Just to make it official its about 109 pounds.

Sounds enormous but just prowling round the site here i've read some amazing things.

It'll be quite fun to shrink as i'll be able to wear all those clothes i bought while getting larger but in reverse order! Actually as I have never exactly been slender (i think stocky is the polite term) there are some clothes that have NEVER fitted. It sounds sad but it'll be great to be able to buy (wait for it) cheap clothes - cos bargains never fitted me.

Just to know there are a load of other people about with the same problem is actually very supportive.

Jon

Not sure about your maths, Jon, but you'll do it. I know from posts elsewhere that you have a positive and committed attitude. You'll make it, and I'll be galloping up behind you as we "chase those pounds". (Your phrase).

Andy

Hi Andy

Part of the problem is knowing what my goal weight is. Depending on source it varies from 9st7 (133lbs) to 13st 10 (192lbs). I've decided on 168 based on things like body fat % but it may chage a bit. So its around 100 pounds.

Jon

Understood, and perfectly understandable, if I may say so. I think 168 would be a good goal. No, seriously. My "ideal" weight according to the insurance charts is around 13st., but realistically, I have no chance of getting below 15. (And even then I'm skin and bone).

History lesson here, in repayment for the Welsh. These ideal weight tables the insurance companies use were arbitrarily calculated on the volume of air a person of a given height would be likely to breathe in. Crazy, if you ask me. I know you've studied medicine, but I would have to hear a pretty good reason to convince me that the volume of air one breathes in has any bearing on weight/heart/health/wellbeing, etc. What about exercise. As this increases a person's volume of inspiration, does he have to grow a foot to get into the right insurance bracket?

And doctors all over the world are giving people a hard time because they do not conform. Incidentally, if you want the reference source for this, it is Banting's "Letter on Corpulence", published in this very forum.

Bore da.