Carpe Diem... My new aim in life!

chevalier

you seem very organised. well done on focussing on the debt.
hope you continue not smoking, it is the best decision you will ever make
chev

elsiepac

rdchick wrote: »

Sounds like a plan - what sort of thing were you thinking?!

We could have our own little diary too! xxx

Exactly what I was thinking! I'm on the DFW Let's get rid of the lbs not £££s thread, and I'll continue to update on there but it's kinda quiet. So I think we should start our own challenge...

We can have our own thread so we need to come up with a title - a really good catchy one that doesn't clash with the one above, don't want to tread on any toes!

I think we should include tips, links, recipes, thrifty weight loss ways etc. Also a weekly weigh in update (I weigh every Friday morning currently, does a Friday work for you?) and we'll have member numbers too which we can have on post number 2, post 1 can describe the challenge. In post 1 we can update with the post numbers of any good tips, recipes etc so they are easy to find for people... what dya think?!

Also, sorry I haven't been on your diary lately - or anyone else's! - this week's been manic again! Actually who am I kidding, they all are at the moment!

Take care lovely xxx

elsiepac

chevalier wrote: »

you seem very organised. well done on focussing on the debt.
hope you continue not smoking, it is the best decision you will ever make
chev

Thanks chev, to be completely honest I've failed a bit on the non smoking this week, but again, it's purely when I hit a stressful situation that makes me go wrong. It's a work in progress but I really do want to stop once and for all, just a bit harder this time than it has been in the past

As for the debt, thanks, I wish I could pay more off and in some ways I could but for various reasons it benefits me more to keep paying as I am, it's not long to go and it's a big chunk - nearly a third of my salary every month, so my creditors are happy.

Thanks for dropping by

LC x

elsiepac

The Boring Stuff: Challenges

Weekly Spend Challenge 12 Jun 11 - £30

12 Jun: £07.00 - Breakfast! - Remaining = £23.00
12 Jun: £12.99 - Tesco Shop - Remaining = £10.01
12 Jun: £00.01 - Jelly Baby - Remaining = £10.00
13 Jun: £02.28 - Tesco

---

Remaining = £07.72
13 Jun: £00.02 - Jelly Baby - Remaining = £07.70
13 Jun: £00.70 - Terramundi - Remaining = £07.00
14 Jun: £04.21 - Drink

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Remaining = £02.79
14 Jun: £01.75 - Terramundi - Remaining = £01.04
14 Jun: £00.04 - Jelly Baby - Remaining = £01.00 :eek:
16 Jun: £18.06 - Tesco Shop - Remaining = £17.06-
16 Jun: £00.90 - Terramundi - Remaining = £17.96-:eek:
16 Jun: £00.04 - Jelly Baby - Remaining = £18.00-:eek:
17 Jun: £03.00 - Starbucks -- Remaining = £21.00-:eek:
17 Jun: £01.25 - Hosp Lunch - Remaining = £22.25-:eek:
17 Jun: £03.40 - Cigs - Remaining = £25.65-:eek:

June No Spend Days - 10 NSDs

10 NSDs is ideal

NSDs: 2/10
8, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28 Jun

£365 in 365 Days

Started challenge late with 215 days to go in 2011.
Am aiming to make up the 150 days I've lost as well.

215 Days - £18/£215
May Total: £1/£1
Jun Total: £17/£30
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £1 --- 17 Jun: £1 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £1 --- 10 Jun: £1 --- 18 Jun: £? --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £1 --- 11 Jun: £1 --- 19 Jun: £? --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £1 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £1 --- 13 Jun: £1 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £1 --- 14 Jun: £1 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £1 --- 15 Jun: £1 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £1 --- 16 Jun: £1 --- 24 Jun: £?

