I am still Atkinsing - I use Dr A's New Diet Revolution, a late edition - the earlier ones are not so good.

Today for dinner I ate roast chicken with mushrooms and a salad then strawberries and cream. That's a diet?

It seems to keep working. My Black Stewart is too big again. Maybe if I just trim a couple of inches off the aprons I can get away without disturbing the pleats.

At least the kilts I've made myself are fairly easy to adjust, though I did not expect to have to do it quite so often. Perhaps by the end of this year I will have shrunk down to a fairly consistent waist size. I find that my waist is the most variable measurement I have. It seems to be the place of choice for both weight gain and loss.

I was trying to go slowly - to give the skin time to adjust. I don't want to look as though I am wearing a kilt even when I'm not.