Single and in Debt Part II

Shoe_Gal

sarahb123 wrote: »

I said 2009 would be my year and it will be. I will sort it out. I will make baby steps and post them every day.



So, for today

• cut out hair pictures
• took my vitamins
• 1ltr of water

Hmm, not much, but I will do better tomorrow.

This is a good start :A

sarahb123_3

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

This is a good start :A

Will have to do better tomorrow but it's a start considering how i was feeling earlier.

I shall do lots of improvement-type thingies tomorrow, I don't want to get to Christmas and still be feeling like this. I will get shiny hair and my waist back:D

moo2moo

Its cold and grey outside which makes the doom and gloom feel so much more pants. In light of this I propose a five a day challenge. But not of the vegetable variety. The very adaptable rules of the challenge are thus:

1. Five things which put a smile on your face must be achieved between waking up and going to bed. For the slovenly amongst you an extra 5 minutes under the duvet does not count! Thats daylight avoidance.
2. Things which are done which make you feel guilty do not count. If you pig a chocolate bar or three and then feel carp because you're on a diet thats no good. Pig one and feel the endorphins flow freely in a mucho positive manor.
3. At least one thing has to be something selfish -just for you because you are f-ing fabulous! Suggestions include using up all the hot water to have a very deep hot bubble bath or kicking the offspring out of the bathroom so that you don't have to share the bath with two not so small wriggling children and a collection of My little Ponies.

Off to make a start by changing my very chipped toe nail varnish for a fresh coat of something sparkly.

PS. Which rock is Lula hiding under?

lottie_no1

Morning all, drab and grey here this morning. Got some things to sort out which will involve going into town so I have decided that I am going to walk at least one way (about 2miles) to get the blood pumping, also going for a walk with my sis in a wee while (another 2 miles) so thats kickstarting the healthy me!

I'm all for a diet club if other people are.

Have a good monday!

RosaBernicia

moo2moo wrote: »

Its cold and grey outside which makes the doom and gloom feel so much more pants. In light of this I propose a five a day challenge. But not of the vegetable variety. The very adaptable rules of the challenge are thus:

1. Five things which put a smile on your face must be achieved between waking up and going to bed. For the slovenly amongst you an extra 5 minutes under the duvet does not count! Thats daylight avoidance.
2. Things which are done which make you feel guilty do not count. If you pig a chocolate bar or three and then feel carp because you're on a diet thats no good. Pig one and feel the endorphins flow freely in a mucho positive manor.
3. At least one thing has to be something selfish -just for you because you are f-ing fabulous! Suggestions include using up all the hot water to have a very deep hot bubble bath or kicking the offspring out of the bathroom so that you don't have to share the bath with two not so small wriggling children and a collection of My little Ponies.

Off to make a start by changing my very chipped toe nail varnish for a fresh coat of something sparkly.

I love it! :j :T:T:T thank you Moo2! :kisses3:

Must find big sparkly 5 to go on my desk tomorrow - I think I should also do at least one at work. So far have achieved 1 slice chocolate cheesecake, faffing in lovely study/ spare room, and painted toenails despite boots. Will ring friend later and read another chapter of my book over tea!

Hope everybody's Monday went OK

Rosa xx

makeup

Hey all

I wrote a really long reply at lunch time and the bloomin' website then said I had to login to post :mad::mad: needless to say it was then nearly 2pm and nose back to grindstone.

Obviously I was very insightful and witty so please imagine something along those lines.

I think the short version is:

Stop being hard on yourself everyone - especially Sarah (remember, those friends weren't babysitting you, they were lucky enough to be part of your sparkling conversation)

I can be quite hard on myself but I'm not so much anymore. It's that old story about being your own friend and imagining if you heard one of your friends saying this stuff about herself.

Definitely babysteps is way forward - but don't stress over goals, some you may reach in the time you decide and some you may not. This doesn't make you a failure or anything else negative.

OK, so 5 nice things today:
Tap class, my salad for lunch was delicious, some more chapters of my book, final ep of Ashes to Ashes, phone call to my Mum

Er, 5 good things about me

Non-judgemental, generous, sensitive, friendly, expert-shopper


Goodnight all!

Bowski_1011

Sarah I've just been readin up on Shoegals diary and where I'm upto you'd said about how you get to xmas and think 'if I'd started in summer I'd have been 2 stone lighter by now' (or something along those lines anyways lol) So..here's your chance. Just think...you can be 2 stone lighter by xmas if you start now...woohoo!
I hope you're feeling better today. I know you're finding it it hard having only a small amount of savings left, and ya know what it's like, one thing gets to you and then everything else seems a million times worse.

I am up for some kind of (serious :rolleyes:)diet club
I got weighed today and I'm looking to lose 12lb by 4th July because it's my daughters football presentation and also my birthday weekend and I wanna dress up, have a drink and feel good bout myself which is something I haven't done in ages. All in all I need to lose about 6 stone but it's never in a million years going to happen. I'm gonna say I want to lose 2stone by xmas and then see where I go from there. The thought of losing 6 stone is too daunting, even though I know it's possible. I need to read some inspirational stories I think.

My 5 good things for today (f-fabulous idea m2m) are... A good day in work, a good dieting day, DD sucking upto me making me cuppa's and asking to put washing out, learning i'm not in work early all week like I thought, feeling happy.

