Not Great

Hello everyone. Just wanted to say hi and say I have not forgotten about groovybabe or my weightloss. The reason I have been awol all week is I have been really ill. At the tail end of last weekend I developed a urinary tract infection and it really doesn’t want to go away. At first I was diagnosed with thrush and sent away with cream, then the next day I was back and it was a urine infection and was sent away with antibiotic. When 3 days later the pain was still not subsiding I went to the out of hours clinic and they changed my antibiotics. I am now on day 2 of them and there doesnt seem to be any let up of the pain still so I am going to have to go back again tomorrow I think and change my meds again.

I just want to be better. I have been having so much pain passing urine for a week now, it is like passing razor blades. I did also have a fever, blotchy eye sight, felt like I was going to faint and was weeing pure blood at one point. That has all gone now thankfully but I am somehow resistant to the meds and the infection does not want to clear up.

I went out last night, mainly because I’d been in all week and was going mad, but didn’t drink. It was my first weekend off from drinking in maybe 6 months. It feels good this morning not to feel like death warmed up! But the night was rubbish without drink. Even the DJ shouted over the tannoy that I am not the same on water!! But to be fair to myself, I think it is more because I am worn down from the pain of this infection than any ill-effect water-only has on me. Anyway, I ended up coming home at 1am because I was just not feeling the night.

Weightloss this week has been a bit of a bugger. I havent been paying attention at all. I just weighed myself (tomorrow is my official weigh in) and I am 201/14.5, which is what I was at my last weigh in, so being ill has not done me any great good weightloss wise…

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Glorious Food

I only got up in the night once last night, which is quite good, but I did devour quite a few digestive biscuits at that point. The good news is that the biscuits are gone now and I will not be making the mistake of buying them again (it was the first time I’d bought any biscuits in years). I need to remain aware of my limitations. I haven’t had bread in the house for a week now and am really craving it but am going to continue to go without it for another week (until my son is back at school and needs a packed lunch) and hopefully get it out of my system somewhat. The other things I tend to binge in the night are yogurts and cereal. I am out of both of them at the moment and think this is a good thing as I cannot eat it if it is not available, but its not very convienient in the day time! I have oats in the cupboard though so I guess I will cook them up for breakfast.

For the third day in a row, I weighed in at 14.9 again. Once this would have been a complete disaster but I have struggled to even control my weight so the fact that I am managing not to put on is quite an achievement. This comes from watching my intake in the day, even if I am not at night.

Tonight is a ‘paint the town red’ night so I am looking forward to weightloss tomorrow. In recent weeks, the morning after the night before I have often weighed up to 6lbs less! Not only do I eat less because I am busier, I am more active with dancing, plus we usually have a few friends back after the pub so I do not get up and eat in the night! You have dehydration on top of that.