Keeping up appearances.......

Dolphin1

HappyNow wrote: »

Erm, shouldn't you be grappling it out of my hands and pouring it down the toilet with an angry look on your face???

As if I would !


Thank you for not doing! I have seriously earned it these last few weeks, and I don't care if I drink the whole f'ing bottle *hands £1 to Honey*. I won't drink it all though, I'll keep it to the one glass. Well that's the plan!

Seriously, it really sounds like you deserve it although if you want to get up tomorrow then maybe not the whole bottle .


Well done on your triumphs Dolphin, you're doing great. Hope that pesky back is better

Thanks, I let myself down at the weekend but I've tried to stay on track since :A. My back is improving slowly.

chevalier

Honey_Bear wrote: »

• 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. Sticking to it now it's Lent but I had to resort to crisps at teatime yesterday, which won't help if the idea was losing weight but more than that, it's just that I haven't been able to get rid of the sugar cravings from giving up wine 18 months ago.
  

Hi Honey. I have been following all of you on this thread. However just a quick question, if you are craving sugar, have you thought about getting checked for diabetes?
cheers
chev

chevalier

Hi Happy Now. I really like your lists that all of you do. I think that at least thinking about the target is a motivation in itself. Whilst I haven't set any myself, all of your ideas, do give me prompts for things I should do. So thanks for that
I really hope that your pop has a successful operation and will be back where he belongs soon
chev

Dolphin1

Update for yesterday...

1) None eaten :j.
2) Just over 12,000 steps :j (most of them in the rain).
3) Light off at 11.30pm .
4) No spends on other people :j.

Really not feeling it today but will soldier on.

Honey_Bear

Dolphin, you're doing absolutely brilliantly! Good on you for holding it all together while Happy and I snurggle around going to pot.

HappyNow wrote: »

Erm, shouldn't you be grappling it out of my hands and pouring it down the toilet with an angry look on your face???

Thank you for not doing! I have seriously earned it these last few weeks, and I don't care if I drink the whole f'ing bottle *hands £1 to Honey*. I won't drink it all though, I'll keep it to the one glass. Well that's the plan!

*tsk tsk* There; does that make you feel better? Thanks for the quid. This time next year I'll be a millionaire if this keeps up. Excellent.

chevalier wrote: »

Hi Honey. I have been following all of you on this thread. However just a quick question, if you are craving sugar, have you thought about getting checked for diabetes?
cheers <- love it! You'll see why below.
chev

Thanks for the concern Chev, but no, I haven't. Craving sugar is normal when someone who used to drink, shall we say, just a teensy bit more than the recommended maximum number of units, suddenly knocks boozing on the head completely. And the trouble with doing that 18 months ago is that I've been feeding msyelf sugary stuff as a result like Twinks and L!d1's [STRIKE]finest[/STRIKE] cheapest milk chocolate with hazelnuts - massive bars and I can polish off one of those in about 10 minutes. I don't have a stop button, basically and I've been indulging myself. The more sugary stuff I eat, the more I want, and other than the booze, I hadn't eaten much sugary stuff for well over 20 years. So, I've used a very quick NHS diagnostic tool online as a result of your suggestion and I'm low risk, 1 in 200 of having diabetes. Thank you for your concern, though; that was useful.

Honey_Bear

• Meal plan from existing stocks as much as possible every week. About to stocktake the freezer and then I'll do a mealplan for March - which will look pretty similar to February.
• Clear desk gibble daily Sorted, although I now have Auntie May's tea service on it which requires a lot of tissue paper and a strong box. It's clinking away as I type.
  
• Stop ****ing swearing. Fine £1 a word for each ****ing occurence I found a quid under the hostess trolley that hasn't been moved for months, so whether or not cr*p counts is moot. It went in the pot along with Happy's virtual one.
  
• Identify and contact five outlets for each working day in February, so that's 21 in all 4 more calls made, 3 more sample packs sent out. Still 64 left to go.
  
• 15 minutes s a day flying five days a week. Oven cleaned, fridge defrosting, kitchen floor swept and swabbed. No-one in the Honey Bear House is avoiding phone calls, oh no.
  
