Day 9 - Woman In A Dressing Gown.
Not only was Saturday the worst day of my LL so far but it also provided me with my biggest challenge.

Woke up that morning to find that my period had started. I was wracked with stomach cramps, felt weak, tired, had a headache and was feeling just awful.

I had absolutely no energy and spent the majority of the day either in bed or curled up in a ball on the sofa. Dragged myself down to my Stop In (lost another lb so that's now 10lb down in total) and dragged myself back to the sofa again.

Any woman will tell you that there are certain things which you have to have in order to survive a period and they are:
1) Chocolate
2) Wine
3) A ton of carbohydrate in the form of either bread or crisps or a pie or..............well you get the idea.
4) A damn good cry if you fancy it.

Unfortunately numbers 1 to 3 are out of bounds but I came very close to number 4 when my husband decided to settle down for the evening with a big packet of Doritos, a massive bar of Galaxy fruit & nut and a cold beer. Bloody tease.

For those who don't know, my husband is one of those really annoying people who can consume great quantities of rubbish, fatty, calorie heavy food and not put on an ounce. In fact he struggles to maintain his weight. I, on the other hand, have always 'eaten like a bird' - hands up if you've ever uttered that phrase before! Anyway, I have a theory which explains how he has stayed slim and I've gained weight..........every night when we go to bed and he snuggles up beside me the fat from all the rubbish he's eaten travels in to my body by way of osmosis! It's the only way I can explain it.

Interesting thing I learnt today............allegedly, astronaut food is exactly the same as LL foodpacks! So, the other day when I said that I felt like a space cadet I wasn't far away from the truth.