Congratulations on your weight loss, baty!
Funnily enough, I always seem to lose weight when I drink more - I barely drink, so we're talking a small glass of wine - I suspect it's the dehydration rather than a real loss. Or maybe it's because knowing I'm drinking extra calories makes me try really hard to be good with the food that I'm eating with it.
I can relate Diane65 - bad photos are so depressing. I always hide from the camera, and choose to believe how I look in real life is me from my best angle, not me how I actually look.
Delusion is the key to happiness...
I've just cancelled my gym membership (well, attempted to, we'll see what actually happens...) because I'm just not using it. I stopped because I was too busy, and then I was too ill, and then I was too injured... But it's not all doom and gloom because I intend to replace the lack of gym activity with running. It's free and I can do it at a time that suits me, so I think that's an improvement. I wouldn't have had the confidence to go running if not first for the improvement in my general fitness from going to the gym so often, but now that I can and do run, I don't think I need the gym anymore. (Famous last words...)
I haven't got a Fitbit John Milton, but I am seriously tempted. I had a look at the one which isn't a Fitbit - Jawbone, that's it - and it's not actually that much prettier despite costing a lot more. Because you have to wear it all day long the aesthetics are important for me - I have a client facing job! A good friend of mine does have a Fitbit and he loves it. One of the reasons why I'm tempted... I already measure most of my walking through Runkeeper on my smartphone, but I'm curious as to how many calories I burn from all the tramping around the Underground and without phone signal and GPS, my smartphone stops being so smart.
Had a bad day recently so ordered my favourite takeaway and gained half a stone overnight. Only temporary water weight and it's gone now, but one of the things I've learned over the past year is comfort eating salty processed food does create temporary weight which makes you feel like crap afterwards, so you can't do it too often. I went out for dinner the other night and we only had one course each, which I didn't even finish as it was massive - sometimes you don't have to eat the entire menu. Can't believe how many decades it's taken for me to realise that.
I keep slipping up, but on the whole, I think I've made some real improvements in my attitude towards food.
Not feeling up to a run this weekend (have a bit of a cold), but am going to wrap up warm and get lots of walking in instead. A Fitbit would obviously be more accurate, but because I try to log what I eat and what I burn, I know just a bit of extra walking makes all the difference for me. If you don't keep track of calories in versus calories out, I really do recommend you give it a go because it will make you change your habits in ways that surprise you. For me, getting off one stop earlier and walking a bit further uphill can sometimes be all it needs to push me from overeating for a day into eating a sensible number of calories for that day, and I wouldn't bother to do this if I couldn't see how the numbers for this actually work.
Stay healthy everyone - doesn't just go for eating, but with these awful lurgies floating around, take care of yourselves!
Losing a pet is horrendous, take care of yourself and try to slow down for a bit if you can.
15 mins of the day.
I'm still going to crack on and do my decorating as planned but wanted to go for walks in between coats keep on coughing if I walk too fast. Have a fun day everyone 
I have to go back to the pain clinic this week to evaluate the medication - not so good on the pain or the ability to stay awake in the afternoon but loving the weight loss! 
