I spent today in the boiling heat having a "sports day" #heavy irony# with small children.
My group just wanted to play sleeping lion all the time.

Then I brought them in to get a drink, and one of the adult helpers started chucking her weight around, and being really horrible. THEY WERE THIRSTY!! ALL THE OTHER KIDS WENT IN TO GET DRINKS!! But [i:585b302ff9]she[/i:585b302ff9] had to yell at me, for looking after my group. . .

#grumbles#

Big Hugs, sweetie. I hate it when people act like thier poop dont smell and assume more authority than they were actually given.. What were you supposed to do, let the kids dehydrate?! From what I gather you all are having a wicked heat wave. Hmmm. Maybe threaten to send the lot of p*ssed off parents to her when their kids come home sick...grr. Kids need drinks and bathroom breaks. Usually one right after the other....

Question, what is sleeping lion? I get that its a little one's game I was just wondering if I knew it by a different name...Just curious.

Hope your day gets better.

Well, I finally finished the strict part of my diet. After 5 months of shakes soups and bars (formulated to be nutritionally balanced but very low in calories)and a lot of water, I have lost 5 stone 1 lb.

The diet's not quite as bad as it sounds as they give you suggestions on how to make things from the packs for more variety, though these were a lot easier to do when we had a demonstration on how to do it - only 3 weeks ago of course!

Today I start a twelve week program to reintroduce normal food. A piece of grilled chicken for lunch - probably the most anticipated piece of chicken ever , and on Saturday the addition of a green leaf salad with herbs and seasoning. The idea being to encourage us to adopt a more healthy way of eating then we had before.

I am looking forward to lunchtime.

Diets are evil, any that involve dehydrated food doubly so. I hope you have a doctor following your progress jaccairn, and not one that makes any money from the stuff you have to buy, because 5 months of that kind of diet is an enormous amount of time (and probably money). I'm sorry if this doesn't sound supportive, but having seen a lot of people get really messed up thanks to some of the crazy and/or expensive diets out there, and I have been myself too, so just be careful, ok ? :oops:

Oh yes. We had to go to our doctor's and get a medical form filled in with blood pressure checks, which then had to be approved by the company's doctors, before we were allowed to join. Followed by blood pressure checks every four weeks whilst we were on the diet. We also had to attend weekly councelling sessions - small groups of same-sex people, the same each week- for the initial 14 week periods, followed by regular meeting with those looking to continue. They won't let you continue unless you keep attending. These look at identifying our attitudes to food, why we eat, when, what triggers overeating.

It's not the cheapest diet around but I haven't been buying any normal food or snacks and it's surprising how how much this can mount up to normally. It's called LighterLife (LighterLife - Home) if you're curious. It's british based only so comes under the british food regulations which are a bit stricter than some other countries.

I did specify a doctor who isn't earning money from the stuff you have to buy... and completely replacing ALL food with the substitutes sounds totally over-the-top to me, no matter what the regulations are... The counselling and behaviour therapy is however a good thing, and I suppose better than nothing, especially in such a drastic situation... Be very careful in the reintroduction phase, totally cutting out any "real" food at all will make this much worse than a normal diet, and that's very risky even at the best of times. Good luck, whatever !

Can't imagine any reason you'd ever need a diet Kat, that ninja robe covers up pretty much everything and besides, rabbits are supposed to be fluffy!

Bah, that's me now, should have seen me before the diet

I found out today that my boyfriend Charles, bless his heart, got the results of his IB exams back today.
He was two points away from passing. :(

This is a very difficult situation for him. His parents put a lot of emphasis on grades and his future and they are not going to be supportive of this incident. (At least his Dad isn't. His mom is a bit of a wild card right now).

I've spoken to him on the phone and its sounds like he's doing okay, but I know this is going to make things very difficult for him. And unfortunately there is very little I can do to effectively comfort him. I'm 4 thousand miles away and the most I can do is send him an email or call him.

I'm so worried about him and I am also afraid that this jeapordizes his chances of him coming to visit me, and I haven't seen him in almost a year!

I just don't know what to do to help him and he needs all the support he can get. If I could I'd find some way to get over to London, but finances are severely strained at the moment for me...

I'm just very worried and confused and emotional and I needed to vent.
Grar. :cry: :evil:

It's where they all lie down and pretend to be asleep, and the person who's "on" walks around going "ah-aah-aaaah-boo" or whatever and trying to make them move. If they get seen moving then they're "on".
Basicly sunbathing, in other words!

Jaccairn, I hope you do well, and are healthy! Good luck. I'd echo Katcal, be careful.

Hex, I'm sorry for your troubles. Hopefully his parents won't be too hard on him. . . #crosses fingers#

Hex - It can be quite harrowing getting those results back. I know pleanty of people in the same situation. He's not in too bad of a condition because he has taken the coarse which gives him a bit of a head start than most. IB is one of those courses that helps you no matter what the outcome.

I wish him all the luck with his family and hopefully he can find away around this.

yas and Jaccairn, I'll just have to repeate evereyone elses message...careful. Some diets cause more harm than good.

I have the dentist again today...'tis not good.

Good luck to Hex and boyfriend... 2 points out just sucks bananas...

And "bon courage" to fairy, dentists may sometimes hurt, but it's only to help you get better Unfortunately, it's one of the times when gritting your teeth isn't an option

Well I get to go visit the oral surgeon next. Goody.

And i can't quite grit my teath either now...silly sealance

Haven't been here in ages .. way too busy :(
Finally managed to put up photos of my visit to Hampi

It's an open air museum almost, the kingdom was completely sacked in a war with five kingdoms simultaneously. It is also the birthplace of Hanuman (Om might find this interesting, if she has read the Ramayana story) - the monkey kingdom that Rama and Lakshman discovered on their way to Sri Lanka was near Hampi .

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Wow, great photos sam, some of those rocks are amazingly big, they make the house look like a model ! I have read the Ramayana several times, so it was interesting to see a real place that is part of the story !