My Debt Free, Lose Weight & Be Super Frugal Diary 2009

ragstoricheswannabe

hi everyone!!! try taking paracetamol every 4 hours (up to 8 tabs in 24 hours) and iburofen every 6 hours and that should keep the headahces, aches and pains away and may help to clear the foggy head syndrome for a while............. nothing worse than being ill at work. ooh and take a multivitamin so your body gets all it needs even if your not eating a lot. recover quicker this way.

crap about your fella's work lemontree, my work are like that though so if feeling rough during the day/evening, i have to take the following day off (unpaid aswell) just incase.

hope everyone feels better soon.......

love rags
xxxxxxx

beckseven

Hope you are feeling better everyone. Think you are doing the right thing by postponing the wedding-you will enjoy it far more if you have the money. Baby is due by planned section next Friday so will achieve major weightloss in a day! Then me and DH have a challenge to see who can lose a stone first!

Bambywamby

Thanks girls, nice to know I am not the only one suffering lol.
Good luck for the birth Becks x x , I have had a C-section before...I much preferred it to natural labour...but I am a bit of a wimp.
Rags, thanks for the constant advice and words of comfort...it's so sweet of you. :smileyhea

Well I feel better today, I have woke up feeling all positive and optimistic...back on the debt free and diet journey.

This morning for brekky I used up the last of a bag of Smartprice oats, added a few raisins and milk, and had a big bowl of sweet porridge. I am still quite full now and it's 1.20pm...I think I will have to get some more oats... so cheap and filling.
I still don't feel upto flinging myself around the front room to an exercise DVD, however I shall take a walk to the shops and back to see how my chest copes.

I have done my daily checks and clicks, used the free WeightWatchers trial, batch cooked some lamb mince into three meals, tidied up and opened the windows, checked all the online credit cards for payment due dates and wrote them in my diary, pestered O/H to get some of his shares released to put towards the debts and I have washed at 30 degrees and hung the washing on the line.
It's a beautiful day here today, crisp and cold but sprinkled with gorgeous sunshine...I can't wait for Spring and then Summer, makes me feel great just thinking about it. Apparently "according to meteoroligists," we are due a really hot summer...it will rank in the hottest five summers on record...here's to hoping.:dance:

Later on this aftie I am tidying all my bedroom and wardrobes, I am going to be merciless and have a huge clear out for Ebay, charity shops and Freecycle. I did plan to do this a few days ago but I didn't have the energy. I think I will keep a running total of how much I make on Ebay from my excess store of clothes & shoes. I may have wasted hundreds on these but at least I will be able to claw some back. The clothes I am keeping with be my favourite things, classic timeless pieces and items that suit me. I have three full wardrobes to go through and ten drawers...however these clothes to range from a size 10 through to a size 18, "What can I say I am a yoyo dieter." :rolleyes:
So I am keeping the size 10/12 stuff and everything else can go...I refuse to be fat or in debt any longer.


Well gotta dash, I am off to watch the afternoon showing of Jeremy Kyle before I sort through my things. I know watching old Jezza is very tacky and tasteless but we have to have some vices if we are giving up chocolate and spending. :rotfl:

Chat soon Bam x

Bambywamby

My scales have arrived from Argos...and don't work. :mad:

So they are going back and hopefully the next set will work, I am desperate to get weighed. I am sure I have lost three stone in the last week. :rotfl:

ragstoricheswannabe

i am full of useless information so glad some of it is coming in handy!!!!!

shame about the scales, has none of your friends not got any you can hop on to???

how many kiddiwinkles have you got bamby??

Lemon_Tree

rags, it's so annoying really isn't when they have that sort of attitude, it's as if you're swinging a leg if you phone in sick. I have this terrible guilt about phoning in sick, i'd rather get sent home so at least my manager know's if i do ring in then it's serious. I had such a terrible night last night i called in again today, i would have felt so much better if i could have just removed my entire head above my mouth level, but guess that was a bit extreme

Lemon_Tree

shame you probably live miles from me as i have some scales that need a new home, nowt wrong with them at all but we've got another set now.

Bambywamby

Morning peoples x x

Thanks for the offer Lemon Tree :T ,but Argos are sending me another set of scales and a £5 voucher. Yay! Now there is a result.

I have a 17 year old son Rags...I had him when I was 19.:p I have a new partner now (well we have been together for nearly eight years) and he has no children. We decided last year, before it gets too difficult to try for a baby. I am 36 so I realistically only have four years left to conceive...maybe six or seven if I am lucky, but the sooner we conceive the better. However we are not trying until we are debt free. It would be too much extra stress to cope with, we would lose my wages as I intend to be a stay at home mum for at least the first five years.

I have been sooooo good today, the Kays Spring/Summer catalogue came today and I put it straight in the bin. I then covered it in last nights mince fat and soggy teabags so I wasn't tempted to take it out...and buy.

I have sorted some clothes out from my huge wardrobe (twenty items) they are getting photographed and put on Ebay tonight. Then I shall have a second swoop through my clothes and be more ruthless. Finally I have quite a lot of summer type clothes that wouldn't sell well at the moment, so I shall wait a few months to auction those.

Last night for tea we have savoury mince in yorkshire puds, tonight we are having bolognaise as I split the mince in to two meals. I added peas, grated carrot and onions to bulk the meat out, it tasted really nice. I used frozen lamb mince from Asda, it was tasty, with no gristle or sinew and very good value. It was only £1.45 for medium sized bag and easily makes six adult portions.

Today was going to be a NSD until my son awoke to tell me his black suit trousers had ripped...they are unrepairable and he has an important interview on Friday. He doesn't have any savings (after just blowing £3000 on a new car, insurance, tax etc,) so it's left to mummy. This afternoon I shall be popping into Asda, hopefully they will sell some black slacks in his size. He is an unusual size, 30 inch waist with 34 inch legs...oh to be a skinny teenager again.:rolleyes:

Have a good day ladies,

Bam x

Bambywamby

I have to take one of our labs to the vets tonight, she is passing blood when she poos. It is quite a lot of blood and very offensive, bless her, she isn't herself either...quiet and off her food. Another unexpected bill that will need paying for ...we are covered by insurance, but have to pay the excess of £50.
But as long as she is alright, that is whats more important at the moment...I will worry about the £50 at a later date.

She is a rescue dog (we have had her a year) and she came from an abusive home, as she has had it very rough for the first three years of her life I feel very tender over her.

mancbird

Aw, sorry to hear your dog is poorly. Hope she is feeling better soon

I've just read your diary from start to finish and found it very inspiring as you have very similar aims to me. I aim to clear as much as my debt as possible this year as me and my OH are trying for a baby. I'm also hoping to lose 2 stone to get back into my size 10/12s so I shall be watching your diary with interest