I don't really know what to say here. I'm pushing 40 and have just reached 12 stone. I don't think I'm 'fat' per se, but people keep telling me I've put on a lot of weight. And I'm fed up with looking like a duck in the changing room mirrors.

I'd love to go back to the days when I could waltz into a shop, pick up something in my size and know that it would fit, instead of having to take three different sizes of everything into the changing room .