Day Sixty One...

Hi,
I have just counted my days back and think I got confused with the days along the way! Anyway, I am onto Day 61 today. I'm sorry I haven't posted for a few days, Chris and I went camping in Pooley Bridge in the Lake District at the weekend to get away from it all for a bit and try and relax! We had a nice time however at 1am on the second night, the tent collapsed with the wind! The picture on the right is of the space where the tent once was, we had to bunk into Shaun and Dianes tent for the night!! Hmmm so much for buying a tent from Ebay. I enjoyed camping though, it is definitely something I would do again, just with a more sturdy tent! We only stayed two nights but it was enough to get a feel for it. As you can see I kept nice and cosy with my hat and lots of layers of clothes. I couldn't believe Chris and his friend Shaun went into the lake on Saturday with their wet suits.. it was freezing. I stayed nice and warm in the 'sitting room' of the tent.
Sunday was Chris' Birthday, he was 28! God, it makes me feel old, I can't wait until he is 30 something and I can say we are both in our 30's. We had a BBQ on Sunday for his Birthday, we got back from camping at 11 and he spend most of the day with his family after opening his presents. The BBQ was lovely and eveyone pitched in by supplying food and helping with the cooking leaving me with little to do, thanks for that!! Thanks Mr. Fix It (AKA Dad) for your endless patience with setting up the BBQ and patio heater and gazebo and everything else!! Oh and for getting the tent back in the bag.. what a challenge!
So I suppose I should get onto the diet bit considering that is what the blog is about afterall. For three days I increased my calorie intake to 1000 from approximately 700 (hence the cooking of my fat free organic burgers on our camping stove) and thankfully I was the same weight Sunday, I am also still in Ketosis so we will just have to see on Thursday if there was any damage caused overall! I'm back to basics again from today however have found it really hard after increasing my intake for three days, it's amazing how quickly your body gets used to that extra 'fuel'.
So.. today is Tuesday, I had my follow up at the Doctors today. I didn't feel too good last night and I was up through the night ill, needless to say I didn't sleep very much so I stayed off all day today and after further examination from the Doctor he has signed my off sick until next Monday. I am however, determined to go back on Monday as I need to get back to a routine and things need to return to normal I think for me to feel properly better.

Thanks for all of the support over my last two posts, thanks Lisa Marie and Auntie Eileen for printing out my entire blog and catching up, thank you Gemma, Lesley, Cath, Chris (mars), Melanie, E and Mrs (whose blog my pc will still not let me comment on however I am reading)! It makes a huge difference knowing people keep up to date as it forces me to consider just how I would explain going off the rails! Thanks also to those of you who keep reading, Mam, Dad, Louise, Helen Linzi, Meechel and Jane. John do you still pop in on occasions??

Anyway back to the blog, as I lost my Birthday post on 1st May I just wanted it noted that I still lost 2 and a half, two days after my Birthday at my weigh in and I was very pleased with myself!!! I got some lovely present off my family and Chris (my lovely fiance in case I never mentioned) bought me sat nav to stop me getting lost, being flashed by cameras, parking illegally and running out of petrol. It's amazing what one little machine can do!
The picture on the left is of me and my friend Claire and the one just above is me and my Mam on my Birthday, (notice the glass of water in front of me).
Well I'm exhausted now after all of the blogging, Chris is playing on the PS3 and I'm off for an early night..cos I'm knackered and have a rather dodgy stomach, if you're still reading thank you very much and I look forward to keeping you posted :o)