Stepped on the scales this morning and they've rocketed up to 12st 11lbs - that's a mighty impressive 6.2lbs in the space of 4 days!!!!
Definitely time for a good day of eating and a lunchtime run!
- Posted from my iPhone
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Monday, 29 August 2011
Good and Bad
I totally forgot to say that Friday's weigh in miraculously showed me another 0.5 lbs down, at 12st 4.8lbs.
However, I'm pretty sure that an extensive weekend of cake-eating (and everything-else eating too) will have undone that. Friday wasn't terrible and I've tried hard to reign it back in again today, but Saturday and Sunday were a free-for-all.
Still, at least I'm straight back on it and planning out a good Tuesday to Thursday to finish the week on a high note.
Hen party post to follow as it was a lot of fun. Hope you all had suitable great long weekends! X
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However, I'm pretty sure that an extensive weekend of cake-eating (and everything-else eating too) will have undone that. Friday wasn't terrible and I've tried hard to reign it back in again today, but Saturday and Sunday were a free-for-all.
Still, at least I'm straight back on it and planning out a good Tuesday to Thursday to finish the week on a high note.
Hen party post to follow as it was a lot of fun. Hope you all had suitable great long weekends! X
- Posted from my iPhone
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Tasteless
Although I slept a bit better last night and felt a little clearer-headed this morning, I decided to stay off work today. I felt so damn tired yesterday that I'm taking that as my body's cue that it just needs some rest. In fact, I'm pretty rarely ill, but I do tend to sleep it off when I am, and I slept through til noon today once I'd called in to work.
I still can't smell or taste a thing, and I've discovered that there's no compulsion to eat when you can't taste it. In fact, I find it pretty off-putting trying to chew and swallow something I can't taste at all. It's quite interesting really, because I'd always thought it was the action of eating that I found so comforting, but without the taste and smell it becomes meaningless, so it must be more linked to taste and the associations we have with it.
Instead, without a sense of taste, I've had a banana and some water today, because it's all I can be bothered with. It doesn't really seem worth cooking anything else when it will just be so much chewing and no taste.
So, until I get properly hungry, I think I'm going to stay in bed; dozing, reading, watching the odd film, and succumbing to the occasional outbreak of sneezing!
- Posted from my iPhone
I still can't smell or taste a thing, and I've discovered that there's no compulsion to eat when you can't taste it. In fact, I find it pretty off-putting trying to chew and swallow something I can't taste at all. It's quite interesting really, because I'd always thought it was the action of eating that I found so comforting, but without the taste and smell it becomes meaningless, so it must be more linked to taste and the associations we have with it.
Instead, without a sense of taste, I've had a banana and some water today, because it's all I can be bothered with. It doesn't really seem worth cooking anything else when it will just be so much chewing and no taste.
So, until I get properly hungry, I think I'm going to stay in bed; dozing, reading, watching the odd film, and succumbing to the occasional outbreak of sneezing!
- Posted from my iPhone
Monday, 22 August 2011
Blech!
I. Feel. Awful.
It is now official that I am the world's worst person at being ill. I don't think the Men and they're Flu have anything on me.
Went to work this morning feeling rubbish - lethargic, completely bunged up, dry mouth because I have to breathe through it constantly and a head full of pressure. Had a fairly unproductive day because a) it was my first day back for 2 weeks and I moved desks whilst I was away, so there was a mountain of email and unpacking to sort, and b) well, I just feel shit.
Went to meet a newly Bristol-based friend for a couple of drinks after work - couldn't taste the cocktails really at all. Went home. Couldn't taste dinner at all. Seriously - I had pesto - couldn't smell it in the jar, couldn't taste it apart from the slightest hint of salt. Had a small portion of rice-pudding and jam for dessert - again - apart from the barest hint of sweet - nothing. De nada. Rien.
Lay on my rug under a blanket by the heater feeling sorry for myself and reading for a bit whilst trying to get warm. I'm off to bed now, but don't expect I'll sleep much better than last night when I woke constantly, and then dreamt twice that I died. First in a car crash, and woke with an almighty jolt literally gasping for air, and then later dreaming I was drowning in thick, gloopy mud in a swamp (hey - can't breathe with the cold ... wonder how I got to dreams of drowning, huh?).
I very much suspect that tomorrow will be a rare sick day, unless something miraculous happens over night. On the upside - at least my razor-blade throat has gone for the minute.
It is now official that I am the world's worst person at being ill. I don't think the Men and they're Flu have anything on me.
Went to work this morning feeling rubbish - lethargic, completely bunged up, dry mouth because I have to breathe through it constantly and a head full of pressure. Had a fairly unproductive day because a) it was my first day back for 2 weeks and I moved desks whilst I was away, so there was a mountain of email and unpacking to sort, and b) well, I just feel shit.
