I have decided to lose some weight this year, starting 1st January. It seemed like as good a time as any to start. For my height, weight, gender and activity level I should need about 2500 calories a day to maintain my current weight, and by aiming to eat 500 calories per day fewer than that I should lose about 0.5kg a week. (Energy is stored in the body as fat. Fat holds about 900 calories per 100g, so a weekly deficit of 3500 calories should equate to a loss of about 400g. In practice, you also lose some water and other tissues that support the fat so it works out about 500g). I know from previous experience of keeping records that this works out about right, but it does vary, not least by how much exercise I do (not a lot).
As I lose weight, the number of calories that I need to run my body will also reduce, so at some point, when the graph starts to level off, I will probably have to cut my target down to 1900 calories a day (or do more exercise). That won't be too hard as even on my 2000 limit I am still eating chocolate and cheese left over from Christmas.
I play table tennis every week. My favourite to watch is currently American football.
Bungee jump
Skydiving
Skiing
Disneyland
Scuba diving
Maldives/Carribbean (if I'm just going to sit on the beach, which is not my sort of holiday anyway, I'll do it closer to home).
Probably. I think I have the necessary skills to make tools and to construct a shelter. And I reckon I could also make fire, and catch animals and fish and forage for food.
In some countries you can retire earlier.
You can have children, if you wish.
You get a much wider choice of clothing in the shops, both style and colours.
Absolutely not. That is their primary responsibility.
Yes, I've been to one in Ryde on the Isle of a Wight, and one in Chatham, Kent. I've also been to a few in America, including one at Graceland and one near the Grand Canyon.
Like a watermelon?
I can understand why, but there are other things you could do. For example, you could open a separate bank account, one which doesn't allow overdrafts, and fund that with a small amount of money, maybe £100, and use their debit card for online purchases and nothing else, then top it up as necessary. Then whatever happens you can never lose more than £100. There are also pre-pay credit cards which work on a similar basis, that you add cash onto before you spend it.
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I don't normally do this, but I'm going to mention a user that I discovered recently:
@reeniiemo
I know that I'm probably going to embarrass her by singing her praises, but I find her writings to be very intelligent, thoughtful and honest, befitting of someone twice her age, yet also with a youthful joy and innocence. Go check out her account.
One of the big ancestry websites had a free weekend a few years back and I managed to trace my father's line back 13 generations to around the year 1700. Including siblings and children I found well over 100 relatives. However, given the limited time I had, I concentrated only on birth, marriage and death certificates, and national Census returns. The actual information that I found, other than basic birth/death/marriage dates was fairly limited. Not much more than occupation and address really, from the census returns. Almost all of my direct ancestors lived within 5 miles of where my parents still live today, and many of them had similar jobs in textiles and shoe making (once a big industry in that area)
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