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End of week 9 - 1st November

Starting weight - 12st 4lb

Last weight - 11st 5lb

New weight - 11st 6lb

Comments

* Not a great surprise to have gone back up a pound. You can't stuff a great big pizza and expect there not to be some consequences.

* Also the last weigh in was only just into 5lbs and this one is only just into 6lbs so it really could have gone either way. Anyway, it's still a decent weight and perhaps the most important thing is that I am now entering my third month of the new regime with no plans to stop, once again offering reassurance that this is a sustainable life change, not a fad diet.

* Some slight changes to diet (notwithstanding the pizza) as I have allowed a small amount of carbs in the evening. My intention is to retain the carbs / no carbs split at lunch and dinner respectively but, depending on what I have had for lunch, I am happy to relax this from an absolute.

* Oh, and ill on a Saturday. What are the chances? Poor me

* I wrote a new blog this week, The Elephant In The Room. It explores the importance of change in recovering from mental illness, stressing the point that we must choose for ourselves to get better, that we are not an unalterable fixed state. It started out as a much harsher piece, critical of those who I perceive to play Mental Health Bingo, stacking up the symptoms without ever addressing the underlying behaviours. Ultimately I decided that each of us must walk our own path. I have had the benefit of therapy, it is not my place to criticise the choices of others, only to offer the benefit of my own experiences and let people choose for themselves.

* My new children's story is almost finished. I will send it to a couple of select parents to try out if they would like to, otherwise it will be printed exclusively in my next Amazon collection.