Dear LPG,

There is no doubt about it.  I have been ill although I don’t think it had anything to do with the virus that is the world’s number one common enemy at the moment. 

Two weeks ago, I just could do nothing for myself and, as I live alone, I did not eat a lot in fact, in spite of all the telephone calls from my friends and family I found myself unable to actually answer the thing.  I live alone and there have been whole days over the past two weeks that I missed and I have no doubt that many readers have similar stories to tell.

That was two weeks ago though and now I have spent a few days returning to better health.  I have made a few drinks and remembered how to use the microwave buttons and remembered where all that emergency food that I bought before all this stuff happened is, and the best part is that, in spite of the fact that I don’t really feel quite as greedy as I have always seemed to be, I can actually recognise what I am tasting again which is a miracle. 

Having reached that milestone and also having regained telephone contact with my world, it has taught me a few things and one of the most important has to be how imperative it is to get back to your normal routine.  So today I got up and attacked the day in the way I used to.   I am not saying that I am achieving everything I would expect to, but I am making a little headway even though I am traveling at zero miles an hour in comparison to my usual speed.

One of the first things I have always done in the mornings is my health routine which starts with a check of my blood pressure and my weight and then a little exercise and I bet that I am not the only person, pensioner or otherwise, who has noticed this one…

I have spent years trying to exercise and diet myself to a decent weight and I got quite a shock when I returned to the scales this morning.  I have lost 10 Kilos!  I have to say that I don’t think that I look any different (…perhaps a little worse for wear) and I don’t feel any different, but I have been trying to lose weight for years and I cannot believe that I achieved it this way!

The first thing I did was to take a look online.  Now I have got rid of it I want to learn how to keep at least some of it off!  Just in case there are any other readers who are emerging from the other side of an illness which has starved them somewhat, I sternly suggest we learn new eating habits before we re-adopt our whole old routine so that the whole experience leaves us with at least one positive.  

GW, New Cross.

GW offered some information found online that might help to keep some of the weight off….

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