These Noisy Pachyderm

Hello friends

As those who know me will already be aware, I've been poorly for the past few days.  I woke with a screaming mo-fo headache during the night on Monday, my darling MB was up and down bringing me tablets, water etc, but nothing shifted it.  Needless to say the 6.20am was not a welcome visitor.  However, a brisk walk to the station cleared off some of the cobwebs, and a few of the tapdancing elephants in my skull seemed to take a bit of a nap.  Unfortunately, there were apparently quite a few of these noisy pachyderm up there and some were wide awake, so whilst the pain toned down a notch from "I want to pull my brain out through my nose" down to "OK, if I sit in the dark and don't speak or blink it is just bearable", it remained constant.

This posed a problem for me.  Firstly, I was at work, and as I am only in for a few days this week it is mega, mega busy. 

Secondly, and as you have already heard me say - and yes I know, you've heard it many, many times - I HATE the breakfasts on this plan.  Sliding  beans, spinach, lentils etc down my throat when I get up is something I dread and it makes me feel queazy all day.  I can just about manage an egg, if I must, on a good day, but when dumbo is kicking out his best Fred Astaire moves in my head it just aint happening and there is no way I can swallow that without knowing for certain it is going to come back for an encore.  So I skipped breakfast and apparently that too, is very, very bad.

By mid-morning I was feeling really sick and decided that Ferriss or no Ferris, I have to eat and it aint gonna be a lentil. So I bought a tuna sandwich (wholemeal bread) and a carton of orange juice.  I felt better for a bit, but soon back to bad.

This palava went on for two days.  I was almost crying with the pain and I therefore decided to scrap the diet altogether (until then I'd been very good with my protein shakes, my ham and beans for lunch, my riceless chilli for supper)  and I popped out to Starbucks for an iced full fat latte.  Oh yes, and a brownie (shhhhhh, I haven't told anyone that bit).  Literally within 30 minutes my headache was gone - it seemed these naughty noisy elephants just wanted a cup of good old caffeine to quieten them down.

So today, I am feeling on top of the world but have decided to tweak my diet slightly.  I am no longer engaging in the nonsense that is Ferriss friendly breakfast, but instead I will partake of a normal (albeit moderate) petit dejeuner which may be toast, it may be cereal, it may be fruit, it may be yoghurt.  It may be whatever the hell I fancy on any given day. And it will be accompanied by my one and only full caffeine coffee of the day - the rest of the time I will be drinking either decaf or herbal tea.  But then lunch and dinner I am back on the plan, like a good girl. 

I have also made two further changes which I think will help my reach my goals.

I now keep a 1.5 litre bottle of water on my desk and I am determined to finish at least one of these a day (bearing in mind I already drink two or three glasses a night at home - I drink a glass before bed, I then take one with me and have another when I wake up).

The other and far more exciting (for me) step is that I have also now implemented my kettle bell swings.  I have only done the 8kg so far and to be honest I think the weight is a little light, but I do 25, stop then do another 25 twice a day.  So committed am I that I even did them when i got in at 1.30am this morning!  I know I can do more than that both in terms of weight and reps, but I want to go slowly so that I build my strength bit by bit, rather than risking injury.  I actually really enjoy the mini workout too, so now that I've been doing this a while I am going to increase to perhaps 35/35 and see how I get on.  When I get to 50/50 on the 8s then I'll up the weight to the 10kg and see how that goes.

Watch this space, I'll be posting pics of my perfectly peachy posterior in no time...

Ellesbelles xxxx