Hello, anyone who's reading! A lovely new friend of mine on here (hello Sharon!) asked where my diary was, and I was immediately ashamed of it due to my pathetic failure to keep updating it, lol. So I'm resolved to at least come on here occasionally and not just keep posting in other people's threads!
So, on the weight loss front nothing much is new with me. I'm currently at 83.8kg, so 13st 4lbs. That gives me a total loss to date of 8st 4lbs, which is not a bad thing to remind myself of from time to time, as it's coming off soooo slowly now! I've set my target at 12st 7lbs, which is still in the overweight BMI category by 11lbs, but I think I'd be pushing it to go much lower. I do, inevitably, have a certain amount of loose skin, although nowhere near as bad as I've seen on other people who've lost a lot, both on TV and sometimes on here. This means that BMI becomes even less of a reliable measure than usual, because it doesn't take things like that into account, so I'm happy to settle for a slightly higher target.
I'm weighing monthly, at the end of each month, with my interim target being to shift another half stone by the August bank holiday for Lexie's latest challenge (1.5lbs down so far, slowly does it, lol).
In other areas, things aren't so brilliant, as I've got a few health problems.
I suppose it started a couple of months back, when I had a nasty, lingering cold. Nothing special for most people, but when you've got ME it can be quite serious. Sure enough, I'm now going through a nasty ME relapse, where I feel ill and in pain all the time, very weak, the smallest things exhaust me etc. I went to the doctor's last week because there are a couple of symptoms I now get that are fairly new - chest palpitations and intermittent abdominal pain - plus I'm having such problems with both my knees now that I can walk hardly any distance at all. Wow, I sound like a wreck when I type it all out, lol.
Anyway, the doc is sending me for an ECG, a knee x-ray, and a scan on my gall bladder, so we'll see what comes of all that. Meanwhile, my lovely boss is being really supportive and is letting me work at home quite a bit, as just getting into the office and sitting at my desk for 8 hours is totally draining amd very painful. I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home in my job, as we can log onto the work systems and do everything that we can there. So I sit here on the sofa, feet up, propped up on pillows, doing my accountancy thing, lol.
Gosh, that sounded like a moan fest didn't it? I do apologise!! I'm not particularly down about it, just a bit weary of the constant flare ups of this damned illness that I've now had for 24 years!! But as I just said to Kat above, I know that so many people have things so much worse, so I try to keep it in perspective.
Anyway, that's me at the moment, I'll try to update more often, even if it's only waffle!
xx
