Hello lovely subscribers and followers. How’s your week been?
We’ve had a fairly relaxing week, which has been wonderful. That’s given us ample opportunity to get everything done in the house before the building work starts today. So an early start, as the builder arrived at 7.30am, and we needed to move the car off the drive beforehand. Skip and steel delivery due this morning (a very heavy 4-metre steel beam which is needed to support the walls and roof above).
The room was emptied – our upstairs bedroom looks like a jungle as all the large houseplants have moved there temporarily. The empty room downstairs is barren and echoey. Our very nervous cat (Frank) isn’t amused with all the disruption and furniture movement.
By the way, if you want details on any of the food images I share in each post, I’m happy to provide more details on what is on my plate, including calories and nutrition.
I recognise the images are too small for you to pick out the detail. But this week has included aubergine parmigiana, Alaskan sockeye salmon fillet with a Teriyaki marinade, venison meatballs with a spicy tomato spaghetti, rump steak with a mushroom sauce, Thai green chicken curry, homemade butternut squash, ginger, chilli & coconut soup, kipper fillets with sourdough baguette, venison meatballs with a cranberry gravy, roasted pepper stuffed with Moroccan spiced lamb mince, cream of tomato soup with farmhouse pate and multi-grain crackers.
This week’s plans include a visit to the dental hygienist for a descale and polish, and a full-day “Away Day” with Reading Voluntary Action, the local charity for which I serve as a Trustee. It’s also my daughter’s 29th birthday! How did those years fly by? It seems no time at all since she was in primary school, and she’s now an independent young woman with her own home. I’ve bought her a bean-to-cup coffee machine, which she’s already making good use of.
This week, to try to combat the effects of the “Mounjaro breath” that seems to arrive about 24 hours after taking an injection, I’ve taken a 2.5mg injection on Friday, and I’ll take 5mg on Thursday after the Away Day, so splitting a 7.5mg dose. I don’t want to be breathing that awful breath for the hygienist appointment, so this is damage limitation! I’ll also be chewing on my peppermint oil capsules regularly. These really help with the sulphur burps too.
Has anyone else experienced that weird-smelling Mounjaro breath? Have you found any remedies or solutions?
Weight this week: 59.5kg (Last week 59.7kg)
Loss: 200g (about half a pound)
Weight to lose: 2.5kg