Hi all! Sorry I've been AWOL - I was in a temper on Friday because I weighed in 300g heavier than the week before. I really seem to be treading water at the moment. I think it was a combination of fewer steps and possibly larger portions and a few ill-advised snacks. I've noticed that when I'm prepping food just for myself, my portions go a bit skewhiff: it's mainly the veg, because it's difficult to use a weird amount of a red pepper for instance, whereas when I'm cooking for two I tend to just dole out a reasonable portion for myself and give DH the rest. In theory a bit of extra veg shouldn't be sabotaging me, but I think a larger bowl of food leads to a larger portion of goat's cheese or feta or whatever sprinkled over it, so I guess the calories just hike.
I've also been mindlessly nibbling on cheese and saucisson, which has become a bad habit - I realised I was running out of both, and automatically put more on my Ocado shop! Why on earth would I do that? 
After my weigh-in I gave my head a wobble and removed them from my basket - I certainly don't need bloody saucisson in the fridge, I was only eating it because I had it left over from a picnic, and I don't use cheddar for my own food except to make sauces when I have company, so I was literally buying it for it to sit there taunting me until I randomly attack it at 11pm. Talk about self-sabotage. I guess my focus has just drifted a bit. It's also so bloody hard to get a really good step count in when it's this hot! Looks like it's going to be much more comfortable later in the week, so that's something.
Anyway, I've decided to buy all my veg from the greengrocer from now on until DH is back, rather than getting it in with the Ocado shop, so I can buy smaller amounts and not end up eating just to use things up. On Thursday for instance, after saying I'd have a boring broth for dinner, I realised I had to use up some of the veg in the crisper drawer, so instead I had salad, veg, prawns and goat's cheese, which sounds virtuous but I succumbed to making garlic buttery mushrooms, and it just turned into a huge portion. I'm overeating to keep up with my overbuying of veg, which is a truly stupid state of affairs.
Cider how lovely that you've started getting compliments! It can really creep up on you and happen all at once, if your clothes are starting to hang off you and people have started noticing you've probably had a little fluid "whoosh" which might not show on the scales but might have suddenly changed your appearance.
Welcome back hoola, so glad things are looking calmer for you, it'll definitely be easier to find time to think about the boring business of food, so I'm sure that 5lbs will be gone in no time. You too Kick - it's so dismaying when you start to see the scales creeping up again but you'll be the more determined to get it down again if you're cross with yourself for dropping the ball, and you're a pro at it now having done it once before. I almost had a full-scale panic last summer when I weighed in after a fairly good week at over 3 kilos above my lowest weight, it had been so agonisingly slow chipping away at it the first time, I couldn't believe I'd let myself backslide like that, and couldn't believe how quickly it happened. I got on top of it though, and it came off a lot more quickly the second time than it had the first.
Feckers I did chuckle at your miraculous weight loss 
Sounds like neither weight can be trusted, new scales are definitely in order. The unreliability of scales is one of the most irritating things on earth. Weighing in honestly sometimes just feels like Russian Roulette, it's ridiculous how much the outcome of a weigh-in can affect my mood when I'm sure it's pretty random half the time!