09:11 BST
Most of yesterday was
quite dull, although there were a few
short sunny spells in the early
morning, and as the sun was setting.
No rain was shown on the forecast, but
there was quite a lot of light rain or
fine drizzle in the middle of the day.
The temperature only rose to 16° C
but, again, under the grey sky it felt
colder.
The weather warning on the
chart above, refers to mist and fog.
None is actually shown on this BBC
chart, but the Met Office forecast
shows mist from sunrise to 11am. It is
quite misty now, and earlier on it did
seem like it was thick enough to be
called light fog. Somewhere above that
fog, but below cloud level, it may be
bright and sunny, but there is not a
hint of the sunshine shown on the
weather chart. Maybe the fog will lift
in time for some sunshine before the
sky clouds over. Today may be
completely dry, except for
condensation from the mist and fog,
and the temperature may even reach 18°
C, but if the fog has not lifted it
will feel a very chilly 18° C. No mist
or fog is forecast for tomorrow, and
it should be dry with some sunny
spells and even some full sunshine.
That should allow the temperature to
rise to 19° C for maybe a single hour
in the afternoon.
Yesterday was one of
those days that was both good and bad.
The bad was mostly, but not entirely
booze related, but more about this and
other things later. Some of the bad
was the not very friendly weather, and
it was probably worse because it
didn't seem so bad until properly
checked.
I don't think much happened
yesterday morning, or if it did I
can't seem to remember any more than
having some breakfast of one single,
medium large bag/pack of instant
noodles followed by writing
yesterday's piece. There was also the
measuring my health readings, and
being satisfied that everything had
returned back to normal after the
weirdness of my first, far too small,
dose of Mounjaro (it make me wonder
what will happen when I take the first
full dose - probably today).
After I had finished writing I
had a rest, but I can't seem to
remember if thatw as long or short. I
know that after that I went to the
bathroom (English version, for
washing, and not the American version
for going to the toilet). It was cold
in the bathroom, and I decided it was
too cold to wash my hair. Fortunately
my hair didn't seem too bad after a
good brush. I just had a shower, and
then got part dressed once dry.
The next thing I did was to
have a quick tidy of the
kitchen.....actually, it wasn't so
quick because I took out some spoiling
fruit to the garden waste bin. I also
picked up a lot of paper plates I had
used for cat food. Those plates still
had traces of food on them, and were
probably going smelly, although I did
not seem to notice that. I wrapped
them well in a bin liner, and put them
in the kitchen waste bin, and then
took that, plus the recycling bin, out
to the wheelie bins.
After giving the work surfaces
a quick wipe down it seemed to be
about time to prepare some lunch. I
think I might have decided the day
before that I would have cheese on
toast for lunch yesterday. I made two
slices, and one had some sandwich
(brown) pickle under the melted
cheese, and the other had pickled and
sliced red chillies. It may have been
just a delusion, but I thought cheese
on toasted sourdough bread would be
"safe" (low sugar and maybe even low
calorie), although this morning I have
some strong doubts about it.
I have no idea why, but
yesterday morning seemed to slip by
effortlessly, and it did not seem long
before Jodie arrived for a beer
tasting session. At least one beer was
very unpleasant, and I only had one
mouthful. It was fruity and sour, and
so Jodie thought it was great. At
least one other beer was an imperial
stout type, and I am sure that it was
very syrupy, and probably loaded with
sugar. Other beers may have had more
sugar than is ideal for me.
To make matters worse, I opened
a big bag of German Pilsner flavoured
crisps. I don't think they tasted like
beer at all, but they did have a very
pleasant savoury taste. I shared them
with Jodie, but she had other beer
snacks. I ended up eating most of
those crisps, and that was another bad
idea yesterday. In the last half hour
before Jodie left, I cooked my dinner.
It was "burnt ends of beef". It was
some sort of American idea, and maybe,
once upon a time, they would cook up
the more charred bits of a barbecue.
