Sniffle sniffle cough cough

I deliberately turned off the alarm last night so that I could have a sleep in this morning to try and get rid of my horrid cold.  Woke up wheezing at 7.30am.  And coughing.  So much for a recuperative sleep in.

Spent all day with plasticine head.  My highly technical term for when a cold has invaded your head and it feels like lead and you can't hear and you are flushed and hot and mizzable.

Only left the house briefly to bring in the mail.  Oh yay - a bill.  And to sneak out to the little supermarket down the road to get some dinner for the poor old dog.

Been plagued all day by thoughts of cake and custard and treats.  Wanting to be bad.  But really not wanting to because I'm feeling so sick that if I ate any of those things (other than custard) I'd just feel sick.  I think it's my head gearing up to set me up to fail next week by letting me know I am weak and can't resist rubbish food.  But not, I proved it last night.  I can be strong!  I can say no! I so SO hope that I am going to lose my taste for sweets while on the 12WBT.

Spent quite a bit of the day slowly planning my diary etc for the next few weeks.  I'm using a little notebook and have set it up for the 12 weeks now so it will be easy to add to and make notes and comments in.

Then spent alot of frustrating time trying to get in and download recipes and the exercise plan for next week.  Still haven't been successful but I am ever hopeful and there's always tomorrow.  I can understand why the system would crash with so many excited people trying to access the plan for Week 1.  Having been in this kind of situation myself at work, I can really appreciate how frustrated and disappointed and annoyed MB and her team must be that it did crash and still isn't working properly.  That is a big public fail that no-one wants to be responsible for.  Hopefully some of the more negative folk complaining about access will be able to get on and get the details they need and settle into the program.

I did get a fleeting look at some of the training and nutrition info.  Some of those meals look rather nice.  I can see that I am going to do a bit of adjusting myself so that I can make more than one meal with some of the ingredients and take leftovers for lunch. Or eat the same thing a couple of times in a row.  Or subsitute two tablespoons of pureed fresh tomato for passata.  Etc.  I don't have a big pantry space as I mainly eat fresh things so don't have room for heaps of different packs of things.  But then again, I do have an impressive array of Tupperware storage.

The only exercise I did today was blow my nose and cough.  And my physio exercises.  Knee is feeling WAY better albeit a teeny smidge twingy.  I keep telling it that it would be much better for it to be completely well right now because it is going to start learning to run next week.

I haven't even been able to read my head is so fuzzy.  Such a waste of my last week of leave, but I'd rather have the cold and get over it this week than have it next week.  Because next week marks the week from when I am going to start the rest of my life.