Return of Project Waistline

Since I'm now half a stone over my 'normal' weight (though age has a tendency to redefine normality) and am having trouble with the waistbands of my current clothes, never mind fitting back into old ones, I've managed to get myself onto another 'diet'. Having done the Gremlin Diet (no feeding after midnight!) and the SHorthand diet (you write down everything you eat... in shorthand...) I'm now running an experimental Reading Diet -- no reading while you eat. This is surprisingly frustrating -- if you can't read the newspaper over breakfast, you tend not to have time to read it at all! -- but has the side-effect of making food into a boring activity that keeps you from the interesting stuff, i.e. reading, rather than an accompaniment to entertainment. The motive for finishing is much higher :-)

Feeling better after a week of this, but no noticeable effect on the 'pregnant' belly (which I suspect is simply the result of poor posture and aging abdominal muscles) or the roll of fat over it, which would probably take rather longer than that to shift, anyway.