i'm back

well after going off the polan for while and not getting weighed for 4 weeks, i finally got back to it, i had put on half a pound, so i was pleased as the damage could have been so much worse, then i went on monday and had lost 3.5lb, so i was over the moon, if i get 1.5lb this week i get my stone award sticker, which has taken forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but at least it is coming off
it could have so easily been even more on, after a tough few weeks, usually i eat and eat when i am stressed, so i tried by eating diff things than i normally would and it worked.
Life for the past few weeks has been so stressful, my ot has had an illness all his life, and has infact had 2 transplants, his consultant stops him from working due to the osteoperosis in his spine causing him pain, and due to his illness causing so many problems.
so he has been able to claim incapacity benefit for the past 3 years, but in July was sent for an assessment at a vile place, done by a company called Atos, where we sat in a room with a Polish doctor for 30 mins who decided to award him "0" yes zero points!!!! and classed him as a normal person, and stopped his benefits, it was bad enough when they made him stop working, so we went from a fulltime wage for him to £100 a week, but we cut back as you do and coped, now they have stopped his benefit it has been a nightmare to have to appeal etc, we asked for a copy of the medical assessment and some of the things we discussed weren't even on the report?
they had not asked his doctor or consultant for any medical information, they have purely gone on the half an hour in that room, to say i was fuming was an understatement, especially when we have since found out that alcoholics and drug users get given the points they need automatically, how is that fair? that to me is self inflicted, no one made them be addicts, however my ot was born with his illness, and has put up with it for life, it makes him depressed, he would love to be normal, and has never ever known what it is like to feel healthy, and never will, it makes my blood boil that we have had to go through this process of appealing for the last few weeks, and the stress it has caused has been awful at times, and when i look at it, and how much it has stressed me, and i am the normal "not ill" one, if there are people out there without support how on earth would they cope?? its a joke, and i feel like this country is becoming a joke, but not alot i can do about it, but when i sat munching on a bag of crisps, i thought to myself, this country has harmed us enough, i need to shift this weight for me, for a better life, and there is only me that can do it,and so i will!!!