The forecast said there would be drizzle at 6am this morning. I did not see it, but the road outside looks slightly wet. There is a 20% chance of rain at 3pm, but it will probably stay dry all day - even if it looks like it could pour with rain at any moment. My thermometers were saying 9° C when I fist looked at about 8am. Like yesterday, there will not be much change in the temperature through the day. The afternoon may see 11° C, and also black clouds. Before and after that it will be 10° C, and then a degree less either side of that. So a cold and gloomy day ! The latest revision says mist will fall from about 11pm, and continue through the night. It may mean an even colder start to tomorrow with just 7° C shown for the first hours of the morning. The mist may finally lift at 10am. After that it will be miserable and grey with an afternoon high of just 10° C.

  Yesterday was a dull sort of day - both the weather and how life felt is easily described as dull. It was the first day of my 4 day low fibre diet, and that seemed to set the day.

  The low fibre diet was a bit monotonous - I was just eating cheese rolls for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but dinner did include some plain vanilla ice cream (which was rather nice). I did not feel like doing much, and I didn't. Apart from the evening when I watched some TV, I spent much of the day laying on my bed reading, and trying to snooze.I am not sure if I did snooze in the end. I certainly laid there with my eyes closed at times, but I did not notice and jumps in time that would suggest I had fallen asleep.

  What I did notice was that on one occasion I went to go to the toilet, and as soon as I moved my back really ached. Maybe I did sleep, and did so in some sort of awkward position. The ache was cured almost by the time I had finished in the toilet (having a pee), It seems standing upright, and not slouching, was the almost instant (well, 10minute maybe) cure. This is good because I have known people with bad backs, and I realise it is no fun at all. Oddly enough, that short period of quite sever pain (when making some movements) never re-occurred yesterday, and I was fine when I got up this morning.

  I find I don't have much more to say about yesterday. My total eating was 3 cheese rolls, and a medium portion of vanilla ice cream. My evening was just the usual TV, and I was back in bed reading by 10pm. I didn't read for long because I seemed to feel tired - which was surprising considering I did so little, and tried to snooze a lot. I can't be sure, but I think I was asleep by 11pm.

  My sleep was like many recent nights. I got up to pee a few times, and I had a dream. It seemed like it was quite a long dream, and might have lasted as much as an hour. However I suspect that it may have only been several 5 minute sessions stitched together to appear to be continuous. There are hints in my vague memories that it was made up of quite a few episodes.

  The dream was set in something like a big department store, although most, if not all the stock was not there. It seemed to be a party being held there, although I wasn't really involved in that. It was like walking through a film set - you could see people doing stuff, but you had nothing to do with it. Early in the dream I think I felt cold, and I was looking for somewhere to plug in a fan heater. At first I thought it was mine, but it was quite different when I looked closer. The thing that stood out was that someone had repaired the mains lead, and while it was electrically sound, it was left in a very dangerous condition with bare wires sticking out. That did not bother me once I was aware of it, and I think I found a socket and plugged it in.

  There is an element of doubt about that last bit because as I was going to plug it in, the next theme of the dream started. I found a mobile phone that I initially thought was mine, but it wasn't. It seems I had lost my mobile phone, and it seemed many others had too. I tried to ring my own number from the phone I had found. I thought that maybe I could start a chain where we would all end up with our own phones. Unfortunately I could not seem to key in my own number. What I keyed in seems to come out as different numbers on the screen. I think I woke up while trying to work out if the keypad was mislabelled, or the display was showing the wrong numbers.

  I had a very pleasant surprise when I got up. After a visit to the toilet, but only for another pee, I weighed myself. My one day of a low fibre diet, that was mostly eating a few cheese rolls, meant that I had lost some weight. I'm sure that cheese in bread rolls with a generous amount of butter on the bread, is not normally thought of as "slimming food", but this morning I saw I had lost 1.7kg compared to yesterday morning, and that was after a hardly productive poo.

  My blood glucose readings reflected my weight loss (on many occasions they can contradict each other). The average of all three readings was 7.0mmol/l a figure lower than I have seen in ages. In fact I have just checked - the last time was when I was doing the same low fibre diet prior to the last attempt to give me a Colonoscopy. That failed to happen because my blood pressure went haywire. I was told to report to A&E, and ended up in hospital for a week, and came out with mega high blood glucose readings.

  There is a fair chance, despite some tricks I may try to keep my blood pressure a bit lower, my colonoscopy next Monday will not happen. As I have said before, I will not go to A&E this time, but will go home, have a snooze, and a decent meal. After that my blood pressure will be back into the usual figures in a few hours, and that will be the last of it. I may even keep my blood glucose nice and low as well.

  This morning my blood pressure is mostly good, and slightly not so good. The Systolic and Diastolic were 122/74, or very average, and nothing to worry about. My heart rate was 89, and while that is almost safely in the middle of the expected numbers, it feels like less would be better. When they put on the blood pressure machine on Monday, in the endoscopy unit, my Systolic blood pressure could hit 200 (or more) based on past experience, and it is past experience that will trigger it !

  Today could easily be a duplicate of yesterday, except the weather is worse, and I am less like to go out. Anyway, it seems that as far as weight loss and blood glucose is concerned, it doesn't seem like I need any exercise while I am on the low fibre diet. In other aspects, like back pain, and keeping my legs in good working order, a walk would be useful. I shall consider it, but I doubt I'll go out in this grim weather.