Hope everything is ok. Considering sending a search party towards Norfolk...
I'm still here ladies, but have had one of 'those' weeks/fortnights. Thanks for popping in to check on me though.
My work has been quite crazily busy: OH's issue at his work has been resolved, (well his personal part in it has been - the company still have to sort out various issues to make sure the same thing can't happen again), so he has had meetings about that to attend. Things worked out completely in his favour, which was good. He had right on his side, as they say, but you still don't know until it is over, do you? I have also had my interview and been accepted on to the higher level apprenticeship, but thankfully the work for that won't start until after Easter. We had to have Anglian Water out to unblock our drains, our landlord seems to have lost the order for our new bathroom heater (7 weeks waiting now), the clutch has gone on OH's work van... and so it continues!
All in all, it has been a very tiring week and to add to that I have felt very emotional, as yesterday (Friday) would have been my mum's 90th birthday, and this time of year also has some other painful memories associated with the dates.
We have had several meals out - partly because I found three lots of Tesco coupons for food at Pizza Express, Ask Italian etc., which I had forgotten about, and which expired this weekend, so we had to use them up ASAP.
Therefore, no calorie counting or carb counting for me this week. First day of the holidays today! OH has bought me a late birthday pressi of a personalised number plate for the Beetle. Get me! We popped into town to get the plates made up, did some Tesco shopping for basics and had a quick lunch at Wetherspoons. I am really pleased as I am able to relax a bit on the gluten front now. As long as I don't go mad I can tolerate small amounts, so I had a steak and kidney pudding with gravy, peas and chips. I cut off most of the suet pastry and just ate the base, but it was worth sacrificing the pastry for steak and kidney! I am experimenting to see what I can eat without too bad a reaction. Bread is still not good, but so far the pastry has been ok.
Definitely off the primal path at the moment. Over the holidays my aim is to eat basically 'healthily', but I need to eat up some of the house food supplies with minimal spending until payday, and to clear out the freezers and pantry, so I will be using up some pulses and some rice flour here and there.
I am considering an occasional fast day, or fasting windows, over the two weeks - mainly because I feel I need a bit of a kick start (re start really!) I may continue with that idea when I get back to Primal 'properly', as I have read that the two (primal and fasting) work well together. I'm not sure yet tbh. I have a huge list of spring cleaning to work through in the first week, so OH and I can enjoy some downtime in the second week. If I can get that done, hopefully with a bit of gardening, some exercise and proper cooking each day, then I will be happy. I may get some fast days in too, or I may not. Monday evening we have a Group-on voucher to use up for a three course meal, so one of my first fasting or low cal windows could well be Monday morning and afternoon!
I will try to do a bit of diary catching up over the next few days, to see how everybody is getting on. Off to bed soon.
