to lose weight as only one pound despite a refusal of treacle sponge is pretty disappointing.

I feel much thinner.  Also that dreadful haze is lifting.

12.11

Not sure if it is day two or three of this diet. I think it is day two because I boobed my first attempt at day 1.  So what am I doing right?  Drinking lots of water, tick.  Not eating any yummy things, tick.  Walking lots, tick.  Eating a lot of sausages and chicken bits.

I am desperate for cake or biscuits but, funnily enough not bread.  I am suffering from sugar withdrawal although I have been drinking diet coke but that is just to keep the old liquids up.

Must swim this week.

12.12

Have been hit by several awful hangovers since my last; so, so much for that.  I also have sleep apnea which explains why I am constantly knackered.

I am not eating bread.
I am not eating chocolate.
I am not eating sugar.
I am not eating anything other than meat, fish, eggs and veg.
(Apart from the accidental yoghurt I slipped in at breakfast).

I HAVE to lose weight.

Target 1.  7 pounds in 5 days.

12.12

Went out for a lovely dinner last night and drank red wine.  Hangovers have completely disappeared since living in Kent.  I have changed from being someone floored by alcohol for three days with a monster headache to a total drunk who has no repercussions at all from being legless the night before.
Dangerous.  I never touch red wine normally because it makes me so ill but there are no ill effects whatsoever from last night's Shiraz.  Had a delicious steak and naughty chips.

I drank a lot of liquid yesterday.  Diet coke, lime and soda and water.  Still constipated.  Don't know why.  Too much bread perhaps.

I would go on a high protein diet but I am afraid of never pooing.  Maybe I should cut out bread completely and see if I lose weight.  Bread is lazy food because you just toast it or spread it or shove things between it.  I will have bread today but next week I will give it a miss.

12.11

Went for a magnificent swim. Had a maltesers bar - lovely.
Twins' birthday tea - ate all the cakes.
Skipped dins. Feel full.
No booze but liver still aches.

12.11

I am detoxing after abusing my liver so horribly; it now hurts.  Seeing as it hasn't been very long that I have been so bad, about six weeks, it shouldn't take too long to repair.  I decided not to send it away like the hoover.

The method is:-
No alcohol
No chocolate
Less bread
No cheese
Less milk
Less fat
Less salt
Less sugar
More water
Liver pills (milk thistle & dandelion)
More walking.

Yesterday I managed everything except no chocolate - I had two choccy digestives and a toffee. I went on a huge walk to Littlestone and back.  My legs ached.  My liver aches.

12.10

Since moving into Mulberry House it has been non stop delicious meals both in and out peppered with grazing on all sorts of yummy things from the fridge and cake tin and many a pub visit.  I am amazed I am not over 13 stone.

I joined a health club with pool in Ashford and have been twice this week so maybe it was not a total waste of money as I really love it and will use it a lot.  It is just rather far away.  I think it will be combined with dropping Mr Smith at the station and shopping trips.  So I will probably go twice a week.  I might even venture there this evening or Sunday morning.

No idea

From the moment I left for Canada it has been a non stop eating fest.  We had a proper breakfast at the airport then I was upgraded to business on the plane where it was all totally delicious.  There were not only yummy meals, gorgeous drinks but also a help yourself bar of Cadbury's chocolate, Duchy Originals biscuits and anything else you fancied.  From the moment we arrived in Canada it has been food and booze at every opportunity.  I have had enough.  My liver hurts.  I went to see my friend Jonesey to dry out.  She was all for getting wine but I was going to use my time with her as non party get well time.  I didn't drink and we ate a light meal but I am still stuffed full and exhausted.  Tonight is our last night which is the last dinner party.  I can't wait to get home and get sober and back on a diet.

Things I have eaten:-

Tim Hortons
Krispy Kremes
Peach pie at Piggys
Huge Pizza
Cinnamon whirls
Cheese bread
Fries
Caesar salads
Huge steaks
Banana pie
Salsa guacamole dip
Spelt pasta
A banana
An apple
Blueberry yoghurt with honey
Cheesy Taco dish
Deep fried jalepenos
Wedding cake
Giant prawns
Cooked breakfast
Tex mex dinner
Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel.

Now I am hungry.

12.4

All is well with the world once again.  Phew.

