It has to be mentioned – We are all a bit obsessed with our own – The question of poop! There are those who poop three times a day and then think they are constipated when they only go twice a day. There are those who go once a day with some regularity and don’t think of it much because its no big deal. Then there are some of us perennial dieters for whom being constipated is generally the norm, ranging from going a couple of times a week to only going once a week. Of course there are those…
Day: 6 September 2022
Day 6
Today is a new day and I am sitting at my desk with a cushion behind my lumbar region. I had a restless night as I was trying to sleep in a position that was favourable for my neck. I don’t have the extreme pain of yesterday but there is pain still none-the-less and I have already taken a painkiller before it worsens. Thankfully, this is not derailing me and I had a substantial breakfast of fruit, yoghurt, milk and cereal. I had a walk after breakfast but instead of going that extra mile to burn off the large breakfast,…
Day 5
Today was a horrible day. Alongside this weight gain challenge are other hardships and parts of my life that I am trying to negotiate and this morning turned into an emotional issue with members of my family ( unrelated to my ED ) – all resolved, but leaving me with the mother of all headaches that I struggled with the whole day. I suffer from migraines and headaches anyway, but I also injured my cervical vertebrae when lifting my heavy bike to get it through a doorway. I took painkillers all day, applied heat patches and ibuprofen gel to the…
Day 3 and 4
I made the fatal error of weighing myself first thing on Day 3. In 2 short days, I have leapt from 44.1 kgs to 45.4 kgs and being entirely honest, my reaction hasn’t been good. In that split second of looking down at the scale, all my fears were confirmed. I am immediately telling myself that this is what I fear most, this enormous gain after only 2 days and therefore I have already lost control and it will just continue spiralling at an astronomical rate etc etc. I then had the tussle between knowing that I had to eat…