Gilley, I know exactly how you feel and I love you for feeling it because it means I'm not the only one. I now have days when I know I'm not following the rules, and I can see how easy it would be to put all the weight back on again.

Having said that, I was reading the FF and MM posts very late last night and I thought to myself "What marvellous support we have on here!" I'm sure that, left to my own devices, I'd be back where I started. It's great that we can come on here and have a moan, and confess to backsliding, yet still there will be someone there to encourage us and haul us back onto the wagon.

Are you getting enough sleep? I'm stressed at the moment because I have builders starting work on my kitchen on Monday. Also I keep waking up in the night drenched in sweat - a mixture of the hot weather and the menopause. I've got a major project lined up towards the end of July and I'm fretting about that too. So sometimes a girl just needs Nature's Tranquilisers - carbohydrates and chocolate.

But it's not a race to lose weight - we can take our time.

Dec, even though I'm not contributing to MM threads I am trying to read them and fit in the odd 10 minutes. Thank you for all your inspirational posts.

aec and Ally, I'm glad your trips went well.

Chickadee and hussy, we'll have to start a reading group but we'll only have one book - "I Can make You Thin".

Thank you all, ladies, for your fabulous, flabuless support.