• 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. Someone had to finish Gilly's apple crumble so I took another hit for the team. I rather felt I had to help finish up the massive dish with a tiny corner of leftovers to get it out of the fridge, so it was Flying, really.
• 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 Not sure if it was on time last night but at least I had to the good sense not to flash up the laptop at bedtime.
  
• 5 fruit and veg a day Back on track, all five veg in one meal. Good-oh.
  
• Electric toothbrush once a day. Done before we went to the theatre. More excellence.

Dolphin1

Honey_Bear wrote: »

• Meal plan from existing stocks as much as possible every week. About to stocktake the freezer and then I'll do a mealplan for March - which will look pretty similar to February.
  
  Good on you. Apparently my meal plan is getting too predictable. OH now has an idea about what we'll be having for tea just by looking at what day of the week it is . I really do need to jazz it up a bit.
  
  
• Clear desk gibble daily Sorted, although I now have Auntie May's tea service on it which requires a lot of tissue paper and a strong box. It's clinking away as I type.
  
  :think: I'm not even going to ask what the tea service is doing there in the first place .
  
  
• Stop ****ing swearing. Fine £1 a word for each ****ing occurence I found a quid under the hostess trolley that hasn't been moved for months, so whether or not cr*p counts is moot. It went in the pot along with Happy's virtual one.
  
• Identify and contact five outlets for each working day in February, so that's 21 in all 4 more calls made, 3 more sample packs sent out. Still 64 left to go.
  
  I suspect that's 41 more than you would have done had you not set the target so pretty good and plenty more days left in February yet.
  
  
• 15 minutes s a day flying five days a week. Oven cleaned, fridge defrosting, kitchen floor swept and swabbed. No-one in the Honey Bear House is avoiding phone calls, oh no.
  
  It's amazing how much housework you can do when you are procrastinating. When I was studying, my washing and ironing was always up to date, not so much now .
  
  
• 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. Someone had to finish Gilly's apple crumble so I took another hit for the team. I rather felt I had to help finish up the massive dish with a tiny corner of leftovers to get it out of the fridge, so it was Flying, really.
  
  :naughty: is all I have to say about that.
  
  
• 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 Not sure if it was on time last night but at least I had to the good sense not to flash up the laptop at bedtime.
  
• 5 fruit and veg a day Back on track, all five veg in one meal. Good-oh.
  
  :j Yay!
  
  
  
• Electric toothbrush once a day. Done before we went to the theatre. More excellence.
  
  :j Yay!

Despite what you say, I think that you are doing amazing, your targets for February were pretty ambitious :T.

joeyjimbles

Delighted to hear Happy Senior is recovering well enough to be sent home, that's great news.
And well done everyone else on keeping on keeping on - I've badly let you all down this month, the only thing that I've managed to do is pay my little pots (otherwise known as money to cover off known monthly expenses to prevent situation getting worse AND additional payments to reverse the situation) off early and that only really because I did some extra outside-paid work last month. Still its an achievement of sorts and there are still another 10 days to go so hopefully I'll be able to make some additional additional payments.
Clearing up and out has taken a backseat this week as boys have been on half-term and frankly I lost the drive. However, I have just spent an hour or so marshalling boxes in one of the rooms I hadn't tackled and two trips to charity shops and tip on Saturday will see that room more or less ready to decorate. Hoping it'll be a woodwork and ceilings job so won't dent the house budget too much but will only know when I get all the stuff out of there.
Yay for all of you.

brizzledfw

Looks like we'll be joining you for March..including our friend from NZ, Chev

I know what you mean craving sugar when cutting back on drink. I do too, it was particularly bad in January. Getting more used to it now I think. Drinking squash though..so not entirely good. OH says for me to drink more water..but I figure life is too short for too much of that

Honey_Bear

brizzledfw wrote: »

Looks like we'll be joining you for March..including our friend from NZ, Chev

Brilliant.

I know what you mean craving sugar when cutting back on drink. I do too, it was particularly bad in January. Getting more used to it now I think. Drinking squash though..so not entirely good. OH says for me to drink more water..but I figure life is too short for too much of that

Quite.