I’ve just made my food diary for the next 5 weeks to take back to my dietician. I have given myself sections: Breakfast/Morning Snack/Lunch/Home Snack/Dinner/Night Snack/Drinks.

I am going to try and achieve all the targets my dietician gave me. I go back on 10 February 2010 so I have over a month to become healthy and meet those targets. These include keeping a food diary, start eating breakfast, have at least 2 portions of fruit a day, have bread with soup at school (ok i lied to her and told her i have soup at lunch), instead of chocolate have toast or cereal as a snack, have tea and digestives at night time, and take multivitamins.

So if I keep the food diary I will be more inclined to be healthy because I won’t want her to look at it and be disappointed so I will have more motivation to be healthier and eat much more healthily because I know she will be looking at it. I will consider keeping a food diary after aswell because it means I know what I’ve eaten so I don’t loose track. I have made a simple word document for me but I might make an in-depth excel document on all the information like calories/fat/sat fat/sugar etc. in what i’m eating so I can see much more clearly how my eating is because I will never know unless I record it.

I don’t eat much food and I’m fussy because I won’t eat food if I don’t like the look of it or smell and I know maybe a new year’s resolution should be to try more food but I don’t think I’ll do that so I’ll stick to the food that I do like just now and work with that. But 2010 will hopefully see a healthier eating Mark.

I am also going to try and do a tiny wee bit of exercise daily to try and make sure I get the blood pumping and the arteries unblocked from the past 15 years of bad food I’ve eat and try keep myself healthy and in shape. I wish I stayed near country areas so I could go nice cycles to keep me fit.

For dinner I will try and have soup more often because the vegetables are very healthy for you and it’s not fattening. And when I don’t have soup I’ll have the following:

• Pasta with sweetcorn
• Chicken in breadcrumbs with a potato snack like potato croquettes/potato lattices/potato waffles

And that’s all for the simple reason that soup, pasta, chicken and potato snacks are really the only thing I’ll eat for dinner. I’ll eat noodles too but they are actually about a 1/3 of your daily fat and they aren’t the most filling meal at dinner so I will alternate between the above 3 meals for dinner and each brings something good. The soup brings vegetables. The pasta with sweetcorn brings carbs and veg. The chicken brings protein.

The banana at interval (or at weekend will be when i wake up) will provide me with 1 of my 5 a day and also potassium. The apple and grapes at lunch will provide me with 2 more of my 5 a day.

The cereal when I get home will provide me with vitamins and minerals.

The tea at night will provide me with calcium from the milk. And if I choose to have digestive biscuits to dunk, that’ll provide the fat. But if I don’t have the digestives I can have another wee sweet type thing and that’s my daily treat.

I know this might not be that interesting but this is more a plan for me so I know that my new food plan will work out

So far this is how my year appears to be set out…

January: French Speaking, Close Reading Re-sit probably

February: Sarah Murdoch’s Birthday, Sarah McLaughlin’s Birthday, Possibly Music Practical Exam

March: If Music Practical isn’t in February, it’ll be in March. Cousin’s 16th

April: Mum’s Birthday, Gran’s Birthday, Music Listening Exam

May: 5 exams, Becca’s Birthday

June: 3 exams (all one day after the other), Start Highers. Other cousin’s 21st

July: Summer so probably relaxing. Dad’s Birthday (but I probably won’t see him)

August: More summer and back to school for work

September: JC’s Birthday

October: Josh’s Birhtday, Halloween

November: Nothing so far

December: Brother’s Birthday, Stepdad’s Birthday, My Birthday, Christmas Day, New Year (yes it’s not technically in December but you know what I mean).

I will make the most of all of this to make 2010 amazing

I am 3 chapters in and I must say - I love it! Some of it is so so funny! Remember that the author of this is said to be “Stephfordy Mayo”… now listen to this quote

Heffa: “As soon as i closed my eyes, I was overwhelmed with memories. Teddy’s face so close to mine, his marble figure tightly thrust against me … but then Stephfordy reminded me that this couldn’t go beyond a PG-13 rating, so I stopped there and fell asleep instead”

Haha that really made me laugh. And this also made me laugh for ages!

Heffa: “A tall, lank-haired boy with terrible acne and a dumb expression gretted me cheerfully as I reached the English Department. ‘Hi, you must be Heffa. My name’s Chip, Chip Board”

Haha!!! Seriously, this book really is making me laugh and I am really enjoying it!

I have realised how much I love to shop and spend money. I’ve bought so much so far. I have went from £620 to about £300 in the past week.

One of my order came through today with 2 jeans, hat, shorts (for summer but im always skint then so it means i have money just now). I am still waiting on 2 shirts, ink, dvds, sims 3, close reading book and school trousers.

