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[windemere]

I am thoroughly shuffed that all of my favourite FF authors seems to be reading and review my stories lately. Makes me grin like an idiot!

It's 4:30pm. Yes, I'm eating dinner. I'm also starving due to the fact my diet this week has consisted of: celery, carrots, rye crackers, low fat cheese, tomato soup, naan bread and fruit smoothies, and seeds and raisins for snacking. Yes, that's it. Tonight I am having orzo salad and fruit parfait, to mix it up. Sunday I am totally pigging out on an English breakfast. But until then: be a good girl! At least I still get 80% chocolate with cranberries in it.

In other, unrelated news, the Queen came to Leicester today. Again. Her first stop on her official Jubilee tour of Britain. She brought Kate. That would have been enough to make me go jockey for position in the city centre to watch, except that this morning the idea of walking more than twenty feet was impossible. I've had coffee now. I could probably managed forty feet. Seriously, exhausted. But I walked 5km both of the last two days and 4km the day before that. And haven't eaten much. And I did pilates this morning, which gave me energy for about 30 minutes. Tomorrow I need to mail a scholarship application, do another 5km walk, and then spend 3 days doing research, hopefully. If this exhaustion goes away, that is.

Of course, being up at 5:30 yesterday and 6:45 this morning may have something to do with that.

Comments

[shirebound]

You're doing awesome!!

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Encouragement is wonderful. :D

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

Not that it's any of my business, but are you getting enough protein? Or calories more generally, for that matter? I understand your concern about not gaining weight with a more sedentary lifestyle that comes with PhD study, but you need your brain to function right!
/motherly concern.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Cheese, nuts and peanut butter! I haven't been eating meat for weeks, really, except maybe one or two nights for dinner, so that's pretty much been my source of protein for a while. I think it's been lack of sleep more than anything, as a long sleep last night has definitely helped!

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're feeling better. Far, far too early to get burned out now! :-)

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

No, can't do that until July!

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

And motherly concern is entirely all right! :)