Out of my safe zone.

OK so today finds me totally out of my safe Zone.

I am spending 24 hours in a calmeter room at the Wollongong University as a participant in a weight loss study. Maybe they should have called it the "lack-of weight loss study" in my case! Now anyone who knows me, knows I like to sleep at home, I have a problem when i sleep away from home. I get homesick. I know at 33 (Until 2moro) years of age you would think I would be over homesickness.

So I am in a room, It is like a submarine cabin, but only really small. ( Wish I had bought my camera!) but I will take photo's with my phone and upload them at a later date!
Air tight and locked airtight shoots for food and other items to be passed through. I have a computer -obviously, a TV,Video and DVD player. I have a window overlooking a playing field but since it is pissing down raining, I have nothing to look at out the window anyway!

So, I arrived at 8am (having fasted from 10pm last night!) and had some blood tests done, i then got put into the room. The first 30 minutes of the day, I had to "Relax and get to know my enviroment - not too hard since i can touch both sides of the wall at the same time!, nah its not that small! but because it is all temperature controlled, it is a totally controlled enviroment. Temp set on 20 degrees. As I said totally controlled!

After half an hour, I had to lay on the bed for 30 minutes, as they needed to get my resting rates and then they served me brecky (at about 9:45am) and I have free time until they decide it is time for me to do "Step-ups" for a 5 minute interval, apparently they will tell me to do these about 8 times over the 24 hour period. But I have questionaires to fill out throughout my stay too. OH AND I DONT GET TO SLEEP UNTIL 10PM TONIGHT. So, after not going to sleep until about 10 pm last night and then waking up to Kano vomiting at about 11:30pm and the hour drive up hear this morning I am already yawning and its only 10:39!

I will keep you up to date as the day comes along......