Part Two

So, pneumonia.  Not fun, even the milder form I've had.  I have let myself become so rundown, it's really my own fault.  I was away for a few days in the early stages of my cold, ran out of vitamin D and had no food options that were grain free.  I indulged.  Greatly.  Even after I came home, I carried on the indulgence.  My excuse?  I was feeling so bad and cooking anything healthy was such an effort.  For the last two weeks I have cooked one meal, possibly two.  The rest of the time it's been junk, frozen indian dinners, and a few times my partner has cooked.  Toast for breakfast.  When I've been at work I've usually eaten potato chips and there were some jaffas the other day as well.  I know better than this!!!  Now that I'm beginning to get better and contemplate some normalcy returning, I'm horrified at myself.  But I'm also grateful in a way.  Sometimes it's not until you hit rock bottom that you can really see how low things have gone.

Flicking through "Perfect Health Diet" (PHD) yesterday was just the right solution.  I'm not about to push myself to get it all working at once.  For this week I'm looking at vitamins, eliminating grains and sugars, taking good food to work, and cooking decent dinners again.  Tonight I'm going to see if I can sneak some liver in with the mince to see if anyone notices it.  If I can get away with it then I shall!

Next week I'm hoping I can get back to some light walking and some gentle body weight exercises as I've realised just how out of shape I've become over winter.

Now, I'm off to make coffee.  I've heard talk of adding coconut oil to it, so I might try that and see if it makes any difference to the flavour or not.  And I shall have an hour of knitting up my sleeve to get stuck back in to my Angostura, which has been languishing unloved for a couple of weeks at the left front shoulder decreasing stage where I need to pay much attention to if I want it to turn out right!