Continue the change and enjoy the journey!

fedupandskint

Nice 90 min dog walk almost blown around the pond this afternoon. Hardly anyone else out and about with the gusty winds and choppy water which looked like the sea with the waves

Nice quorn sausage casserole made and toffee meringue for afters - yum, plus naughty dumplings and 3 continentals and little bit of dairy milk. At least the dumplings were lighter version this time around. Plenty of veg eaten today with veg soup, casserole veg and leeks in white sauce. In fact a pretty much veggie day which is fine by me. The quorn sausages were nice and tasty and better then using meaty ones especially for the weight loss kcal counting.

Hey ho never mind, off out for a run tomorrow to attempt to burn this off.

fedupandskint

Sunday plan
Sweep and mop floors
Hang washing out if its dry
Go for a run when wind drops
Go for long dog walk this afternoon
Start writing assignment after reading some papers

fedupandskint

All done and completed for today as above

Realised I ran on 4 days this week and I'm aiming for 5 this next week if the weather is ok. This week's mileage was 23.5 and its time to ramp it up a bit more!
So here's the plan

Mon - short run (3.5)
Wed - medium run (6)
Thurs - short run (3.5)
Fri - long run (8)
Sun - medium run (6)
Total mileage = 27

fedupandskint

NSDs totting up slowly to number 14/18 today.

Tomorrow is a spend day for food, petrol and dog's hair cut and so on while attempting to stick to the basics for me and not go mad food shopping. I've written a list and will be attempting to stick to it. I'm not restocking on fizzy own brand berrocca as I found some old vit B and C tabs in the cupboard and will use these up next. Yeah, go me eh? £2.50 saved! Believe me I need to save a whole lot more of that so tomorrow's shopping is mainly fruit and veg, couple of household things, dog stuff and thats it. I've got plenty in the freezer again and as usual need to concentrate on eating that up first. At least there's a lot of easy teas in there that don't take much doing after work or a run.

Talking of running, only once so far this week, decided the week a big assignment is due in is not the best week to attempt to run 5 times. Next week maybe? However, I am determined to run today on a short run and hoping for a long run tomorrow again by which point I'll have written a lot of this assignment of course!

Today I'm torturously slowly attempting to write around 1500 words of my assignment. Its going super slowly atm and I've been doing the reference page while I think about what to write. I'm going for it over the next 2hrs and my current word count is a paltry 288 word introduction. Time to move on to the main part of the assignment I think

gothrockchic1

Hi ya, I hope your ok you sound very organised very unlike myself :T

I am going to a Running Club tonight would should be interesting, hopefully I can get more miles under belt. I managed 3.5 miles on Tuesday which is a boost after being injured :j

fedupandskint

GC - good luck and I hope you enjoy your Running Club

I'm just back from a quick 4mile run which left me pretty breathless - so that was a good workout run for me!

2 x 45min dog walks today so plenty of energy burnt off today

Some assignment written - going to type some up tonight and see how it reads

fedupandskint

As I sit here losing motivation by the second to write this assignment, I've rewritten the intro and 1st para and still on 280 words with many more to go. Anyway re assessment of life time

I have sorted out my fitness
I have sorted out my weight
I have sorted out my TV shopping addiction which is no more
I have sorted out my beauty buying addiction - to what I need only and thanks to the eczema outbreak to helping me do this
I am happy and more outgoing and confidence as returned this last year

I need to sort the money out - this is the only part of my life left to sort out, all other areas are good and healthy apart from this

What can I do? I seriously need some help and I need to make some big changes. I need my money to be mine, not the banks or CC companies. I've said this so many times before and done a bit then tailed off. Now this is the only area left to sort out there's not much hiding from it. Or the other way to look at it is if I can sort out all the above then I can sort out the finances right?

Once this next assignment is in on Monday its time to make some phonecalls to see what I can sort out

fedupandskint

A rather fabulous 8.2 miles run tonight in 78mins which went well.

Mapped out a 9mile run for next weekend to try for the first time - eek! And if I can do this I can run some more as the half marathon training continues!

sidneysmum

Hi Fedup

Normally I just read your posts but today I felt I needed to send you a message. You should be sooo proud of all your achievements so far. You have done brilliantly. But the fly in the ointment is money. I know this is a dumb question but have you tried a money diary? My circumstances changed very suddenly last year and since then I have written down in a notebook every single farthing I have spent. I can then look back and see if my spends were a "want" or a "need". Luckily I have no debt to speak of but I only work 2 days a week and dont earn a fortune. Therefore its crucial that I account for every penny so that I dont get in debt IYSWIM.

Anyway I think you need a gold star, pat on the back, three cheers etc etc for all you have achieved so far. If anyone can sort this out......I`m sure you can!!! :T

fedupandskint

Thanks for your lovely post sidneysmum - it means a lot to read that

I will try the spending diary - I've tried it before but never stuck at it however now I'm in this place I need to stick to it and set it as one of my goals. Then I can see what I spend on what and in reality what I need and what I don't need.

Well, legs are a bit achy now so its time to try and write some of the assignment and draw the information I have in my head into some sort of order and then onto the paper ready to go for Monday which marches on ever quicker!