Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 88.1

Tuesday 12 September: Still dropping steadily. For a while there I thought I was on one of them dreaded plateaux, with three days straight at an unwavering 88.5. Then a bit of a blow-out at the weekend and an increase, and now a litle drop. Some people...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.9

Tuesday 5 September: I just knew this was going to get boring, and it has. There was the six and a half hour walk on Sunday, fuelled only by a single small cheese sandwich and a few grapes. I’m sure I would have been ravenous pre-SLD. And I had to tigh...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.2 This week: 89.7

Saturday 26 August: Woohoo, as the young people say. For a couple of days earlier in the week I hovered below the magic figure of 89.1 kg. Why is that magical? Because it is 14 stone in old money. I have no idea when I last weighed 14 stone. 30 years a...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 90.3 This week: 89.2

Saturday 19 August: Crashed -- if you can call 100 grams below a Big Round Number crashing -- through another barrier this morning, somewhat to my surprise as I had not done anything drastic. Still and all, I’m not complaining. There’s another barrier...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 92.6 This week: 90.3

Friday 11 August: Yesterday, my total solid intake before evening -- and it was not that solid -- was half a (small) slice of watermelon. From time to time a little pang of hunger would grip me. But within minutes it would go away and I felt fine. No idea why. I ate pretty well the day before, but not excessively. And I have a cold, which sometimes suppresses the appetite. In the evening I felt I really ought to have something, and made a small plate (100 gm vs my habitual 125 gm) of linguine, with aglio, olio e peperoncino, as much to attack the head cold as to feed any hunger. It's the next best thing in the absence of hot and sour soup, and it worked, for a while. I find the absence of hunger really strange. And it cuts out some of the little joys of the day, like a slice of Sal's perfect simple pizza. But it does save time. And money.

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