It's really hard remaining mindful in out-of-the-ordinary situations, isn't it?!
Glad your book finally came- you waited long enough!
Well, yesterday went fine at the Nuffield! Luckily it was just for a scope (of a TMI nature...). I went in at 12.30 and was home at 6pm having had a nice fish goujon 'snack' with tartare and salad garnish at 4.45pm after fasting since 7.30am. And whilst I am an NHS 'believer' I have to say the Private experience is nice! I had my 2 DCs in a private hospital in Oz and my mouth still gapes in amazement at some of the public hospital stories mums tell on here of the mayhem of an NHS (or Oz state) maternity ward! No single rooms and ensuites there 
, but the biggest issue would be the noise! I mean, one's own newborn keeps one awake enough without 5 other babies crying for attention all night.
Anyway, I concede I weighed myself- cos I had to for the anaesthetic! And thankfully for my morale I am the least I've been for a couple of years, at 11st 10lbs.
A thing I have noticed for the better- and I'm not good at assessing my own body size- my belly overhang has gone. I mean, I still have a fat tummy but I don't have that crease under it any more. This is a nice, tangible sign that I'm on track. I am also finding that my jeans 'annoy' me. They are Per Una, size 18 with a bit of lycra, ie my usual but the reality is, they are too big for me now. They flap around my lower torso and I am, despite being on the smallest belt hole, constantly pulling them up! I also found when sitting up in bed this morning drinking tea (thanks, DH) that my thighs don't seem quite as thunderous as previously.
Whilst one isn't supposed to 'do' GR for the weight-loss, I can't help but think the moral boost, the 'feel-good' of a more comfortable body helps, doesn't it? It surely is a boost to one's self esteem, feeling the result of being more in control of what you put in your mouth.
Incidentally, I was chatting to a work-colleague on Thursday who is about my height and age but is rather more 'round' than me- she told me she weighed 14 stone which I am a bit surprised about as she is 'solid' rather than flabby, though we do wear 'theatre scrubs' at work so it wouldn't be obvious. She was telling me how, in the week prior to her period, she cannot stop eating. She says it's as if her ability to resist placing food in her mouth is completely overwhelmed by a desire to eat- somehow the food end up in her mouth. She gave up chocolate for Easter just to prove to herself she wasn't addicted. Anyway, she is aware I've lost some weight and was, as is usual, asking me how so I've directed her to GR. It will be interesting to see if she finds it helpful.
Meanwhile, all the youngster in the staff room, many who have no need whatsoever to lose weight (though some do!) were doing that 'compare how extreme my diet and exercise regime is to yours'- we had cabbage soup, that Commando Training thing, Dukan, WW, all sorts. It did occur to me to wonder which of them might end up being a casualty, the ones with proper weight-issues, just getting into their weight loss/weight gain life-long yoyo thing.
Final observation- then I'll shut up! DS2 had his swim gala a week or so ago. I was surprised at how many of the 60 DCs there, in a very leafy, middle class area, were overweight. I'd always said that maybe 1 or 2 in DS's class might be but in bathers, I recognise that possibly 6 were- 10%! And of them, 2 were what you'd call obese, poor kids. A lifetime of self-hate and ridicule ahead.