Dear IF Steemit Diary, welcome to day 36!!!
Today I had a nice surprise, I managed to fit into my skinny jeans for the first time in almost a year! :D
That makes me feel so happy about what I have achieved so far because even though the scales have only shown a small loss, I am obviously slimming down, which is awesome.
I have always said, I don’t want to be skinny, I just want to feel comfortable in my own body and a healthy weight. Still a long way to go, but I am so pleased! I am fighting the urge to weigh myself and do my measurements as I don’t want to spoil the weekly surprise for myself haha
This virus I have had for a week now is still not shifting. I only slept for 2 hours last night and the rest of the night was really hard with coping with hunger as well as coughing through the night.
For most of the fasting window, you are actually asleep so your body doesn’t feel hunger. But let me tell you, I certainly did last night! It took all of my willpower and battling with my demons not to go downstairs and make myself a bowl of porridge. Some will say I should have just had the porridge, but I am glad that I didn’t. I need to beat these inner demons trying to make me eat during my fasting times.
I bought a water filter because our tap water here tastes bloody awful! I don’t like buying bottled water either as I used to work at a plastic recycling plant so I know the amount of waste that gets thrown away; it is shocking! A lot of it still ends up in landfill, even though you think you have sent it to be recycled. NOT GOOD!!
Anyway, the water filter didn’t really do anything to help the taste of the tap water, but it did look really clear! As my throat has been so sore recently, I have been drinking nothing but water and I am so fed up with the chemical taste, to the point where I am actually drinking diet coke right now, just for a change.
Diet coke doesn’t have calories in it so you would think it is ideal to drink on a diet, but it contains nothing good. I don’t normally drink it, but I need to keep lubricating my throat or my voice will never come back. And it is nice to drink something that doesn’t taste like fluoride.
I am sooo tempted to do a vlog or a podcast just to give you guys a laugh at my voice right now haha
Busy weekend ahead! My Bro 
It is probably going to interferre with my fasting times because we have booked in for breakfast and I haven’t been eating breakfast for the last month and my grandparents won’t see what I am doing as a good thing, so I will just have breakfast with my family.
I don’t want to waste the precious moments we have together just because I am fasting. A couple of days won’t hurt. Life and memories with loved ones are far more important!
I am the unofficial / official photographer for the wedding, so I need to make sure I have all my kit or my bro will kill me. It will give me a chance to brush up on my portrait shots too as I haven’t done any since Cyprus a few months back. If I get permission, I may even post some on here!
My next IF update will be at the beginning of next week where I will post my measurements and weight.
Thanks for your support guys!!! Thank you to Unsplash.comfor the free images.
