Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

Prudent

Hello everyone :hello:

I have decided not to do the challenge this year as I am firstly concentrating on some major home improvements and then going on an mse diet challenge. Combined with the comps, a demanding job and being a single mum this is enough for now.

Just wanted to let how much I miss you all. I am being extra frugal this year to try and compensate a bit for all the work being done on the house. I have already saved for the improvements, but want to minimise the impact on my savings.

I miss you all a lot, but pop in now and then and continue to be inspired by you. I shall try and contribute now and then, especially in the school holidays

savingfortravel

Wow!! Andromache..i've only been to a tiny bit of India (Jaipur, Delhi, Agra) so your trip sounds amazing..Well done you!! SFT

sophiesmum_2

Hi Prudent
Nice to hear from you, hope you and DD are both happy and well. Sounds like you have enough going on without trying to keep up here too.
Good luck with the comping:D

skint_chick

sophiesmum - no you didn't panic me about the tumour - must have been scary for you though! I've started on Metformin so hopefully that will help both my weight and fertility -it seems that lots of people with PCOS also have children so I feel more positive about it already. I think it's better to know what I'm dealing with at the start of the journey to trying for a family.

I have no motivation with diets- I've been trying and giving up for 18years. I need to confess that I'm 23stone 5pounds today -the heaviest I've ever been and struggling with size 20's and 22s :eek: . So I'm doing the low GI diet and I am going to succeed. I will never be Kate Moss thin but I want to get my weight to 14stone so I weigh less than OH - and I think this will take until June 2010. Tomorrow I am going to spend some of my budget on bathroom scales and keep track of my weight. I told OH my weight and he was shocked - he tried so hard not to be and said "well you're tall and you carry it well" etc but I'm going to remember that shock every time I think about food. I think I may "borrow" Sophiesmum's way of listing meals for the day to help me focus.

Prudent

All the best skint chick. I need to get up the courage to buy some scales too I bought some budget ones at a boot sale a few years ago, but I could loose half a stone by moving tham around the bathroom.They got binned in the refit as very rusty I have just had the bathroom refitted, so no excuse for not buying scales - other than the fact I am too scared to look.

How do you list meals?

whitewing

skint_chick,

Good luck! My friend was diagnosed with PCOS last year, and is having a lot of success with a low GI diet. She find it terribly hard to keep her weight under control before her diagnosis, but now weighs less than me from being a fair bit heavier.

Masomnia

Good luck Skint Chick! It's not healthy to be Kate Moss skinny I hope you reach a weight you're happy with.

Semester starts tomorrow, yay! And my new year's resolution was to not get the bus into uni as it costs at least £1 per day which really adds up and eats into my budget. And I have no excuse as it's a 25 minute walk, and prbably takes just as long after waiting for the bus.

DdraigGoch

Well, it's snowed here in mid-Wales again :cool: Not getting sick of it yet. Another NSD today.

Thank you, Kittie, for the reminder about the sheets. I was given a waterbed in the summer and have never had sheets to fit it properly, so I really need to get the sewing machine out and make up some sheets by splitting some of the older ones to add to the sides, top & bottom. PLEASE NAG ME ABOUT THIS, or I'll just forget I seem to be forgetting everything at the moment. Can't even remember how long the forgetting has been going on for! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Am off for a CAT scan re this Monday, DON'T LET ME FORGET IT!!!!

Huge sympathies to everyone with redundancy/job loss worries. Keep coming on here, use MSE to the full and things will get better. It's helped me a tremendous amount over the years.

So far, my £4K bid isn't doing too well, but it'll get better, and, I console myself, even if I fail miserably, I'm still going to be better off than if I hadn't tried at all :rolleyes: Thanks to NYK for the inspiration.

Best of luck to everyone with health concerns. I do hope that you all feel better/are better [if that's possible] soon.

general hugs and hot chocolate/hot water bottle thoughts to everyone!

DG

Skint_Lynne

I'm just going to have some hoc choc DG. Well, I'm off to my training tomorrow and I'll be home on Friday. I'm taking my laptop with me and hopefully they will have facilities in the hotel.:D I don't think that I could live without you all for a week.:eek:

I'm driving back so will need to remember the tom tom so that I get back. Not looking forward to staying in a hotel by myself but I'll be ok. Got my moby, laptop, and will take some dvd's and cd's for the journey back.

Hoping to take full advantage of expenses, (should be free meals etc), and not to spend an awful lot of my own cash.

Nite all. xx

Floxxie

xnatalie81x wrote: »

I really need to update my totals but i don't have a calculator and there isn't one on the computer (i have looked) so i have to do it on paper and it is doing my brain in!!! Anyone wants to donate me a calculator i will send you a stamped envelope lol (free stamps from royal mail thingy)

If you just put your sum into the google search engine bit, it does it for you...e.g. put in 123+145+890 (etc) and press enter and it will give you the result.


Floxxie