301k in debt and morbidly obese - things aren't great!

Kepp

Hi Mr B, have read through your diary and love it, have subscribed

I would defnitely recommend shred - it's evil but a really good workout in such a short space of time, and it's cheap evil at only £6 from Amazon

MrBloater

Evening all - cheers for all the replies - will check out podrunner and shred when I get a mo - homebrew I think is a step too far for me - I couldn't handle the heartbreak of opening a bad bottle of wine and knowing I had a whole batch of it. Plus demijohns scare me - not sure why, but I get unsettled in their company.

Today also happened to be my rest day for running which I really missed, can't wait to get back out there tomorrow.

Joined Mrs B in sorrowdrowning last night with wine and onion rings - sorrows for both of were wellfounded, we've both come home thoroughly dissatisfied with our respective workplaces and really not in the mood to moneysave or weightwatch. GRRR.

MrsMoo2U

MrBloater wrote: »

Evening all - cheers for all the replies - will check out podrunner and shred when I get a mo - homebrew I think is a step too far for me - I couldn't handle the heartbreak of opening a bad bottle of wine and knowing I had a whole batch of it. Plus demijohns scare me - not sure why, but I get unsettled in their company.

Today also happened to be my rest day for running which I really missed, can't wait to get back out there tomorrow.

Joined Mrs B in sorrowdrowning last night with wine and onion rings - sorrows for both of were wellfounded, we've both come home thoroughly dissatisfied with our respective workplaces and really not in the mood to moneysave or weightwatch. GRRR.

So Mr B what you both need to do is the Perfect Day exercise.

Write down how you would spend your perfect day (if money and time were no object). Then when you have done it look at it and see where your passion lies. How can you get to that perfect day and what do you need to do to get there?
I always find that a good motivator when I am fed up in work. Planning my future and the great escape.

Igamogam

MrBloater wrote: »

Evening all - cheers for all the replies - will check out podrunner and shred when I get a mo - homebrew I think is a step too far for me - I couldn't handle the heartbreak of opening a bad bottle of wine and knowing I had a whole batch of it. Plus demijohns scare me - not sure why, but I get unsettled in their company.

Today also happened to be my rest day for running which I really missed, can't wait to get back out there tomorrow.

Joined Mrs B in sorrowdrowning last night with wine and onion rings - sorrows for both of were wellfounded, we've both come home thoroughly dissatisfied with our respective workplaces and really not in the mood to moneysave or weightwatch. GRRR.

Homebrew - can either be very good or turn itno a medical emergency I have found out . Know excatly what you mean about demi johns;)

Also come home in similar mood but cant think of anything else that will provide me with the salary pension ( maybe not for long) and the holidays this job does so think I'm stuck with it

Sorrow drowning tends to ahppen at weekends for us and we are slowly working through 2 cases of wine my OH received when he 'forgot' to cancel the order with one of these mail order wine companys - nice but expensive mistake

Dont beat your self up about fat busting and debt mananging - you can take some time away from it - and even if you are not actively engaged in any of I bet you are still thinking. Perfect Day excercise form Mrs M is a fab idea

MrBloater

Well that has to be the first time in the decade we've both had similar jobs that Mrs B and myself haven't indulged in a takeaway/wine combo to ease the pain of the first day back blues - even the most hardcore moneysaver on here would have nodded in approval at our choice of reheating a frozen lasagne (made in bulk by Mrs B the other weekend) washed down with tap water. Healthwise Mrs B also shone by putting in 25 minutes on the elliptical trainer.

More hypothetical moneysaving today by turning down the offer to do a mostly funded Masters degree - I would have to stump up 50quid a month - but that's too much in this current climate plus I tried starting a Masters before and couldn't understand it - I know my intellectual limit and I have reached it. Career development-wise it would look good on a CV but I'm never going to get into management cos I'm a tad maverick and don't play the politics game too well.

Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the chicken factory - my favourite job ever (and I've had quite a few) was being a chicken chucker. I would spend 12 hours a day in a coldroom lobbing chickens (dead) through a small hatch onto the production line where they would be systematically carved up into bits of chicken. The only instructions I ever had to follow were "speed up" or "slow down". The foreman had tears in his eyes the day I left and told me I'd always be welcome back as I was the best chucker they'd ever had. So I guess I've always got that to fall back on if everything else fails.

Apologies for all this blah but it is stopping me sneaking out to the offie and procuring a bottle of red to cure the blues. The only thing in the house is half a bottle of tequilia left in the back of the fridge from god knows when, and that's too hardcore even for a disillusioned former chicken chucker.

Karmacat

You've done so well! You chicken chucker you :D:D

Really interesting about turning down the masters - sounds good for you on a number of levels, brill.

Did you manage to put anything onto ebay in the end?

patchwork_cat

AS my DH just said you were a chuck chucker!

shadydaz

I thought at first glance you meant chicken choker, and promptly nearly choked on my brew!! Must renew my eye perscription!

thevinternet

MrBloater wrote: »

Apologies for all this blah but it is stopping me sneaking out to the offie and procuring a bottle of red to cure the blues. The only thing in the house is half a bottle of tequilia left in the back of the fridge from god knows when, and that's too hardcore even for a disillusioned former chicken chucker.

Don't worry about it, we like hearing you chat, you chicken-plucker you!

MrBloater

Just back from a wind and rain-assisted 3k trundle. Feels good. Maintaining 23stone 0. Feels very good. Off to change soggy nappy (the boy's, not mine) and go to work. Feels sh*t (quite literally I should imagine).