Computer mice don't last lone these days. Bought one on Wednesday and by Friday the middle button no longer works. I know I have smashed up my fair share of them over the years but this one I treated with respect. What do I expect for £3 ?

Wednesday 2nd May 2012. Might have an apple before going to bed - if I do that would add 63 calories and £0.27 to the totals.

My refurbished laptop

Bought a laptop off of Ebay.

Here's its specifications.

Morrisons shopping

Been to Morrisons tonight. Not much changes. One week I buy eggs but no tomatoes.

One week I buy tomatoes but no eggs.

I've resurrected a scanner. It is an all-in-one scanner/printer/fax but the printer side of things doesn't work anymore. It has just sat on a  table gathering dust but I thought I'd see if it still works. Now I'm using Windows 7 things are fairly easy unlike in the past.

So here's what I've had today. What isn't recorded on this page is the two cups of coffee. I must be one of the few people in the world that doesn't know what they are eating that evening until they look it on on the spreadsheet.

I'm getting a bit OCD

My weight - I've now lost three stone since starting this weight loss regime. It isn't so much a diet - I'm just watching what I eat now. Before I just crammed food in and didn't think of the consequences.

I've bought another "temporary" computer. The last one lasted 2¾ years. As I now have two computers on the go at the same time all my stuff is now shifted back into the bedroom where I will be doing most of my work now. No doubt the living room computer will be replaced and I move back in there. I don't know why I just can't stick to the one room. Maybe if things really were wireless I would be able to.

It's a great feeling having a new computer where everything is fast. It's there in an instant. No longer having to wait and wait and wait. I realise just how slow the other computer is while working with both at the same time.

I know this feeling won't last. Only three or four days and I've piled on program after program. Soon it will be slow.

Did you miss me?

Bugger me - it's been over a year since I last posted on here.

Currently on a drive to cut my weight. So far it's working.. I've lost 5½ kgs in the last 8 days. I don't usually talk in kgs but the app I was using wants the figure in kgs. I have a 5kg bag of sugar and that has been a major incentive for me in future to lose weight - knowing that I'm carrying all this extra weight around for no reason. I'm probably not doing things correctly as I'm more than likely losing too much weight at once - but I'm still eating more than an average person.

I take a note of everything I eat over the course of a day. Even count the teaspoons of sugar I use. I don';t count the coffee as there isn't any calories in that. Nor do I count the milk each time - I just use an average figure of 160 calories for milk over the course of a day.

Previously I was drinking 6 or 7 cups of coffee at least per day with 2½ teaspoons of sugar per cup. I'm now down to 2 or 3 cups a day with only 1 teaspoon of sugar. According to my 5kg bag of sugar there are 16 calories in a teaspoon of sugar so before it would be

Per day - 15 teaspoons, 240 calories

Per week - 105 teaspoons, 1680 calories

Now it is

Per day - 3 teaspoons, 48 calories

Per week - 21 teaspoons, 336 calories

That's quite a difference over the week.