End of the Week Update

This week has seen more ups and downs than an 8 year old with an addiction to Sherbert. I have had an interesting week. The beginning was the usual work and play routine. I’ve managed to reduce my lunch spending by about £2 a day, which all adds up from month-to-month. I’m not going to McDonalds much any more, which although I made sure I kept an eye on my calorie intake and such, I feel will probably be better for me. I mostly ate the Deli meals they make, but even they have a few hundred or so more calories than a sandwich. Calories are odd things. It’s amazing how some things that are small, could have more calories than something like a burger. 4 kitkats and that’s more calories than a Big Mac… yeah, weird.

Keeping an eye on calories may seem a tad obsessive, however, it’s more common sense to be honest. Don’t go over the daily allowance, and try to balance crap foods with healthy foods. I am no longer buying multipacks of 2 finger kitkats. As much as I like to have them, I like them too much. Going through six in a day at 107 calories each certainly isn’t “the way to go”. So they won’t be on the next shopping run. I am getting used to this internet shopping lark, well for food shopping that is. Buying any other goods online I pretty much have in the bag. The problem I noticed with internet food shopping, is that once presented with my “favourites list”, I have little motivation to go browisng for other things, and often forget things I needed, or end up with the same all the time.

At the moment, it’s not much of a problem. I buy things to make into meals, and try to substitute my cravings for chocolate with fruit. That’s a real hit, however I find myself eating a lot of fruit to make up for not having chocolate snacks. Oh well, there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing, surely?

I like this new reform I have in the way I eat, and my exercise levels are up too – I walk to and from work every day. That amounts to 4 miles a day; about an hour’s worth of brisk walking. I walk quite fast, averaging about 4.5-5 miles an hour most days (My phone has a sports application. I used it a couple of times to measure my speeds with the GPS)

In other news, I went to the doctor’s today about a chest pain I had. Turned out it was nothing – no way near as serious as I was expecting, and probably muscular. I think a came down with one of those temporary bugs too – No idea if they were related, however, I seem to have a kickass immune system, because these things usually fade fast. This one has, anyway.

The last time I went to the doctors’ before today, was 6 or 7 years ago. I did have to make an emergency visit about a couple of years ago, but I don’t count that, because it was hayfever related, and I just needed some eyedrops to calm down my eyes that summer.

In unrelated news, I received SPORE through the mail today. I can’t play it though, because I am still waiting for my RMA’d (returned) hard drive to be replaced. eBuyer sent it out today at about 7pm. I sent it to them last Saturday. I hate waiting this long, for something that seems like it could be done so simply and quickly. Anyway, from what I see and hear about SPORE, it looks great and plays great too. I watched the “Making of…” DVD and “How to build a better being” National Geographic featurette DVD. I bought the Galactic Edition of SPORE. Basically, it’s like an extended edition dvd box, but for PC games. I read through the art book that came with it too. That was an interesting read, and gave a look at how the designers of the game go through various stages of development.

I plan to do more updates like this in the future. I’ll most likely keep them to Friday End of Week updates, but may make mid-week or beginning of week updates instead, or as well. Dunno, let’s see how it goes.

Bye for now.