So much box packing and cleaning and heaving and clearing is very good for the figure.

Moving tomorrow.  So exciting.

12.9

We had a party.  I must have eaten some of the guests without realising.  I will rectify this awful weight gain without further delay.

12.4

Party Day.  I will not eat or drink too much.  I will be golden and thin.

12.4

Terrible Friday.  One of those days when I just ate everything because I was starving,  chocolate and biscuits and toast and Tara and all my meals and more.  Oh dear.  Anyway I have still lost weight which is good.  Desperado to make it down to 12 stone by September.  That's 4lbs in ten days.  I'll do it.  Remember I am moving house in the middle so that should help!

12.6

Despite a dreadful weekend of thoroughly overdoing it by some miracle I am down.  I am amazed as I expected to put on.  Good walk on Sunday, 3.5 mikes to Penistone.  VG day on Monday and Tues.
Feel very tired.  Need some energy. Sleeping too much.

12.8

Getting stuck.  Going over cals.  Need to eat less.  Smaller portions and exact meals/snacks.  I am getting there but I am having probs with the plan.  I have things other than dieting to do in a day.
Well, weigh in isn't until Tuesday.  Time to read through PlanBot.

12.7.5

That is 12stone 7 and a half pounds.  Bit of a messed up day food wise.  Under ate.  Didn't want anything.  Went swimming.  Ate better in the evening.

Birmingham today.  Wheehee.

12.8

Went over cals yesterday.  We went out for lunch which made sticking to the diet almost impossible. I am wondering how I will,cope with the weekend ahead even though I am catering.  I will,just have to try my hardest.

Bought a new toy yesterday - a swimming MP3 player.  I will swim to Elgar before I download Handel's water music.  I can't wait to try it out.

12.7

But I am pretending it is 12.6.  Well, it will be tomorrow!
The problem is I never owned up to being 13 stone on the WLR site.  I started at 12.10 which gives me a measley little 3lb weight loss.  So I thought 4 looked so much better.

New aim:  To be sylphine for our party.  I want to be below 12 stone in two weeks time.  Get out the rubber tyres for me to pull across Richmond Park and the find the personal trainer.  Actually, I did buy one of those.  I will go and find her later today. Well, I could go to class I suppose.  And I could go swimming.  And I could definitely stop being so lazy.

12.9

My scales went berserk this morning.  Firstly they said I weighed 12.2 then 12.13 and have now stopped larking about and settled for 12.9.  I did thoroughly overdo it last night.  I ate a whole sheep, a whole chicken and any other passing livestock.  Oh the perils of the barbecue.  I might explode.  We also had fun with the non fat fryer and made amazing chips.... Hundreds of them, that I ate.  I was SO full.

12.7

Eating lots and hardly getting off bott but losing weight.  I did read somewhere about stopping exercise for a bit when you start a diet.  Maybe it makes it easier for your body.  Then gradually you reintroduce exercise.  I dunno but I like this.

It is just like eating everything I want and losing weight.  I wonder what they have lines up for me today?

12.7

Oooh this is brill.  Especially considering how much I am eating and how little exercise I am taking.
I like this PlanBot diet.

12.8

I wasn't as good yesterday.  I was ok in the day but it was barbecue for dins and I had a sausage in a bun as well as a burger.  I am glad I haven't piled on the weight.  I must drink more water today and take some exercise.  I saw a prog yesterday where some people did not eat anything all day but at night they gorged and they were SO fat.

I am doing a pulled pork recipe today but it is not diet list.  I will shop around the list for something similar.

12.8

My goodness, that is almost half a stone in a week.  What a great start. PlanBot and I are doing well.

12.9

That could have gone either way.  I ate far too much on Saturday and was suffering from a hangover. I had wine and big lunch on Sunday.  By some miracle I lost weight.  I feel triumphant and can see the possibility of losing a stone by September.  What a relief.

 What horrors lie in store this week?  I can't think if any huge eaty drinky challenges.... Except hunger or boredom.

12.10

A bit of a tricky day as we were out for lunch.  I had antipasto which was rather oily but healthier than pizza.  I did get a bit picky later.  Dinner was mackerel salad which was lovely.  I have to own up to drinking champagne.  I got a bit drunk and went into mad cleaning mode. I now have a slight hangover and sparkly kitchen though I have no idea where I put anything.

