Keeping up appearances.......

HappyNow

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Hey Mrs HappyNow, are you still on for Fab Feb 16? If so, I'll get my thinking cap on for Monday.

Absolutely! I'm really going for it too, needs must. My list of targets is below and it will be lovely if you're joining in

Honey_Bear wrote: »

They do! I have a bar of each, downstairs on the kitchen table, waiting for me when I get overwhelmed by my next sugar or chocolate craving. I may have to hide them to discourage indulgence, because seeing them seriously kicks it off.

*impressed* *admiring* *jealous*
Hang on..... you wrote that eleven hours ago. Are they still there?

joeyjimbles wrote: »

B&M Bargains or Home Bargains have them from time to time. .

I checked our Home Bargains, none there. I will be scouring B & M and anywhere else I can think of early next week. I do like a project

HappyNow

So, Fab Feb 16 is almost GO. I'm quite excited and very much in need of some self-improvement. My targets are to:

• Make my grip on the money even tighter, with zero waste and daily YNAB balancing
• Eat healthily and use Myfitnesspal, aiming for 1700 calories per day
• Eat five portions of fruit and veg daily
• Have only one sweet treat per day, which may well be made by Frys
• Drink four glasses of water daily
• Drink zero alcohol
• Spend between seven and nine hours in bed each night
• Keep the house tidy, plus do 15 minutes per day 'extras'
• Stop biting my finger nails
• Have one 'no-tech' day per week where I don't open my laptop other than to update my diary and I only use my phone to ring people

Hmm, that's ten targets. Ambitious, but think how good I will feel and look on 1st March........:rotfl:

Sounds like Dolphin is in. Anyone else? I hope so, I have my cheer-leading frock all ironed and ready. (That's a lie, I don't iron)

Honey_Bear

*Healing vibes* for all Happy Now Seniors.

HappyNow wrote: »

*impressed* *admiring* *jealous*
Hang on..... you wrote that eleven hours ago. Are they still there?

Er, one of them is ... for the moment .... If you PM me a suitably anonymised address I could stock you up if you get desperate!

I checked our Home Bargains, none there. I will be scouring B & M and anywhere else I can think of early next week. I do like a project

I don't think we have a Home Bargains or B&M here, but I found them in a retro sweet shop that I only went into because of you, Happy. I hold you entirely responsible if, when I weigh myself on Monday morning, I've put on even one gram. That, of course, would have nothing to do with the two large slices of chocolate cake I bought yesterday from my favourite chocolate shop so we've got something to nibble on for the Great Birdwatch thing today - and managed to scoff half of them both yesterday with the enthusiastic assistance of Mr Bear.

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

So, Fab Feb 16 is almost GO. I'm quite excited and very much in need of some self-improvement. My targets are to:

• Make my grip on the money even tighter, with zero waste and daily YNAB balancing

Onward and upward on the debt-busting.

• Eat healthily and use Myfitnesspal, aiming for 1700 calories per day

*ouch*

• Eat five portions of fruit and veg daily

Excellent idea.

• Have only one sweet treat per day, which may well be made by Frys

... within 1700 calories with the five f&v? Really?

• Drink four glasses of water daily

Does other liquid (tea, gin, wine) count?

• Drink zero alcohol

Clearly not. Did you do Dry January? And if so, how did it go?

• Spend between seven and nine hours in bed each night

The magical hour of 11.30 is the key to this for me. Can you set a regular bed time, or is the Happy Household so busy that you just flop as soon as you can?

• Keep the house tidy, plus do 15 minutes per day 'extras'

We'll be working on that target together, then. Can we stop for elevenses and a gossip?

• Stop biting my finger nails.

I managed that a (good) few years ago and I found it a real toughie to crack, so I'll be cheering you from the sidelines.

• Have one 'no-tech' day per week where I don't open my laptop other than to update my diary and I only use my phone to ring people

I just couldn't do that so I'll be really interested to see how this goes! I've just bought myself a very cheap, very old, very secondhand, very bashed about ipod and am trying to get to grips with podcasts. It's taking an inordinate amount of my time but it's been totally worth it for me because R4 and R4 Extra between 11.00pm and 1.00am are absolutely dire at the moment.

Hmm, that's ten targets. Ambitious, but think how good I will feel and look on 1st March........:rotfl:

You will be so organised, skinny and under control you'll terrify everyone around you.

Sounds like Dolphin is in. Anyone else? I hope so, I have my cheer-leading frock all ironed and ready. (That's a lie, I don't iron)

Photos of the crumpled cheer-leading frock, please, so we can all feel better about our crumpled ones.

I'm in if you'll have me. I've got some notes of targetty things buried under the detritus on my desk. One of them will obviously have to be - clear the desk gibble daily.

FlacosFloozie

Ok, I'm in for Fab Feb if you'll have me. I need some targets so
Drink 4 glasses of water a day.
Eat 3 portions of fruit/veg a day.
Have a proper breakfast 5 days a week (biscuits and tea doesn't count).
Run 3 times a week.
Get 7-9 hours sleep a night.
No screens after 9.30 pm.
Take a daily mulivitamin.

Dolphin1

Welcome aboard FlacosFloozie!

Ok, my targets for Fab Feb are...

1) Not to eat any of the following... butter, cake, sweets, biscuits, chocolate, ice cream, cream or desserts of any kind. (Yes I know it's on my list again, I really need to get some more weight off though.)
2) To walk at least 8,000 steps a day. (This isn't normally a problem on weekdays as it's usually at least 10,000 but weekends are a struggle especially when the weather is so awful.)
3) Light off by 10.30pm every night except Friday and Saturday nights.
4) No unnecessary spends on gifts for other people. For February, I have set a maximum budget of £10 for one nieces birthday. (I need to be strict with this again as I went £40 over budget in January and I can't afford to do that every month.)

HappyNow

Excellent, that's at least four of us then


I've been preparing today ready to hit the ground running tomorrow. I've eaten masses of cake and chocolate, finished off the final bottle of wine, and bitten all my finger nails to the bone. I've tidied the kitchen to give myself a head start tomorrow and I've been to Tessies and stocked up on healthy grub.


FF and Dolphin - you've got me thinking that I should have included an exercisey one too. Hmm. I think I will. So, I'm now up to eleven targets! It's going to be quite a month, and I can now add 'super-fit' to Honey's suggested 'organised, skinny and under control'!
Honey. No, I didn't do dry January. I still had some of my ritual Christmas Pernod left (I traditionally have one bottle per year, always at Christmas) and there's no way I could leave it alone for a month.
Argh, Miss H is up - got to go, back tomorrow to discuss podcasts

Dolphin1

HappyNow wrote: »

FF and Dolphin - you've got me thinking that I should have included an exercisey one too.

Yeah, why not, because you haven't set enough targets :eek: !

Honey_Bear

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Yeah, why not, because you haven't set enough targets :eek: !

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Honey_Bear

A bit late in the day but I've found all the bits of paper I scribbled the notes on, so here goes:

• Meal plan from existing stocks as much as possible every week
• Clear desk gibble daily
• Stop ****ing swearing. Fine £1 a word for each ****ing occurence
• Identify and contact five outlets for each working day in February, so that's 21 in all
• 15 minutes s a day flying five days a week
• No sugary stuff one day a week for the first week, two days a week for the second week, three days a week in Week 3 and four days a week in Week 4.
• No computer after 9.00 pm (except my ipod so that I can choose my night-time listening) and lights out by 11.30 pm
• 5 fruit and veg a day
• Electric toothbrush once a day.

Only 9. It feels like I'm hardly trying.