I detected nothing burnt about
the beef, but it was probably steam
cooked to make it very soft with no
gristly bits. By itself it may have
had a very low sugar content, but
towards the end of cooking I poured on
a sachet of BBQ sauce, and that was
based on syrup - probably the really
unhealthy corn syrup so beloved of
American food producers. I didn't let
that stop me enjoying it.
I should have had it with green
vegetables and maybe potatoes - it
would have been the only way it could
have served two - as suggested on the
box. The only vegetables I had it with
was crisps !
I must interrupt myself here:
It has just gone 10am, and the sun
has just broken through, and burnt
off the mist and fog. It is still
only about 12° C outside, but it is
looking almost nice outside.
After finishing that dinner I
should not have felt the need to eat
more, but I sort of fancied something
like a little chunk of cheese to
nibble on while watching TV prior to
going to bed. I opened the fridge to
get the cheese, but spotted something
else. It was a ready to eat pack of
"Nacho Cheese Croquettes". I had
bought them because they looked
intriguing, although I had no idea
what they would be like. After eating
the whole lot I concluded they were
nice, but maybe not so nice as to
justify eating so many.
I can't seem to remember what I
watched on TV last night, but I do
remember spending increasing amounts
of time reading some technology news
items. I think it was around 9pm when
I went to bed. If I recall correctly,
I was not feeling that comfortable,
but I did fall asleep for half an
hour, or maybe a full hour. I woke up
to the realisation that the rich food
I had eaten had given my heartburn.
Going out from my warm bedroom
to the bathroom made it feel worse and
more like the start of Angina. I am
sure I had a pee in the bathroom, and
I sat down on the toilet afterwards. I
think it was only some wind that I
passed. Back in my bedroom I had some
Rennies, and they helped a bit, but I
still had an angina like pain in my
upper right arm. Past experience told
me that a squirt of
GTN
spray would relieve the arm
pain, and other pains I was
experiencing.
I probably spent a couple of
hours sorting myself out when I should
have been sleeping. That included a
couple of visits to the toilet because
I also had some lower discomfort. It
seemed to be mostly gas, but I think I
passed some solids as well. At the end
of that hour or two I fell into a deep
sleep, and for the first time in ages
I woke up a fair bit later than usual.
When I finally got up I
discovered the folly of the beer and
it's effect on my diet. My weight had
shot up, although thankfully, another
productive visit to the toilet, both
pee and poo, after counting out my
drugs and vitamins for today, helped
to make it less of a disaster I still
ended up 900gm heavier - and that is a
lot ! It is also rather depressing - a
lot of hard work gone to waste. The
answer should be to cut out the booze,
but I won't be doing that on Thursdays
and Sundays.
My blood glucose was a bit of a
disaster as well. The Contour meter
read a really terrible, and dangerous
reading of 10.8mmol/l. The GlucoRX
meter read just 8.3mmol/l. It is
impossible for my blood to change over
the course of about 20 seconds, and so
one of those readings is an error. To
make it more perplexing, the GlucoFix
meter read 9.6mmol/l - sort of halfway
between the other two.
With figures like that I should
have skipped breakfast, but I do like
something to hold down the cod liver
oil capsule I take every morning. The
best think I could think of was a
small amount of peanuts - about a
level handful (probably). So far I
have not had any fishy burps. The
peanuts oil content means their
calorific value is quite high, but
they contain very little, almost no
sugar.
I don't really feel like it - I
feel like going back to bed, but I
ought to try and walk off some of the
excess of last night. I had thought a
walk in the fog might have been nice,
but it has gone now. That does mean I
could take a walk in the sunshine, and
that could be good, but also bad. The
air is cold enough to make wearing a
light coat desirable, but I know I
will cook inside a black leather coat
in the sunshine. Tricky !
The other thing I ought to do
today is to take my first
full
dose of Mounjaro. I am unsure
how I will feel after it, and I think
it best to do it after I have come
home (if I do go out for a walk). In
theory it should stop things like the
excesses of last night, but I am not
so sure. My desire for eating comes
from my brain, and not my stomach, and
Mounjaro acts on the stomach (or sort
of).