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Pleasantly surprised that I had not gained more during my holiday. There wasn’t that much eating out, which possibly helped, but I also found it easier to resist temptation, much of the time. Didn’t eat a single Peanut Butter Cup, which would have been u...

Start: 95.4 Last week: 91.7 This week: ??.?

Thursday 20 July: That crashing noise is the sound of a man falling off the wagon. Pan-fried chicken, mashed potatoes with butter, creamy coleslaw and watermelon to finish. All cooked up in 40 degree heat by a fine woman from Kansas City to give her pa...

Start: 95.4 Last week: 92.0 This week: 91.7

Saturday 15 July: This is a teeny bit frustrating. I seem to be marching along what SLDers call a plateau. For three days in a row my weight has been identical. Given the error inherent in the scales that's pretty remarkable, but at least it didn't go up. Today it is up a tad. I can rationalize that away. Lunch at the beach yesterday, a birthday party for a colleague and way too much good seafod pasta. (Way expensive too, but that's not for here.) Cue the old joke about the seafood diet...

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Thursday 6 July: Seth Roberts, onlie begetter of the Shangri-La diet, has been marvelling about the “side effects” enjoyed by some people using different kinds of oil in their diet, particularly effects on the brain. This is my comment on Seth's blog:

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Thursday 29 June: Thinking about entries as and when, I decided it would be better to do a single weekly round-up, even though I may write bits of it as and when. Yesterday I started idly browsing the SLD forums and there’s certainly more than enough there to keep a faculty full of anthropologists occupied.