New ice cream machine made orange sorbet - amazing.

12.10

And another one bites the dust.

I am getting on so well with this excellent diet PlanBot.  I did have something else other than the set dinner but I kept it to about the same cals.  I then found this amazing extra bit where you could have treats.  I had a crunchy ice cream bar - amazing.

Pretty much a perfect day.

12.11

Going down.
Lovely swim on my own which is pretty amazing for this time of year.
Starting WLR's PlanBot.  A bit draconian but good.
Dawn French is fat again.

12.12

Finished the chocolate cake.

Have teamed up with Sophie B as my diet buddy.  This works quite well.  We are devising the SophieBel diet.  We will be mere sylphs at the end of it.

Having lost another pound I feel quite jolly.

12.13

Re: Chocolate cake. There once was a chocolate cake that I made for Alexander's birthday.  We never got round to eating it before he went to France so I froze it.  Yesterday we had it for tea.  I only meant to have one slice.  I carefully saved it for tea time, not having any for elevenses as I didn't want to overdo it.  So how come at 4pm it was as though I was heroin mainlining cake? Crack cocaine snorting cake?  I just hoovered it up and every time I finished ramming an enormous slice of many gooey layers into my mouth I cut another.  The best bit was the end with extra chocolate and plastic (fondant) icing.  I thought the double cream I poured over the top just gave it that extra loveliness.  Mr Smith had two slices too.  I was horribly full and couldn't manage my dinner four hours later.

Bleaghgh!

12.13

Barbecues and salad days - perfect diet food.

Feel thinner today - just a pound but it's a start.

13.0

Post Parisienne weight gain.  Oh Paris was so wonderful and yes, I did eat a lot, but I also walked many a mile.  I am now feeling a bit of a lump.  The hot weather doesn't help.  Gardening today once I have collected the dog and thought about my diet a bit.  I have a mighty list of things to do today.

12.10

Felt well for the first time in ages.  No headache. Made strawberry icecream in the ice cream machine. It was lovely.  However, I definitely ate less today - sarnie for both lunch and dins topped off with mountains of gorgeous ice cream.

I now feel motivated to lose a stone and buy myself Ted Baker wellies with matching handbag as a reward.

12.11

Big fat period.  Ghastly hacking cough. Total malaise.  Sinfully constipated.  All bad.

12.9

In view of how little I ate yesterday and the day before I would expect to weigh less but there again given the vast amount I ate prior tot that it is an absolute miracle I don't weigh over 13 stone.

Today will be low carbs. Well that is no bread, sugar or dairy.

Awful cough. Weeing hideously frequently.  Rather leaky.

12.10

Detox day yesterday. It went so well.  I ate very little.  I planned liquids only - lots of tea, water and miso soup.  I fell for some Brie and right at the end of the day a banana was ingested into my body.  I was really pleased as it all came to about 300 cals and could pass as a fast day.

I swam, I walked and I had my hair done.  So good.

I then decided to uplift my soul by going away for the night.  I stripped the bed, washed the sheets and set off .... to the spare room.  Lovely.  It is a beautiful room and I slept very well in it.

Detox house today.  It is raining which kiboshes my exercise plan.  I was going to walk to the market.
Oh well, I will sort out the studio and feel a bit more creative. I will sew my quilt and eat low carbs.

12.12

If you told me I had to gain a massive amount of weight for some reason ... I would do exactly what I am doing now.  And I am SUPPOSED to be on a diet.

Totally sedentary, almost comatose.  Eating every last carb I can find in Asda and Sainsburys.

I didn't go to class.  I didn't go to anything all week.  I am so lazy. I walked on Mon and Tues and that is  it.  Time to change.  I willp not eat anything at all today. It will be hard but I will just have water and maybe some clear broth for dins tonight.  Tough call.

12.13

I ate so much lunch I couldn't manage dinner. I am still full.  Actually, it wasn't that big.  I am not quite sure why I have put on weight as I have rather better on the stuffing my face front lately.  No exercise. I am ill.

12.12

A far better day diet wise.  I made a chocolate house cake and ate a few trimmings.  Bad me.  Girls who are pickers need bigger knickers.

