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

ragstoricheswannabe

try 1/2 squeezed lemon with a few teaspoons of honey in boiled water with 2 paracetamol. Tastes really yucky but works. (just watch how many lemsips and flu stuff you have had though as all contains paracetamol)

happy67

Hi, I am more of a reader than a poster, but really enjoying this place.
Where can I find the challenges? sealed pot e.t.c.
I'm a bit lost.
thanks in advance.

happy67

Willow92

happy67 wrote: »

Hi, I am more of a reader than a poster, but really enjoying this place.
Where can I find the challenges? sealed pot e.t.c.
I'm a bit lost.
thanks in advance.

happy67

Sealed Pot Challenge

No Spend Day Challenge

Not sure what other challenges you wanted to know about but if you know what they're called I can give you the links

MrBloater

4.30 comes along too quickly every morning, but Mr Bloater has his eminently sensible hat on this morning and is not going for a run cos otherwise the cold I'm slowly shifting will return quicker than the deposed caravanners of Dale Farm. Despite the lack of exercise (other than coughing) the weight is stable at 22-09 (BMI 38.63), and I am racking up those NSDs (and depressingly, those AFDs).

Think I might do a wine/run combo to kick start things again tonight - splurge on a bottle of red and then, guilted by the resultant weight gain, hurl myself triumphantly back onto the streets in the early hours.

And this last month of moneysaving and fatburning has had another unexpected side-effect, usually when ill my skin goes a whiter shade of pale and i look positively zombie/art student -like. Yesterday I was asked in all seriousness if I'd put fake tan on over the weekend.

MSE.com - it makes you glow.

Molly41

Hope you start to feel better soon. Try to start selling those records as it is a wasted asset just sitting in your shed. I sold a whole load of text books from my research days and recouped a staggering 2000 pounds after the costs had been taken out. I cant imaging that a record weighs as much as a book! I think you can buy the packaging specificially and get it much cheaper online but I got some from a small stationary shop who gave me a bulk price but do know that Wilkos sell packing more cheaply.

Polly_Wolly_Doodle

Morning B, wonder if the lemsip et al are colouring your skin, couldn't possibly be the red wine tannin comin through given all these AFDs xx

Northern_Lassy

Fake tan eh Mr B? You won't look out of place queuing up to pay for your Lambrini now I find the NSDs easier than the AFDs but I have started jogging every evening now and I am sleeping so much better...Squeaky bum time at Northern Towers this morning as OH works for Bae Systems (not very wholesome I know but pays the bills)... on the up side at least the weather forecast is for an unseasonably warm spell, so we might be poor later on but at least we won't be cold Have a good day everyone

Karmacat

MrB, I have excellent news for you on the subject of having a takeaway or a blowout - somebody just told me about - erm, I can't remember the name - refooding? - nope, but anyway, the concept is of keeping your metabolic rate high - you know, when you eat less, even if you exercise, your metabolic weight tends to lower because your primitive brain (the one we all have not just you) thinks you're going to die of starvation. So, if you have a nice big meal, it thinks, oh, we're not going to die, I'll keep going at the old rate then - hey presto! You keep on losing weight, more or less at the former rate.

I'd research it myself if I were you but I have it on v good authority :j:j:j

I'm glad you're not out running today tho, you need some downtime, from the sound of it.

On the packaging - yep, I'm all for recycling, but you don't want to have to refund cos the vinyl broke. See what's around to be bought, to package vinyl, and see if you can do the Blue Peter thing of making it yourself

Butti

I agree Karma. Your body does try to drop your metabolic rate particularly if you are on a cabbage soup diet or the like. It drops your rate, burns muscle rather than fat and prepares for a period of famine.
The take away theory sounds about right. Losing weight is not a black and white exercise. When people tell you by running X each morning you have burnt Y calories its not the full story. Exercise gives you a boost to your metabolism after you have finished and gone to work.



B

MrBloater

Moneysaving has its limits and I came close to them today - lack of ingredients for all of us to have a packed lunch led me to forage in the office for something once the hunger pangs became intolerable. Managed to find half a packet of strawberry Strepsils and 2 Minestrone cup-a-soups. Came home to find soup of the day was also Minestrone. Minestrone would not be in my top 100 of soup types at the best of times. And these possibly aren't the best of times.

Tomorrow morning whatever the pain (and there's plenty of them at the moment) I have to run.