Keeping up appearances.......

Seasidegal58

Targets as in my previous post. Please don't expel me for non-attendance!:o. Wow! The thread has moved so fast since I last posted!

BB5 - I love your targets!:T. I shall have to have a good look at those receipt apps! Hope all going well with the weight loss. I'm trying to lose too. Hard when you love your food (yes I love mussels too as well as whitebait! We have seafood stalls where I live which even includes whelks!!!!)

Honey - you've been so busy lately with all the Compliance! And now off again abroad soon! Don't blame you for packing now! Onwards and upwards! At least the taxman will be pleased!

Happy - I think overall you're doing well. As Elnora writes, lemon and carrot count!:D

Elnora - prepping for the freezer is excellent! And you're getting into a routine with the pampering!:T

Dolphin - walking is going well! :eek: to the hospital that doesn't provide gluten free options!

HappyNow

Ooh it's been busy on here today . I'm saving my update until tomorrow because it's so late.


I'm feeling a bit sulky because tonight was the last in the series of Peaky Blinders. Sundays won't be the same

Dolphin1

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Regarding your walking, there's no point in varying your route to the station - in the morning there's no time, in the afternoon you're tired and just want to get home. Can you make yourself walk for 10 minutes at lunchtime?

The thing is that I don't actually get the train. I am at home all day so to make sure I get out of the house and get some exercise, I walk to the station with OH in the morning and then walk back by myself and then walk to meet him in the evening.

In theory, this should give me 4 x 10 minute walks at least each day. In practice, the morning one often gets missed because OH thinks 'it's too hot/cold/dark/wet etc to walk.' or more often than not because OH gets up late. On those days, I have to give him a lift in the car so that he makes his train.

If I don't walk with OH in the morning then I should really go out for a walk during the morning but then I get distracted and it doesn't happen.

Dolphin1

Update for Saturday & Sunday...

1) To have at least 15 NCDs - Fail both days but according to HappyNow & Elnora I should put myself on 8 NCDs because the Twirl on Friday wasn't really my fault. I suppose it was probably less calories than a sandwich would have been anyway.

2) To meal plan at the end of the week for the following week - This is done for the week but I find it really difficult every week. It's a real effort to come up with ideas for low sugar, low carb, gluten free meals that take very little time and effort to prepare and cook. I wish I loved cooking as much as I do eating then this would be much easier.

3) Be in bed by 10.00pm and light out by 10.30pm Sunday to Thursday - Saturday night, it didn't matter. Sunday night, in bed at 9.30pm, light out at 11.00pm.

4) At least 30 minutes walking during the day - 60 minutes on Saturday, none on Sunday.

Honey_Bear

Seaside Gal, chocolate and bubbly are de rigeur when attending a Jo Malone event. It would have been rude not to!

OH likes Peaky Blinders, Happy, so you're in good company. Bit too violent for me, and I'm really sorry but that haircut ... Just No.

Dolphin, I made the great mistake of trying to come up with a new meal plan every week. It's not necessary. Just repeat last week's, and add in new meals as and when you can find new recipes you like. Schools, I think, have a three week rolling lunch plan which is what I've always aimed for and never achieved, but we have settled on the same things on several nights a week -
Friday: Fish and Chips,
Saturday: Pizza,
Sunday Meat or Fish with roasted vegetables depending on what's in the freezer or available that week
Monday: Leftovers.
I then jazz it up with starters or puddings depending on what's around; right now we're having baked apples with squirty cream or custard because we were given some apples and I've got the other things anyway.

Honey_Bear

• To have hit 63 kgs at some point on the scales over the course of the month which will require a steady downward tragectory. Slowly, slowly heading the right way. I suspect Lille will end that.
  
• 15 minutes Flying per day. Finally swept and washed the kitchen floor and made two beds up that have been on my To Do list for over a fortnight.
  
• Stretches after each dog walk. Not enough, but getting there.
  
• Clear one paperwork Frog each week ([STRIKE]minutes[/STRIKE], [STRIKE]tax return[/STRIKE], stocktake freezer and food cupboards) and Compliance stuff. Nothing over the weekend.

BalanceBy50

Seasidegal58 wrote: »

BB5 - I love your targets!:T. I shall have to have a good look at those receipt apps! The receipt apps are so easy to use and if you snap your receipts on the day you purchase stuff you get more points but I think you get a week to snap them Hope all going well with the weight loss. I'm trying to lose too. Hard when you love your food (yes I love mussels too as well as whitebait! We have seafood stalls where I live which even includes whelks!!!!) You are doing so well with youur weight loss though SSG but I just love food and cooking and baking

Dolphin1 wrote: »

2) To meal plan at the end of the week for the following week - This is done for the week but I find it really difficult every week. It's a real effort to come up with ideas for low sugar, low carb, gluten free meals that take very little time and effort to prepare and cook. I wish I loved cooking as much as I do eating then this would be much easier.
I hate meal planning Dolphin so feel your pain and I am always on a diet. I did well on the Blood Sugar diet but I love carbs too much to keep it up. To make meal planning easier i now have a theme for each day:
Monday - something with chips (I love homemade ones baked in the oven! Tonight its gammon, egg and beans
Tuesday - Pasta night Tomorrow its Fish, pasta in homemade tomato sauce with lots of roast veg plus garlic bread
Wednesday - Its anything goes night. This week its pie and veg (I am having l-f sausages)
Thursday - its Rice and Noodle day - Its plain old chicken stirfry
Friday - fish friday
Saturday - something special
Sunday - Roast dinner day
I know its harder for you with your dietary requirements but this has made my life so much easier. I have to do tweaks to take into account two small boys who can be fussy at times but I even menu planned for the whole of September and it made shopping so much easier.
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Hope everyone has a succesful week this week.

BalanceBy50

Hmm still not quite getting multi quotes right xx

BalanceBy50

Emerges from the Stationary cupboard after a very long snooze :rotfl:

Well I haven't updated for a few days so here goes

1. Do not borrow from small saving pots - No borrowing from savings pots! And have decided to not repay the beauty pot after Honey's helpful comment as i will always be paying catch up!

2. Check for surveys on a daily basis. Doing well but no surveys so far today and all receipts snapped!

3. Lose 3.5lbs per month Tick

4. Step target of 60,000 Ended the week on 44,728 that is shocking for a week!

5. Have a 12 hour eating window Need to stop going to bed via the kitchen:rotfl:

6. In bed and lights out by 11pm and up by 7.15 on weekdays MIt was the weekend so no pressure!

7. Deal with all post and letters from school on the day it arrives. All post up to date but need to do school forms by Wednesday so pressure is on! :rotfl:

8. Do one thing a day towards getting the house to where I want it. still need to write this bloomin list :rotfl:
xx

Dolphin1

BalanceBy50 wrote: »

Hmm still not quite getting multi quotes right xx

It's a pain, isn't it? Sometimes I have to 'Preview Post' and edit until I get it right.