Weight lost, pride gained but my muscles are still missing

For those of you who've stumbled upon my sometimes incomprehensible ramblings over the past couple of years, you'll know that I’m rather pleased with myself having lost a considerable amount of weight during this time.

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Three stone to be precise. Although my long-suffering family and pals are clearly sick of hearing about my not-so-remarkable achievement, it hasn’t stopped me banging on about it and I’m particularly proud of the fact that I've managed to keep my blubber off for the past 18 months. I don’t mind admitting that I still get a kick out being told by those who I've not seen in awhile about how much healthier I look these days, although one wag recently asked, with a glint in their eye, whether I'd been ‘on the jab’. The cheek of it.