Go For It - My 2010 Diary of Need!

ceebeeby

Day 20 - Wednesday
Money Spent - zero
Extra Money Earnt - £125 - Refund from British Gas :j
Money Saved - £25 per month reduction in Gas DD
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 2 wks, 5 days
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - Baaaaaaad :mad:
week weigh in: -1lb = 1 / 35lb.
Hardest Thing So Far - Flamin' cake
HL Score: 9/10 for now
Flying Stars (**NEW**): Yay - have just earnt Mondays :j Now up to 6

I'm gonna roll the meal planning over to tomorrow if that's okay, will give me more of an idea of what's still available etc.

Todays BIG news was my British Gas refund of £125 and the £25 per month reduction in DD, which is fabulous news. I haven't updated the Feb spends yet, but will do so shortly. The £125 is going straight into the holidays savings pot(s).

There are 2 running concurrently at the moment. Might have to start up a running total on page 1 for when the money actually hits the bottom of the jar to see how well (or otherwise) we're doing! Am so chuffed though with the saving - ha-ha, there are benefits to having no central heating after all!

ceebeeby

Day 21 - Thursday
Money Spent - zero
Extra Money Earnt - zero
Money Saved - zero
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 2 wks, 6 days
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - PLEASE BE GOOD TODAY!!!!! I wasn't :mad::mad:
week weigh in: (12.11) -2lb = 3 / 35lb. :j:j:j
HL Score: 9/10 for now
Flying Stars (**NEW**): 1/5 for this week so far.

OMG, OMG, OMG - I've lost 2lb on the weekly weigh in despite eating all the rubbish - but it's all down to the wonderful FLYING thread!! Ha-ha, if I hadn't stuffed my face, I'd have probably lost 10lb. Am so so so chuffed to bits - I want to bottle this feeling and take it out every time I feel like eating something naughty!

I've taken out the 'Hardest Thing' row because it didn't really add anything as I'm blogging here anyway.

Youth club was about 6/10 - ever rising!!

ceebeeby

Week 4 (w/c 25/01/10) Meal Planning

What's left in the store AFTER all plans have been made (i.e. to start w/c 01/02 with)!

Planned Shop for 24/01/10 - everything gets used up
Budget Available - £18.91
Cat Food £2.17
Whoopsie Bread £1.00
Fruit £3.00
Vegetables £2.00
Beef Mince £2.00
Squash x 2 £0.50
Cereal x 2 £2.00
Lemon Curd 30p
Peanut butter (smart price) 70p
Milk - £1.50
Chicken noodles (5 packs) - 45p
Ham / cold meat- 89p max!
Cheese spread x2 - 80p
Haggis (Meat) (or buy the day after, and maybe get it whoopsy'd?) - £1
Ready Salted SP Crisps – 60p

Total: £18.91

Freezer
[STRIKE]Turkey Pieces – small packet[/STRIKE]
3 packets pancakes
[STRIKE]4 Birds Eye Chicken Steaks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Full pkt veggie mince[/STRIKE]
1 pkt fish pie sauce
[STRIKE]1 microwave meals (spag bol)[/STRIKE]
Frozen Lemon Chicken Sauce
1/2 bag of frozen strawberries
[STRIKE]1 frozen apple crumble[/STRIKE]
1 chicken fajita thing
2l vanilla icecream
6 pkts w/w tortilla wraps
pkt frozen mash
2 pots of cream

Fridge
4l milk - 1l watered down to skimmed
Jam / Lemon Curd
Beer!
Lots of Marg / Butter / Trex
[STRIKE]Few unhappy eggs L [/STRIKE]

Cupboards
[STRIKE]1 pkt Pasta Shapes [/STRIKE]
Dried Spagetti - large packet
[STRIKE]2 x pkt savoury rice[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]2 tins beans or spagetti[/STRIKE]
1 tin meatballs
1 tin tomatos
1 tin chick peas
4 tins rice pudding
4 tins sliced peaches
1 pkt value pre-ready pasta
2 pkts pre-ready rice
value noodles
[STRIKE]1 small jar dolmio pasta sauce[/STRIKE]
Low Amount cereal (weetabix, porridge)
Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate / Sugar
All sorts of home baking stuff incl. 2 jars mincemeat
Herbs /spices / gravy / stock cubes / Ketchups (every flavour) (lots)
chilli sauce
[STRIKE]1 pkt stuffing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]½ pkt red lentils[/STRIKE]
4 pkts instant custard
Biscuits / chocolate / Xmas Pud / Boxed Chocolates
1 pkt chicken soup
Drinking squash
[STRIKE]Potatos[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Parsnips[/STRIKE]

Meal Plan So Far

Monday 25th Jan
Breakfast Cereal
Lunch Sarnies or Wraps
Dinner Mince and Mash (make cottage pie with lefties)

Tuesday 26th Jan
Breakfast Cereal
Lunch Sarnies or Wraps
Dinner Golden Rice made into risotto with chicken burger chunks and fresh veg / HM Flour Wraps

