Shangri-La

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 87.2 Tuesday 31 July: I know it seems that I have neglected this particular blog element of late, but really that’s only to spare you, dear reader, from the same endless tedium I have to suffer weighing myself each morning. It just wasn’t dripping off any more. But, [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.9 This week: 88.3 Tuesday 19 June: Can it really be 50 weeks since I started this in earnest? Yes, it can. And I’ve been thinking a bit about why I seem to have plateaued, big-time. The simple answer is that I’m not far off where I want to be. No [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.7 This week: 89.1 Tuesday 22 May: The minor blitz didn’t last all that long. Who wants to eat miso soup al desko when friends beckon with salads and the like? Daily weighing has made me very sensitive to the saltiness of the previous day’s food. Obviously, the saltier my food, [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.8 This week: 88.8 Tuesday 1 May: Dieters of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your weight.

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.3 This week: 88.7 Thursday 12 April: Amazing. No oil, and yet I managed not to gain anything. And I ate couscous every night bar two. So maybe it takes that long for ditto foods to kick in. Or maybe couscous just isn’t that calorific.

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 89.3 Tuesday 27 March: It is going to be a tough week, for this and other outlets. Too much going on, too intensely, to find much energy to write for fun.

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.2 Tuesday 13 March: Totally skipped a week last week. No idea why. Just seemed to dull to post about yet another period of fluctuating up and down a bit. Not that things have been that much more exciting over the past seven days either. A couple of [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 89.8 Tuesday 20 February: Bah! A pox on working lunches, coffees (with cake) and teas (with biscuits). Whatever happened to that voice that used to tell me I didn’t need to nibble?

Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.1 This week: 88.1 Tuesday 6 February: Things seem to be settling down again, but not a lot to report. On the bread front, a no-knead sourdough failed to rise much. Possibly the starter was a bit old. I’ll have to make another batch sooner rather than later, while ploughing my [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 89.0 Tuesday 23 January: OK, I’ve been buggering about this 88 or 89 level for way too long now. I have my reasons, of course, but I think the time has come to make a serious push lower. Yesterday, after returning from a trip, I was at the [...]

Start: 95.4 Last week: 188 This week: 90.1 Tuesday 9 January: Back on home turf for a few days now and the bad news is that my regular scales are definitely up on those of The Squeeze. I seem to have gone up 2kg in the past month, which is less than the mythical 7 [...]