Not Quite So Fat This Year

So I hops on the scales, I does, even after the Xmas blow out and I am a whopping 6lb lighter than I was exactly a year ago. Yeah! Go Jemima! OK, so all you professional slimmers with, like, willpower and all that, probably lost 6lb in the first fortnight, but frankly... I don't care. I lost it eventually, so I'm proud of it.

I also went for a 5km run for the first time since about May. I did it in 42 minutes, which means I haven't lost much of the fitness I'd built up. I did have to peel my dripping, sweat-rank clothes off me afterwards, but hey, that's the price you pay.

To quote the writer Thomas Carlyle

"I have a great ambition to die of exhaustion, rather than boredom."

Oh yes.