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OK. Made it to Sunday night and still staying within my eating guidelines. Approximately 1800 calories and 200g carb per day. This is the first time in a long time (at least a year) that I've managed to stay with it for seven days straight. Attending "Waist Winners" tomorrow and expecting my...

I got an email the other day from Louise of the Low Carb programme which was interesting. I've always said that my strategy was moderate carb for now, but I might have to review that if I can't get my BS down to reasonable letters. The numbers make interesting reading though: 1. Low carb forum...

Bumpy is right. Not sure I'd go so far as thinking I'll enjoy it but it might help me keep on track. I love it when airlines say "enjoy your flight". Does anyone enjoy flying? It's something you have to do to get where you want to go. This is the same for me. So far, so good, Sunday ok, Monday...

Thanks for that. I'll certainly be trying every trick I can think of to stay on course for 2016. This has gone on too long now.

Thanks for your support everybody. I'm back on track again. Had a normal food day on Sunday and a good day yesterday (Monday), including a reasonable session at the gym. Attended my first NHS "Waist Winners" session yesterday. It's an eight week "food education" programme run by an NHS...

Isn't amazing how stressful the season of love and joy is? I get totally wound up by it every year. This year was a bit better due to not having anyone staying with us so I hope that sets the pattern for future years. I'd like to go to the sun and forget the whole thing but I can't convince my...

Thanks for those kind words. Back on track now (see new post).

You guys are such night owls!

This year, for the first time, I took all the chocolate and biscuit presents that I could do without and gave them away. Just in case you think I'm totally reformed, I have to admit that I ate all the ones that I really liked!

I'm sure my readings are very high when I've had a bad binge. So sure, in fact, that I never take any. Talk about burying your head in the sand!

Been there. Got that T shirt! I definitely turn to eating rubbish when we fall out or she abandons me. You'd think I was 4 years old.

Really bad day to day. Gorged on rubbish all evening. Probably over 3000 calories. Rubbish. And Indian meal tomorrow night! Sunday is going to have to be austere ready for a new start on Monday. First attendance at the NHS weight clinic on Monday! It was all going so well.....

So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the first week of my tighter regime were great. Yesterday, Thursday, wasn't so good with a day of picking at biscuits and sweets. Not maybe "red" in my scheme of things but definitely "amber". After a bit of thought, I think I can see what the factors were: 1...

I can well remember sitting in the living room with the smoke so dense you felt you could cut a cube out of it. So far I've not had any problems but if there's any truth to this secondary smoke theory......

Luckily, I've never smoked (although both my parents were 40 a day addicts so I got a lot of secondary smoke when I was young), but there is a big difference in my view. People can give up smoking completely (I know it's hard but some manage). You can't give up eating completely. It's the...

Brenda. I know how hard it can be. I walked 5 miles the other day (and was pretty sore at the end of it) but six months ago I could hardly walk to the pillar box at the top of our street (about 500 yards, if that). The trick is to start with a few small changes. £Eat a little better for a couple...

I'm on 4*500mg Metformin and tolerate it reasonably well but it does give me a bit of tummy ache and affects the toilet. I recently visited my son a few hundred miles away for four days and, for the first time, forgot to take my medication with me. Shock horror! But actually I felt really good...

Slip ups and "lapses" are inevitable for me. My task is to stop one or two day lapses turning into months of poor eating. I'm in the zone at the minute but I need to find ways to stay there. I'm just about the opposite of vegetarian, more of a carnivore. This means I just can't fill my plate...

Totally agree on the point of avoiding more medication. That's my primary motivator.

Hi Ickihun. Like the rest of us, you know the problems so it's just a case of restarting every time you fall off the wagon. I was very stressed when I was working and I think that's just as harmful to your health as the diabetes in some cases. It's good that you've found a way to fight it. I...