Whew, finally up to date - although it depends on what day this is...

My posts are all caught up now, as I haven't written anything offline for months - specifically since July, so this is just an update of my current situation.

I’m still clinging to my job by the edge of my teeth, I’m still single and I’m still living with my parents.

I’ve lost a total of 30kg/66lbs/4st10lbs. I still feel very fat, and I still am obese as my BMI is 32.9; I need to lose 7.5kg/17lbs/1st3lbs before I enter the overweight category, and a further 2st1lb to get in the normal range. I bet when I first stated that I was 8st overweight you thought I was exaggerating – turns out I was underestimating as I was actually 8st1lb overweight but what’s 1lb between virtual friends eh?

But I feel great at this moment, yesterday was not so good. I keep getting calls at work from bill collectors, which as I have no money to give them seem pretty pointless to me. The guy yesterday not so subtly threatened that the calls would continue until I made a payment at which point I laughed in disbelief as I had for the last 10 minutes been explaining that as I was over my overdraft limit and I have no form of income other than my monthly wage I couldn’t afford anything…at all. So I asked him what he suggested I do, he came back with asking my family for money – to whom I already owe £1.5K so not a great idea.

The really stupid thing is I’ve been here before, 8 years ago I was in serious debt and it took me 3 years to clear it. Now I’m in much worse debt with no plan, and an ever increasing urge to hide my head under my pillow. Good news is that after visiting my GP today she has lowered my dose of fluoxetine. So I think that it means I’m on the road to recovery, and by recovery I mean eventually I’d like to be free of medication even though I acknowledge that I’ll forever be susceptible to depressive episodes. I’d like to be able to take the rough and smooth with alacrity.