Ozempic Journey: Week 8

So things are looking up this week :) As predicted, I lost the menstruation weight plus an extra kilo, leaving me at exactly 116kgs. It's still a long road to go to reach my goal of 85 kgs, but at his rate of approximately 5 kgs per month, I will get there within the 6 month period as I hoped.

I am actually surprised that the weight came off so nicely after all that comfort eating. That being said, my appetite has shrunk a heck of a lot, and not in an uncomfortable way like diet pills that contain huge amounts of caffeine or ephedrine. Those will cause instant panic attacks and will undo everything I have worked so hard for.

I have developed one hell of a constant craving for ice cream though - often in the middle of the night when I can't sleep and the kids can't see me 🤦‍♀️The craving has definitely also been exacerbated by the horribly hot weather that wasn't even giving us a break at night. That being said, I definitely ate more than my share. However, I have zero regrets 🤣

I have been trying to swap out the ice cream for fresh seasonal fruit, which has been working really well. It also means that the kids have been eating lots of healthy fruit and that makes my heart happy. Seasonal fruit is all going on special at the moment so now is the time to take as much advantage as possible. I was even able to afford a massive amount of grapes, which a few weeks ago, would have cost me a fortune. A Full meal will generally look like this, with the mango and the watermelon being a must-have.

I suppose I have also been comfort eating, with Hive account@zakludick struggling with his wound and being in and out of hospital. It's been really stressful for all of us... the kids included and we've all been quite rough with each other as we are all feeling so raw. I slept for the first time in about 48 hours when our dear friends Hive account@lex-zaiya and her partner Nick dropped Hive account@zakludick off after being discharged from hospital - post-surgery.

When Zak was readmitted on Friday, after another flareup of infection. The doctor finally booked him in for surgery to debride the wound and they found some heavily infected/ necrotic tissue that was removed. Poor guy: Hive account@zakludick was not happy.

Friday was a day from hell for me though - having spent most of it in my car.

I was absolutely exhausted. I dropped Hive account@zakludick off at the hospital to see his surgeon and then had to race through to Sea Point to visit my own doctor and pick up my own prescription and meds - including a new ozempic pen which is supposed to stay refrigerated. I then raced back to the hospital to give Zak as much love as I could before he went into surgery. I then went home and had something to eat and tried to rest, but I was constantly waiting for updates of when he was actually going in for surgery and/or coming out, so needless to say there was no rest there.

Then I arrived back at the hospital with his night bag and comfort pillow (and Coke Zero stuffed inside) only for the nurses to tell me he was still in surgery. /they asked me to wait in the patient lounge and assured me that they would call me as soon as Zak was back in his room, which they did not. I also tried resting on the couch which was an abysmal failure. Eventually, Zak called me, wanting to know where I was. I was really pissed off that the nurses forgot about me for so long.

After not being allowed to eat for many hours before surgery, the dinner they brought Zak was very sad. I then got back in the car and popped off to KFC to get him some yummy chicken.

We shared our ice cream Sundays together before I had to leave to drop Matthew off at his father's for the weekend.

I then had to worry about dinner and to top everything off, loadshedding came back which meant no power between 8 and 10 pm. At this point, I threw in the towel and got Hive account@aimeludick Hive account@merenludick and myself pizza for the evening. I looked like I'd been dragged through a bush backwards.