Emotional, FITNESS, HEALTH, Mental, Physical, Preventitive, Spiritual, Weight gain challenge

Fact, Fantasy or Fiction?

1st November 2023

Well, it certainly isn’t Fiction. In fact, it’s too mind-numbingly tedious to be anything other than my own sad, sorry tale , best kept to myself and for myself. The Fact is this: I am so terrified, so filled with fear and self-loathing that I dare not think beyond the notion that I am attending my first therapy appointment tomorrow. It is the first positive thing I have done recently in the attempt to rid myself of this scourge that has blighted me all of my life but never worse than it’s been of late. I have little hope and…

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HEALTH, Physical

Same old, same old

9th August 2023

I can scarcely believe that it’s been 10 months since my last post. So much has been happening in my life and not in a good way either. I have not only moved house but I have moved into another area, outside of London where I lived these past 11 years. We have moved into a 523 year old house, on what must be the busiest road in the entire UK – We had no idea that it is the only route to towns and villages west of us and the noise is constant and incessant. Because the house is…

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CHALLENGING CHANGE, HEALTH, Weight gain challenge

Still on the Road

24th October 2022

Here I am, a month since my last posting and no further along the track but still very firmly on the road. I have been beset by setbacks. Would you believe that the pain that I was experiencing and wrote about is not only still very apparent and persistent but that I have an added problem to deal with – namely the ongoing teeth saga that I mentioned. I have known for some time that there is an area above my front tooth that was a disaster waiting to happen. Its a cyst that has formed at the base of…

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HEALTH

THE REAL QUESTION

18th January 2018

Safari – 18 Jan 2018 at 16:51   I read this article in The Times this morning and it stopped me in my tracks. I have been telling myself for years that I need to put on weight in order to be healthy. 2017 was an extremely challenging year for me health-wise and for my family anyway, there was this tacit assumption that my health issues were related to my low body weight and choices I have made over the years regarding my diet. So for me, that elusive , pie in the sky blanket statement that so many of…

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