Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.7 This week: 87.9
Tuesday 21 November: Oh, the exquisite irony of it, part II; to be on a plateau and to have discovered Jim Lahey’s recipe for no-knead bread. Ah well, the novelty will wear off soon, I hope. Except that I have a second sourdough loaf bubbling away now,...

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.3 This week: 87.7
Tuesday 14 November: Oh, the exquisite irony of it. I spend the weekend picking olives but I have no rice oil with me. And of course I overcompensated like mad for all that exercise. But a bruschetta with fresh, green oil is the exact opposite of 15ml...

Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.5 This week: 87.3

Tuesday 7 November: Back on track again, with a minuscule drop over the week that is well within the margin of error of the scales but that is also entirely acceptable in the overall scheme of things. I seem to be regaining a bit of appetite, particula...

Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 87.5
Thursday 2 November: Things have been very topsy turvy of late. There is no week 16, because I was away eating delicious foreign muck with no scales and a dead laptop. I’m skipping the number 16 to maintain the count of the number of weeks it has been...

Quite by coincidence, given yesterday’s post about weighing, the Washington Post has an article about a programme to help people keep weight off by reaping the benefits of daily weighings. Brown University scientists recruited people who had lost 10 per cent of their body weight over the past tw...