I was diagnosed yesterday with my first-ever urinary track infection (UTI). Not fun. I’ve been having symptoms off and on for over a week, but steadily for the past 4 days and yesterday afternoon they got worse so I finally caved in and saw the doctor. For those of you who’ve had UTIs, you know this was not a smart idea. For those like me who haven’t had the pleasure, DON’T WAIT to see the doctor when you have symptoms. If I’d gotten treated last Monday, I’d have taken 1-3 days of antibiotics. Because I waited, the infection is now also up in my kidney (not just in the bladder) and I need 10 days treatment and a second urine test after the treatment to make sure it’s gone… Dumb, and I know better. (My weak excuse : after the first symptoms I started drinking more water and some cranberry juice and the symptoms got much better for several days. As soon as the extra liquids & cranberry stopped, it was back with a vengeance…) It turns out your body almost never can beat a UTI on it’s own, you almost always need antibiotics.

I’m now on antibiotics and under treatment, but I’m going to chalk up the past few days of feeling yucky and lethargic to that…
Yesterday evening I was extra hungry (light lunch) and ate my way through 4 snacks in a row. Luckily when dinnertime rolled around I realized I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat. I think I usually would have just felt guilty about the excessive snacks and gone ahead and eaten dinner anyway. That’s one good thing I’ve learned from Dr Hope - eat when you’re hungry, and what you’re hungry for. I’d had 2 pieces of toast, a slice of cheese, a yogurt and about 1/2 cup of the leftover pear-chocolate crumble. It was the cheese that satisfied in the end (and the fact that I physically dragged myself out of the kitchen!).