I started the Fast Diet one week ago today as I knew my weight had crept up in recent years but even I did not know by how much! I am 66 years old and have noticed over the last few years that the weight has gone on after a vacation trip or after Christmas but I’ve always been able to lose the weight. I was on HRT from the age of 48 until around 62 and that’s when the real trouble started. The weight has gone on since I came off the HRT. I used to be around 175lbs (I’m 5ft 7ins) but the weight crept up to 180lbs. I was a member of Curves for 4 years and always managed to keep the weight level or just below the 180lbs. The Curves I attended closed and I did not feel comfortable joining another gym so just upped my walking activity. However, due to a couple of trips over Christmas and the New Year plus another trip in May the weight crept up to 185lbs which it has stayed at (or so I thought). Yesterday I purchased a new bathroom scales, a digital scale, because our old regular scale was becoming difficult to read. I am appalled that on the new scale I am 191lbs!!! I have never been that heavy! Lord only knows how long I have been 191lbs as my old scale was obviously lying to me! My weight seems to be concentrated around my middle and, although I had a bit of a tummy in the past, I have never had a ‘belly’! I am so upset that I think I’m driving my husband nuts with my ‘belly obsession’!

Anyway, I started the Fast Diet last week and have had three fasting days so far with today being the fourth. I hope this works as we are off on vacation mid September and I dread to think what will happen then!