Debt and Caring

Cherryfudge

That's serious walking - I wonder how many miles it is? I looked it up and guessed your height is 5'5" and the internet says it's nearly 64 miles.   
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It's great you've found a nice dentist. I think that makes all the difference.

savingholmes

Glad you like your dentist it helps. 

Serious amount of steps.

Sorry I missed your birthday. Hope you have a lovely weekend and a fabulous year.

WelshmansDaughter

Close Cherry, 61 miles according to fitbit. 

Cherryfudge

WelshmansDaughter said:

Close Cherry, 61 miles according to fitbit. 

Astounding! I think I need a lie down now, in sympathy.

WelshmansDaughter

Brace yourself Cherry 🤣🤣🤣

Fitbit tells me I have done 72 miles (including today’s paltry 500 steps) and burned 20857 calories since Monday.
Even allowing for technology error of 10% this is problematic because I definitely have not consumed anywhere near 20k calories. 

It is my day off today and half of yesterday so of course I came home yesterday and cleaned the fridge 🤦 And this morning I have hoovered the downstairs. 

I am not really in the mood for a day spent entirely in bed, although I am returning to it at various intervals. Next on the agenda is to tidy clutter alley which is the collection of stuff at the end of the bed.
I have also booked to do a mystery shop at the land of sparks which will add funds to the coffers, get in a walk today and provide the opportunity to buy food. I have a £10 gift card so I will challenge myself to find as many meals as I can for that 

astrocytic_kitten

72 miles! If it were me I’d be looking to solve the calorie problem by way of multiple chocolate bars per day, but that’s the sugar addition speaking 😂 

dawnybabes

Are you loosing weight whilst doing all these steps ?

for my DS d of E I made huge bags of trail mix, salted peanuts, choc peanuts and raisins, lots of mixed dried fruit which he had in his pocket and just nibbled on it. 

WelshmansDaughter

I did work out that one day I could have had pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner and still had calories left over.
There are days when I’d run over a small child with the trolley for a mars bar @astrocytic_kitten. 

I have lost around 7kg in 6 weeks @dawnybabes. At this point I think my body is cannibalising itself. 

My day off turned into a clean and tidy day with an added mystery shop. I logged on this morning and found a £30 job up so I grabbed it. Hopefully that will go through and keep me going until Friday when sister pays for childcare. As it is I am temporarily vegetarian as Quorn was cheaper than chicken. Although I could have gotten the frozen chicken breasts but they have sugar in them 🤦
I am making a giant stirfry with ys vegetables which will have to do me until some income is found. I am trying to improve my diet which is a challenge on so many levels.

astrocytic_kitten

I’m not sure improving your diet should be the first consideration right now, so much as getting enough calories in to stop your body consuming its own muscle as food should be. 

You’re walking 3 marathons a week! And marathons come with lots of carb loading for easily accessed energy, as well as extra protein needed to build muscle etc. You could quite happily have mars bars while working and they’d all be used up as energy. I know there’s other reasons to eat well too - just don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good here, especially while you’re still adjusting to the extra activity.

(I say this as a huge hypocrite because I’m currently having food issues and the autism is making everything 10x harder and I’m sure someone from outside could see clearly what I need to do and it would still feel impossible to me. So I do get it’s not that simple)

Cherryfudge

Do you have any of the apps that pay you for your step count? Took me a while to think this far as I'm still reeling over the mileage and the one I have doesn't pay a great deal but you might as well get something for your efforts.

I think the pockets full of nuts & raisins etc mentioned by @dawnybabes is a really good idea, and milk-based drinks will help too. Once you are sufficiently solvent, you could fortify drinks with dried milk for extra calories as you might for someone on a high calorie diet.