Day 5

Mike

Another good day for me. This is easy! I feel revitalised and full of energy and life. My clothes are already starting to fit me better and I feel much lighter. I have only had a couple of very brief periods of itchiness on my feet which is a minor miracle as before it was getting to the point of me wanting a grater to get under my skin for relief.

I did have one minor faux pas today. Liz had previously got me a little flask to keep my milk cold when i used to take cereal to work with me. I have to say it only got used once as i never had time to pack myself up food to take to work (or i just liked either having a full English or a marks and spencer sandwich and cheese tasters to eat) but the thought was there. In my attempts to make my lunchtime shake i managed to cover myself and the car in strawberry tescoslim powder. I also discovered in this moment that there was not enough room in the flask to properly mix the shake so i was drinking partly strawberry flavoured milk with lumps of strawberry powder to go with it. I probably looked like a crazy addict with powder everywhere and me shaking this flask like a lunatic. Worse still from some angles it could have looked like i was pleasuring myself in the school car park. To confirm I wasn’t.......

I prepped dinner again whilst Liz went and got her nails done. I am enjoying experimenting with flavours and different ways of cooking things. Who would have thought that stir fried mushrooms and cauliflower in a mix of olive oil, soy sauce, curry powder and black pepper would taste so good.

I have been cheekily weighing myself daily to measure how i am getting on but i won’t spoil the output until Saturday which is weigh in day. I then get a message from Liz to say she had been naughty and weighed herself. She was relieved that i was doing the same.

Carpe Diem 4L

Liz

I had my first headache! It only lasted 20mins but it was there and it was strong, I was on track with my water intake and I’d had my 2 shakes so far. Don’t know where it came from but it went pretty swiftly which I was grateful of. The wind hasn’t stopped yet! And my constant trips to the bathroom to pee are once an hour throughout the day. Hoping this soon calms down.

I’ve not had any ham conversations/arguments today which is good progress and I haven’t even thought about it till now...... oh wafer thin ham, I’m sorry we can’t be friends, I’ll eat you again one day (but in a much smaller quantity).

So I went out to have my nails done this evening (every girl has to be pampered every now and then), I asked Mike to cook the dinner whilst I was out, as I left he asked ‘do you mind spice in it’, I replied ‘just a little, not the amount you want’, to which he replied ‘ok’........... this is where it ends, came back and reheated my dinner (stir fry, I’m starting to love stir fry). Well I thought I did....... my mouth is still stinging now! 45mins after eating it! Mike says it was only ’a little curry powder’, we need to chat about quantities. I must admit it did taste nice but i have a very sensitive pallet and this spice has burnt it! 1 more shake to go this evening, water to finish and i’m still on track! We can and will do this together.