~Phew.....just PHEW!!! ~

Why yes, I am still here ;)

What a week it has been too

Extra teenager last weekend - packing for camp (food and clothes and medication and cpap machine etc etc) - preparing the house for the return of the Big A....

To Mondays disasterous time overlap - which turned out fine in the end (I know, you knew it would, I knew it would, but anyway....)

To coming home from taking Small Man to camp, to find Big A snoring on the couch and the house looking like a bombsite as he had unpacked and had stuff everywhere :)

To sharing my bed for the first time in 3 weeks (with a man with a chest infection...)



To phone calls and visitors wanting to hear about Big A's holiday and looking at 500 photos and who knows how many videos :)


He had the time of his life! ♥

 To my usual work/order to pack etc



To Small Man returning from camp


To 500 loads of washing


To an extra teenager (just overnight)


To a new work website which is literally painful - whoever designed it DOESN'T do my job every day - FFS! - it took me 2 hours to do a job that should take 30 mins max.....FFS!.....FMJ!!... ;D


So Friday was dressing gown day - all day.....

Somewhere in between I have had many messages from my new charge Sam - I can see that she is lonely/anxious/trying to do too much/wasn't really ready to move out of home....and basically just 'at that age'.....

I also did a search on calorie counting and the amount needed and the amount to reduce it by for weight loss.  
I am still doing the blood type diet but am looking at calorie intake as well.  
For me, my basal rate is 1580 calories per day - that means the amount my body will burn even if I was in bed all day and didn't move.
For each kg you wish to lose it is equal to reducing your calorie intake by around 500 calories per day (supposedly) - so for me I would need to burn off 500 calories per day or eat around 1000 calories per day to lose 1kg per week. 
I average 1200 calories per day now....so why isn't it working?? 
Hmmm......


Whilst doing my research I also stumbled onto some 'Pro Ana' (anorexia) blogs - oh dear - there are literally THOUSANDS of them - it's an epidemic - and most of the girls are aged under 20.
Jeez....I remember eating nothing but baby food once for a few months at age 17/18- that was a meal - a tin of baby food....*sigh*
Some of these blogs are so sad to read and frightening at the same time....

So that's my week....!

G
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