Weight / Fat loss

...lots of useful info..etc..etc...

Cutting out shit food is good. Slashing... well, I'm against crash diets but you may or not be eating more than you realise, so you do need to do some clear homework on that and some reasonably accurate calorie counting. Exercising every day, yes, very good. It will become easier with time, and may even become fun.

Do you have a Wii? Wii Fit is a very clever game (with some quite fun mini games inside it), because it uses the traditional computer game lures of reward and progression.

Cheers for that. I read and am going to re-read.

You've also highlighted my appalling mixing of terms which I feel bad about (especially as I'm stupidly anal about it at work). So to get more on track I will try and put my aims better.

My aim is purely superficial. Recently I've been a bit shit at looking after myself, but over say any 3 month period in my life I do exercise and I eat a fairly well balanced diet (albeit too large portions). I like food and the activities I do. Right now, all I want is not to have love handles, and take the bulge out of my belly. I also want to get back to where I was a while back.

As I said I'm fairly well build and can put muscle on really easily so even loosing a chunk of muscle wouldn't bother me. The reason for referencing my weight a the moment because it seems a bit high relative to my exercise levels. For eg when I was in the 1st XV at school I was 14st, but I was training for 45mins-4hrs everyday bar matches and Sunday, so didn't care. Now I'm not and I do.

As for what I eat, my diet has only be going 3 days, and I've only recorded it for 2, but this is what it looks like: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/hugo7

...is there anything there that looks especially bad?

Thanks again for all the advice.