Keeping up appearances.......

jvr

What genres do you like Joey I am obsessive reader mainly crime/ mystery with some fantasy and general novels

joeyjimbles

Thanks JVR - I like crime and mystery, ok with a bit of chick lit if its not too formulaic but I'm not one for fantasy stuff beyond Jasper Ffordes Thursday Next series.

HappyNow

Aww, Dolphin and Honey, I do hope you're not disappointed with no lost pounds. It's still only 8th August so loads of time, and maybe you've BOTH got faulty scales! I bet it'll be a different story next Monday. It has to be, you are doing so well and weight loss is really just maths. RAH RAH RAH.

Can't stop long because I have a banging headache, but today's update:

• Do something fun: Went for a drive with Master H after work in his flashy car. I don't really do flashy and I definitely don't do fast, but it was good to spend an hour with just the two of us, catching up on all his news.
• Tight purse strings: Spent £1 on O2 Priority lunch (very healthy and low calorie) and £2.80 on parking. Win.
• Spend at least 7 hours in bed each night. I can just manage this if I go to bed now. So g'night

jvr

Joey - I will look through my book case tonight and let you know my top recommendations!


Happy - I don't know how you get everything you get done with so little sleep I need 7.5 hours actual sleep just to vaguely function I would be happiest with 9 hours but start work too early haha.




1. Cut down to 10 cigarettes a day - Erm -

2. Walk the dogs every day after work - Sister still with me so she walked them today
3. Keep cycling to work every day - Done
4. Stick to 1700 calories on non cycling days and 2000 on cycling days - Managed but I know I am not eating the right foods as energy so low - need to make my magic green smoothies again to get more veg in!
5. Two weight training days a week - Still not done 1


Really need to sort out what im eating if I want to make real progress with weight loss and still have energy.


Money - im just failing and struggling to budget and stick to it feeling very disheartened this month

Dolphin1

:hello: Good morning all! Wow, a lot of posts in the last 24 hours.

Honey Bear - I am feeling the benefit of the extra steps. I definitely feel fitter even if it doesn't show on the scales (yet). It was me who asked about the tin foil which has become one with the bottom of the oven. Unfortunately, I have tried Ovenpride and Mr Muscle and it's still there. I think it may be stuck there permanently now.

jvr - I don't really do measurements but I should be able to tell if I'm losing inches (or in my case millimetres ), just by my clothes getting looser.

joeyjimbles - I don't know whether you are in to science fiction but The Wool Trilogy is pretty good. It's not science fiction in a space/aliens kind of way but a futuristic/apocalypse kind of way. Worth a try if you haven't already read them.

HappyNow - I'm not disappointed with no weight loss as I am feeling the benefits of the healthy eating and exercise in other ways. I am definitely feeling fitter and I can do far more than this time last year. I know the weight loss will come if I can just keep it up.

Dolphin1

Update for yesterday...

1) To have 20 NCDs - The last of the marshmallows eaten so still on 5 NCDs for August.
2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Just under 11,000 steps.
3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends - Light out at 10.20pm but was disturbed by noisy neighbours a couple of times during the night and woke up a total of 13 times according to fitbit.
4) To lose 10lbs over the course of the month - Next weigh-in due Monday.

joeyjimbles

Thanks for reading suggestions, nasty protagonist in well written but essentially uninvolving book has met the worst kind of ending in that he will just carry on as he has but now knows what everyone thinks of him. Serves him right. Can't decide whether I want to read the other book I got by the same author but may give it a whirl as one of my other choices is a bad translation of probably a wonderful italian novel but it reads so poorly that I'm irritated on behalf of the writer of the original.

Job of doom is almost done, tried it a different way round and though still repetitive it has seemed easier this way. Sister job of doom is also almost complete. It may also require me taking a day trip to London to actually part deliver the samples - not complaining as last time they gave me a first class ticket AND an allowance for meals and my day rate - and all I'd have to to is take 2 small boxes to their offices and I could have the rest of the time to myself. Sadly there's no way I could swing it to take the DSs with me.
Have bagged and removed 7 loads of stuff to the charity shop, and 2 bags for rags. Need to get some boxes from supermarket to box up toys for the charity shop and some dregs that can hopefully be recycled at the tip.

Dolphin1

:hello: Morning all!

Wow joeyjimbles, you have had a productive couple of days, I feel exhausted just reading what you have done!

Update for yesterday...

1) To have 20 NCDs - None eaten so now on 6 NCDs for August :j.
2) To walk an average of 10,000 steps per day over each week (so 70,000 total for each week) - Just over 15,000 steps :j.
3) To put my light out by 11pm every night including weekends - Light out at 11.10pm .
4) To lose 10lbs over the course of the month - Next weigh-in due Monday.

jvr

1. Cut down to 10 cigarettes a day - Erm - Do I just write this off as a failure while concentrating on losing weight

2. Walk the dogs every day after work - OH day off yesterday so he did it
3. Keep cycling to work every day - Done
4. Stick to 1700 calories on non cycling days and 2000 on cycling days - 2300 due to three course meal at Pizza Express using Tesco vouchers and an offer - forgot that drinks were not included so did not end up the bargain I thought it was but means I have another £40 I can spend there
5. Two weight training days a week - Still not done 1


Joey - I love the Val McDermid series with Tony Hill great crime books. Another odd one is called 'Angry housewives eating bon bons' - sounds ludicrous and when I was first recommended it I thought what on earth but have read it about 10 times now I just love it and have got lots of people to read it. It follows four women who live on the same street over 40 years

joeyjimbles

Thanks Dolphin. I was determined to get that stuff out of the house and as I had to go into town several times yesterday I made myself take a couple of bags each time. I'm stuck in waiting for the courier today so I have packaged everything up but nothing since.

ETA. courier has just been, drat, I'll have to do something productive now!

JVR - keep your cigarette aim but maybe you need to start smaller. Take one off your daily amount, take it out of the packet - leave it at work if you normally smoke at home, or vice versa or give it to a friend. Do that for a few days, then take another off.

When OH stopped smoking (almost 18 years ago) he identified his trigger points for smoking and targetted one at a time. So he would always have one after his morning team meeting out of habit, and he changed it to go and make a really nice mug of tea instead; he even bought different tea bags for that cup of tea. Once the moment had gone and he was stuck into the next thing at work then the opportunity had passed too. I don't think it was easy but he started with that one, and then moved onto the others. It took him a few months but he stopped cold turkey when he went down 3-5 a day.