Day 6 - The Lady Vanishes
Just come back from my second LL group meeting and....................have lost another 3lbs since Sunday!!
That's a total of 9lbs in just 6 days. I'm turning in to Mrs Pepperpot. I used to love those stories when I was a kid only I hope I don't 'pop' back to my bigger size after I've shrunk!!

At our group meeting this week we had to draw a picture of something which represents where we want to be/what we want at the end of this journey. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I am rubbish at art. I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler so this was a real challenge for me. I made a valiant effort to produce a picture which vaguely resembled some gorgeous & sexy Agent Provocateur underwear but in reality my picture resembled an incredibly massive pair of pants and a couple of triangles on a line!! And, bearing in mind that I'm not getting any younger and should think about having children at some point, when the weight is off and I'm feeling fit & healthy, I also tried to draw a baby. If I told you that the lady next to me leaned over and asked me why I had drawn a peg then you might start to comprehend just how bad my sketching skills really are! Mind you, Salvador Dali would probably have loved it.

You learn some amazing things at these group meetings - for example; one of my co-lifers has read on the internet that if you make a thick paste out of the soup, put it in blobs onto some greaseproof paper & pop it in the microwave for about 90 seconds you end up with crisps. She's tried it and with plenty of tobasco sauce (we're allowed that) salt and pepper they apparently taste amazing.

It's all out there, on the net, lots of different ways to use your foodpacks to make life more interesting. I shall have to do some research.

Here's a thought though - how desperately bored with the foodpacks does someone have to be before they start putting blobs of soup in the microwave and, as a result, discover you an make crisps??

This week we also found out that we can have two of the LL savoury drinks a day, on top of the four foodpacks, and we were given some to try. Very nice - like a vegetable/chicken stock type drink. As you can imagine we all picked up a box and I will certainly be making the most of mine.

Well that's it for me tonight - got a long drive tomorrow so need to get some sleep.

Thought for today - how is it that I have managed to drink almost 6 litres of water today (not to mention all the liquid in my drinks and soups) and yet my ketosis test tonight showed that I am dehydrated? Answers on a comment post please.........