I watched the Michael Mosley programme on Monday evenings recently, (or tried to, kept falling asleep after 30-40 minutes
) so I missed the punchline on most of them, except the last episode where they lost 6.5 kg each in 4 weeks. It has inspired me to do something for myself, especially after giving up sugar in my coffee before Christmas has helped my very dry skin to cope better. I lost 2lbs before Christmas too, just from that. Put it back on over Christmas, but seem to have shaken it off again. I've been this weight for 20 years now, but I suppose I can't blame it on carrying a 10lb baby any more! Started keeping a food diary and working out the calories as best as I can. Was a bit disheartened with it yesterday but worked out a generic day and was quite encouraged by the difference in intake. Realised that even just halving my consumption of snacks and cr*p could make a difference of 900 calories a day, so hopefully I'll be able to achieve my target of losing 1kg per month for the year and get from upper overweight to lower overweight/high ideal weight by next Christmas.