It's interesting isn't it Tan. See having seen you recently, honestly you didn't look like you had that to lose at all - are you just some magical dresser to hide it? Don't get me wrong, I know what it's like to know what you have to lose & where it is. So I don't want to undermine what you're doing, but I also thought you didn't look like you have that to lose! And I know you have the same diabetes motivation as me. And see that's where it's crazy for me. At goal weight I had a BMI of 22.5 and I still didn't reach the healthy ratio for hips/waist (it was .89 - ausgirl I honestly don't think I could get mine to 0.80!)! I guess it's cos my hips & waist are only 10cm different. Maybe if I do tonnes of squats and get huge butt muscles? bwahaha. Even now I'm carrying an extra 7cm on my hips, but 12cm on my waist... arrgh talk about bellies. I hate mine.

Tan - does MFP recommend calories somehwere? I couldn't find it.

3LM - tiredness is a shocker huh. As for eating & exercising. Aah I'd a million times rather do the workout & eat more, than just eat strictly. And they say it's better for you (blood sugars and all that - apparently the positive effects last 24 hours).. but it can be hard to fit in. Especially with kids. Especially when you're tired. I want to get better at doing more incidental activity with the kids.

Astrid - I hope you get more sleep too.

Sterla - when I was losing last year (& Bf'ing) it made a huge diffrence for me. At one stage my "diet" was supper of toast, butter, milo, in the evening and a snack of 2 sq chocolate in the day. And I was still losing .5kg a week - it was just falling off. No way could I eat like that now.

AFM I'm still just walking as I get over a foul head cold, but I think it's on the way out. Found myself MEGA wanting to eat crap tonight when my two little monkeys both refused to eat the lovely dinner I'd cooked (arrrgh) and then DH served mine with WAY more of the satay sauce than i wanted . But I have a PT session tomorrow and I very unwisely posted a pic on FB of an evil triple choc brownie that I was eating last week. And my PT is on FB. Payback is a biatch right?