It's been 9 months since i started my new healthy eating lifestyle, and certainly I am surprised at my determination to get to my goal. I have never been one for "hanging in there" and usually after a couple of kilos have dropped off, and I am feeling somewhat smug about having lost them, I will start the bingeing again, and well........you know how it goes from there. I have lost a total of 15.5kgs, which is starting to look good on my 5ft2 frame. I have gone from a size 16 trouser and 18 top, to a 10 trouser and between 12/10 top, and cannot stop buying clothes (thank you ebay), particularly now that summer is starting to make an appearance (in Scotland)albeit in dribs and drabs.

I have 5.5kgs to go before goal weight, but am started to wrinkle a bit around the mouth and neck, which wasn't there to such an extent a few months ago. I don't want to look haggard, but I also don't want to give up on my goal. At 60.5kgs I feel I am still too big for me. When I was in my 20's (now 44) I weighed between 45-50kgs. 60kgs was hideously large in my mind and I could not have imagined being satisfied with this sort of weight then. When I look at myself, I certainly don't see a large person now though and I am sort of toying with the idea that this could be where I stop...... although everything inside me screams NO NO, get down into the 50's, at least then I can have a bit of leeway, and if I want to have a bit ice cream and chocolate sauce, it's not going to tip me over the edge if I weighed 55kgs, whereas if I weighed 60kgs, I am still erring to close to the dark side LOL!