Nina - It is so not fair that men can lose weight easier than women! 2.5kg in a month is not bad. If you keep up this rate, you'll be surprised when 4 months are gone and you are 10kg lighter. A weight loss ticker is good to track your progress or a weight loss graph

Ally - I find that clothing is a pretty good indicator of weight loss (or gain ) as well. I haven't really been weighing myself either.'

Mr S - That's great news! There are so many different ways of determining a healthy measurement. Cm's is a good one. I'm going with weight and BMI because I am an hourglass figure so have a smaller waist anyway. Weight and BMI makes me work harder

Littlebear - Hi and welcome! I have lost 20kg without stepping foot in a gym so it can be done. Walking is awesome, although you should be aiming to do 30mins a day. If I were you, I'd try and do a double lap of your walk every second day or try to get an extra walk in here and there. Every step counts

Shell - Welcome! 3kgs is a pretty good loss. Food is a huge thing for me, I like to make healthy meals and then freeze them (main meals and snacks) It's so much easier when you have a healthy easy option, especially when it gets to 5pm and you have an overtired screaming child and haven't even started thinking about dinner

TT - 1.8kg is a good loss hun! Keep up the exercise and watch what you eat and I reckon you can do another 2kg easily.

Well I've been slack too. Also been doing the "read and run" thing. The 10,000 step challenge is going really well, it was only for 4 weeks and this is the last week. I have done 10,000 pretty much every day (except one) and am leading my team in the totals. Unfortunately my team are pretty slack so that doesn't mean that much, lol. I think I was already doing 10,000 steps most days anyway before I started the challenge, but it is a good reminder to get out and do some walking if I think I'm going to fall short. I'm still not really focusing on the scales, need to get serious