Lost in the middle - getting organised and debt free

Marru

Since the court day I have been living in a bit of a limbo. The relief on Wednesday was huge but now it has worn off. Also this should be the busiest week at work and because I had soooo much time to prepare for it I am actually bored to death. I have had some complications that I inherited from my predesessor that I have been sorting out but without those I don't know what would I be doing. Yes yes it is a team and I need to help the other team members. My closest collague seems adamant that she is on top of things and doesn't let me help but I did help out one colleague who wasn't in today. And to top it all we have been summoned to go to work tomorrow. I made sure I left something for me to do.

Also I have been reading about the new eating plan that I am going to implement. I am thinking of starting on 13th of June. Should hopefully give me enough time to plan. I was playing today with the BMI calculator. My BMI is now 30.82 which puts me in the obese category. Then I was figuring out what would be the ideal weight for me and if the ideal BMI is in between 18.5 and 25 - average being 21.75 - then my ideal weight is 61.4 kg. And then I remembered that most of my adult life before I started putting on weight I was 62 kg. So that is my target. To get there I need to lose 25 kg. (I bet you could quite easily now calculate how much I weigh and also how tall I am.)

I know that BMI is not everything but I do also know that I was healthy at 62 and as I said I kept it for a long time so I think that is my ideal weight.

BF is here as he is looking after DD tomorrow. I am getting very stressed about the exam as no work has been done towards it. So what I need is a miracle (and lot of hard work next week).

Pippilongstocking

(()) what day is your exam, ironically if you were here I'd be the person handing out the paper to you!

Everything crossed for getting some time for u xx

savingwannabe

I hope you are not at work for too long Marru and can maybe have some you time. Bless you and have a good day.

Marru

Exam is on Thursday. I have Wednesday off for final question practise.

We have to do full day but will get it back as one and half. I came in early so can leave early.

Actually it is quite nice doing work leasurly. New experience for me. I am either flat out or nothing at all type of person.

Marru

Spend day today. Just sent BF to Arg0s with DD to get a paddling pool and vegetable steamer. You can probably guess which one is for me and which is for DD.

He is also getting a timer switch so that I can set the steamer up in the morning and when I come home I have freshly steamed veggies waiting for me. I just need to fry/grill/etc the meat/fish/bird/etc choice of the day (unless I have some roast bits ready that I have taken out of the freezer in the morning) and voila, tea is served in super fast time. Please please let it work.

So now I should be studying but I am sooo tired. It was good day at work yesterday. Managed to get all my stuff done without rushing which was good. But since coming home yesterday I haven't been able to shift this tiredness. Better get my books out then...

Pippilongstocking

Goodluck with the studying!



Great idea of a timer for the steamer!

Marru

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Goodluck with the studying!



Great idea of a timer for the steamer!

Thank you

I have ploughed through fair amount of material but now the WACC defeated me as I am pooped. Having cup of red bush and early bed.

Firewalker

Marru wrote: »

Spend day today. Just sent BF to Arg0s with DD to get a paddling pool and vegetable steamer. You can probably guess which one is for me and which is for DD.

I got this one! Paddling pool is for you; but does DD want with a vegetable steamer?:rotfl:

FW

Marru

Ok I have:

- Packed DD's swimming bag (she did do most of it herself yesterday)
- Packed her school bag
- Packed her PE kit
- Had shower
- Given DD a shower
- Taken the rubbish bin out (collection day)
- Had cooked breakfast
- Fed DD
- Packed my lunch
- Packed my study stuff to take with me
- Had a cup of coffee
- Read matrix thread

And I still have [STRIKE]15 [/STRIKE] 8 minutes leftbefore we need to go. I must be ill.

So I have talked about kilos. Time to talk about centimeters. Here picture of my work trousers with my old jeans on top:



The difference is 10 cm so that twice is 20 cm which is how much centimeters I need to lose. When looking at the picture It doesn't look quite so bad or impossible to achieve.

Now when I can find my flatbed scanner I can put up some pictures of me when I was at my happiest. When you see the pictures you understand why. I was 13 at the time and don't worry, I don't believe that I could ever be that size again those pictures are going to motivate me to lose weight to do something I want to do but can't if I stay this heavy. Cryptic I know but it all will be revealed.

(Oh and when it comes to privacy on the public forum I really don't think anybody can recognise me from those pictures)

savingwannabe

Marru what a busy morning for you. I have the builders round. And a bit of college work to do.

The picture is a motivating way to focus on the weight loss. Good luck. I am going to try to walk as much as possible in the summer hols and to eat fruit everyday!