Benbens moneymaking adventure

hypno06

I don't buy the choccy bars from WW - they may only be 1.5. points each, but I eat the whole box in one go - sort of defeats the object

benbenandme

I take one with me to work each day to have at breaktime, but yeah I know what you mean They are expensive too tbh

chevalier

Benben just wanted to say well done for keeping on track with the mortgage overpaying.
Ref the weight don't be too hard on yourself. You lost a bit, so you are going the right way. You are also changing your attitude to food if you did the sensible thing and had tea before you went rather than reaching for the chocolate to tide you over...

Hypno. Just remember that muscle weighs more than fat. When you start running you do lose some weight the first few weeks, but then there will be a few weeks where you are converting fat to muscle where it will plateau out. But don't give up. What you should also do is measure around your waist hips and thighs now and then do it in a months time if you keep the running up. You may not lose much weight in the next month but if you are running 2/3 times a week, I can practically guarantee you that you will have lost cm's off these area as your firm up so to speak.
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benbenandme

Morning I had a good nights sleep last night and actually feel awake this morning Nothing nrew to report, just a normal day ahead at work and then tonight we're going back to ds school as the school photographer is in this week doing their pictures, and tonight he's doing family ones, so I'm going to get a proper one done of me and ds I don't have many of us together as usually I'm the one taking them, so I have loads of him on his own

Hopefully another nsd today, although I may need to get some bread later. Have a good day !!

benbenandme

I managed another nsd today :beer: Done a couple of surveys tonight, had a bath and am heading for an early night

benbenandme

In ds cla they have a cuddly Spot the dog, and each week the child who has been good / impressed the teachers the most gets to take it home for the weekend .... guess who got it this week :j :j :j His teacher said some of the other kd suggested ds should get it this week as he's tried really hard and been really good :T :T I'm soooooooo proud and soooooooo happy I'm just hoping we've turned a corner with him now and his behaviour may be improving Anyway, we have to fill in Spots diary so we're off out somewhere nice tomorrow, armed with a camera, to record Spots day :rolleyes:

My nsd went a bit to pot tonight as I took ds to McDonalds as a treat for being super all week at school AND I managed to stay within my daily points limit too :T

chunkytfg

benbenandme wrote: »

Found out today we were supposed to get a payrise in April but the union has been arguing over the amount, anyhow, we should be getting it at the end of this month and backdated to April :j I think it will work out to just over a hundred quid :beer:

Off to WW in about an hour, not too hopeful this week as I have pmt and feel bloated, but I've been very good and not given in to the choccy munchies

Bit late to this diary but hello anyway.

Just pooped in to say i also am a huge fan of back dated payrise's. Our union is constantly fighting the company so we never get our rise's on time and it is such a great feeling getting all that extra dosh in a lump sum. love it love it love it. guess the difference now is i will put it to good use rather than buying more tools or a new bit for my bike.:beer:

benbenandme

Hi Chunky, welcome to the diary I've just seen yours so am off for a read

yukkibear

benbenandme wrote: »

The two outstanding enquiries I had on quidco have come back today, one (Victor Chandler) has been declined :mad: :mad: (12.00), but the other one (BT Broadband) has been validated (40.00) :j :j

I'm glad I've just read this, my vic chandler ticket got declined too. That was annoying, I wont use them again

benbenandme

Morning all It has rained nearly all night here last night so our pland for a trip to the forest have been cancelled as it will be yucky I have booked tickets to see Wall-E at the kids club at the cinema this morning, 3.50 for ds and adults go free

After that it will be a trip to tesco for the weekly shop and then the rest of the weekend includes making our shoebox for school, ds starting to write his xmas cards (I thought it he could do 2 or 3 a day it would make it easier than trying to get him to do them all at once), cleaning out the piglets and generally taking it easy / not spending much money

Last night I did buy some stuff from Avons website, they are doing their 5 for a fiver offer again, anyway, I got 2 big bottles of bubble bath, a room spray, shower gel and body lotion and then also a face crub for an extra 2.00, altogether it came to 6.30 (free del and 10% off code;)) and 94p validated on quidco too :T :T I bought some of the bubble bath last year and its lasted me all year