So, after having mulled over the future of my journal for some time now, I have come to the conclusion that it's a good time (or perhaps a bit late) to finish it up. It's always disappointing to realise that you're not going to do things the way you thought you might, but it seems unlikely that I would update the journal often at all. And there's nothing more annoying (in my experience)than being invited into someone's world through a journal, and then being left hanging. After all, if we were friends, you could give me a call and say "MOPSY, WHAT THE HELL'S BEEN GOING ON?????". But you can't.

For those of you who don't know, my last weigh in (7 weeks after hitting life time membership) was 64.4, meaning I had put on 1.1kgs over that time. On my home scales, it's dropped about half a kilo again since then. So my experience since being at life time has been that my weight fluctuates up and down over about a 1.5 kg range. I think that's great, and I will continue to go to WW to weigh in once each calender month.

So, just before I do the final goodbye, I guess there's a couple of things people might like to know. Flopsy and I have recently decided to get married later this year, in a simple family-only deal back in my home town. It's lovely that I'm really happy with how I'm looking, because I know it will add to my enjoyment of the day. The other thing is that I'm heading off overseas next year for an extended working holiday. The upshot of this is that I realise that these things are taking my mental energy and planning. Which is why this journal isn't getting my time and attention anymore.

So ... I guess this is goodbye. For those of you who have read this journal regularly, thank you very very much for your support and encouragement. It's been an amazing experience for me to have this as an outlet, and to both provide and receive support. It's also been a lot of fun. I am pretty certain that my journey to health would not have been nearly so smooth had it not been for keeping my journal.

I am keeping the journal up at least for the time being, or until geocities kicks me off. From the statistics, there are still new people finding the site, so I don't see any reason to take it down just yet. I am also happy to receive emails any time, and get new messages on the message board.

For those of you who are visiting this journal as part of your own journey to health - please accept my sincere wishes for your success.