150 Days - £24/£150
May Total: £5
Jun Total: £19
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £0 --- 17 Jun: £0 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £2 --- 10 Jun: £7 --- 18 Jun: £? --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £2 --- 11 Jun: £0 --- 19 Jun: £? --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £6 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £0 --- 13 Jun: £0 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £0 --- 14 Jun: £0 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £0 --- 15 Jun: £0 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £0 --- 16 Jun: £0 --- 24 Jun: £?

365 Days - £42/£365

Lets Lose lbs Not £££s - 21 pounds

Goal 1: to lose 10% of my body weight - 21 pounds
Start weight: 210 pounds - 15 May 2011
Goal weight 1: 189 pounds

Weigh Ins:
15 May: 210 Start
20 May: 208 --- Lost --- 2
27 May: 208.5 - Gained - 0.5
03 Jun: 210 --- Gained - 1.5
10 Jun: 209 --- Lost --- 1
17 Jun: 207.5 - Lost --- 1.5
24 Jun:
01 Jul:
08 Jul:
15 Jul:
22 Jul:
29 Jul:

Sealed Pot Challenge 4

Aiming for a minimum of £70 so can buy Wii Fit Plus!
Silvers in Terramundi, Coppers in Jelly Baby
Open TERRAMUNDI on 1 December 2011

Result: £0.00

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More Boring Stuff: Meal Plans

Mon Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Mon Lunch:
Roast veg with bulgar and buckwheat mix, Vanille Fat free yoghurt, apple, banana
Mon Dinner:
Vegetable Tagine

Tue Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Tue Lunch:
Roast veg with bulgar and buckwheat mix, Vanille Fat free yoghurt, apple, banana
Tue Dinner:
Vegetable Tagine

Wed Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Wed Lunch:
Roast veg with bulgar and buckwheat mix, Vanille Fat free yoghurt, apple, banana
Wed Dinner:
Vegetable Tagine

Thu Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Thu Lunch:
Roast veg with bulgar and buckwheat mix, Vanille Fat free yoghurt, apple, banana
Thu Dinner:
Skipped and had crackers!!!:rotfl:

Fri Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Fri Lunch:
Hospital Lunch
Fri Dinner:
???

Sat Breakfast:
Oats so Simple Honey and Almond with added almonds
Sat Lunch:
???
Sat Dinner:
???

Sun Breakfast:
bought...oops!
Sun Lunch:
skipped as full from breakfast - well, stole one of Dad's bags of Mini Cheddars to tide me over!
Sun Dinner:
Vegetable Tagine

rdchick

elsiepac wrote: »

Exactly what I was thinking! I'm on the DFW Let's get rid of the lbs not £££s thread, and I'll continue to update on there but it's kinda quiet. So I think we should start our own challenge...

We can have our own thread so we need to come up with a title - a really good catchy one that doesn't clash with the one above, don't want to tread on any toes!

I think we should include tips, links, recipes, thrifty weight loss ways etc. Also a weekly weigh in update (I weigh every Friday morning currently, does a Friday work for you?) and we'll have member numbers too which we can have on post number 2, post 1 can describe the challenge. In post 1 we can update with the post numbers of any good tips, recipes etc so they are easy to find for people... what dya think?!

Also, sorry I haven't been on your diary lately - or anyone else's! - this week's been manic again! Actually who am I kidding, they all are at the moment!

Take care lovely xxx

Sounds like a plan, just need a title - hmmmmmmm Nifty Thrifty Weight Loss Plan I'll think of some better ones later - it's Friday afternoon lol!!

Perhaps cut down smoking then cut it out

Hope you're good missy

Love Love
xxx

elsiepac

rdchick wrote: »

Sounds like a plan, just need a title - hmmmmmmm Nifty Thrifty Weight Loss Plan I'll think of some better ones later - it's Friday afternoon lol!!

Perhaps cut down smoking then cut it out

Hope you're good missy

Love Love
xxx

Watch your Waist and your Wallet Challenge?
No, that's rubbish haha!!! :rotfl:
I quite like yours!!! Although I would change Plan for Challenge
Hmm... this is quite tough actually!

