Hi everyone,
feeling like cr*p with a heavy cold and have gained some water weight,
but staying OP and doing well most of the time (if you forget that tiny
little incident with the dim sun buffet and the litre of booze...)

Anyway, I'm still 11lbs lighter than a few weeks ago and 3 inches (yes,
you read that right) smaller in the waist measurement. I'd like to lose
a little more but am no longer officially overweight.

Anyway, with all the chaos in my life at the moment I thought you might
indulge me a bit of vanity: I'm back in my UK size 14 clothes and I'm
actually wearing stretch jersey ski pants and I think I look pretty good
in them! The tummy's not exactly like an ironing board, but a few weeks
ago I looked pregnant and now I definitely don't.

It's a good feeling because having lost all that weight a couple of
years ago, and put some of it on again, it's good to know that I can get
back to healthy eating and shed the excess weight extremely easily. What
I noticed this time was that I didn't have to make many major changes,
just cut out the junk: my portion sizes weren't bad, I tend to naturally
avoid high fat food anyway and I've never gone back to the terrible
snacking on chips and sweets that I did last time I got heavy.

So really, when all is said and done,  my "backsliding" was really just
a blip I think and the healthy living is much more "me", as it were.
Which I think proves that we mustn't be slaves to the scale or the dress
size - we need to look at lifestyle in general.

P.S. My high boots fit again :)