Day 24 and 104 kilos
WTF? I'm gaining weight? Is this magic? How can this possibly be happening? My body seems to defy basic principles. Water and vitamin supplements go in as well as coconut water (which was stopped on Monday night) and for the last three days I have gained half a kilo a day. Let me put this in clear perspective for you.
Day 15 = 104 kilos
Day 16 = 105 kilos
Day 17 = 104 kilos
Day 18 = 103 kilos
Day 19 = 102.5 kilos
Day 20 = 103 kilos
Day 21 = 102.5 kilos
Day 22 = 103 kilos
Day 23 = 103.5 kilos
Day 24 = 104 kilos
So today my body weight on the scales is exactly the same as it was when I woke up ten days ago! During that time, the only possible calorific content that I have consumed is from coconut water or the "tastes" of the food that I was cooking last weekend. I have cycled many kilometres, swum in the pool, played squash twice (gently I know but still enough to break into a sweat) and carried on my normal day to day life. Can anybody explain then how it is that not only am I not losing weight but in fact am putting it on? Any doctors in the house? Am I from another planet? Do I have an Ironman style alternative power source? I am looking for answers on the Interweb but if anyone else can give me an explanation I'd be grateful.
I have dispensed now with the coconut water, I have not cooked since Sunday so I have not even tasted any food (which makes it sound as though I were having mouthfulls before - I wasn't) however I am not exercising at the moment. This is as a result of a visit to the driving range with Jamie on Monday night. The twisting motions of a golf shot have really caused my knee to become inflamed and as a result the only thing that my 8 iron is now good for, as far as I'm concerned, is as a walking stick. Yes, I am hobbling and in a quite surprising amount of pain. So unfortunately I am now sort of "off games". I have managed to shed enough fat however to risk taking my shirt off in public in order to go for a swim. Therefore I will try today to swim without using my legs and see what happens. I'm reasonably hopeful that this will be okay as I seem to have run out of other exercise options.
As my knees have been becoming progressively worse over the last few months I am dreading the idea that maybe I have arthritis in my knees - time to go back to the doctor and get an MRI scan. Shit!
The whole purpose of the fast was to shift some fat - so I'm sure you can all imagine how frustrated I feel as well as perplexed! Sadly I don't have the energy to be angry today so I'm sulking instead.
Unfortunately Jamie has now returned to Hong Kong but on the plus side the chief has returned from India.
On the topic of WTF? here's something that the the chief sent me that made me smile:
 |
| Mothers - you've got to love them! |
