Gearing up for weekly weigh in/I do not know what I am doing.

I am sick people, recovering but sick. The last day I went to the gym was Christmas eve, which I'm sure you can imagine made me feel like a fabulous hero. I was planning on missing Christmas (the gym isn't even open then and I knew even if it was I would get justified family ridicule) and then going back on boxing day. I was planning on that. I woke up on boxing day to find myself sick, something viral in my throat which by boxing day night had rapidly turned into tonsillitis. I am telling you, whatever Doctor decided in my childhood 'We should probably keep those in there, what harm could they reap ten years later?' clearly dropped the ball. Hard.

So since the 26th of December I have have done a formidable impersonation of a blanket, splayed out in bed, not moving. Two kinds of antibiotics later, I do feel much better. Not like 'you wouldn't wana meet me in a dark alley' strong. But stronger.

I typically do my weigh in's on Saturday's. I was sort of torn about tomorrow's weigh in for a whole bunch of reasons:

*Although I stuffed myself with turkey, gravy, potatoes, cheese appetizers and tiramisu /trifle for three days straight, I also ate sporadically and very little when I was sick.

*Yesterday was the last day of my period. I skip Saturday weigh ins on weeks when I have my period because I have so much water retention that it just messes with my head, I know it takes about three days to get that off so I'm a little iffy on that.

*I'm dehydrated from being sick which could come through in either water retention because my body is holding onto it or in a loss because I'm retaining very little.


So If I have gained, I'm not sure I can trust that, and if I have lost any (doubtful) I'm not sure I can trust that either. Alas, I'm going to do that anyways. I have decided to start posting my Saturday weigh ins as well. I figure whatever it is, take it with a pinch of salt (Salt substitute, don't want to bloat) and focus on next week's weigh in.

I also wanted to say, I don't know how to blog. I want to make it very clear I don't know what I'm doing. I don't at this point even know what a plug-in is. I don't have facebook (I'm the only one left standing) or twitter, which I realize might be a problem. I don't know what I'm doing, but yesterday I felt anxious and jumbled and worried and it made me feel better when I posted. In a big way. Lighter in a way that has nothing to do with calories. So for that, I'm going to stumble my way through, because it made this feel worthwhile. I didn't really know what I was doing when I started losing weight, but I'm learning and in the same way, I hope I can continue to stumble through this whilst I begin to learn.