I completely understand. Mind you, what I didnt realise initially is that the regime is for 30 days then you can reinstate the foods you miss while monitoring how they affect you. So you do change it to suit you after the 30 days.I started off with the Whole 30 back in 2012 then changed to Primal which I kept to for a few years.. Now I try and eat a bit of everything in moderation. I've cut out sugar and coffee. As long as I get the essential vitamins etc in then I am done with having to avoid certain food groups.
I am at an age where I want to enjoy what I eat not have to give it up.
Good luck @ladyfelsham with Slimming World. Just avoid those naughty Hi-Fi bars.
Hi Susie, I too had the exact same symptoms as you. I had runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, felt tired etc. and it too lasted for 2-3 days and felt perfectly back to normal. I had a negative lateral flow and a negative PCR! I'm not sure of the accuracy of the lateral flow but I think the PCR is an accurate test. It could be there is kind of regular cold going around. I work amongst the public and around hundreds of people a day throughout the whole of this and wear a mask so it is likely to have been a cold as I've avoided it so far. However saying that, my son (who I've not seen since beginning of December so we didn't have recent contact) had 4 negative lateral flow and a positive PCR but the same symptoms as I did, it's all very confusing. I think the PCR test will come up positive for weeks or months after if you did indeed have it, so you can still book a test and find out I think. I too thought it strange to have a cold for just 2-3 days and feel perfectly normal. Is it possible to have a false negative PCR? I have no idea. It took me a day to book the PCR and often you'll find at about 7-8 am appointments become magically available where there are none before that.Morning all - I'm still here although diet plans have gone out the window completely over Christmas/New Year - oh my there was no stopping me! it didn't help that I got omicron 2 weeks ago - at least I think it was, because the LF tests I ordered arrived yesterday (!) and there are no PCRs to be had in the county. But I had key symptoms - runny nose, sore throat, etc, so self isolated anyway although i only had these symptoms for 2-3 days, then felt fine. Just shows you how virulent the thing is, the only exposure I had was 5 mins with an unmasked grocery delivery man.
Keto is out too. After a little respite from RLS it got a million times worse! Over a few weeks I took food types out, added some in, and it turns out that the high protein/fat approach is the culprit, to the extent that I was getting only an hour's sleep a night, if that. I introduced carbs back in to my food and hey presto, the RLS eased up quite a bit - hasn't stopped, sadly, I've got it going on now, but it's more manageable.
So I've had to flip my approach back to carbs and low fat. I'm heading back to SW too, it's the plan I lost the most weight on. I was going to go on Thursday but a foot of snow in 3 hours made me decide to stay indoors instead - so next Thursday is the new start date
Really need to get some weight off quickly though, my hip is starting to hurt (channelling @tipperary!) a lot, and I've also bought a flight home in March for six weeks woohoo! Can't wait to see everyone - but I have a feeling that, although i will love being back, that it won't feel like home anymore. Be good to feel finally settled in my mind.
Off to catch up on diaries now xx
Oh Susie, how horrible to have such pain in your legs. As for the pig-out pre diet, Ive done that! I think we all do stupid things, because we are human. It doesn't matter now. That was in the past, you can move on.
Well more like advocating for myself
Medication can have positive or negative results on our bloods. I am on numerous medications which lowers the sodium levels in my blood to a very low level not in therapeutic range. Every time I had bloods they had to be repeated. Till in the end fed up being a pin cushion I armed myself with documentation showing which medication lowered sodium levels and I was on about 3 of them Stopped using me as a pin cushion now. Good for you for advocating for yourself. Glad your new medication is having good results. since starting my weight loss journey I have stopped my blood pressure medication as I now have a normal to low blood pressure now and cholesterol tablets have been reduced such a wonderful feeling to feel my weight loss is impacting my health in a positive way instead of negative.I kept getting told that they needed to see my bloodwork of my 3 month average blood glucose levels (hba1c test) until I pointed out that I have had 4 medication changes due to side effects so unless it can pinpoint what happened under what medication, my meter tells me more than that does at the moment.
New meds and today is day 3. already seeing a difference
