08:40 BST
  Yesterday was a dull day. I can't seem to remember a single ray of sunshine (which may not mean there wasn't one that escaped my attention). Even without sunshine the temperature rose to the seemingly typical 16° C for late September.
  There is bright sunshine as I type this, but the sky seems covered by long streaky clouds with some thin blue strips. The sun must be shining through one of those blue bits of sky. The forecast says there will be full sunshine until 10am when we will only get sunny spells (1pm may not even feature any sunshine). This afternoon should see the temperature rise from this morning's 10° C to 17° C. During a sunny spell that might feel nice. There is a small chance of rain tomorrow, but only 9am is show as raining at the moment. Most of tomorrow will see sunny spells, and the temperature should rise to 18° C for a couple of hours.

    Yesterday was an odd day. I am not sure how to describe how I felt. I couldn't even work it out for myself. I didn't seem to feel sleepy tired, but I did seem to feel lacking in enthusiasm - a feeling that persisted in different degrees through the day. I did very little, but I did manage two important things.

  I started yesterday with breakfast - two small packets of usually quite safe instant noodles. At 11:20am I got my delivery of Welsh cheese - as noted and described yesterday. I could not resist tasting a little chunk of the Y-Fenni cheese. Once again it didn't seem so wonderful as the stuff Tesco used to sell 10+ years ago. After opening the cheese, and cutting out a small taster, I decided that while I was in the kitchen I should do the well overdue washing up in the sink.

  What I should have done next was to have a shower, and probably wash my hair, but I could not seem to find the enthusiasm for it. Having a shower was one of the preparations prior to injecting myself with Mounjaro - the (alleged) miracle slimming drug. Instead of a shower I swabbed a small area of my belly with some alcohol hand sanitiser.

  With a sterile area of belly I got the injector pen out, and re-read the instructions. It is, or should be very straight forward except for one thing. There is a rotary dial on the injector and you initially set it to zero, and there is a printed "0" on the dial. After expelling any air, and making sure a drip of the drug appears at the tip of the needle, you set the dial to "1" for a standard single dose. There does not seem to be any other numbers on the dial, and all I could do was to use the first big line of the scale and assume that was "1".

  I inserted the needle very fast, and barely felt it go in. It is a very fine, very sharp needle. I pressed the plunger and assumed/hoped I had given myself the full single dose of medicine. There was no way of knowing for sure, and I just had to wait to see if anything happened. For some reason I seem to be unsure of what order the next two things happened. I think the first thing that happened was a slight feeling of being light headed (that being an imperfect description of what I felt).

   I guess I felt a little shaky, and sort of wobbly. One thing the nurse and the instructions warn of was going Hypoglycaemic. This is when the blood glucose level falls to low. I checked and found I was actually hyperglycaemic - the exact opposite. My blood glucose was almost dangerously high (around 10mmol/l). I couldn't think of anything I had eaten that would account for this - unless the cheese was full of sugar.

  I don't think it was the cheese because a little bit later I had some lunch. It was a very careful choice of lunch. I had more of the cheese, but this time in thin-ish slices on rice crackers. Ideally I should have had nothing after that high blood glucose reading, but I could not resist. On any normal day the rice crackers and cheese (normal cheddar choose) would barely tickle my blood glucose.

  I spent the rest of the afternoon, or at least a lot of it, laying on my bed reading and trying to snooze. Evidently I was not tired in a sleepy sense because I don't think I fell asleep even once. Maybe on reason was that I was distracted trying to analyse how I felt about eating. I concluded that while I may not have felt hungry, or not as such, I did not want to go to bed at the end of the day without eating something for dinner.

  It is possible that it takes some time, maybe days, before the Mounjaro starts to make you feel full, and not needing to eat so much, but I am sure I never felt anything like that during the afternoon. Then again, it seems rare that I feel hungry unless I have fasted for a day. I primarily eat for pleasure, and that was part of the reason I was definitely going to have a simple, possibly light dinner later.

  I definitely felt weird, in ways I can't describe, during the afternoon, and added to the fact that I had still not had a shower, I made the decision that I was not going out in the evening. The original plan was to go and see what happens in The Jolly Farmers on a Friday night. As I am sure I mentioned yesterday, it was a slightly daunting thing to do because while I am on nodding, or saying hello to many of the regulars, I don't know any well enough to join it their conversations. I would be spending the evening pretty much alone if I had gone.

  If I had gone I would not have wanted to drink on an empty stomach. That was one reason why I had dinner. Now the tricky thing is, was it the drug, or was it the earlier high blood glucose readings that meant I felt I could just about skip dinner and go to bed empty ? One, maybe the more important thing about the drug was that it was supposed to make you feel fuller for longer, and so not need more food. It may have been too early after starting the drug, but I can't say I had any feeling of fullness. I think the only reason I may have been able to skip dinner was that I am (only lightly) practised at skipping the odd meal when I know my blood glucose is too high.
  My dinner was actually Chicken Madeira with Rice - pictured above. Madeira is supposedly a sweet wine, and while it sounded like it might be nice, I scrutinised the nutritional info before I put it into my trolley in Aldi. The nutritional panel (which I've cut and appended onto the side of the main description) says the calorific value is a bit high, but the sugar content, the most important thing thing for a type 2 diabetic, is zero - which is rather magnificent.

  I must admit that apart for that zero sugar content (which I find hard to believe), everything else is a bit high. including the far, although still shown as green, and the high salt content - shown in red for danger ! I had hoped that this dinner would give me a fighting chance for some good results in the morning. I decided not to chance my arm by having some ice cream - even though I was looking forward to it.

  I watched a fair bit of TV last night, and I think I watched both QI and Have I Got New For You (I can't recall which was on first). Watching both would mean I would not be getting to bed until 11pm. I guess I was very tired by then, but I seem to think it took some time before I could fall asleep. Once I was asleep I think I slept well, and I remember very little about the night. One thing I think I remember was not having to get up for a pee in the night more than once, although I am quite vague about that.

  Not peeing much, as seemed to be the case, might mean that my blood glucose was back to normal this morning. That was not really the case. The Contour meter read a very bad 9.1mmol/l. The GlucoRX meter read 9.0mmol/l, and the new GlucoFix meter read 9.1mmol/l. These figures are far too high. I am positive I had nothing to eat that could cause these high figures, and so the suspicion must lay with the Mounjaro slimming drug. I'll have to read the leaflet again, but I am sure I only saw references to low blood glucose as a possible unwanted side effect.

  The other silly thing is my weight. I would regard all I ate yesterday was less than usual, and I would have expected at worst to have lost 100gm when I weighed myself this morning. I have actually put on 600gm ! I'll give it some time, but I am currently thinking that maybe going on Mounjaro was a bad idea. If the first day is anything to go by, I can do far better all by myself. On the 20th of next month I have an appointment with the nurse to assess how I am doing. At this rate I will be reporting I have put weight on instead of losing it !

  Today I don't think I am seeing anyone or going out anywhere, but I might go out for a walk in the park. In the current sunshine it could be nice, although the air temperature is quite low at the moment. The main downsides are that I sort of feel tired, but that is just the high blood glucose. The worse thing is that my knees feel very stiff, and maybe even aching this morning. They may free up with a walk....or get worse. I think that if I can convince myself to definitely go for a walk, I ought to start on something simple that could be extended if I feel better once I get moving - maybe just head for Ladywell, through the park, and turn back if it feels bad, or go further if it feels good.