Well I'm on a familiar path. Gave up smoking(totally succesfully I'm glad to say) 3 or 4 years back, and now, of course, I'm twice the man I used to be. I can't afford to throw out all my old trousers, so I took action a few days back. I have drawn a little graph, with my weight descending by a stone from Jan 1 to May Day, which is represented by a sloping down line on the graph. Now, all I have to do is weigh myself, mark it up, and see the points on the graph are all under or on the line I've drawn in. And if it goes over, eat even less for a week. Now, this shouldn't be rocket science, looks pretty basic to me. I will report in a a week or two when I see if it works. Good luck, everybody.