Will get thinking cap on!

Have a great weekend honey!!

xxx

elsiepac

The Boring Stuff: Challenges

Weekly Spend Challenge 19 Jun 11 - £??

00 Jun: £00.00 - Something! - Remaining = £00.00

June No Spend Days - 10 NSDs

10 NSDs is ideal

NSDs: 2/10
8, 15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Jun

£365 in 365 Days

Started challenge late with 215 days to go in 2011.
Am aiming to make up the 150 days I've lost as well.

215 Days - £19/£215
May Total: £01/£01
Jun Total: £18/£30
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £1 --- 17 Jun: £1 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £1 --- 10 Jun: £1 --- 18 Jun: £1 --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £1 --- 11 Jun: £1 --- 19 Jun: £? --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £1 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £1 --- 13 Jun: £1 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £1 --- 14 Jun: £1 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £1 --- 15 Jun: £1 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £1 --- 16 Jun: £1 --- 24 Jun: £?

150 Days - £24/£150
May Total: £05
Jun Total: £19
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £0 --- 17 Jun: £0 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £2 --- 10 Jun: £7 --- 18 Jun: £0 --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £2 --- 11 Jun: £0 --- 19 Jun: £? --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £6 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £0 --- 13 Jun: £0 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £0 --- 14 Jun: £0 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £0 --- 15 Jun: £0 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £0 --- 16 Jun: £0 --- 24 Jun: £?

365 Days - £43/£365

Moving Fund Savings

This isn't a challenge but nice to keep track. I need to save a MINIMUM of £1250 by the end of November. This CANNOT include any money from the payday on the last day of November, it has to be before then. I have budgeted so that I can acheive this from my salary every month, however the plan is to exceed this so I will be trying to top it up here and there, for example:
- at the end of a month, move all little bits left in my current account over to the ISA for the moving fund
- when my Terramundi fills up and I open it, I plan to take some for a Wii Fit, some to buy a new one (!) and the rest is for moving fund
- if I earn vouchers from surveys etc then I should use them to buy presents and use the money I have set aside to cover, e.g. £10 voucher spent on Amazon = £10 from Entertainment budget (temporarily where presents are coming from) into moving fund

Cut Off Date: 29th November 2011
Current Total: £9.10/£1250
18 Jun - £01.85

Lets Lose lbs Not £££s - 21 pounds

Goal 1: to lose 10% of my body weight - 21 pounds
Start weight: 210 pounds - 15 May 2011
Goal weight 1: 189 pounds

Weigh Ins:
15 May: 210 Start
20 May: 208 --- Lost --- 2
27 May: 208.5 - Gained - 0.5
03 Jun: 210 --- Gained - 1.5
10 Jun: 209 --- Lost --- 1
17 Jun: 207.5 - Lost --- 1.5
24 Jun:
01 Jul:
08 Jul:
15 Jul:
22 Jul:
29 Jul:

Sealed Pot Challenge 4

Aiming for a minimum of £70 so can buy Wii Fit Plus!
Silvers in Terramundi, Coppers in Jelly Baby
Open TERRAMUNDI on 1 December 2011

Result: £0.00...tba!

___________________________________________________________

More Boring Stuff: Meal Plans

Sat Breakfast:
Toast with butter and Marmite... *drools* my favourite
Sat Lunch:
???
Sat Dinner:
???

Sun Breakfast:
???
Sun Lunch:
???
Sun Dinner:
???

Mon Breakfast:
???
Mon Lunch:
???
Mon Dinner:
???

Tue Breakfast:
???
Tue Lunch:
???
Tue Dinner:
???

Wed Breakfast:
???
Wed Lunch:
???
Wed Dinner:
???

Thu Breakfast:
???
Thu Lunch:
???
Thu Dinner:
???

