Well - very good progress. I've been on a low carb diet for a week and I'm down to 15st 7. Five pounds off in a week, according to the scale.

I'm willing to accept that I might not have lost that much actual fat. Maybe 15st 12 was a false reading. I mean, it was definitely my weight on that day, using a digital scale, but perhaps some of it was water. Maybe I was closer to 15st 10, and perhaps some of what I've lost is water weight. Still, it's heartening to see the scale going down so much.

I doubt I can continue losing this fast. Target is to hit 15st 4 by the end of the month. That's the weight I was at, or thereabouts, for much of the last two years. Once I get there, 15st will be the next target.