Having hot drinks today has definitely cooled me down and I haven't sweated anywhere near as much today as I have done all this week! I was sweating before I had my first drinking chocolate of the day, then I was fine all morning 'cos of the four drinking chocolates I had before lunch. I was sweating again after my tea of 2 ice poles (1 x cola and 1 x raspberry today) but I'm back down to a cooler temperature and no sweating after 3 sips of my decaff coffee!
Here's today's tea photo:
I was debating with myself, until literally seconds before I went into the kitchen, on whether or not to have anything solid for lunch or if I should have my 4th drinking chocolate of the day. As you can see from the photo, I decided on the solid lunch so that it didn't negatively affect my bowel too badly tomorrow, which happens when I have very little/no solid food in a day.
My lunch ended up being 2 apples, 2 pears and a 330ml can of Sparkling Guava pop.
Here's today's lunch photo:
...an email from my water company with suggestions on how to use less water during the heat wave. Out of the 4 things they suggest (3 things in the email and 2 in a text, one of which was repeated), I only use 2 of the things (washing machine and showers) and I already do what it suggests (full loads in the washing machine and shorter showers) because I only use the washing machine maybe 2-4 times a month and I've had a grand total of 2 showers in the last 6 weeks and get washed in the kitchen sink instead, so I don't know what else I can do!
I'm secretly hoping I'll get a pleasant surprise with my first metered water bill in September/October kinda time 'cos I already use as little water as I can! It's been around £750 billed every 6-ish months so I'm hoping it'll be considerably less next time I get my water bill!
...unofficially weighed myself and I've lost 1.4kg so far this week, so I'm only 900g away from where the nurse wanted me to be now. I'm hoping I'll lose another bit before my official weigh-in after breakfast on Monday morning and I'm hoping I'll be bang on the week after.
The nurse originally gave me a range to work towards, going by my height, so I was originally aiming for the middle of the range, which is where I was when I next got weighed at the GP surgery but the nurse said she wanted me at the top of the range rather than the middle to bottom, which I've been aiming for ever since.
Considering I was officially 72kg when I came out of hospital in 2004 (according to my medical records at the time) and officially obese, I'm at a much healthier weight for my height now and I wanna stick to that - it's easier in Summer 'cos I can load up on fruit and salads for my lunches instead of heavier, air-fryer meals like I do in cooler weather.
Now that I've discovered that I can safely have drinking chocolates in hot weather and that they cool me down rather than overheat me, I'll have no excuse not to load up on those between meals when I'm thirsty either! I've just gotta find something that works for me and stick to it now.
Today's breakfast came in two parts again - the first part was my usual 500ml glass of water so that I could pop my 10 morning pills with, then I had a shower and washed my grease-pit of hair, then had my second breakfast of choccie Weetabix with approx 150ml of soya milk and another 500ml glass of water this morning.
Here are today's two breakfast photos:
I've been awake for almost 3 hours and I feel like I've achieved a pretty decent amount in that time.
So far this morning I've:
I'm swelteringly hot again, so I'm gonna head on up to bed now.
I'll see you all in the morning after my shower.
Nite nite orl