Pain Stopped Play..... February/March update for 12in12 2022 Challenge

So.. the euphoria of the success of January (which conversely for me finished on February 9th..) was a little too euphoric … it lasted about two weeks of bacchanalian feasting, drinking and general lack of control…. Well 12 days actually and then I had an operation on my neck which went a little wrong… so then there really was no control…Pain stopped play… all in all I have now hit rock bottom unfortunately rock bottom is actually the top of the scales for me… I even hit 160 at one point.. never, ever in my adult life have I hit that number before.. I can’t really exercise, I am on the strongest painkillers known to mankind which means I orbit the earth above me - my downfall when I look back has been wine and chocolate biscuits.. I just can’t stop eating chocolate biscuits, oh and there was a packet of ginger snaps in there too… oh and Gelato, rather a lot of Gelato… and I could go on…

Any of you who have experienced acute pain 24 hours a day will know how it is.. it is impossible to concentrate on anything or be happy when you are in constant, excruciating pain… the thought of not eating and being hungry as well is just not even a thought that is possible let alone a reality… obviously being unable to exercise has its own effect as there is no calorie deficit to even begin to offset one chocolate biscuit let alone the whole pack!  

The only upside is that the painkillers are so strong that it feels as if you are drunk for most of the day so you cannot drink more than one glass of wine and even then most of the time you don’t even feel like having that so at least there is no empty calorie count from that quarter..

So how does that leave me with the challenge…. Well I was supposed to be 150lbs on March 9th but actually topped 158lbs…. Hmmm…. It would be easy to give up now but I am not going to do that I am just going to adapt but I still have the main prize in my sight… 12lbs off permanently for 2022 ….  I am 8lbs off side right now but I do have three months of net gain to play with so I will just have to have some plateau or net loss months later in the year when I thought I might need a bit of slack… 

My priority now is to stop the pain and sort out the main problem which might involve surgery.. I am trying to move where I can…. So for example I went for a 5k walk today despite the pain as it hurts if I sit down so I might as well get some exercise and endure the pain… I am trying not to eat in between meals but the meals themselves are not cutting in size at the moment .. maybe that is a concession I will try this week… to stop eating when I am full rather than finishing the plate…. Not a natural state of affairs for me but the word challenge in the title doesn’t just refer to the end result it actually means I need to actually challenge my thinking and my behaviour.. another adaptation that might actually be useful in the long run…

I am going to try and get to 154lbs by April 9th, this is 8lbs offside but it is better than where I am 

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