And today i was in town and I took out £90 + £10 hamleys voucher plus £10 voucher to use anywhere + £15 book vouchers. Here is what I bought:

• Used the £15 book vouchers to buy a close reading book for school which has 10 passsages in it with answers. I then bought “New Moan” which is part of the “Twishite saga”. This is a spoof book and I have read a few pages already and it is very funny. Just listen to the blurb of it. “Heffa Lump is just a typical, pale and interesting seveteen-year-old, who doubts that anyone will ever see her true beauty. But then she moves to Spatula and meets Teddy Kelledy, an impossibly gorgeous boy who eats rare meat, is super-strong and never goes out in sunlight. Could he - just maybe - be a vampre? (Hint: Totally.)” It also labels the author as “Stephfordy Mayo” haha! And to read this, I need a bookmark so I bought a Mr Happy bookmark
• I then bought a candy grabber with the £10 hamleys voucher and I later bought batteries and sweets to put in it.
• I bought a pair of shoes from new look that were £15 
• I bought a nice brown hoodie from h&m for £20, a grey top for £4 and gloves for £4
• I bought a jacket from topman that is usually £50 but it was reduced to £25
• I bought pencils for school also
• And this is all ontop of my lunch, millies cookie, and train fare

So I have spent a fair amount today and I got amazing stuff but I had loads of bags to carry around haha.

I just thought I’d share my day with you because I really enjoyed spending my money and I also think this New Moan book will be a bloody good laugh. Although I should maybe read New Moon first before I read New Moan or i might not understand some of the jokes. Like I didn’t get why she moved to Spatula until Ashley told me that in the proper book she moves to Forks. I was in Waterstones reading the first few pages and laughing so much. Here is another extract:

[Heffa to Teddy] “And anyway, if I don’t start with a flashback, how will the readers know there’s all this exciting stuff to come? There are loads of chapters which are basically just you and me talking about or favourite colours and stuff”

Haha I find that really funny. When I finish reading it I will tell you what I thought of it. I’ll do my best to read it quickly but I’m a slow reader and I only enjoy reading if I enjoy the book so hopefully I get this done quickly.

Adios!

I think I like this photo best out of this whole year. It was taken on the day before the summer holidays after we had just left school and we went to the park. And we were all there so we were all having fun. And we were being random and jumping over each other. And this was where I had some fun in the year and it was before all the stress and hassle of school and life in general. It reminds me of a happy time and that’s why I like it so much and I’d maybe say it’s my favourite photo of this year. (Also, if you enlargen the photo to see it in a bigger size, I think I look fairly skinny in it which makes me happy ha!)

I just thought I’d let everyone know I am starting to like Latin American versions of music. I have Latin American versions of:

• Coldplay: Clocks
• Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved
• U2: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
• Kaiser Chiefs: Modern Way
• Take Five

And I am also liking “Mas Que Nada”. I like the rhythms and the beats and the piano parts cause they always sound so happy. It sounds like if they were playing in a crowd, everyone would be dancing and happy and jumpy and singing along and forgetting about life’s troubles.

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However, completely off Latin American music… I rediscovered my love for Paramore. I love “Brick by Boring Brick”. Especially the alliteration of it as it draws attention to the words and also allows you to see the personification of the brick as a brick can not have any emotion or be anything as it is an inanimate object. Ok that probably made no sense whatsoever but I need to practice my english for the close readign re-sit. Anyway, Paramore are amazing and never fail to make me happy and their songs are very very very superly amazing!

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The Nosiettes make me think of London. Every time i hear the bass riff at the start of “Never Forget You” and I immediately think London. It’s weird. V V Brown reminds of London too. Just thought I’d share that.

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I have broadened my musical taste a bit though and I like Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy Stryder and lovely up-beat music like that. I always love listening to it as it always makes me happy and cheers me up.

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Lady Gaga - WOW! Bad Romance is still currently one of my most favourite songs. See when she just sits at a piano and plays and sings, she is utterly amazing. Very Talented and her acoustic versions of songs are sometimes MUCH better!

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I like LOADS of music but I just thought I’d share some of my thoughts about music here considering I feel this overwhelming urge to blog something even though I don’t have much to blog right now so here :)

2009 - tbh, its been the crappest year ever. Its not been crap EVERY day but majority rules, yeah? So overall it has been pretty rubbish.

I mean 25/02/2009: i moved house and it was one of the most weirdest things ever cause i had never moved before. It was horrible have to move somewhere and try and adjust to the new area and the new surroundings. I still hate it to this day and I think I am moving after new year thankfully!

But then from 25/02 to 25/12: a great day! seeing my family. Stuffing my face at christmas dinner until i felt i was about to explode. Yes, getting money and presents too. It was an amazing day. And i got to hear my cousin fiona tell us all stories and call my uncle a “pedantic git” [i found out a pedantic git is someone who shows off their knowledge] and it was an amazing day.

