Good night yesterday as we celebrated Anne's birthday.  Colleague from London now in NYC came down with his wife, lovely girl originally from Angola.  Lorna and Bruce joined us.  Ate at the Bell and Whistle - very good.  Drank lots of wine and then stopped off in the Bistro for a few.  Very enjoyable.

But the backlash has started.  At Anne's prompting, I have agreed to go on a 5 day 'purge' with her, drinking only vegetable and fruit juice.  We watched 'Fat, sick and nearly nearly dead' some months ago and since then have been drinking a couple of glasses of juice per day but now we will go full on for 5 days, starting tomorrow.  I am not looking forward to it!  But should lose some weight and, hopefully, feel better.  We shall see.