This morning did feel a bit fresher, but I was expecting 16° C to feel a lot fresher. This morning we may have full sunshine until midday, but then we will only see sunny spells for the rest of the day. No rain is expected today, and the afternoon temperature will be 28° C for a single hour. Tonight may be like last night - looking cool at about 16° C again, but maybe not feeling all that cool. Tomorrow may only see some sunny spells in the early morning, and early evening. The rest of the day will be dull with an afternoon high of just 22° C.
 
  On the one hand, yesterday seemed like it was a semi good day, but in reality it was a disaster for reasons that I'll mention at the end of today's diary entry.

  I guess things got off to a good start yesterday. After my usual ritual of a lie down after I finished writing yesterday's piece I had a shower, and git dressed ready to go out - but not straight away. I still had a fantasy that the postman might deliver my latest order from Aliexpress, but that never happened. He did bring two letters. One was from the council about my council tax single person allowance. They wanted me to confirm that my friend Patricia was not living her. She used my address as a convenient London address for things like her banking and for the NHS - but she hasn't stayed here for more than the odd day for years and years.

  The other latter was particularly annoying. It seems that my Tesco savings account will no longer have a card for withdrawals at cash machines. It seems the only way to get cash out of the account now is to transfer it to another account. I think I will start using my savings to pay off my Tesco credit card. Quite why they have decided on this madness has not been explained. At a guess they have had some sort of dispute with the Link network that allows withdrawals at "hole in the wall" cash machines owned by other banks. Maybe it is time to slowly empty that Savings account, and maybe start with another bank or building society.

  Once I had confirmed that the postman had been and gone I took a walk to Aldi. There were several things I wanted to buy from Aldi, but as usual I bought an awful lot more than those things. I made a point of buying quite a few items that might support weight loss (and low blood glucose), but this morning I have come to realise that I also bought some things with the complete opposite effect.

  I think it was because I had bought not only a 9 pack of toilet rolls, but also a 3 pack of giant paper kitchen towels, that I needed three shopping bags (plus my rucksack for some heavy bottles of Diet Coke and a few other things) to lug everything home. It was a fairly arduous walk, but apart from a couple of very brief stops to blow my nose, or mop my damp brow, I had no negative effects of carrying all that stuff home.

  Once home, and my shopping put away, I had some lunch. It was a couple of packs of Aldi brand, ready made sandwiches. Generally they seem fairly safe in terms of calorie counts and sugar content. It was later on that things really went wrong. I was generally lazy until dinner time approached, but as it did I made the stupid mistake of giving in to a desire to have some of the "cookies and cream" flavoured ice cream I had bought. It was just a 500ml tub, and for some silly reason I said I could manage my consumption of a small tub better than a large tub - that is what I wrote yesterday, and it turned out to be complete and utter nonsense (or it did this time). I had a slightly restrained amount before I started preparing my dinner.

  I don't think my dinner was very good for my health. It was a sort of do it yourself dinner. Inside a big box were a bag of chips, a bag of chicken nuggets, and a bag of vegetables. The instruction said to grill the chips until they were part done, and then add the chicken nuggets and the vegetables before roasting/grilling everything until the recommended time in the oven had elapsed.

  I think the box says it serves two, but to my mind there would need to be something else to support that, but I guess the box by itself would feed one and a half hungry persons. I ate the lot, and it didn't feel to be a particularly big meal. It was one of those curious meals that should have been very nice, but it was actually decidedly average, and I would not be tempted to buy another.

  It was after the main course that I decided I would have just a little more ice cream, and then went on to finish the rest of the 500ml tub. As I got towards the bottom of the tub (or maybe "carton" sounds less dramatic) I began to get that "I'm doomed" feeling. I think I resisted eating any more for the rest of the night....at least I think I did.

  Last night was the usual TV watching, but last night included an episode of QI and Have I Got News For You, and it was 11pm before I turned off the TV and went to bed. I know I started reading in bed, but I think I started to feel sleepy, and put the book down before midnight. I was almost certainly fast asleep by midnight. I seemed to sleep quite well, but I did wake up around 4am (I think) feeling a bit chilly. I turned the fan off, and half covered myself with the duvet. I'm pretty sure I had almost kicked the duvet aside before I got back to some good sleep.

  When it was finally time to get up (and I can't quite put a time on that) I did the usual routine, starting with a visit to the toilet. I definitely did a fairly big pee, but no poo. I seemed to have emptied myself out after the constipation I had broke yesterday morning - and it was a very uncomfortable affair too. It was also surprising uncomfortable when the laxative tablet I had taken the night before, finally kicked in at about 6pm yesterday. A couple more poos just whooshed out, but it was still rather uncomfortable because everything was still tender after the morning.

  I don't think that this time I can blame no morning poo for a dramatic increase in weight this morning. I am not even sure I can blame all the ice cream I ate. In fact I don't know what to blame for an increase of 1.5kg. That is a horrendous increase for 24 hours. I really should have skipped breakfast this morning, but my stomach was turning somersaults as if it was starving hungry - and there was no way that it could have been.

  On top of the weight gain, my blood glucose was madly high this morning, but fortunately just of the safe(ish) side of the red line.  All three meters almost agreed with each other. I got readings of 9.8, 9.8, and 9.4mmol/l. That gives an average of 9.7mmol/l, and only on two other days this month has it been slightly higher. If I had to come up with a feeble excuse I would say I am still adjusting to stopping taking Mounjaro. There may be a little bit of truth in that, but right or wrong, it is all still temptations I must try and fight.

  Today there is no more information about the progress of my Aliexpress parcel(s). Like the day before, they have "left the sorting centre", wherever that is, and the most up to date progress report. I still suspect that the parcel (or two parcels) have been handed to Royal Mail for final delivery - and Royal Mail only report tracking information when the parcels are finally deliver. No intermediate stops are described.

  I ought to try and go for a long walk today, but I suspect the best I will do is a walk to The Jolly Farmers. I might possibly go the long way around, or I may not go at all. I find things like this very hard to predict as I teeter between finding walking to be far easier now, but also sometimes not. For instance, I still don't feel up to the idea of a long train ride for a walk in the country, or along a beach somewhere, and yet I really want to do both things.