2009-goodbye debt goodbye fat!

kathrynrobson1011

Purple posting4 - could you give me the recipe for the Brocolli soup please? I love brocolli and my kids could do with eating it a bit more so this would be good for them.

Cheers Kat x

[Deleted User]

Kat - Broccoli soup:

1 broccoli, about 80p from supermarket, chopped finely and added to water in a pan. Bring to the boil until broccoli softens. Take off heat and use a blender to get rid of any chunky bits - this will make greeny water looking stuff! Use salt and pepper to season and add elmea light single cream if required to thicken, bring back to the boil, then serve and enjoy!
My OH uses this basic recipie for any soup - leek/potato, tomato, broccoli. It's easy but tastes really nice. I would probably have a trial run and experiment, OH just seems to chuck it all together and it works fine! x

elsie52

Hi everyone :j

Hope you have all had a good day. I have been to see my new grandson today, and have not eaten really healthy at all, so just going to have lasagne for tea tonight. Starting my diet tomorrow, so I have stocked up on fruit and vegggies. I have just downloaded my photos and there is nothing like seeing yourself...:eek:..to give you inspiration to lose weight. I hate having photos taken, and so I have kept the photos of th baby on his own and deleted them with me on. Scary.:eek:

Still tomorrow is another day, and I will be as good as gold. :A Promise. Has everyone else been good?.

griffam

evening all

what a weekend. It started with the escapade with the door and went rapidly downhill. Sounds like the photos were a bit of a shock and I know the feeling and I think I now avoid even having mine taken at all

We have been up to start on clearing out the old mans house and my goodness we dont know where to start. Just going in the kitchen put me off eating for a lifetime. I found packets of PG Tips in those old fashioned oblong cartons....you remember the old loose tea!!!!!

M in Law cooked dinner so that was a good healthy affair with plenty of veggies from the allottment. For tea I have just put one of the fab lidl ciabatta with olives in the oven and we will have some black forrest ham with watercress and tomato and onion so thats no so bad. If it were no for the eclairs driving up and love hearts coming back and the bottle of wine waiting in the fridge I would have been good.
Oh well ( deep sigh) there is always tomorrow

griffam

Now I have a few well earned minutes I thought I would explain the reason I had to repair the door and for once did not get the proverbial `man` in with all the associated cost .

When I got home on Friday evening DH had just arrived back having collected the little ones from the childminder and nipped to the co-op for an emergency bottle of wine ( we usually brew our own.....mind numbingly potent and a bargain at 50p a bottle...tastes OK too). Any way being pay day he pushed the boat out and brought back two While in the shop he met a friend who offered a preweekend drink at hers. We nipped around and after a couple of bottles with them made our way home. DH put the little ones to bed and I finally extracted myself from the confines of a suit into a real grot bag pair of pjs ,vibrant pink with resplendant luminous day glow green pattern.
We very quickly found the grooves on the sofa and finally unwound. About 10ish DD no 1 appeared home proud as punch with a ring on her finger.We had a great time celebratating and as she went to leave the house I yelled...dont shut the door. It has been temperamental for a while.Guess what she ignored me.Never mind I thought a quick jiggle usually sorts it.

About half an hour later the effect of all the wine took its toll and I dashed for the door on way to the loo. NOTHING !!!I wiggled the door whilst pushing and jiggled whilst pushing but It was stuck. In the end I demanded the DH went out the back door, up the back lane into the lane at the side and around the front . I knew he was on the other side of the door when it started to bulge alarmingly obviously as a result of some sweeny type tactic he was engaging. By this time I was so desperate to pee that hysteria set in. I did not know whether tolaugh or cry and continued to push while wiggling and pull while jiggling and simultaneously doing that legs wrpped around each other several times and bouncing up and down like zebedee. Ladies over 40 with more than one kid will recognise this as necessary when trying to avoid imminent episodes of dribbling usually associated with hysteria.

Eventually I had no choice but to venture out in the day pjs nonchantly greeting passing dog walkers in order to get to the front of the house and up to the loo.

I eventually managed to get to my secret tool kit ( If DH has access it usually means a major refurb will be needed at some point to rectify any damage he does) and released the door.

And there in dear lurkers lies the reason I had to fix the door.

Good luck with the diets tomorrow and heres hoping we all stay on the straight and narrow

System

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

Hi everybody :hello:

You all sound very positive and as if you are on the right track - well done :j Hope you don't mind me joining in, am single so no support at home - so it's very easy to give in to temptation - eating and spending

I find the weekends quite hard but I am determined to keep to healthy eating this weekend - and do some exercise!

Off to do a 'proper'food shop now - and then the gym this afternoon! :eek:

Have a good Saturday

Shoe Gal x

I'm like you Shoe Gal - living alone so no-one at home to support the weight-loss or, more importantly, to make me feel too guilty to stuff my face with all sorts of fatty loveliness. I usually find that having an audience is enough to put me off gorging, which is why I'm really saintly at work all day then ruin it all with evening meals big enough to feed a family.

Right then, I'm about 12st 7lbs which may not sound too bad but considering I was three stone lighter 10 years ago is really not great. So my realistic aim is to get down to 10 stone. I think my 9-stone-something days are over seeing as I'm almost 30.

So, the idea of combining weight-loss and debt reduction is a brilliant one and I think they go nicely hand-in-hand - to cut down on commuting costs I shall cycle into work twice a week (can't manage more as it's 11 miles each way) and will also stop going into M&S on my way home and spending lots of squids on their ready-meals. It's cereal for me in the evenings from now on!!

Aim for the end of 2009 is to reduce debt by £6k and to have lost 2 and a half stone. It's do-able but I'll need your support people!! :j

DebtBgone_2

hey all had the busiest of weekend hoping al have some time in the morning to do my typing and fill you all in! two days to moving, then i wont have interne for a while, do not knwo how al survive!!

[Deleted User]

Morning everyone! Haven't lost the weight I wanted to this week, so am on a mission this week to get under the 16st mark and well into the 15's. Healthly cereal and a cup of tea. Am now getting kids ready for school, 10 min walk there and back twice a day.

I plan on having a NSD (no-spend-day) today and hopefully tues/weds too, so that when I get some pennies on thursday I know where I am and can do a healthy shop again and put some pennies towards my debts.

Have a good day everyone, speak soon, x

griffam

In_The_Red_2009 wrote: »

I'm like you Shoe Gal - living alone so no-one at home to support the weight-loss or, more importantly, to make me feel too guilty to stuff my face with all sorts of fatty loveliness. I usually find that having an audience is enough to put me off gorging, which is why I'm really saintly at work all day then ruin it all with evening meals big enough to feed a family.

Right then, I'm about 12st 7lbs which may not sound too bad but considering I was three stone lighter 10 years ago is really not great. So my realistic aim is to get down to 10 stone. I think my 9-stone-something days are over seeing as I'm almost 30.

So, the idea of combining weight-loss and debt reduction is a brilliant one and I think they go nicely hand-in-hand - to cut down on commuting costs I shall cycle into work twice a week (can't manage more as it's 11 miles each way) and will also stop going into M&S on my way home and spending lots of squids on their ready-meals. It's cereal for me in the evenings from now on!!

Aim for the end of 2009 is to reduce debt by £6k and to have lost 2 and a half stone. It's do-able but I'll need your support people!! :j

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[Deleted User]

Hi 'In The Red 2009' and welcome!
We can all chat and support each other on here!
Like now I am resisting the urge to eat anything before lunchtime - I am so hungry today! I know there's ingredients in that I could make stuff with, like pancakes...hmmm...must resist...!