12k on the Fitbit. Computer seems to have found it without my input as it sent me a message.  I wonder how?  Its little blue teeth must be gnashing away.

Dinner at the opera.  I skipped lunch .... So actually, a very good day.

I feel sick today.  Very.  Have I got a bug?  So hope not as am off to E Wittering to deliver rugs and Portsmouth to collect Apprentice.  I need to feel well.

12.11

Looking at the over all picture my weight is stable, about the same weight as a stable complete with horses but, nonetheless, consistent in its enormity.  Therefore, by my reckoning, I could shift some quite easily if I know I am maintaining and not gaining with this much food then less weight should be quite easy.

Last night at belly dancing I nearly wept I was so fat.

Time for effort.

12.12

I don't think I eat that much.  But I do eat the wrong things.  But I love the wrong things.  Meat, fish, veg are fine but sticky toffee pudding is so much finer.

Ooh goody dancing tonight.  I start my course on Thursday.

12.10

Think I was within cals but you never know with things like stew.
Horrible headache today.

12.11

I have a daily goal of 1200 calories.  Have you seen 1200 calories?  It doesn't sustain an anorexic fly. I am hungry.  This is because I ate all my calories before lunch so had to starve all evening.  I did go to belly dancing.  New teacher - much contorting of unknown parts.

I ordered Turkish delight on line.  I might explode.

12.12

Turkish delight is 4,000 calories a kilo.  OK I didn't eat the whole kilo on one day .... But I could have done.  It was SO delicious.  Now, if I could control myself, I could have, say, a couple of squares every now and again.  But I know I would have no self control.  It is just too good.

I didn't put on any weight on holiday but I think I did over the bank holiday weekend as I did nothing but lounge around and sleep... and eat Turkish delight.   I was so tired.  The sugar didn't help.  Well, it is finished now and tonight I have my belly dancing class.  It is raining which kiboshes my walking plans.

It is time for breakfast; so far I have an unblemished day.  What shall I eat?  I think staying within my 1200 cals would be a good start.  I have to adopt a new approach as I must be thinner by September for the big fat Canadian wedding.

Right, time to find a belly dancing course and a sensible diet.

12.11

Went to Kingston.  Still failed to find walking shoes.  They are either really clumphy or in horrible colours.

P:2
Fitbit:13k slipping down leader board.
Ate: too much inc stupid biscuits after dinner.

12.11

Bought size 18 trousers ..... Far too big.  Ridiculous.
Some of my clothes are beginning to go round me.
 Weight ain't too groovy but shape is improving.

Fitbit well exercised.
Swim today outside 30 mins.

P: 1
Drinking more water.... Or trying to.

Bellydancing this evening. Need to get proper walking shoes whilst I am in Fulham.

12.9

HEADACHE
Feel sick, neck aches.
I need to get better quick.

P: 1
Exercise: Belly dancing class and walking 17k
Too much sweet stuff to eat.

12.11

Terrible terrible day yesterday.  Wall to wall chocolate, biscuits and general crap.
Cream tea for breakfast today - amazing.

Feeling lazy
Fitbit: over the weekend a grillion billion but yesterday pretty much zilch.
P: quite good I think, all that sweet stuff.

Today: walk, swim, dancing.

12.9

Oh no, going in the wrong direction.  I ate a lot of sweet thigs yesterday.
Walking: 10k steps.  Walked to Wandsworth.  Raining today and I am going to be stuck in car.
Awful headache.  Really bad today.   Drank one glass of wine last night.  E
No poo.  Still have period.  Feel ghastly.

12.8

Ghastly headache. Walked 13k.  Felt tired. Ate ice cream - lovely.

12.8

Boring period.  Hurt yesterday a bit.
Walked to swimming.  Swam for 20 mins. Bussed back
Fitbit 25k because I walked to Putney Bridge then tubed it to Fulham.
Belly dancing class was lovely.  Can't wait for the next session.
P3.
Headache today.

12.8

Well with so much walking I did expect to shift some flab.  I do seem to be getting thinner.  It will just take a long time.  I walked a million miles at the weekend and I ache accordingly.

P3
Period - groan
Food logged for the first time in ages
Within cals despite a crunchie and chocolate biscuit.

