Health Journeys

Water, water everywhere… oh boy four weeks in and I’m still forgetting to drink water, then later in the day I am drinking heaps to make up for the morning. Ok, the positives re water; if we forget our water bottles we are buying water instead of coconut water or other ‘health’ drinks. I am also drinking water on waking. So I am filling my water bottle and drinking from it as soon as I wake. Gosh, it’s so easy to beat ourselves up and look at what we are not doing rather tha

Pre 1st follow-up with Phil and I feel heaps better, improved energy, I have stuck to the programme really well and because my daughter has seen how motivated I have been she has joined in, although not as religiously. One challenge has been water intake, so while I have increased my water intake to about 1.5 litres a day I’m still quite not getting the required 2 litres. My sleep patterns have been a little disrupted, some nights I can’t get to sleep and other nights I wake

Background, March 2011: Lying in a cubicle in Accident & Emergency, again, for the ‘nth’ time in 6 years, sweating, shivering and vomiting uncontrollably from the acute abdominal pain surging through my body, I decided things were going to change, enough was enough. I could not continue with these acutely painful episodes, being rushed to A&E, leaving my children on the door step, worried not knowing how long Mummy was going to be in hospital this time. Only to have doctors