Keeping up appearances.......

HappyNow

Honey_Bear wrote: »

• Lose more weight, ideally down to 65kgs by 1 September. Yes no but no, as my grandmother used to say. I hear you, Happy, but sadly the bathroom situation thing isn't working for me. 65.9 kgs this morning, as feared. That's down to cheese and dark chocolate ginger biscuits, Morrison's own, but not together, obviously. Utterly addictive. I seem to have lost half a packet, too, or I ate them without realising what I was doing - far more likely.
  
  Ooh those biscuits. I've never had the Morrie ones, but my mum buys the Borders and they are just AMAZING. I've not bought them myself because I would, obviously, 'lose' the entire packet within the day. I always shove a couple in when I visit her though. I think 0.9 of a kilo converts to around 2 pounds. So still do-able in 11 days, but if it doesn't happen there's always September.
• 15 minutes Flying a day, Monday to Friday; Three hours! None of it involved a duster or the vacuum cleaner but gibble left the house, a bed got made and various cupboards are a lot tidier than they were. *gleaming halo*
  *whips out grubby duster and gives Honey's halo a quick but well-deserved wipe over*
  
• Leg stretches, one minutes for each stretch. I did them, and my legs are agony today, which just goes to show how much exercise I've been getting. For the foreseeable future I need to do them twice a day, or this will just get worse and worse.
  
  I've just done those like you described in your other post. I felt the thigh one at the front rather than the side but it was a definite stretch and felt weirdly good.
• Lights out by 11.30 pm (I too have a screen addiction and have taken to watching slightly bizarre Youtube videos late at night - sadly rather addictive.) Success! And I woke up at 5.30 am, which is just the best of the best for me. It feels like a lie-in and I'm up and about at a respectable time without it hurting.

No Youtube for me last night either, purely because I was trying to cram in Facebook, Instagram and Twitter before the 11pm cut-off.

HappyNow

Dolphin - I agree, those targets are perfect if you've not been doing much. They will leave you exercised, hydrated and well rested ready for tackling stuff in September.

I notice they've changed all the Tesco Value labelling to Stockford or something. Weird how they won't deliver it though. We never use delivery because I literally drive past the store everytime I go out - and also our lane is really bumpy and I don't think they'd like coming!

Honey
Midweek I don't crave alcohol as much as at weekends, but nevertheless if I hadn't set the target I guarantee I would have had wine just because it feels like a treat.

My Bero book will be worth approximately zero I'm sure. Half of it is missing and the bits that are there are covered in splashes from 30 year old cakes. The scone recipe still included lard (he used Flora, it worked fine).

We did used to run on Sundays, but we stopped doing anything at all for a few months when the friend hurt her back. It's completely better now but we still haven't worked back up to running! It's a work in progress.

Part of me wants to ask what counts as bizarre on Youtube, but the rest of me is scared that I'll start loving it too and it will be yet another thing I need weaning from!

HappyNow

Day 5 and nearly all is well.

Zero alcohol - Tick. I doubt this will be a struggle now until Friday.
Maximum of 1400 calories per day, to include 5 x fruit and veg and just one sweet treat. I went over yesterday - 1521. I'm not bothered though because we did a lot of very physical gardening - stone moving and barrowing soil, and my Fitbit says I used 1973 calories, so well under. I only managed 2 portions of F & V because the bulk of my calories came from the fish and chips I had for tea! They were home made, not from the chippy (well my version of home-made - frozen fish, frozen chips and mushy peas from a tin!). I'm back on the F & V today and one day won't matter. Sweet treat was my final Mini Magnum, and I won't buy any more for a while.
Six glasses of water per day Yep.
Daily dog walk at a fast pace No dog walk, I could barely climb the stairs to bed after all that work.
No looking at my phone in bed or after 11 pm. I stretched it until 11.10. Rebel.
No money wasting. Balance YNAB daily. Zero spent, YNAB fine.

karim22

You have taken the first step in accpeting that your debt is a problem

Elnora32

[FONT=&quot]Thanks Honey Bear. You’re right about having a day off as I can be more hare than tortoise and then I lose enthusiasm so I need to slow down and aim to make it a regular routine. I made a note of the leg exercises as I think they will be helpful to me so thank you for taking the time to post them. Good going with the Flying - there's still time to lose that 0.9kg.
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[FONT=&quot]Happy, well done with your targets. Excellent news about the baking and yes, this needs to be encouraged. Confession time, I too have a copy of the Bero cookbook which belonged to my MiL and is dated 1977.
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I redeemed myself yesterday and today and completed all exercises :T I will join in with some targets but for now it will just be the exercise routine and I will have a think and come up with some more.

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Dolphin1

HappyNow wrote: »

Dolphin - I agree, those targets are perfect if you've not been doing much. They will leave you exercised, hydrated and well rested ready for tackling stuff in September.

Elnora32 wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Hello Dolphin, good targets to get you back in the swing of it.[/FONT]

Thanks HappyNow & Elnora, I had a pretty good start yesterday...

1) Be in bed by 10.00pm and light out by 10.30pm Sunday to Thursday - I was in bed by 10.00pm but the light went off at 10.40pm. Nearly made it and it's a definite improvement on the last few nights.

2) At least 30 minutes walking during the day - I managed 45 minutes in total yesterday (1 x 20 minute walk & 1 x 25 minute walk).

