chocolatecake's diary

chocolatecake_2

Right - I am a fool. I've come on here to confess. In 24 hours I've spent £65 that I wasn't supposed to.

Here comes a rough breakdown:-

£15 last night on utter cr*p to eat in front of the tele (BOGOF Diet coke, Mr Kiplings, 2 x pkts of crisps, BOGOF Mars Bar ice cream bars, 2 other ice lollies (I love ice cream), block of cheese, milk, orkney fudge, chicken dippers etc, etc. I didn't eat all this but my eyes are bigger than my tummy

£1 entry into local antiques and crafts fair. I didn't buy anything (!)

£19 approx at farmer's market this morning on ostrich sausages (I know, I know), organic apple juice, cheese & biscuits, fresh beetroot and tomatoes, HM courgette quiche, HM seville marmalade, f/r eggs etc.

£11 in Tescos on 3 chick lit books

£19 in Tescos on cat food, chicken breasts, raspberry vinegar, yoghurt, blueberries, veg to make coleslaw, reduced Atlantic salmon for freezer etc. I only went in for the chicken breasts and came out £30 poorer!

What an idiot!!!!

Obviously my diet isn't going very well and I'm feeling the need to stuff my face. I am going to make sure I eat/freeze this food then start afresh Sunday/Monday. I'm such a fool.

Now I need to try and tweak my budget/work out how to make some more money so that I can bounce back from this. Off to have a rake for eBay stuff to sell....

I'm feeling a bit down. Why am I so stupid? I was even thinking about you guys when I was spending the money. buying food that'll make me fatter - thinking about posting how bad I'd been - how !!!!ed up is that?

I hope that you are all having better Saturdays than me...

chocolatecake :heartpuls

chocolatecake_2

lynzpower wrote:

hi there chocolate cake, I too have only just caught up with this.

Another thing I would say, is if you are losing weight and you have been fairly *big* then dont forget to get rid of any previously fitting clothes on ebay. I know theres a fairly lively market in clothes for the fuller figure on there, adn a few extra pennies always helps

Great idea Lynz, thank you. I'm not quite skinny enough yet to come out of my old clothes but this is certainly an idea for the future.

chocolatecake :heartpuls

chocolatecake_2

Hello everyone - here are my updated goals:-

These were from last week:-

1. Finish business order, pack and send off This has been a NIGHTMARE of an order - but is all packed up and ready to post tomorrow - yay!
2. Complete and submit 2 x job applications Both done!
3. Make 2 phone calls outstanding Both done!
4. Check car insurance quote with confused and order/pay for Got excellent online price £167 for annual car insurance - just waiting for docs. I can't pay for this until renewal date
5. Go to post office to get car tax (remember stamps and all docs) Done!
6. Book car in for MOT (check date) Done!
7. Watch last Blockbuster free trial DVD and send back I'm just going to send this back as I can get it out with my next DVD free trial
8. Send emails to chase up o/standing piggy and ipoints Done Piggypoints, too early to do ipoints as have to wait 30 days to chase up these
9. Restart spending diary on Thursday (payday) Not done and been v. bad (see above). Not sure what I'm going to do about this as I hate starting this king of thing mid month - but I know that sounds like an excuse!
10. Pay off as much as possible from credit card Am paying off overdraft first now as they are trying to demand *review* meetings with me - and have approx £180 which I can pay off this week
11. Sort out reporo on phone to purchase 50p CD from CDWow and get piggypoints - need to contact phone provider about this I have tried this and followed instructions but its still not working. Will leave this.

This week (very busy - again!)

1. 2 job applications
2. Odd job locally - do 8 hours
3. Cancel 'The Week' subscription via ipoints
4. Sort email account into folders
5. Buy good scales and buy wool
6. Keep hoarding money to pay off overdraft with
7. List 5 x items on eBay
8. Have a charity shop to dump stuff/cleaning/gardening catch up day next Saturday

chocolatecake :heartpuls

Molanole

Hi Chocolatecake. Just wondering how you've been getting on?? It's been a while since you posted.

Mola x