The Great Weightloss Challenge

I'm not one for weightloss normally. I believe in being healthy, not being skinny. But since I got put on the anti-epileptic meds my weight has climbed dramatically and it's now far from healthy. True, a portion of that was due to cake (see, admitting you have a problem is the first step! :D ) but I generally need to bring my weight back down. So severe cut-back on all the sweet stuff. Increase the fruit and veg. And increase the exercise. I've created a ticker just to embarrass me into pursuing this wholeheartedly.

So if you see me chowing down on something naughty, just give me a disapproving look and ask how many I've had in the last week.

There But For The Grace...

Next Door has a daughter the same age as me. After I got my epilepsy diagnosis her Mum told us she had started having seizures - lots of them. She started jumping through the same hoops I had to, but the seizures were so frequent and so severe that she wound up in hospital in a coma for a few days. Yesterday they got the news that she has a large mass on her brain, although they don't know what kind yet or what kind of treatment they'll be attempting.

Remember when I was saying it could be worse? This is the worse. This is why there was a part of me in all that morass of upset about the diagnosis that was painfully glad of the reprieve.

Today I took my tablets and swallowed them gratefully.