I went into our local Cancer Research charity shop yesterday and picked up this gorgeous silk deep cerise Monsoon dress for £15. It's really beautiful, but 2 sizes too small. I'm using as an incentive to lose weight. I want to wear it for my son's birthday in February.

Well, the optimism in my last post soon proved to me misguided and I have managed to put on lots of weight (up from 177 to 190!!)However, I'm still trying to get back on track and I do still think I can do it.

Since much earlier this year I have been part of an email WW group and we have emailed all our results wach week. Yesterday I took over responsibility for recording all of our progress and I've made a wiki for us all to use. I'm really excited by it because everyone is really supportive and I hope the site will make it even easier for us to focus on our weight loss and help each other along. I'm also hoping that it will help me get back on track, after all, as leader, I can hardly say each week that I have put weight on can I?