DAY 22 - BIG DECISION
Well as you know, yesterday I had my choccy waterfalls. Having spoken to lots of people on minimins.com doing this diet, apparently it is quite common to happen every now and then because of the richness of the foodpacks and the concentration of vitamins etc. The advice is often to break them up into two and eat them more evenly throughout the day... which sort of makes sense as I eat two - late in the evening - and my explosion was first thing in the morning.
Anyway, when I went to my WI last night I mentioned all this to my LL counsellor and he was actually quite angry with me. He refused to consider that it might be anything to do with the foodpacks and even said "Why are you insisting it's the foodpacks". He said that the only explanation was that I must have a bug or virus (which of course is also a possibility - just doesn't seem the obvious one to me!).
It was very uncomfortable and he took it very personally as an attack on the diet. This isn't the first time we've clashed. I actually think he's a very nice man but I do feel quite frightened to ask him anything because he frequently loses his patience with me.
So this morning I called LL and was put through to their medical department and lo and behold - it seems it IS recognised that this happens and they have since put this in an email to me. They claim that it only really happens in the first week or so.
I also called a LL counsellor who was one of those who actually wrote the programme and she said it does happen from time to time and is usually a reaction to the richness of the packets and gave the same advice I've heard above.
I asked if she had any spare places and she had only one place on Sunday mornings at 11am which is not hugely convenient - especially as she lives in Finsbury Park.
So I've been mulling it over all morning and taken lots of advice and I've decided to change. The counselling is easily the most important part of this programme for me and given how much money I'm spending and the fact that I view this as a really important change in my life, I think I need to prioritise!
I've written a very placatory email to my current counsellor and just hope he isn't going to go bonkers! I'm a bit scared really given his previous reactions. He's a nice enough guy but I think we just have incompatible personalities.
The new woman sounds great but that's no guarantee we'll get on. So I'm scared now in case I'm out of the frying pan and into the fire! Eeek.
So I'll be having another WI on Sunday!!
Meanwhile I've done precisely ZERO with regards to my MA for 2 days now and I'll be lucky if I'm not thrown off the course!! So I'm going to need to sort myself out and get down to it really!
Bad gaijingirl!!