2 months pass...

On a totally unrelated topic I have decided to once again embark on the journey of health. On the way I will sweat off the kilos I have piled on from my discharge from hospital. I'll call this an early New Year's Resolution as I can't afford just to wait until it is 2009.

1) Thou shall not indulge in sweet treats
2) Thou shall not eat when not hungry
3) Thou shall not gorge when emotional
4) Thou shall participate in regular exercise

So starting today I:

1) Rode my exercise bike (37.18mins, 13.53km, 308cal burned)
2) Walked my dog (40mins, 2 laps around the park)
3) 100 cycle, 50 scissors, 50 up and down (abstract exercise concepts which I shall illustrate with Bipolar Girl)

I suppose in brief hindsight this post does relate to my bipolar. After I was hit with my second episode and discharged out of hospital I just stopped caring about the consequences of too much food. 4 months of eating just for eating, this is going to be a hard habbit to break.

I wrote to Reid Taylor about why Zyprexa was so bad, and he said "weight gain, weight gain, weight gain". On further investigation Reid said "you won’t gain if you don’t eat more than before. But you will want to."


So can I blame my food binge on a drug?

I'm on 5 mg of Zyprexa at night, cut down from 10 mg. Hopefully I'll be off Zyprexa for good by Christmas.

I'm going to try replacing my desire to eat and snack all day with a drink of water. Anytime I feel the need to snack, water instead. I wonder how that will pan out? It's the same hand action.

5) Thou shall drink plenty of water