08:27 BST

  Yesterday was another godforsaken grey, and miserable sort of day. The temperature only reached 15° C, but it was dry.
  Today is another in a too long series of grey and depressing days. With the temperature only reaching just 14° C it is going to be cold and miserable. The only solace is that it should stay dry, but maybe some pouring rain with a temperature of 20° C would be a better day. Tomorrow might possible see a sunny spells at 6pm, but the rest of the day is forecast to be dull, gloomy and depressing. It will be a little less cold though - a whole 1° C warmer at 15° C !

  Yesterday was a day when very little happened, and so there is not a lot to write about it. This is handy because I am short of time this morning. As mentioned yesterday, I am due at the Hospital for an appointment with the Cardiologist(s) at 11:10am, and I need a shower before I get dressed to go out.

  The important things about yesterday was that I made some sort of poor attempt to eat less, and I had a wet shave, shampoo and shower. Today I should need little more than a quick splash under the shower before I am fit to enter the hallowed grounds of the Hospital (or some such old bollocks).

  In my attempt, a rather poor attempt really, to see if I could lose a bit of weight, I had fish fingers for lunch and soup, admittedly with added cheese for dinner. I had two cans of soup. The first was tomato soup, and some cheddar cheese goes well with that. I'm not sure why I thought that cheese would go well with bacon and lentil soup, but it was a satisfactory experiment.

  Apart from Cooking and washing, I did almost nothing of note. I seemed to spend a fair amount of time laying on my bed, reading and snoozing. I suddenly remember there was one important thing I did soon after my morning shower (which was late enough to almost be an early afternoon shower), and it was to give myself my next Mounjaro injection. I also checked the for more information about Mounjaro as well.

  According to https://www.drugs.com/mounjaro.html and a few other pages, it was as I thought I remembered, and that was that it was initially invented (if "invented" is the right word here) more as a diabetes drug than a weight loss drug. The weight loss effect, when it works, was just an added benefit. I can confirm that as a Diabetes treatment it really does work incredibly well. As a weight loss drug it is extremely patchy for me, and some days I have put weight on instead of losing it. The whole idea of trying to control my diet yesterday was to try and lose a bit of weight instead of putting it on. It was not an ideal weight loss diet, but it was one that was easy to do.

  Moving on to the evening, and I spent most of it just watching TV. One thing I didn't do last night, and I am not sire why not, was to not drink any booze - purely because I am seeing one of more doctors this morning (last time it was two of them taking turns in a the good cop/bad cop method.....or something like that) - (actually I think one was a junior doctor and the other a consultant).

  I had stayed up fairly late watching TV, but when I turned out the light, and turned over, I think I fell asleep fairly quickly. I don't remember much about last night, and that is probably a good sign. I do remember getting up to pee once or twice, and I remember slightly turning up the thermostat on my heater because the cold night was making my bedroom cool off a bit.

  I got up at almost 7am, although I had woken up once closer to 6am. The first thing was to go to the toilet. Maybe nearly an hour later, when I was counting out my pills for the day, I went to the toilet again. The earlier visit did not include a poo, but the second visit did, and I also passed a trickle of pee. I weighed myself again, and it was a bit better, and that was my "official" weight this morning. In my attempt to lose a bit of weight I actually gained 100gm. I am at that stage where my weight is now fairly constant, and I await some event that will reduce it a good enough amount that I get stuck around that figure. This is now how I was "sold" Mounjaro.

  Mounjaro is definitely working brilliantly for it's original purpose - blood glucose control. This morning the Contour meter read 6.3mmol/l, and I regard that as very good. The GlucoRX meter gave a figure I have not seen for many, many years, 5.4mmol/l. I think even the brute of a diabetes nurse would say that is very slightly good (but the way she talks, she would not be happy until my blood glucose is so low that I am in a diabetic coma). The GlucoFix meter read 6.2mmol/l, and that is also really good in my book.

  It is fortunate that I am now coming to the end of this piece because it will mean less rushing about getting ready to go out. The timing of my consulation with the Cardiologist should mean that once they have finished with me I can straight to the next pub, the Jolly Farmers - as per most Wednesday lunch times. If I find I have left enough time, I may go to the hospital via the pharmacy where I shall order my next repeat prescription - something I should have done on Monday. The pharmacy should be able to get my repeat prescription ready for collection on Friday morning - just as my current prescription runs out.