Day Eleven

Breakfast: fried eggs, sausages, bacon, raw spinach
Lunch: minced beef fried in onions and mushrooms and red pepper and one tomato + butter + cream, plus tinned toms and avocado
Tea: carb-free pizza: salami, red pepper, sliced tomato on bed of buttered spinach, with mozzarella + cheddar grilled on top. Mushrooms in butter and cream on the side.
3 or 4 cups of coffee with double cream

Day Ten

Breakfast: mushrooms fried in cream, 2 rashers bacon, 1 fried egg.
Lunch: one stick celery, roule, two sausages, leftover minced beef fried in onion and mushroom, steamed red cabbage, steamed green leaves
Tea: Tuna salad: Tuna, chopped raw spinach, chopped little gem lettuce, chopped yellow pepper, mayo
Snack: one slice cheap ham
Snack: four grapes (!) chopped into a puddle of double cream
2 or 3 cups of coffee with milk, 1 or 2 cups of coffee with double cream

I have had a rubbish day - been in a crap mood all day. PMT. Hence the grapes in cream. Well, I had to have SOMETHING.

PMT's worse than normal, I don't know if that's the low-carb thing. I just gave my partner a row for chewing nuts too loudly! It was going through me.

Day NIne - other stuff

My wee is still bright yellow and still smells really pungent.

I have many theories about this (none of which I have actually checked or researched - that would be well boring):

It's because I'm drinking so much coffee.

It's because I'm eating so much avocado.

It's because of all the painkillers.

It's because my body is in ketosis (which it's supposed to be - that's how I'm losing weight - my body is eating itself!).

It's because I'm DYING OF SOME HIDEOUS DISEASE.

I'm guessing the ketosis thing is the most likely.

ANYWAY. I gave blood this afternoon. Not sure that was such a good idea, but I told them about the diet (sorry, Way of Eating) and they weren't bothered. Felt quite faint and STARVING for a while afterwards. Feel fine now.

I haven't had any painkillers since yesterday morning. My back is almost better. Now that my exam is out of the way, I can try giving up coffee again. Maybe, but at the moment it's my only vice and it deters me from eating sugar.

edit: After a bit of random googling, I have decided the most likely urine culprit is the vitamin supplements. I also seem to remember that this has happened to me before when taking vitamins.

Day Nine

Breakfast: scrambled egg with double cream and fried onion.
Lunch: Cold roast chicken thigh, chopped avodaco, little gem lettuce, one stick celery, some roule (dipped).
Snack: another cold roast chicken thigh, a slice of ham.
Tea: minced beef fried with mushrooms, onions and fresh tomatoes, served on a bed of steamed red cabbage.

Today was a good day. I passed my exam this morning with a score of 92%. Yay!

And also... I measured my circumferences: Neck, wrists, waist, stomach, boobs, rib cage. The last time I measured them was eight days ago, and I have lost about 4cm in all areas. More in some others! Apart from my "waist". To be honest I didn't really understand why the IPD book recommended that you measure waist as well as stomach. Surely all fat people have the same problem as me: My waist IS my stomach. My stomach's fattest part is where my waist is supposed to be. I really do not have a waist. But anyway when I weighed myself last time I somehow managed to get two measurements, with the "waist" being the smaller one. This time I could only get one measurement, which was definitely the fattest part of my midriff, and was 6cm smaller than last week's "stomach", but a few cm fatter than last week's "waist". God knows. From now on I'm only taking one measurement. But aaaanyway...

Even my neck was smaller! The only thing that hadn't changed was my wrists. So I thought, well, why not? And I got the scales out. And...






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I've lost 5 lb! Hurrah for that, is all I can say.

But tonight, oh dear, I have massive sugar cravings. It's effectively Friday night, and I've had a doozey of a week what with studying every possible hour I could, and my instinct now, and in all circs like this, is to drink beer and eat chocolate.

What can I have as a treat? I'm tempted to scoff some whipped cream. (shame I can't add Baileys, but there you go...)

Day Eight - Cheating

I ate a grape!

My bad.

It did taste ridiculously sweet though.

Day Eight

My wee smells funny and is bright yellow. Has been for days now. Pooed for the first time in days yesterday, but no stomach cramps or bloatedness or adverse symptoms of constipation.

My body must be in a very strange state anyway, because I have been taking masses of painkillers for days for my bad back, and have also gone back to drinking several cups of full strength real coffee a day, because I've been burning the candle at both ends while preparing for my exam. AND my littlest son got ill yesterday and had me up half the night last night, making me doubly sleep-deprived and doubly dosed-up on caffeine. Not ideal I know, but the good news is that today mmy back was much better and I didn't top up after the morning does of painkillers, and even then missed the codeine out. Also my exam is tomorrow and it's bank holiday weekend this weekend, so after tomorrow I can chill out, sleep more and give up caffeine again.

I'm not planning on weighing myself any time soon (see other posts for explanation). I might measure my circumferences tomorrow night. I might weigh myself next week. My trousers have been falling down all day and seem very loose around the waist, but I have a feeling they were already like that.

I have been having the occasional smidgeon of milk in my coffee. At home I have cream, but at work I have milk. And I ate a Ritz cracker tonight. Only one though! Will be good again now, I promise.

Breakfast: avocado + half a chopped fresh tomato + roule (grilled), steamed green leaves

Snack: 2 slices pork tongue

Lunch: egg salad (fresh chives, 2 hard boiled eggs, mayo, half a chopped fresh tomato) + little gem lettuce

Tea: Cod roasted in foil, with parsley and olive oil and sliced tomato and dry dill, served on a bed of green leaves* and parmesan (from a tub), drizzled with olive oil and white wine vinegar. And steamed pak choi.

Didn't fill me up though, so...

Snack: 2 slices ham, 2 slices salami, 2 celery sticks, some roule (for dipping).

*Green leaves freshly harvested from a friend's allotment. I have only a hazy idea of what leaves they are - I just have a plastic bag full of leaves!

Day Seven

Breakfast: poached eggs on bed of buttered spinach

Lunch: chicken thigh, salad (feta, parmesan, tomato, cucumber), raw green leaves

Tea: mushrooms + bacon + walnuts fried in cream + garlic + butter, steamed spinach + broccoli

Day Seven! I think this was supposed to be Measuring Day, but I was too busy swotting for my exam to be thinking about any of that.