Wednesday 27th Jan
Breakfast Porridge, Pancakes or Eggy Bread
Lunch Sarnies or Wraps
Dinner Haggis and Mash

Thursday 28th Jan
Breakfast Cereal
Lunch Sarnies
Dinner Pasta / Pasta Sauce

Friday 29th Jan
Breakfast Cereal
Lunch Sarnies or Wraps
Dinner Kids Out / Mum Out / Dad – Micro Spag Bol or fajita thing

Saturday 30th Jan
Breakfast Porridge / Pancakes
Lunch Frozen home made chicken soup left from last week – maybe home made bread if I’ve got all the necessary ingredients??
Dinner Cottage Pie out of Freezer

Sunday 31st Jan
Breakfast Eggy Bread
Lunch Sweet and Sour Turkey and Rice /
apple crumble and ice-cream!
Dinner Beans or spaghetti on toast (yummy)

ceebeeby

Day 22 - Friday
Money Spent - zero
Extra Money Earnt - zero
Money Saved - zero
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 3 weeks
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - Ooooh, I was - not one cheat the whole day!!!
week weigh in: (12.11) -2lb = 3 / 35lb.
HL Score: 9/10 for now
Flying Stars (**NEW**): 2/5 for this week so far.

Yay - menu for next week done and dusted! Only 2 days late - ho-hum, the resolutions are slipping and it's only day 22!

I think my shopping budget brings me in with one toe on the line. I shall have to walk round the supermarket with a calculator in hand!

ceebeeby

Day 23 -Saturday
Money Spent - zero
Extra Money Earnt - zero
Money Saved - zero
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 3 and 1 day weeks
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - Hmmm, piece of choc cake but have been flying all day long!!!
week weigh in: (12.11) -2lb = 3 / 35lb.
HL Score: 9/10 for now
Flying Stars (**NEW**): 5/5 for this week :j:A:j.
My house is gleaming!

Think I've over-extended on the NSD budget, and am now going to struggle to eat the following week - ha-ha, might have to send a friend to go and get all my shopping for me, and pay her back the following day in Feb - errr, I think that's stretching the rules somewhat!!!

Have managed to find loads and loads and loads of stuff for a car boot sale / ebay sales, so am hoping to boost the holiday funds with that. Just need to get the stuff listed now or find a local car boot thing.

I'm finally starting to think i will definitely manage through January now, from the original point of OMG, how on earth. Not without this sites help though it has to be said.

DN's birthday today and no prezzy fm Auntie Ceebeeby ... although he does live 12 hours flight away, am quite gutted. Have got a parcel of things to send over anyway, so will find him a nice something to actually post rather than send money.

Pinky15

Just wanted to pop by and say Hi - you are sooo well organised.
I always think it is a hard month to try and loose weigh - all the xmas chocs hanging round and the dreadful dull days and dark night! I need to lose a stone - but always find I am so tired so I am going to try and stick carefully to my meal planners. I also get tips on the OS board they are fab lol!:)

ceebeeby

Hi pinky,

Thanks for stopping by for a visit, I love and need all the encouragement I can get!! As you can see I'm struggling hugely with the chocolate thing - much more so than the no cigarettes or spending less! I keep dipping in and out of OS, it's helped me hugely and never before have I had such a tidy house or the family eaten fully home-made meals. I'm off to try home-made veggy haggis tomorrow, and to bake a loaf of bread to go with the rubber chicken soup later in the week.

Thanks again x

ceebeeby

Day 24 -Sunday
Money Spent - £21.03
Extra Money Earnt - zero
Money Saved - zero
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 3 and 2 day weeks
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - NAS Angel Delight??
week weigh in: (12.11) -2lb = 3 / 35lb.
HL Score: 9/10 for now
Flying Stars (**NEW**): 5/5 for this week :j:A:j.

Loads and loads of 'extra' jobs today. Including starting to clean outside as well as in. Also cleaned Grans house.

Spent £11.03 on groceries and £10 cashback (the change of which can cover school buses) which was mostly spent on stuff for Grans house.

Am still just under budget for the month though, so feeling okay about this x

Pinky15

Well done on getting loads of jobs done - I always feel better when I have cracked on! I had a massive tidy up this am but already a mess - the little ones have seen to that. I wonder if I will ever have a show house lol? Well done on giving the cigs up you are doing soooooooo well - that is saving you loads and I bet your kids are soo happy to :T

ceebeeby

Day 25 -Monday
Money Spent - zero
Extra Money Earnt - zero
Money Saved - A box of bix
Hours / Days since last cigarette - 3 and 3 day weeks
Number of sweets / cakes etc. - Too many Twinks Cookies!!!!!!!
week weigh in: (12.11) -2lb = 3 / 35lb.
HL Score: 7/10 - going down!!!
Flying Stars: 0 for this week

Will blog more tomorrow - was at Youth Group planning meeting. No flying :mad:, no spending and HL going down :cool:. Catch up later - off to bed now x