What is 12.8 in pounds?  Well 10 is 140 plus 28 plus 8 = 176.

12.11

Aghhhh.  Damned biscuits.
Fitbit: 14000. Got blister from new shoes.  So annoying.
Booze: 0
Food: Fine except dreadful biscuit attack in the afternoon.
P: can't remember
Enormous tummy overflowed o'er trousers.  Must correct forthwith.

12.11

Fitbit: 13000. Would be happy but Jo did 18000
Walked to market and back from Green Man.
Healthy veg moussaka for dinner. Macburgers for lunch, no fries or coke.
P:3
No sugar - except 2 shortbread.  No chocolate.

12.11

Fitbit: 10k
P:3 10pm
Sugar and all things carb ...... A hundred billion cals.

Sugar free starts today.  5 days of perfection then bread and things can come back in.

Walk to market planned.  Maybe some of the way.  Bus back.

12.13

Oh farts.  I knew two boosts, four freddo the frogs and a packet of jelly babies was overdoing it a bit after dinner.

Right - time to get off sugar.  Watch me.  But how do I avoid chronic constipation .... Again?

Fine 4 today - bit of a strain.  Bit of a pile up.

Fitbit: 10k today. Need 7 days til it registers.  My first two days were 7 steps then 14 steps so that doesn't make my stats look too brill so far.  I will just have to jiggle it more.

12.10

After hols.  Recovering from jetlag. Getting going again.

Fitbit 10k
Other: 30 mins swim
Poo: Excellent 4

12.8

I did poo, but not a week's worth.  I failed on the starving technique.  I ate a lot of rye bread and chocolate.  Oh dear.  I will try today to starve myself and continue to take potions with lots of water.  I am so fed up with this.  I am determined to get back on track.

12.8

Amazingly lovely lunch at the Savoy with Sophie and Jo from WLR.

Now day 6 of no poo.  T says I should eat nothing and wave my bottom over some steam.  Oooh I might scald it.  I like the idea of starving the poo out.  I will try that tomorrow.

Well, I have now taken two Dulcoese stool softeners and a donut.  The donut was Mr Smith's contribution.  I am starving but full.  Weird.

Maybe I will never poo again.  Ever.

12.6

No carbs certainly works as I am losing weight but I last pooed on Friday which is absolutely ages ago.  It will soon be a week.  I am taking lots of psyllium.  Nothing yet but on the grounds that it takes 3 days for things to work I will be patient.  My major concern is keeping the poo soft so I am not giving birth out of my bottom.  Lots of water.

I am desperate to get below 12 stone by my show.  I want my flowery dress to fit and to feel lovely rather than a big fat lump dressed in the curtains.  It's it til 28th which is over two weeks time.  Even though some of it will be in the Caribbean no bread, pots or pasta is very easy.  I just have to watch sugar.  I so love rum.

12.9

Resorted to carbs.  Earth moved but sadly so did weight - the wrong way.  Will work on it.
Ate a mountain of pizza after some cupcakes.  Lovely, lovely fattening carbs.   Lovely, lovely, big fat poo.  I needed it.  I will drink a lot of water from now on and not let things get so horribly backed up again.

12.7

SO constipated - becoming obsessive.  Went for a swim yesterday.  Drank a gallon of water throughout the day.  Feel vast.  Need to poo. Found a great yoga exercise to push it all through.  You hold your breath and pull your tummy in and then push out rapidly for about 30 secs.  It should tempt a poo out.

I feel full and sluggish.  Just like my bowel.

12.7

Oh farts.  Weight gain for two reasons.  I haven't pooed since I can remember and I ate bread yesterday.  It wasn't THAT nice.  Only ok.  I wish I hadn't.  I had Botox yesterday so can't exercise for a couple of days.  I need to do a massive workout and get the poo moving.  My tummy hurts.  I have taken every aid to going inc. senakot.  Stand well back.

12.5

Weeeeheee.  This is the lowest I have been for AGES. I love losing weight but I am also terrified it will go the other way as it often does with dieting.  There I am trogging along on my diet and the weight loss grinds to a halt but I keep going because I think it will get better then I start putting on weight then I get pissed off with the whole thing.

Just three pounds to go to a stone.  I should manage that by Friday.  I do need to exercise as that makes a huge difference.

