[Diet Update] Day 4 – A Glum Cannon

So, how as the first day using “Glucomannan”? I hear precisely no one screaming at me. Well, funny you should ask… It was fine. Full Stop.😃 Which is a relief, you hear about all those horror stories of “anal leakage” and worry that it could happen with any new dieting supplement. So, phew, no runny bot bots. Having…

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The Blue Badge

You may have read in previous blogs that I have a hidden disability, Avascular Necrosis. A definition of which you can find here.  Some time ago Transport For London (TFL) started an amazing scheme. A blue badge for passengers with hidden disabilities, that mirrors the already successful white badge for pregnant women. We don’t wear a…

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[Diet Update] Day 3 – Back to Work

The joy I felt when my alarm gently roused me from a good nights sleep was without a doubt the most arse clenching upsetting thing to have happened to me in weeks. In summary, it was a bit of a downer. Still, the rent doesn’t pay itself. Today is my first day back in the…

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[Diet Update] Day 2

Day 2, and all is well, apart from feeling hungry that is. I honestly had forgotten what hungry felt like. I’m not sure I like it. But as Kate Moss once said, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels“. It better fell bloody amazing Kate! Once again the food itself was lovely. No complaints, apart…

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[Diet Update] Day 1

Well, day one was OK. I stuck to the plan and didn’t have any ‘blips‘. I had told myself that it was OK to struggle on the first day and that I should just stick as close to the diet plan as I could. But, I didn’t go off track. The food itself was lovely….

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Back to the track

The latter part of 2017 wasn’t fun. Shortly after starting the anti-anxiety medication I had a bad experience with a new GP. If you find a good GP, don’t move, even if you have to travel to see them. I was described as a drug addict by the new GP and refused a new prescription…

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Taking Time Out

Friday I suppose you could say that this weekend, I’m taking time out. I’m off to see the family for a couple of days. Oddly, at the moment, its the most socially active thing I do each month, but somehow it feels like timeout, no cooking, no shopping, just winding my niece up. It will…

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Fuzzy, Blurry, Calm

Its nearly been a week since I added an anti-anxiety medication into the mix. All seems to be going OK. I’m not a fan of the fuzzy, blurred feeling I get but I am enjoying how relaxed I actually feel. I had forgotten what being really relaxed felt like. It’s nice. I started off on a…

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Another one in the mix

Well, I’ve had a bad few days. My anxiety has been playing up. After I moved into my new place I had lots of things to do, the last week or so things had settled down, I had started to feel normal. But that came crashing down when I realised I was returning to my old…

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The Mechanics Inside Me

I just decided to share the mechanics that are now happily living inside me. I recently went for my final post-op visit to see my surgeon. They were very pleased with my progress and that the condition of both ‘appliances‘ is almost pristine.  So here they are.     So the outcome of the post-op…

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