ledburner wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:28 pm oops early start today forgot to weigh in before Dawn.

Hope Dawn's weigh-in went well - she's been working hard recently. It's ok to let her go first...

Moder-dye wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:51 am Seems to be prescription only UK?

Yes, just looked into it. Prescription only and mainly for over-55s.

It's not me taking it but melatonin quite literally saved my sanity after months and months of 4 or less hours of sleep every night. We still have the odd blip like this morning where the little darling woke up at 03:30 and was wide awake for the day but that's now a rare occurrence instead of almo...

18/09/21 95.3kg
25/09/21 93.4kg
02/10/21 93.1kg

Still to go: 12.1kg

Not as bad as I'd expected given the amount of nonsense I've put in my body this week. Need to try harder next week though.

gairym wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:11 pm I've been very unmotivated by much of anything recently but been booze-free for a week now and starting to get out more again so hopefully a corner turned etc...

I'll pop my svelt self on the scales in the morning and see what's what.....

Wish me luck, it may not be pretty!

Good luck!

18/09/21 95.3kg
25/09/21 93.4kg

Still to go: 12.4kg

Think that might have been the easy bit - I know the more I lose the harder it will get to lose more, but we will see.

I'm very glad this thread exists, so thanks for creating and maintaining it.

New entry here.

Starting point: 95.3kg
Target: 81kg
Still to lose: 14.3kg

Just checked and 15kg is the equivalent to one microwave, 192,308 bees or a wolverine.

It's also the same weight as 750 sushi portions and I don't eat sushi so this should easy...

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