Dieting

Well it's working  a bit of gardening, no muffins and butter and I left the chocolate alone (for a day) and a pound has gone.  I knew all along what was causing the gradual increase, I just needed the kick up the @rse to consider doing something about it.  Thank you Vinny.  Now I need to keep it up.

A bit of competition might help is anybody prepared to log progress,  on a casual basis,  to keep those of in need to slim down motivated?  Or is a gardening forum, not quite the right place? 

Well done, JJB.
You're right, it's bread/muffins/teacakes and butter that is the real weight catcher. And it's what so many of us were brought up on, isn't it? So hard to give up, but it must be done.

Edit: maybe if we stuck to "how well I stuck to my diet" rather than "how much weight I lost"?

But we are not "on a diet", hopefully. We are changing our eating patterns for the better and forever.