Daily Support March 3

Well, I have now found out what puts weight on for me!

I ate healthily but had some white wine - over 14 days about one bottle in total - and I put on 1 lb. I know that if I now go teetotal it will be off again in another 10 days. Looks like I will have to be teetotal if I want to stay slim; what it does is make me hoard fluid so it isn't fat gain but it looks like it. It's not fair!

Pebble - it isn't so bad moving abroad (in retrospect). If you want to know how we coped (with 16, 11 and 9 year-olds) - send me an email and I'll tell you what we did. Of course, all children are different but teenagers are the hardest to uproot! The upshot of our turmoil is that we are now a close family with distant members regularly emailing, internet chatting and phoning, so it didn't do us any long-term damage and we have a very wide view of the world - which encompasses Switzerland, the UK and Central America between the five of us.

Pancake Day tomorrow!