Fri Breakfast:
???
Fri Lunch:
Hospital Lunch
Fri Dinner:
???

elsiepac

The Boring Stuff: Challenges

Weekly Spend Challenge 19 Jun 11 - £10

19 Jun: £02.75 - Starbucks -- Remaining = £07.25

June No Spend Days - 10 NSDs

10 NSDs is ideal

NSDs: 2/10
8, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29 Jun

£365 in 365 Days

Started challenge late with 215 days to go in 2011.
Am aiming to make up the 150 days I've lost as well.

215 Days - £20/£215
May Total: £01/£01
Jun Total: £19/£30
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £1 --- 17 Jun: £1 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £1 --- 10 Jun: £1 --- 18 Jun: £1 --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £1 --- 11 Jun: £1 --- 19 Jun: £1 --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £1 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £1 --- 13 Jun: £1 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £1 --- 14 Jun: £1 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £1 --- 15 Jun: £1 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £1 --- 16 Jun: £1 --- 24 Jun: £?

150 Days - £24/£150
May Total: £05
Jun Total: £19
01 Jun: £1 --- 09 Jun: £0 --- 17 Jun: £0 --- 25 Jun: £?
02 Jun: £2 --- 10 Jun: £7 --- 18 Jun: £0 --- 26 Jun: £?
03 Jun: £2 --- 11 Jun: £0 --- 19 Jun: £? --- 27 Jun: £?
04 Jun: £1 --- 12 Jun: £6 --- 20 Jun: £? --- 28 Jun: £?
05 Jun: £0 --- 13 Jun: £0 --- 21 Jun: £? --- 29 Jun: £?
06 Jun: £0 --- 14 Jun: £0 --- 22 Jun: £? --- 30 Jun: £?
07 Jun: £0 --- 15 Jun: £0 --- 23 Jun: £?
08 Jun: £0 --- 16 Jun: £0 --- 24 Jun: £?

365 Days - £44/£365

Moving Fund Savings

This isn't a challenge but nice to keep track. I need to save a MINIMUM of £1250 by the end of November. This CANNOT include any money from the payday on the last day of November, it has to be before then. I have budgeted so that I can acheive this from my salary every month, however the plan is to exceed this so I will be trying to top it up here and there, for example:
- at the end of a month, move all little bits left in my current account over to the ISA for the moving fund
- when my Terramundi fills up and I open it, I plan to take some for a Wii Fit, some to buy a new one (!) and the rest is for moving fund
- if I earn vouchers from surveys etc then I should use them to buy presents and use the money I have set aside to cover, e.g. £10 voucher spent on Amazon = £10 from Entertainment budget (temporarily where presents are coming from) into moving fund

Cut Off Date: 29th November 2011
Current Total: £9.10/£1250
18 Jun - £01.85 - From leftovers in current account June

Lets Lose lbs Not £££s - 21 pounds

Goal 1: to lose 10% of my body weight - 21 pounds
Start weight: 210 pounds - 15 May 2011
Goal weight 1: 189 pounds

Weigh Ins:
15 May: 210 Start
20 May: 208 --- Lost --- 2
27 May: 208.5 - Gained - 0.5
03 Jun: 210 --- Gained - 1.5
10 Jun: 209 --- Lost --- 1
17 Jun: 207.5 - Lost --- 1.5
24 Jun:
01 Jul:
08 Jul:
15 Jul:
22 Jul:
29 Jul:

Sealed Pot Challenge 4

Aiming for a minimum of £70 so can buy Wii Fit Plus!
Silvers in Terramundi, Coppers in Jelly Baby
Open TERRAMUNDI on 1 December 2011

Result: £0.00...tba!

