wow big congrats to you Canontim on your “Fastanniversary lol”

great achievement and inspiring too, well done 🙂

Thanks for the inspiring post Canontim. Well done to you!

Barbarita, I do hope you will be like canontim – big round of applause, brilliantly done! – and not like me. On week 54 I’ve still only lost 6 or just possibly 6 1/2 kilos. I’m hanging on in there, but sometimes I wonder why.

Congrats on your success!
Stef.

You’re right about the health benefits, barbarita. My BP has plunged to the low side of normal, cholesterol is now acceptable too, although the quacks keep moving the goalposts as they have with BMI. My blood glucose is normal, despite two overweight, diabetic parents, and even though I’m older than God the brain is going full pelt as I enter the last and longest lap of an MA (my day job is also “brainy”). Don’t know about arthritis. No sign of it yet and no family history. It would be nice, however, to lose another few kilos – I’ve resigned myself to never getting to an ideal weight.

Despite being what my father called a “fat podge” (a case of pots and kettles!), I have never, ever been seriously ill, never been hospitalised, and never had a physical injury worse than a sprained ankle. I must have been doing *something* right.