3) Drink 3 bottles of water a day - I managed the 3 although most of it was later in the day as I rushed to catch up .

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

Part of me wants to ask what counts as bizarre on Youtube, but the rest of me is scared that I'll start loving it too and it will be yet another thing I need weaning from!

I can't help myself, this is what I've found utterly addictive, they've posted loads and loads of videos so there's hours and hours of entertainment to be had, and then that led me to more 'Tiny House Living' types. I couldn't fit one room's stuff from this house into any of their living spaces, so it's an amazing window into another world of people I'll never meet or know anything about otherwise.

All the talk of decluttering led me to dragging all the kitchen and DIY kit down from the attic and telling OH that we weren't going through it with a view to deciding what we were getting rid of - we were getting rid of it all, unless he specifically decided he needed something. It had pretty much all been up there for 20 years unused, he kept back more than I considered ideal, but a huge pile left the house. I can now move around up there which I hadn't been able to for months. Real progress.

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

Day 5 and nearly all is well.

Zero alcohol - Tick. I doubt this will be a struggle now until Friday.
Good for you. Unless, like me, you have a bit of a problem with booze, mostly it's just habit. Well done.

Maximum of 1400 calories per day, to include 5 x fruit and veg and just one sweet treat. I went over yesterday - 1521. I'm not bothered though because we did a lot of very physical gardening - stone moving and barrowing soil, and my Fitbit says I used 1973 calories, so well under. I only managed 2 portions of F & V because the bulk of my calories came from the fish and chips I had for tea! They were home made, not from the chippy (well my version of home-made - frozen fish, frozen chips and mushy peas from a tin!). I'm back on the F & V today and one day won't matter. Sweet treat was my final Mini Magnum, and I won't buy any more for a while.

I had you down for a strict vegetarian because of the way you reacted to the mention of my loving crab claws with lemon mayonaise once; I'm quite relieved you eat fish! Your version of fish and chips is pretty much the same as ours - let's hear it for freezers!

Six glasses of water per day Yep. Well done. Probably just as well in this weather with all that work.
Daily dog walk at a fast pace No dog walk, I could barely climb the stairs to bed after all that work. But the dogs probably 'helped' by turning up and checking you were digging in the right place, and not over their bone stashes.
No looking at my phone in bed or after 11 pm. I stretched it until 11.10. Rebel. You'e just got to push the boundaries, haven't you?
No money wasting. Balance YNAB daily. Zero spent, YNAB fine.

Excellent financials as always. What are you moving on to now that the Magnums are finished? (We've got two left!)

Honey_Bear

Welcome back aboard for the Challenges Elnora and Dolphin now that you're up and running. Keep up the good work!

With regard to the stretches, what's much more effective than leaving it to the end of the day is doing each of them for about 10 - 15 seconds immediately after the exercise, while you warm down so to speak. I'm now doing it after every dog walk and it's made a huge difference. I had to do it at the end of the day for so long because my legs were such a mess, but nowadays I'm finding little and often has a fantastic effect, much more than I ever thought it would.

I forgot to add that when you do the calf stretches, your stretched leg's heel and toes must remain in contact with the floor, or they won't be effective. And you're right, Happy, when you do the thigh stretch you feel it along the front of the thigh, but it's the big muscle on the outside of the leg that is being stretched, which is why you have to keep your knees close together, and touching if possible. It's why I talked about 'referred pain' - you feel it in another site, away from where the actual problem is. Confusing, but true, apparently.

I started out on the Borders dark chocolate ginger bix, but they were :eek: eye-wateringly expensive, and the Morrie's ones were 2 for £3 on their special offer. There used to be 10 in a box, now there are only eight or nine, but they're still the best of the best of the best!

• Lose more weight, ideally down to 65kgs by 1 September. I have good news but rather . An extremely liberal dose of figs several days running, both homegrown and dried which was very, very necessary, have resulted in 65.000000 kgs already! I'm hoping that even without the extra figs this isn't a fluke. I have four dried ones daily usually because I need to, and had stopped eating them while we were relying on our fresh ones. Big, big mistake. *ouch* Lesson learned.
  
• 15 minutes Flying a day, Monday to Friday; Stuff is being moved about which makes the place look a better, and I'm doing waaaay more than 15 minutes daily. There's a lot going on here but it should be calmer next week. I need the house to be gleaming on Sunday; after that it can be a midden again for a week or two and I'd be fine with that!
  
• Leg stretches, one minutes for each stretch. Mini stretches, as above are now on the agenda, so I'm going to alter this one from tomorrow. If they start to hurt again with just that, then I'll go back to doing them at bedtime as well.
• Lights out by 11.30 pm Fail, but only by about 15 minutes, although I didn't wake up until 7.30 am, so it just goes to show I really do need to stick to this.
  

Elnora32

Dolphin, great start. I'd say you'd met the lights out target.

With regard to the stretches, what's much more effective than leaving it to the end of the day is doing each of them for about 10 - 15 seconds immediately after the exercise, while you warm down so to speak

Honey Bear, I did this by chance today as I forgot to include the leg stretches during my routine. Excellent news on hitting your target weight and for gettting rid of clutter.

Another tick in the box for me with the exercises and I have also completed a 5.5 mile walk that had a big hill to climb.