Thursday and I wake up feeling more human than I have done since my injection on Monday so I take my vitals which are super normal today. I get up and get into my training gear and take my morning meds and head for the garage. Its four days since I have been able to train so I go for an hour session. I set myself up and get underway. My body is not initially keen on the exercise but I get going after a while as listen to yet another Mark Steels in Town. Its a bit of a grind but I do manage a 11+k distance and a 700+ calorie burn. I’m okay with that as a session to get me going again.
When I check how many PAI points this has earned me on my fitness tracker it is disappointingly few, it makes me wonder if the tracker is working properly. I record my session in my journal and then take myself off for a shower. While in the mood I hop onto the scales and to my surprise find I have cracked the 100k barrier. I come in at 99.7 kilos at least 2 kilos less than I was when I started out on my “no sweets, biscuits and cake” regime. This is an unexpected bonus, I just hope I can continue it till my official weigh in on Sunday morning. I am convinced that the issues I face at the moment are mostly caused by carrying too much weight (flab and fat), hence weight loss being one of my primary targets.
I down a lunch of ham sandwich and a diet Red Bull and head to the chiropodist in the next village. I am early but ushered in early by the chiropodist who is still waiting for her new chair. She sets to work on my feet adn we chat as she expertly puts my feet in order. About thirty minutes later my feet are singing with joy as they have been rejuvenated. I’m up for a dance.
I pop my socks back on, pay and pencil in my next appointment and make my way home where there is a news paper waiting for me to do the crosswords. Its a good day as I cruise through my regular ones without Google assistance. With my body and brain exercised I start to draft the blog before the evening begins in earnest. As England are playing Greece tonight I shall watch it and then slot into my pre-bed routine of meds, a brief read and then sleep.
Of course a lot more goes on between the cracks of the day, there are messages and emails to be dealt with, not to mention the persistent sales folk. Chief of these are the folk from E.O.N who are trying to get me to have a SMART meter. Full marks for tenacity, but they stand no chance when I just tell them I am not having one and put the phone down on them. The amount of energy used in the manufacture, upgrade and fitting of them is astronomical, not to mention the resources used, with them the companies could reduce my bill. I am quite happy to read my meters and send them my readings via the app. In fact they should give a “competent human being” discount on my bill. Anyway I exchange messages with friends as I begin to try and organise a pre Christmas trip to York to see some of my friends. From my post and messages it feels like people are going abroad more frequently now since the COVID era. Hopefully in the Spring I will be amongst them.