5 good things to say about myself won't be so easy but I'll try

1) Good mother
2) nice smile
3) A good person
4) happy
5)

Crikey...that's sooooo hard! I was actually cringing typing the last 3, I really do find it difficult to big myself up and I actually feel embarassed typing those things even though you's don't know me. I'd be rubbish at an interview lol

Goodnight everyone, hope you're all ok

Lula-Hula

Hey everyone,

Moo2 - I have now crawled out from under my large logs & return to the fold of the f-ing fabulous :j

as to myannoyinglylittleponies ... I've only recently managed to evict them from my bathroom, but how much fun can you have with those magnetic hooves - I used to hang them all upside down much to DDs annoyance

I like the list of five good things to say about myself but so far I can only come up with 1 :

1 - I am fabulous

will be back when I think of some more ...

As to five good things done today :

1 - spent an hour pottering in the garden
2 - finished work by 5
3 - paid £70 to CC2
4 - cooked, ate & washed up by 8pm
5 - ate healthily


love & hugs to all

lula
xx

moo2moo

You have posh ponies Lula, ours don't have magnetic feet they've been passed on one two many times. Polly Pocket - the worlds smallest most annoying toy on the other hand has a whole host of vacuumable clingy things. Oh the fun we've had extracting Pollys shoes from the vacuum cleaner. For those who haven't experienced the delights of activities such as this they're considerably smaller than a coco pop. Its not so much needle in a hay stack as small rubbery thing in a cloud of dust. Come to think of it most childrens toys are seriously annoying. It must be a prerequisite for any top class toy designer. So because its not yet 6am and I have an hour to kill I'll bore you with my top ten most hated childrens toys:

1: Barbie - Being impaled on Barbies very pointy feet in the dark at 4am on puke patrol
2. Hama Beads - they breed in secret, grow legs overnight and walk everywhere and they really hurt when you stand on them as well as leaving dents in wood floors.
3. Play-dough - walked into carpets everywhere even when the little dears are only allowed it outside
4. Dolls with fabric bodies - Bath them, they stay wet for weeks and weeks eventually turning mouldy. Lovely. Turfing them in the bin as a health hazard is on a par with serving brussel sprouts at the dinner table.
5. Magnetix - millions of metal marbles, step on one and hobble for weeks.
6. Barney - I love you, you love me, I'm as nausiating as a toy can be. Theres even an I hate Barney website.
7- My Little Pony - Very annoying when you're trying to have a bath only to find a muddy My Little Pony being shampoo'ed
8. Lego- Noooooooo don't break it, don't move it, don't clean round it or breathe in its vicinity. Enormous sprawly models covered in dust that shall not be disturbed on pain of death and yet as you walk past things fall off, you reattach them in the wrong place and life ends.
9. Bratz - No doll should have that big a head and why do all the dolls come with free make up? No parent of a 9 year old willingly gives nail varnish to their child. This inevitably ends in oops the bottle fell over so I smeared it onto the duvet with a towel or "but mummy we were only playing" as an explaination of why DD2 has rosy red nail varnished on cheeks. Nail varnish cannot be used as a blusher substitute as DD1 discoved.
10. Magic sand - its sand and you play with it in water. Hours of fun. Admittedly not with the sand. But the container can be transformed nto a hotel for slugs and snails which invariably escape into the house overnight whilst the sand reappears in pockets and hair for weeks afterwards.

Bored yet?

My five smiley things from yesterday:

1- Big hugs from DD1 who shouted she loved me across the school field
2- 100 pages of a book read
3- OH cooking dinner
4- DD2 popping round to visit a housebound neighbour whose husband is away for a few days just in case she needed anything.
5- A work collegue thanking me for something I did last week.

Hollyberry

Five good things from yesterday (cheers Moo):

1. Three coal tits bathing in a small puddle
2. A very long walk by the river without being rained on
3. A welcome back from my mum
4. Four new books to read
5. The best cheesecake. Ever.

Hello you f fabulous ones - hope you are all doing ok today. I popped in last night, but was having so much trouble keeping my eyes open that I couldn't manage to comment.;) I blame it on far too much fresh air.

£19 mini-hols were great. We had another beautiful room at the hotel, with a view over the river. I didn't spend megabucks, so am still firmly within the treats budget for the month. And I seem to have shrunk a size in my trousers, so perhaps that should be six good things from yesterday (although it didn't feel so good when I was walking back to the room holding onto them for dear life lest I lose them...:p).

*Adopts stern lecturing position* Sarah, my f fabulous one, you have got to get it out of your head that your friends are acting as reluctant minders to a - shock - single person. How about the radical thought that they just enjoy seeing you? *Stern position relaxed. Have too many aches to be stern this morning* Seriously, I think the always-wise make up nailed it when she talked about being your own friend. Ditto Shoe Gal and Rosa - in fact this thread is so full of great advice and help - you really are f fabulous people, y'know?

Bowski - how about inspiring for your 5th good thing? I know you were looking for some inspiring stories, but that post of yours shows you can do it all by yourself.

Moo - I think my ranking of toys would have to be linked to how much pain they can cause. I still bear the scars of Godson1's light sabre. And there is nothing like the exquisite pain of lego underfoot.

Right - need to get sorting out my house insurance, pick up a prescription, and generally do battle at the GPs to do that challenging thing that is actually getting an appointment...

See you later. X