Been to the doctors.

Last friday I booked myself into the doctors simply to get some more contraceptive pills. I’d taken a 2 month break from them but was finding I was an evil, emotional wreck off them so the time had come to get back on them again. The weird thing is I noticed I wasn’t as hungry when I was off the pill which is kind of annoying!

Anyway, for some reason the doctor asked me how my palpitations were doing – rather odd considering they have come back with avengance. I told him they’d come back more frequently and he said to keep an eye on it and that I need to find the trigger. Supposedly there is nothing wrong with my heart – I have had a 24 hour ECG tape a few years back and numerous ECGs when I’ve gotten myself to the stage of complete panic and they do it to shut me up!

I’m convinced that one trigger is lack of sleep, and another is yep you’ve guessed it too much sugar! Caffine can also play havoc with my system. The doctor also told me I was probably overdoing it at the gym and to cut down on my days a little. Last week I went 3 times – twice doing an hour of cardio and once doing my strength weight training. This week i’ve only been once eek but I have been feeling really run down with the time of the month (Sorry guys!) I’m going again tomorrow though to make it twice.

Anyway on a different note, did any of you see the documentary on channel 4 last night about overweight children? I think it was called “Ian Wright’s Unfit Kids” where footballer Ian Wright has six months to get obese and overweight children fitter. It’s opening statement “Britain has the fattest, unhealthiest and laziest children in Europe, with an estimated one million to be classified obese by 2010. If nothing is done, experts predict this generation of coach potato kids will die before their parents.”

I only managed to catch part of it, but I was very upset by it. The part I saw was after each child had done health tests, and Ian was telling their parents the results. One parent who was very big herself started crying and ran into the kitchen with her little boy following… she then proceeded to swear at him, saying “Do you want to fucking die, if you do i’ll throw you under a car!”. I thought that was heartless. This woman obviously had an eating problem herself and to swear and say something like that to a 12 year old kid was just awful. I was sat there in tears for the poor little guy. There was also a young girl who at 18 stone didn’t like shopping for clothes. I felt for her and remembered what it was like for me buying stretchy M&S trousers because they were the only ones I could find to fit. That and I could get a smaller pair than I needed to make me feel better.