Day 48

Last night was hard work, especially after the positive couple of days I've just had. I went to bed just before 11:30 feeling extremely tired but at 3am I was still awake so I had a vanilla mousse. At 5am I was still awake and feeling miserable and I crumbled and ate a piece of corned beef. I know it's not a lot of food but I really feel like I let myself down after vowing to be good this week. I eventually got to sleep around 7 this morning, slept through 2 alarm clocks and woke up at lunchtime. Good job I had no work today! I'm going to blame TOTM for all this hungriness and sleep upheaval. I had a look back at my blog entries from this time last month and there is a little cluster of insomnia. At the end and beginning of each month I seem to have sleep troubles but in the middle of each month it's quite manageable. It's been going on for years and I never noticed how closely it tied in with my menstrual cycle until I saw it written in my blog!

Being my non CDC week, I gave myself an unofficial weigh-in today and the results pleased me. I've lost 5lbs in a week which takes me comfortably below the 17st mark and makes my BMI about 37. I'm so relieved that my weekend eat didn't effect this week's weight-loss. I didn't eat a massive amount but it was enough to get me out of ketosis temporarily. I decided not to bother measuring my waist, I already knew it was smaller because my very favourite trousers actually fall off me these days so I'm wearing jeans that I hadn't been able to get into for over a year.

I have been deftly avoiding having my photo taken for a couple of years now but having seen some of the 'before and after' diet photos around the CD forum I though it would be good to get some of myself as a record of my progress so a few weeks ago I got a photo taken. Next week after my CDC meeting, I'm going get another taken for comparison and I'm planning to do the same every 4 weeks. In a few months I might post them up on this blog if I feel brave enough.