Pic of meals – I’ve thought of it, but am reluctant as it might further confirm my wife’s assertion that I am somewhat obsessed with this.

It’s true, of course – you can’t keep weight off unless there’s an obsessiveness to it, but God knows she already has enough of a burden putting up with my current eccentricities – I’m hesitant to add to this – I do love her.

As to the plateaus – you might be right – or it might be that I just round the set points in my head, so it really is 173, but I round up to 175.

As I do not have hard data on all this, we’ll never know.

LCC

Also, as for the exercise, I have read a lot of material saying that you should less exercise but at high intensity rather than lots of exercise at high intensity. So they recommended 20 mins three times a week with a five minute warm up and five minute warm down and with one minute sprints followed by two minute slowish walks. I find it really works for me.

And last. Its interesting that your weight plateau’s at numbers like 175 or 190 rather than 193 or 178. Could this be a psychological thing? Once you reach that weight you tend to relax a bit and if you go backwards you fight harder to return back to that weight? It seems almost as if its a goal in your head without you realising it. Could be wrong though.

Glad your back into it!