Hi, tell us what you think about the book! How does it differ from GR?
All going OK here. As I have said earlier, I have decided I cannot forgo my scales as I'm not very good at realising I've lost weight and when you're talking 1lb a week, it'd be oh-so-easy for me to gain that whilst not noticing! I am happy with the 1lb as I think and hope the loss is more likely to be permanent than weight lost at 5 lbs a week though I do appreciate that if you have a lot to lose, bigger weekly losses are more likely and sustainable.
I too, as I may have said earlier, have an element of reverse-body dysmorphia.. I don't see myself as being as fat as I was, which was 13 stone on May 4th - it took the (yawn, yes I know, Gillian!) - holiday snaps to make me realise what a blob I had allowed myself to become! And a problem with thinking one isn't that overweight is less commitment to losing weight! Even now I am almost not believing that my size 18 PerUna jeans with a bit of lycra are becoming a bit big, though I have decreased 2 holes in my belt but the thing is they aren't that comfortable because they're too big! But, seeing as they're still fairly new and haven't been washed a lot, the lycra is still doing it's job so they're perhaps not flapping around me as much as they would be without lycra iyswim.
Anyway, today I was 11st 11lb so in a week's time I should 'only' have a stone more to lose to my goal.
I have introduced a bit more variety esp in the snack dept. I bought some seed/nut/dry fruit mix and take a small box of that to work. I have managed to be mindful about all the cake and biscuits in the staffroom, too. I walk in, see it and almost subconsciously think 'That's not for me'. I do wonder whether I should actually be saying to myself 'Yes, you can have that if you choose- as long as you also examine the consequences of eating that'...
However, my smugness stops sharply at the fact I drank too much last night! I woke up with a hangover which is deeply not impressive! My 'planned' 2 glasses of wine (Thursday night thing with dinner) turned into three, and large ones at that which isn't good 
. However, I've put that behind me and am back on track today.
I agree entirely about the need to love oneself for ones own self's sake, not for anyone else. We so need to be doing what we're doing (eating mindfully in order to improve our health, self-esteem, happiness) for reasons that place 'looks' way down the list.
I like to think that, as I am knocking 50 and yes, realise I should have done this at 40(!) I am trying to work towards a healthier body to carry me into old age. I have always wanted to be one of those wiry, fit elderly people who stride past you up mountains with a cheery 'Hello!' but gave myself quite a shock a couple of months ago when we, as a family, set off to hike up a mountain in northern New South Wales that I, in my 30s, strode up regularly. It's a good, stiff 3 hour upward climb (well, it wouldn't be downwards, would it?!). After 20 minutes I seriously wondered if I was making a really stupid mistake. I was gasping like a fool. I managed to struggle on and did get to the the top but it was quite a wake up call!