Day Five: the holiday issue

I hate feeling sick. I can tolerate very high pain levels; I dislike colds and coughs but can cope with them; the itching and sneezing from hayfever drives me bonkers but can be dealt with. But nausea I find incredibly unpleasant. I was horribly nauseous throughout both my pregnancies which has made me loathe it even more. Getting to the point... I find the slight woozy sick feeling from fasting the hardest thing to cope with.

I pushed my limits with this today by fasting on a day we took the kids to a theme park. We are in deepest darkest Cornwall so this is not exactly Alton Towers. Most of the rides are aimed at smallish kids but there are one or two faster ones. I made the mistake of going on a self-powered ride that required hard pedalling for 5 minutes, followed by this:

Yes, it's a very slow gentle ride designed for the least brave riders. It kind of sways back and forth as it goes round. It took me about an hour and a cup of truly awful coffee to recover. 

I coped through most of the day on a punnet of tomatoes and a handful of carrot sticks. It wasn't exactly what Dream and I had planned (still not getting the planning thing sorted) and we both paid for it in the form of feeling rather unwell on and off all day. Even worse planning, after the theme park we had to go to a supermarket to buy picnic food for the beach tomorrow. Light-headed and starving, we were in mild hysterics and delirious at being surrounded by food we couldn't touch by the time we got to the checkout. 

We also realised that Dream and I manage fast days quite differently, as this was our first fast day spent together. I delay starting eating as long as possible and then graze through until a reasonable dinner in the early evening. This works fine when I am not doing anything remotely physically demanding, but walking around a theme park for 5 hours was tough. Dream prefers to have definite meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, even if some of them are very small. Another beauty of the strategy is that we can have completely different approaches and still follow the plan. Plan, being the key word here. Day Six we will plan for properly. Honest.