Day 30 - three is the magic number

Weighed in last night and 3lb off, so totalling 20lb in four weeks. I'm really very pleased with that....ok, it would have been more if I'd not had the hideous wagon-falling incident in week 2, but there we go. Can't do much about that now! 20lb in four weeks though - apart from LL, LT etc, show me another diet that delivers those results!

And 3lb a week is meant to be 'the average'. Am v happy being Ms Average this week.

We learned this on LL....1.5 stone (or thereabouts) is where People Notice. Yesterday I had SO many people ask me 'have you lost weight?' - most pleasing indeed that it does show. Helped, I guess, by the fact that I was wearing clothes that fit me for the first time in ages. I had an enormous clearout on Sunday and threw out everything that no longer fits, plus everything that does/could fit for a bit longer but I simply do not like. I'm not left with much, but that's fine. I've set aside this year's bonus, such as it is, to buy some new stuff further down the line. Now all I have to do is win two tickets to NYC and I'm all set.

Had a really interesting conversation on the way home with friend A from work. She has recently also lost weight and we both find it really difficult to 'see' ourselves as others do. I've long said I have 'reverse body dysmorphia' in which I look in the mirror, think 'yeah you look ok' then see photographs and realise that I look horrendous and what I see is not what the rest of the world sees. But then when i try to compare myself to random women in the street (sorry, random women) I think I compare to women who are bigger than me. A thinks she is much bigger than she is too. So we spent the walk to the station picking out passing women and establishing whether we thought we were bigger or smaller than them, and trying to find people to compare to. The other gave honest opinions....and what we realised was that our self-images are completely arse-backwards, 'pissed', and just plain wrong.

I read somewhere that it can take five years (years!) for your head to catch up with your body when you lose weight. I do hope that isn't true. otherwise A is going to have to follow me around for the next five years helping me understand what I look like (and vice versa!)

New purchase today - Eva Fraser's book and dvd on facial fitness. I can't believe this woman was born in 1928. http://www.evafraser.com/