Went to meet a newly Bristol-based friend for a couple of drinks after work - couldn't taste the cocktails really at all. Went home. Couldn't taste dinner at all. Seriously - I had pesto - couldn't smell it in the jar, couldn't taste it apart from the slightest hint of salt. Had a small portion of rice-pudding and jam for dessert - again - apart from the barest hint of sweet - nothing. De nada. Rien.
Lay on my rug under a blanket by the heater feeling sorry for myself and reading for a bit whilst trying to get warm. I'm off to bed now, but don't expect I'll sleep much better than last night when I woke constantly, and then dreamt twice that I died. First in a car crash, and woke with an almighty jolt literally gasping for air, and then later dreaming I was drowning in thick, gloopy mud in a swamp (hey - can't breathe with the cold ... wonder how I got to dreams of drowning, huh?).
I very much suspect that tomorrow will be a rare sick day, unless something miraculous happens over night. On the upside - at least my razor-blade throat has gone for the minute.
So Far So Good
Hey all,
Just thought I'd jump online quickly before I head to bed. It's been a fun weekend with a wedding and a catch-up with the lovely Jo, and by some small miracle, I've even managed to put a rein on the eating and still have a few flex points left over as I start the week. As regular readers of this 'ere blog will know, that's not an altogether regular experience for me, so looks like I'm all set to do something good this week.
It is, however, set to be a stupidly busy week, and I'm coming down with a cold, just to top it all off. I don't think I have an evening in / day at home until next Tuesday, which is a bit of a pain, so I shall just have to try and make some good choices and continue being at least a little bit sensible!
I'm off to go and feel bunged up and snotty in my bed, although at least this mornings razer sore-throat has now gone. I'll leave you with a photo from last night .... looking rather good if I do say so myself, with my very dapper friend Dan.
Just thought I'd jump online quickly before I head to bed. It's been a fun weekend with a wedding and a catch-up with the lovely Jo, and by some small miracle, I've even managed to put a rein on the eating and still have a few flex points left over as I start the week. As regular readers of this 'ere blog will know, that's not an altogether regular experience for me, so looks like I'm all set to do something good this week.
It is, however, set to be a stupidly busy week, and I'm coming down with a cold, just to top it all off. I don't think I have an evening in / day at home until next Tuesday, which is a bit of a pain, so I shall just have to try and make some good choices and continue being at least a little bit sensible!
I'm off to go and feel bunged up and snotty in my bed, although at least this mornings razer sore-throat has now gone. I'll leave you with a photo from last night .... looking rather good if I do say so myself, with my very dapper friend Dan.
Friday, 19 August 2011
Friday Must Be Weigh Day
Well, by extreme flukiness, rather than any consistent effort on my part this week, I've managed to scrape another 0.5 lb off the week.
I've not really been good enough to deserve that, I don't think, but I'll gratefully take it, and use it as a positive platform to kick off a new week.
It's funny, because I always think it will be easier for me to eat well and lose weight when I'm away from work and all its temptations, but in actual fact, the reverse is true, because I tend to fill my time off with adventures and social occasions.
I have one last weekend of my time off to scrape through, and then it's back to my normal routines - work eating and a regular exercise schedule. And although these two weeks have been fabulous (more on those later), I'm half relieved to return to normality. At least for a little while.
- Posted from my iPhone
I've not really been good enough to deserve that, I don't think, but I'll gratefully take it, and use it as a positive platform to kick off a new week.
It's funny, because I always think it will be easier for me to eat well and lose weight when I'm away from work and all its temptations, but in actual fact, the reverse is true, because I tend to fill my time off with adventures and social occasions.
I have one last weekend of my time off to scrape through, and then it's back to my normal routines - work eating and a regular exercise schedule. And although these two weeks have been fabulous (more on those later), I'm half relieved to return to normality. At least for a little while.
- Posted from my iPhone
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Oops
Must pull my act together this week! Eating wasn't great on Friday / Saturday which was to be expected as I was on the road a lot of the time and there was much drinking going on, but it wasn't horrific, it was all tracked and I had two ace surfs and all my flex points to use.
However, when I should have jumped back on it on Sunday, I didn't quite. Or yesterday. Both days started out well, but veered off course towards the end. If I don't want to give up last week's hard fought for ground, I need to get it all back together today. And stick it to the end this time!
- Posted from my iPhone
However, when I should have jumped back on it on Sunday, I didn't quite. Or yesterday. Both days started out well, but veered off course towards the end. If I don't want to give up last week's hard fought for ground, I need to get it all back together today. And stick it to the end this time!
- Posted from my iPhone
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