It's not easy to lose weight, however much one wants to, when one is kept indoors by a sore knee and the wettest March in the history of a city where an average March notes 7.37 inches of rain.

This is especially true, if one's idea of a good time is making toffee. There's still two pounds of uneaten toffee calling to me.

And it's a vicious lie that fidgeting leads to weight loss. If this were true, I'd be as thin as Natalie Portman.