Tag: obesity


  • Countdown – 13

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    Day 13 pre-op Day 15 pre-op VLCD. Dinner last night: Warm Prawn Salad. === Rain: 0 Dinner was a bit ‘meh’ to be honest. The prawns were a bit tough – I think they might have had a bit of freezer-burn. The mizzle came back in overnight. This morning when I was cleaning up I…

  • Countdown – 14

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    Day 14 pre-op Day 14 pre-op VLCD. – – – a meeting of the numbers! Dinner last night: Pulled Pork & Mash. === Rain: 0 I spent most of the morning doing laundry and in between loads I was doing work out in our bus, trying to get the window covers cut to shape. It’s…

  • Countdown – 19

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    Day 19 pre-op Day 9 pre-op VLCD. Dinner last night: Fish Tacos === Rain: 4.5 Last night I ate too much. We had fish tacos for dinner. An absolute favourite inner house, and my Dietician had even been kind enough to recommend some wraps that would be suitable so that we could still have them…

  • Countdown – 20

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    Day 20 pre-op Day 8 pre-op VLCD. Dinner last night: Warm Chicken & Prawn Salad. === Rain: 14 I have a bit of a case of cabin fever. My car is still in the mechanic shop, and the rain continues. Thank goodness we live on our Farm where I can get outside, even if I…

  • Countdown – 26

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    Day 26 pre-op Day 2 pre-op VLCD. Dinner last night: Frittata, with a jelly and lemon mousse dessert. === “only” 8.5mm of rain since yesterday. There is something shiny in the sky today, but that’s all I’m saying about that right now!! I feel like my first day of VLCD went really well yesterday. I…

  • Countdown – 32

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    Day 32 pre-op 4 days pre vlcd. Dinner last night: Garlic prawns on rice. === 20mm of rain overnight – I’m about ready to cry. We seriously need a damn break…Actually – scrap that. Today, I have cried when each fresh downpour begins. We didn’t even have the tease of sun breaking through this morning,…

  • Countdown – 36

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    Day 36 pre-op 8 days pre vlcd. Dinner last night: Nachos with chilli beef. Our sons flight was cancelled so we needed to change him to a different flight – which my Wife did – and he was now on the 9:30 flight instead of the 8:15 flight. That’s ok – he was still going…

  • Countdown – 37

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    Day 37 pre-op. 9 days pre vlcd. Dinner last night: Ham, Eggs, Baked Beans and Toast. Most of the external work for the Wi-Fi extender has been done by my Wife, so this morning I did the internal bit of plugging in the hardware (which she will properly attach to the wall later) and setting…

  • Countdown – 38

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    Day 38 pre-op 10 days pre vlcd. Dinner last night: Lamb Cutlets marinated in lemon juice and pepper, with Steam-fried Rice. I was listening to an audiobook this morning – “Diary of a Fat Girl” – and in one of the chapters she was talking about her bath towel wrapping around her and how she…

  • Countdown – 46

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    I’m going to try and make it a habit of daily blogging, but I don’t know how that will go over the Christmas / New Year break as my Wife will be mostly home for a couple of days during that period and it’s not often that we get to spend extended time together, so…