Had a great few days sailing up to Antigua. Including a real blast into Antigua from Deshaies on the NE corner of Guadeloupe in 25 to 30 knots of wind. The maintenance we had scheduled for St Lucia I am doing here in Falmouth harbour. All the key people are within a short dinghy ride! […]

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Photos of our time with Sheana and Tom in the Gallery. I have passed my PADI open water diving course so can get my air bottles filled. A few days of maintenance before we move on – Fitting a new membrane to water maker; Mast check; Bottom clean; engine anode change etc.

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David: Still doing well on the Montignac low GI diet. Weight loss has continued at 2lb a week. Have now reached the full 20kg loss challenge.  Thats more than 3 stone and hardly any of my old clothes fit! Waist has come down to 38 inches.  The book said I could expect to loose 20kg […]

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David: Still loosing weight. Just breaking through the 100kg milestone. Weight was stable during the time in Canada but pleased that it didn’t go up. Getting diet food was surprising easy on the cafes of the sky slopes of Whistler. I think I was less successful with the far eastern food in Vancouver but it […]

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David: I’ve achieved the weight challenge. Lost the 1.5 stone. Lost 3.5 inches off the waist. You can see the pictures below. The old one is second (past the more)! OK still plenty to loose. I’m taking on a new challenge to loose another 1.5 stone. What should I hold out for as a reward […]

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Still loosing weight. The diet really does work well. The food is good and I don’t have cravings for forbidden foods. In fact most forbidden foods feel sickly! Even 1 coffee a day is all that I want (should be 0 but….). Blue line on graph above is 4 lbs per week loss, yellow is […]

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I’ll tell you my weight if you promise not to tell my brother, Jim. If he hears how good this diet is he will try it. Then I’ll be back to square one as the overweight son and Mum will be back on my case.

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Got the books now and we have started the diet. The GI approach is very different to previous diets. The meals are tasty and filling. Last night was Soupe au vin blanc (needed 1/2 bottle of wine and 1 pint of double cream for 4 servings) followed by Pork with Herb Sauce (wine again in […]

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My great friend, Rodney, has suggested the Michel Montignac books to help me loose weight. Montignac was first man to introduce G.I. into eating.

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This a picture of me on Jan 6th before I loose 1 ½ stone! I’m in good company. Mark Price the managing director of Waitrose is shedding weight as well. See his blog www.waitrose.com/notsochubby. He is also aiming for 1.5 stone but has added alternatives of 10kg and a waist reduction of 4″. I fear […]

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