Whats happening?

I've started to look at labels on food packaging and drinks too. I have a mainly vegetarian diet and though my weight has never really bothered me before, I started to exercise more by taking walks around London and my home town, and I'm not losing weight...

I don't get takeaways often and I don't eat chocolate unless my hypoglycaemia is playing up, I mainly home cook meals with pasta in them, or just skip meals and I thought I got over my OCD... But I'm counting them. Those damn calories.

I was looking at this drink I got from Sainsbury's... My friend Sammy and I took a long walk up to the Sainsbury's that is kinda near Wandsworth from Earlsfield in London, and though it does not seem much, it is for me seeing as I have very bad legs, we went up for some ink cartridges for fountain pens seeing as every other shop just didn't have them... Anyway... We got some water for the way back... Sainsbury's Sparkling spring water drink with a hint of Strawberry & Kiwi no added sugar and apparently it has Only natural flavour. There is a picture of a strawberry and a kiwi on the label and it looked cool, and it was 3 for 1 pound so we got some. Then I found myself looking at the label.. Now.. This annoys me... It is a 1 litre bottle, and the Calorie information just says Per 100 ml - 8 kj 2 kcal. Per 250 ml - 20 kj 5 kcal. Now I know that's not much, and its only going to be 20 kcal BUT I still find myself worrying. I made a cheese bake earlier and now I keep thinking... What the hell did I do that for. CHEESE! and there is a bread and butter pudding too... WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!

I think I'm going insane...

I really do.

Thanks for listening to my rant. Can anyone enlighten me?

Kayleigh Mansfield (Blog Admin & Founder)

Don't Stereotype Me

Don't Stereotype Me is a blog ran by a teenage girl who has, over the years been treated with discrimination for certain choices in life.


With the world today as it is, going to the dogs, people getting away with murder and the government doing nothing about it, there is only one place a lot of us can find to escape. The internet. Though, discrimination does not stay away from cyberspace, and has infected the internet as well, making it often unsafe, with its own cyber bullying, harassment and stalking, discrimination, slandering, 'trolling'. The internet gave us a way to get our voices heard, with very little con consequences consequence for doing so.


This sites main goal is to create a space where we can post our own stories on the forums, talk to one another and basically have a little fun on a site where any kind of stereotyping or discrimination is not allowed. You can talk about anything on the forums here and there is no need (as long as it is legal in your country) to hold anything back. This space is to share your stories on what has happened to you. Whether you are a lesbian who has faced bullying at school, or a transgendered half way through a sex change who has been beaten for doing something to make themselves happy, if you are straight, and are having your homosexual friends force you to try the 'gay' side of life, to being a harassed for colour, race, ethnicity, age, gender, fashion choice, music choice, hair colour, eye colour, weight, height, any sexuality, drug problems, alcohol, just starting school and having no idea why its happening, religion, liking something that is not 'main stream', being straight edge.


Whatever the reason, everyone has a story to tell, so why don't you tell it.


We are also here as none professional, free advice and help when it seems nothing is left for you to do.


I hope you find a reason for being here, and I leave you with the words of someone who is not famous, but wise: "Perfection is only skin deep, and if you look close enough you can still see the cracks"


Hope to see you around the site.


Kayleigh Mansfield (Blog Admin and Founder)