I really ought to update more!
Well, since last I wrote, I've had a horrible time! I kept being sick, like, violently so, thought I'd had a sickness bug, except it happened 4 times, on 4 separate occasions, and followed the exact same timescale and pattern!
I'd wake with stomach cramps at (dead on) 3.45am, start being sick (although, when I say sick, it was more dry heaving), until around mid-day, when the sickness bouts got further apart, then eventually, at around 4pm, I stopped being sick and felt better.
I initially thought it was a bug I'd fed, but after dragging myself to the doctors on the last occasion, feel now that it was some late night food that had got stuck in my gut, hence the exact timescales - I do tend to eat quite late sometimes with my shifts, and the nights before the sickness tended to be 9pm eats, and "challenging" foods, - meat etc.
The upsetting thing about something like this is how no one wants to take full responsibility for you. I was obviously worrying about band slippage with all the heaving, the doctors think it's "just a bug that will go away", without thinking about the band aspect, the surgeon/band hospital just say it's a stomach bug and to see the doctor - no one wanted to help.
My years period of free fills is coming to an end soon, too, and this is another worry that you don't think about at the beginning - what if you aren't at your sweet spot? what if you're ill again and need emergency de-fills and then fills again - all at £250 a pop?!
I need to be sure I'm at the right place before everything runs out on 10 July, that's for sure.
Anyway, the good news from it all is that I lost a good bit of weight in a short length of time - previously been 1lb here and there, very slowly, but am now 11 st. 03lb (BMI 27, 76% excess weight loss), and feeling really really happy now. My clothes are fitting well, I feel nice again. I still want to lose more, but if it didn't happen, I'd be ok with it.
I still have the exercise route to go yet too.
Anyway, this was only meant to be a quickie (and I will have to go back and edit any mistakes later) - cos I'm rushing, packing for my first festival of the year! "Glastonbudget" is a weekend of tribute acts! Sounds bobbins, and it may well be, but I look at it this way, if the sun is shining, and the beer is cold, it doesn't matter what the entertainment is! And at least it'll be all classics being played instead of obscure album tracks! We also can't forget that the REAL Bad Manners are playing too! All that for £47! Better than the £140 each PLUS £60 for camper vans at V Festival.
Anyway, back to packing all the cheap vest tops and linen trousers I can now buy cheap from my local Primark/H & M!!!
(Thanks Technomist for spurring me on to add another entry!).
