I've just...

...weighed myself again and, like last week, I've lost 600g in 4½ days which I really didn't want to do.  It'll be biscuits and chocolate and oodles of creamy drinking chocolates again for the rest of this week and no more lapping or exercises again.  My weight is bouncing around all over the shop and I wish it wouldn't!!

Second update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Weigh myself every Monday
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Weigh myself every Monday - slap bang in the middle of where I want to be this morning, thankfully
• Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in delivery
• Put delivery away
• Put book review onto Amazon
• Buy things from Amazon - it's been split into three deliveries that'll be here tomorrow
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples or pears - someone is coming for the pears and easy peelers at 11am
• Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or easy peelers or apples or pears
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit (strawberries, cherries and apricot and plum)/leftovers
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps 
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Do twists in hall
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Choccie raisins in the fridge too
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Close living room window
• Close kitchen window
• Close bathroom window
• Close back door
• Clear browser caches every Tuesday
• Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
• Do evening Visible check-in
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (9th July 2026) tea photo

Today's tea was another 2 Freeze Pops and today's flavours were a "Lemonade" one (which didn't really taste of much) and also a "Raspberry" one.  I'm officially half way through the first box now.

Here's today's tea photo:

First update to today's to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Weigh myself every Monday
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Weigh myself every Monday - slap bang in the middle of where I want to be this morning, thankfully
• Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in delivery
• Put delivery away
• Put book review onto Amazon
• Buy things from Amazon - it's been split into three deliveries that'll be here tomorrow
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples or pears - someone is coming for the pears and easy peelers at 11am
• Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or easy peelers or apples or pears
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit (strawberries, cherries and apricot and plum)/leftovers
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps 
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Do twists in hall
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Choccie raisins in the fridge too
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Close living room window
• Close kitchen window
• Close bathroom window
• Close back door
• Clear browser caches every Tuesday
• Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
• Do evening Visible check-in
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (9th July 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch was another healthy, but smaller meal of 1 apricot, 1 plum, 5 strawberries 🍓, 10 cherries 🍒 and a 330ml can of a Sparkling Guava pop which has left me just nicely full without being bloated.

Here's today's lunch photo:

Can someone remind me...

...to give the female Olio-er a 3 star rating because she gave my address to someone without my knowledge or permission, was half an hour late and looked in my neighbours windows while he was waiting for me to come back to the door on top of being rude.

The apples are going at 5.35pm and I think I'm remembering rightly that he turned up 2 hours late and pestered me until I opened the door last time, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong.

Today's (9th July 2026) to-do list

• Take Visible reading - 3 out of 5 again today
• Take FunCap reading on 1st of each month
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Add more books to my TBR pile
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music/the radio
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Refill bottle with squash
• Make breakfast of Weetabix, soya milk and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Put breakfast into NutraCheck
• Weigh myself every Monday
• Log weight into NutraCheck
• Get washed and changed
• Brush my teeth
• Have caffeinated coffee/peach tea
• Sort OddBox recipes into breakfast/lunch/tea/pud/snack/drink
• Open living room window
• Open kitchen window
• Open back door
• Open bathroom window
• Indulge in as many creamy drinks as I want
• Run monthly virus scan on 28th of every month
• Keep an eye on emails about the digital switchover - someone phoned last night and apparently I'll get a letter through the post with a number to call to arrange the engineer's visit to put in the necessary phone line and connect me to the digital thing, so I've just gotta be patient with that as well as the ASHP service document to send to my insurers now
• Find out about most secure locks from insurers - I've emailed so just waiting for their reply now - they don't advise apparently so I've just gotta do my own research - it's gonna be a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock
• Request quotes for 2 new outside doors on Check A Trade (front door MUST be wood and have a letter box with a BS3621 5-lever mortice deadlock)
• Ask M to bring box of stuff to Freegle downstairs so that I can...
• Take photos of unwanted things in the spare room
• Advertise spare room things on Freegle
• Weigh myself every Monday - slap bang in the middle of where I want to be this morning, thankfully
• Update the spreadsheet with Steve's financial details starting on 1st March 2022 - just finished doing May 2022 and discovered that he paid pretty much £4,000 on what I suspect was porn in a single night which was a shock, and I'm also as sure as I can be that I was paying into Steve's savings rather than his current account because none of the payments I made to him have shown up yet but he frequently transfered hundreds of pounds from it to top up his current account, which was another lie he told me - up to August now and it's getting worse unfortunately
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups
• Do morning crunches
• Do morning twists
• Bring in delivery
• Put delivery away
• Put book review onto Amazon
• Buy things from Amazon - it's been split into three deliveries that'll be here tomorrow
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the apples or pears - someone is coming for the pears and easy peelers at 11am
• Put taxi booking into calendar for 17th
• Housework - Monday - change bedding & bring in rubbish/recycling
• Housework - Tuesday - tidy living room & groceries & clear caches
• Housework - Wednesday - clean bathroom
• Housework - Thursday - sweep carpets
• Housework - Friday - tidy bedrooms
• Housework - Saturday - clean kitchen/have bath/shower
• Housework - Sunday - rubbish and recycling/refill dosette box
• Put menu up on blog every weekend
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Olio to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion or easy peelers or apples or pears
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of fruit (strawberries, cherries and apricot)/leftovers
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put lunch into NutraCheck
• Take lunchtime pill
• Refill dosette box every Sunday
• Refill can dispenser
• Do afternoon laps 
• Do sit-ups in hall
• Do crunches in hall
• Do twists in hall
• Charge up powerbanks
• Charge up Visible
• Charge up personal phone
• Charge up spam phone
• Charge up watch
• Charge up HLTH band
• Refill bottle with squash
• Put OddBox container in front of the door on Sunday
• Wait for service certificate for ASHP - I've just emailed them to chase it up - I heard from them and they have forwarded my message onto the most appropriate department, so I've just gotta be patient now
• Email service certificate to home insurers
• Make tea of water/ice cream/meal replacements/fruit bread/bread
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Put tea into NutraCheck
• Choccie raisins in the fridge too
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put BP spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Close living room window
• Close kitchen window
• Close bathroom window
• Close back door
• Clear browser caches every Tuesday
• Clear browser caches on 27th of every month
• Do evening Visible check-in
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (9th July 2026) breakfast photos

Another liquid breakfast again today, but this time I added a freshly-decanted 250ml bottle of Sweet & Sour apple juice to yesterday's 500ml glass of water.

Here's today's breakfast photos:

Mornin' all

I've woken up coughing and spluttering this morning, but my 'Morning Stability' score was 3 again and I've got a delivery coming around lunchtime so it's gonna be a busy morning.

I've just put the apples and pears onto Olio, so it's strawberries, cherries and an apricot for lunch between today and Saturday.  There's no way I could have eaten them all before they went off and I've been bloated all week with so much fruit so it's better that I give it to someone else who will make better use of it than I can.

Breakfast today was a bottle of apple juice and I've got 1 more bottle left in the carton, which I'll have tomorrow.

My blood pressure was high normal for me, which was a lot lower than it has been since I went to get it taken officially.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear, so time to get today's breakfast photo then my to-do list together now I reckon.

BBS

Nite nite orl

It's been a long, tiring day today, so I'm gonna head off to beddy-byes for a slightly early night.

I'll see you all in the morning when I've got a delivery due between 11.10am and 2.10pm so I've definitely gotta have a solid breakfast tomorrow just in case I can't have anything for lunch.

Nite nite orl