12.6

Oh wow.  I have made it below 12 and a half and I might actually get to somewhere near 12 by the time of my show.  I am determined to get my weight down for my party even if it means a boring first  part of my holiday.   I am not really on holiday until after the show anyway.  I am just working abroad.  It is so difficult dieting in a hotel but equally in some ways it easier to stick to the three meals a day with nothing in between.   Meat and veg and fish and salad should be a doddle.  Perhaps it is more difficult when I am on my own and have the temptation of crisps and pizza.

I ate pasta last night.  I was starving and a piece of fish with some broccoli was just not going to fill me up. I am fed up with being hungry.  I have a headache.

I went to the market yesterday to stock up on veg. Lots and lots of cauliflower.  I am not sure I even like cauliflower.

12.7

The apprentice ate my steak and I starved.

Buzzed around Putney and Fulham making all sorts of appointments for self maintenance.
Feeling so much thinner!

12.8

That was what I weighed on Friday but since then I have had:

A cupcake of such verbotenness I will probably burst
Some chips
2 Poppadom
Rice
A piece of chocolate
A crust of bread
Milk in my tea
A yoghurt

These were not all on the same day but it still high carbi stuff and I may well have put on weight.

It is so cold I feel I need carbs to feel warm.  I really need to jump up and down more.  If only I wasn't so lazy.

12.9

Tiny bit disappointed as I was expecting a glorious 12.8 but maybe that would be greedy.  I did a poo.    A triumphant poo.  At long last.  Mind you I think stonehenge was built from softer material.

We did have an enormous dinner last night.  Roast pork with amazing crackling.  Gorgeous.  I ate heaps and normally would have definitely had a weight gain but with no pudding and no potatoes I didn't put on an ounce.

I am determined not to be a diet fixated idiot.  I have more or less given up alcohol so I am looking to more or less give up sugar.  Then I should be on the road to salvation.  Holbrook diet.  There's all this stuff about carbs and protein being separate but I think that is just too purist.

12.9

My goodness me, I don't think I have ever lost so much weight so quickly with no exercise and stuffing myself with sausages and meat.  So that's seven pounds - my goodness me .... Half a stone.  Oh roll on tomorrow when I report in on my weight loss thingy.  I really like this.

Now steak or veal or pork ... For breakfast.  No, I will have porridge.

12.10

Shoving sausages down gullet like a starving dog.  Now feel sick as a dog.  Sugar cravings have really diminished.  Nasty headache.  Lovely salmon with rich hollandaise last night.  Forgot to eat specially prepared soup.  Will have it today. Had beef and ham salad for lunch.

Six pounds eh?  Not bad given that I am constantly stuffing my face.  If I keep this up I might get into my jeans.

12.12

Following 5 day carb boot camp plan.

Day 1
Tough but I did it.
No choccy, sweeties, diet coke, caffeine or pasta or dairy.
Headache emerging.
Weird dreams.

Went shopping and just looked.  I have now exceeded even 16 and sometimes even an 18 is too small.  Oh GOD NO.  It will be Evans Outsize frumpies in no time if I don't watch it.

Well, I have already lost four pounds (of water) so we will see how it goes.
I had yummy fillet steak and veggies for lunch.
Dinner is chunky chicken soup.
Snack is a sausage - meaty one from Marks.

13.2

Kept up the Dryathlon for all of January and lost no weight but ate chocolate and all things sugary instead.  So I achieved nothing really except less hangovers and a two pound weight gain.  But I am glad I did it and I seem to be cured of alcoholism.

Anyway, I am now on carb boot camp which is five days of no sugar, no dairy and no wheat.  I might die.  I probably won't.  The idea is to be cured of chocolate addiction.  It is pretty harsh.  No toast.  No milk or sugar on my porridge.  No Cadbury's cream eggs.

13 stone

Tenth day of Dryathlon.  With no alcohol I expect to lose weight not gain masses.

Not actually exercising but am clearing up house which burns off many a calorie but gaining rather than losing.  I feel very hefty, very liverish and unwell.

Treacle sponge for pudding last night - SO GOOD.  Oh dear.

Time to reintroduce fasting.  Thursday today so Fast Day it is.  Aim: 500 cals.  Here goes.