Tuesday December 4 -

My name's Will and I'm a social alcoholic. It's been 11 months, three days and 19 hours since my last drink.

27 DAYS AND FIVE HOURS TO GO.

The third question people always ask me when I tell them about this project (after Really? The whole year? and Why?) is Have you lost any weight?

I was planning to keep track of my weight in each blog entry, a la Bridget Jones. Then again, I was planning lots of things that never quite materialised.

Still, at least it means I can do the big reveal right now.

Pre-breakfast weight on January 1: 15 stones, two ounces.

Pre-breakfast weight on December 3: 13 stones, 9 ounces.

That's a loss of one and a half stone, with no exercise and no special diet. Not bad.

So there you have it. The secret to losing weight without going on a diet or exercising: simply give up fun for a year.