But even though I had so much fun on this day, moving house dampened the whole of january and the whole of february because I knew I was moving. It then dampened the whole of march because I hated my house and it then dampened April too tbh. I mean it still dampens my mood to this day but not as much as the start of the year. But this meant the first quarter of the year was ruined.

I got to go to London during Easter though which was absolutely AMAZING! It is such an amazing place! So that brightened up some of April.

End of June/Start of July was where it all probably started to look up a bit because summer was very very fun! I got to go through to Carnoustie and I had a lot of fun.

However, the final half of the year was pretty much crap because of 1 or 2 things and then also the prelims and all the studying and things like that were really really horrible.

Also, my father wasn’t exactly the best this year considering he didn’t call me from the middle of July until about October which was 2 and a half months. nThen I didn’t get a call for about a month between November and December because he didn’t want to “disrupt my studies” which is a pretty lousy excuse if I’m being perfectly honest. A 10 minutes phone call won’t make me fail. Although I suppose the disappointment of him is something I’m starting to get used to now. Well ok, maybe not but I probably will get used to it.

There have been more things that have happened in the past year but I won’t write them down and bore everyone but these reasons are why 2009 was probably the worst year of my life. Or as Homer Simpson would say - “The worst year of your life so far”

But 2010. I’m hopeful it will be a good year but exams and then starting Higher courses will probably not make it a good year but I suppose thinking about it all positively will make 2010 a better year. I have some New Year’s Resolutions:

• Eat healthier. Try eat a banana, apple, and some grapes every day. Stop eating all this chocolate and shit that I do.
• The above + all the other targets my dietician gave me. And this will hopefully make her happy
• Exercise a bit more. Ok, not intense and vigorous exercise daily but even just 10/15 minutes a day of something to keep me healthy.
• Make more of an effort to see my gran because she really is a great person
• Make more of an effort with studying and make sure I keep studying so I don’t forget anything
• Work on english a lot and maybe try do an essay each week.
• Keep practising piano and make sure I’m improving

It might seem a bit far-fetched to do all of that but remember - I have 365 days to achieve all of this. And I never really stick to my resolutions but I want to to do my best this year. I want to show people that I can actually eat healthy food and not do it for a few days and give up but that I can actually keep it up. I want to show people that I can stop eating so much crap and that I can achieve a healthier lifestyle. And I want to do the studying so I can achieve the best results that I am capable of achieving because I don’t want to be disappointed the way I was with english so I will definitely do my best to work on english. I need to practise piano because seeing people like Mr Hillis (depute head) play piano so effortlessly makes me think “He is amazing at piano. I wish I could play like him”. I can’t wish though, I have to work to play like that. So I will do my best to work hard on piano.

Au revoir.

I’m reading over old msn conversations and I have to say, it’s weird how much one person can change you. It’s weird how one person can change your general mood, your feelings about yourself, even your actions and what you do, what you eat (or don’t), what you say to people and how you treat them. One person can make you be so mean, so upset and depressed, make you have a negative outlook on life. The weirdest thing is they aren’t telling you what to say or telling you what to do and making you do it like that, they are just making you do it through their treatment of you.

However, these types of situations help you realise your true friends, and who is there to stand up for you and support you. And the people that support you will support you no matter what you choose. It’s not a case of “I’ll only support you if you do this.. but if you do that, you’re on your own”… it’s about “no matter what you believe is right and what you do, i’ll be there to support you the whole way”. These friends aren’t the ones that go through that whole “best friends forever” crap - these are the ones who don’t have to say they are your best friend, but the ones who you automatically know are because of the way they treat you.

You don’t need 50 of these people to get through life. If you have 1 of these people, you are VERY lucky and never take that for granted. I can certainly think of 1 person that I will be best friends with until I’m in a wooden box 6-feet under.

I just thought I’d say this as tonight, the old conversations have helped me realise these things

Ok so I’m new to this tumblr business.

I’m Mark and I was 15 on the 17th December 2009 which means i was born in 1994 and on 17th December 2010, I will be 16! I live in Glasgow, Scotland - it’s a great place! There is a lot to do and to see. And I get to see other parts of Scotland when i see family. For anyone thinking of moving to Scotland - do, you won’t regret it! I enjoy playing piano and listening to music. People hate school but I don’t because I get to see my friends and there are actually some things in school I enjoy. Saying that, I HATE PE and english. The latter is kind of compulsory though so you get on with it but the PE is terrible and that’s probably because I am crap at sport (minus badminton).

I will probably be blogging about days out (and yes i will tell pretty much every detail), important things in 2010 (me and all my friends 16ths, exams and the like), or things that “grind my gears”. I will probably blog jokes, song lyrics, song recommendations and stuff aswell. In conclusion, i will pretty much blog about anything.

I’m terrible at english so I might try improve that by adding some big words into my blogs to expand my vocabulary.

And on that note, I bid you farewell. (yes ok it’s not that complex but it will do)

Ciao!