You can approach it however you like and figure out what suits you best. Some people approach it like a ‘diet’ and try to be ‘clean’ all the time. Some calorie count religiously every day and some wing it. Whatever works for you – do that.

So far I have not really changed the composition of my previous diet. If anything I am a bit naughtier now than I ever allowed myself to be before (on non-fastdays) with my choices. It’s worked fine for me up to now and I’ve lost well over 50lb but I’m screeching to a halt now, despite radically increasing my exercise recently. So I need to have a little look at what I’m doing and make some changes. Cutting back on the sugar is something that I intend to try on non-fastdays and I may try to sway my intake more towards plant based proteins than carbs for a while and see if that kicks things off again. At this point I only have another 14lb or so to lose to get me very hapily close to what is supposed to be my ‘ideal weight’, so I figure these tweaks are worth a go for the ‘final push’. I’m not that fussed if it doesn’t work though. I’ve never been so slim since puberty, so everything’s a bonus from here.

Hi Simcoeluv, thanks for that. Yes, I think some of it is just that and I was expecting it not to move much for a couple of months but I’m past that now and I can feel in myself that I’m just not being as strict with myself as I should be. It would be fine to be lax if I was just aiming to maintain but I do still have a little to lose so I need to pay more attention I think.

The exercise is swimming and I’ve gone from once, maybe twice, a week to 4-5 times a week for at least an hour. I’m having to push myself to improve my speed just to raise my heart rate though, as just bimbling back & forth for 1 hour doesn’t break any kind of sweat at all these days. I really need to start doing some classes or something instead sometimes but I get to the gym and the pool just starts winking at me 😉

I know what I need to do – just can’t be bothered to do it is the issue. I shall kick myself up the posterior though – thanks for the support simcoeluv.