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No munchies challenge

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Hi
At the beginning of this month I decided to start a new challenge for myself in a bid to save money to put towards debt and to lose some extra lb off my spare tyre.
All I have done is put the amount of money I was tempted to spend that day on choccy bars, crisps and any other munchies in a jar instead. To my amazement after just 6 days I have accumilated £10
and lost 2lb! 
Anyone care to join me?
Thanks
Heddwen
At the beginning of this month I decided to start a new challenge for myself in a bid to save money to put towards debt and to lose some extra lb off my spare tyre.
All I have done is put the amount of money I was tempted to spend that day on choccy bars, crisps and any other munchies in a jar instead. To my amazement after just 6 days I have accumilated £10


Anyone care to join me?
Thanks
Heddwen
Failure is only someone elses judgement.
Without change there would be no butterflies.
If its important to you, you'll find a way - if not, you'll find an excuse ! ~ Easy to say when you take money out of the equation!
Without change there would be no butterflies.
If its important to you, you'll find a way - if not, you'll find an excuse ! ~ Easy to say when you take money out of the equation!
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This sounds like my kind of challenge. I'm in!!! :beer:LBM February 2008. DFD March 2013 19 August 2011Debt at LBM £14,395.48. Debt Now £00
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Ooooh! That sounds like a plan!
Count me in!
Peach x0 -
How about starting an additional weekly pot as a £1 for lb challenge?
I decided today that I will put £1 coin for every 1lb in weight I lose each week giving an extra goal. But instead of using this pot to repay my debts I will use it to treat myself to something else once a month (or fortnight if you cant hold out) for staying away from the munchies.
Ill give it a go.
:beer:Failure is only someone elses judgement.
Without change there would be no butterflies.
If its important to you, you'll find a way - if not, you'll find an excuse ! ~ Easy to say when you take money out of the equation!
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Ooh, can I join, please? I set myself the same challenge (starting 15 April) and it is sheer bldy torture, so having to be accountable to others as well as myself will (please, please, please) be motivating. I am putting €1 (I'm not in the UK) every day that I don't succumb to buying a chocolate bar. So far, I have added a euro every day. Unfortunately this doesn't mean that I have stopped eating chocolate as I do some part-time work in a shop and have even resorted to liberating out of date chocolate biscuits from the bin:o, but I am at least not spending money. And if anyone offers me chocolate I snatch it from their fingers before they can finish the invite - there is not no way I can not accept a freebie. Maybe in time ...
I have, however, managed to resist the temptation to steal the choccie and am now running out of alternatives, so I am hoping that I will reap some rewards by losing some of the bulk I am carrying around. I don't have any scales, so can't do the £1 for a lb bit, but it's a good idea."Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;"
I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.0 -
Ooh count me in please!Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Ooh, can I join, please? I set myself the same challenge (starting 15 April) and it is sheer bldy torture, so having to be accountable to others as well as myself will (please, please, please) be motivating. I am putting €1 (I'm not in the UK) every day that I don't succumb to buying a chocolate bar. So far, I have added a euro every day. Unfortunately this doesn't mean that I have stopped eating chocolate as I do some part-time work in a shop and have even resorted to liberating out of date chocolate biscuits from the bin:o, but I am at least not spending money. And if anyone offers me chocolate I snatch it from their fingers before they can finish the invite - there is not no way I can not accept a freebie. Maybe in time ...
I have, however, managed to resist the temptation to steal the choccie and am now running out of alternatives, so I am hoping that I will reap some rewards by losing some of the bulk I am carrying around. I don't have any scales, so can't do the £1 for a lb bit, but it's a good idea.
No excuses! :rotfl:You must have a friend or collegue who has a scales alternatively there must be one somewhere available in the shopping arcade!?
Welcome everyone and thanks for joining in its great to see the support and it doesnt seem such a struggle now! :T:j
NO FIZZY POP is also an option. :beer:Failure is only someone elses judgement.
Without change there would be no butterflies.
If its important to you, you'll find a way - if not, you'll find an excuse ! ~ Easy to say when you take money out of the equation!
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count me insealed pot challange 5 member 1478 £0/£200
debt payments £0/£4505
debt free date 01.03.2014
weight loss 7lbs/126lbs0 -
i'll give it a go aswell, could do with some motivation to lose a bit of weight!0
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Scales? Um, nope, don't think there are any in the whole of the country."Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;"
I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.0 -
oooh im in but it will be hardSealed pot challenger # 10
1v100 £15/3000
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