___________________________________________________________

More Boring Stuff: Meal Plans

Sat Breakfast: 18 June
Toast with butter and Marmite... *drools* my favourite
Sat Lunch:
Remains of tagine
Sat Dinner:
Pasta with garlicky mushrooms

Sun Breakfast: 19 June
Toast with butter and Marmite
Sun Lunch:
Out for Father's Day
Sun Dinner:
None as late lunch

Mon Breakfast: 20 June
Toast with butter and Marmite
Mon Lunch:
Soup from tin in drawer at work, apple, yoghurt
Mon Dinner:
"Pasta sauce" made from stores and jacket potato

Tue Breakfast: 21 June
Oats so Simple with almonds
Tue Lunch:
Grain, bean and veg concoction
Tue Dinner:
Chilli and jacket potato

Wed Breakfast: 22 June
Oats so Simple with almonds
Wed Lunch:
Grain, bean and veg concoction
Wed Dinner:
Pasta sauce from Monday with jacket potato

Thu Breakfast: 23 June - ANNUAL LEAVE
Oats so Simple with almonds
Thu Lunch:
Grain, bean and veg concoction OR tuna and jacket potato with veg
Thu Dinner:
Chilli with jacket if didn't have at lunch or rice or millet if did have jacket at lunch

Fri Breakfast: 24 June
Toast with butter and Marmite
Fri Lunch:
Hospital Lunch
Fri Dinner:
Pasta sauce with pasta if some left, if not chilli and rice or millet

Sat Breakfast: 25 June
Toast with butter and Marmite
Sat Lunch:
Tuna with some kind of crackers
Sat Dinner:
Chilli or pasta sauce or chicken

Sun Breakfast: 26 June
Toast with butter and Marmite
Sun Lunch:
Tuna or soup or something else!
Sun Dinner:
Chilli?

debtfreewannabe321

elsiepac wrote: »

Hehe thanks for the offer rdchick

Yes, like I said she's always been abrasive, sometimes rude, but just to turn like that was completely unexpected and uncalled for. She's effectively made up my mind for me! xxx



Haha, yes I was quite restrained it must be said! I showed my mum and she doesn't usually swear, but she looked at me and went "Oh my God, what a !!!!!!!!" haha

Weight is a taboo subject! Just kidding, mine's not going well at all. Basically I'm using my old tried and tested method of counting every calorie, I've done it for years. (Free app here)

Unfortunately, whilst I know the calorific content of everything that passes my lips, and exactly where I go wrong, I can't seem to stop eating...which is hindering the loss I feel! :rotfl: Me and rdchick and Sparkerly were going to be debt and weight loss buddies - you can join us if you like?

I was going to ask rdchick about this separately, but I was almost thinking we could start our own challenge and have little goals to follow or something... what do you guys think? xxx

Oh yes sounds great! make sure you post the link up here so i can find it :rotfl: I am weighing muself tomorrow after last weeks disaster of weighing myself 20 million times in 2 days (ok slight exaggeration :rotfl:) and i ended up putting on weight instead of losing it. And this week I haven't been really good so i'm not expecting much of a change! Think if we can all motivate one another (kick one another's butts) then maybe we might get on track

elsiepac

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

Oh yes sounds great! make sure you post the link up here so i can find it :rotfl: I am weighing muself tomorrow after last weeks disaster of weighing myself 20 million times in 2 days (ok slight exaggeration :rotfl:) and i ended up putting on weight instead of losing it. And this week I haven't been really good so i'm not expecting much of a change! Think if we can all motivate one another (kick one another's butts) then maybe we might get on track

Sounds like a plan to me, love it! I need a kick up the backside as well a lot of the time to be fair, I'm a terrible binge eater (don't tell anyone, it's my dirty little secret!!!) but I used to weigh 18.5 stone and am currently 3.5 stone lighter than that. My lowest weight was unbelievably 11 stone 10... I can dream!!! But I was still fat! So in a way it was awful:rotfl:...

Anyway, yes I'll get thinking of better names for the Challenge, feel free to help with this, me and rdchick are going nowhere fast...well, she's better at it than I am!!!

Have a great week sweet

LC xx