Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Today is my first fast day :eek:

Breakfast = cup of tea
Second breakfast (09:30, just before a 2.5 hour meeting) = small banana
Lunch = soreen bar, carrot, celery, cherries
Dinner = chicken, salad

Feels weird counting the calories of vegetables

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 7
Eggs OUT 8 (Mr MWC had 2 for breakfast, 6 sold for £1.30)

I don't feel as hungry as I expected - just ravenous :rotfl:
and a little light-headed

sheilds

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Today is my first fast day :eek:

Breakfast = cup of tea
Second breakfast (09:30, just before a 2.5 hour meeting) = small banana
Lunch = soreen bar, carrot, celery, cherries
Dinner = chicken, salad

Feels weird counting the calories of vegetables

Hi MWC and good luck with your diet.
Can I ask -is the total calories allowed on a fast day 500 and can you eat anything as long as they don't go over this?
S.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Good luck with the diet. I really should be doing it too. Feel guilty.

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I don't feel as hungry as I expected - just ravenous :rotfl:
and a little light-headed

and a bit sluggish - struggling to do some light housework this evening

Thanks sheilds and SSS

Yes, on a fast day women can eat anything up to a total of 500 calories, Mr MWC is allowed 600 calories

I'm hoping it works as I deparately want to lose the 20 pounds I've gained this year :eek:

sheilds

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

and a bit sluggish - struggling to do some light housework this evening

Thanks sheilds and SSS

Yes, on a fast day women can eat anything up to a total of 500 calories, Mr MWC is allowed 600 calories

I'm hoping it works as I deparately want to lose the 20 pounds I've gained this year :eek:

Well -only a couple of hours to go and you've done it-first one anyway :T
I've read a little about it but too chicken (sorry:)) to give it a go yet so keep us posted.
S.

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 7
Eggs OUT 13 (2 boxes sold @£1.50/box and 1 used for dinner)

Chickens OUT 8 :eek: Mr MWC let them out of their run and didn't notice that the back gate was open Luckily they were only able to get as far as the neighbour's garden - phew!

I wasn't very hungry today :T So ate normally rather than binged after yesterday's fast

I had a meeting with a pensions advisor this morning - my old FL pension has done OK over the past 4 years (whilst I neglected it) but not as good as it could have done... He's going to send me details on Scottish Life's governed portfolio. I'll need to decide whether to transfer it to that or to my current pension. My current pension is sort of self-managed though (i.e. I'm in the recommended funds but I get no personal pension advice) and I've proved that I'm not very good with pensions! The pensions advisor's charge is 0.75% which seems OK to me.

muddywhitechicken

£15 of JL vouchers recived from CC - saved for Christmas

Dinner was lamb koftes, wholemeal pitta bread, roasted red peppers with toasted pinenuts and tzatziki

Sitting here in the cold as the decorators started painting the window frames today and we have to leave the windows open until bed time

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I had a meeting with a pensions advisor this morning - my old FL pension has done OK over the past 4 years (whilst I neglected it) but not as good as it could have done... He's going to send me details on Scottish Life's governed portfolio. I'll need to decide whether to transfer it to that or to my current pension. My current pension is sort of self-managed though (i.e. I'm in the recommended funds but I get no personal pension advice) and I've proved that I'm not very good with pensions! The pensions advisor's charge is 0.75% which seems OK to me.

First State Asia Pacific Leaders and Global Emerging Markets are FL's best performers by far unless you want to go into one of their managed funds.

:eek: to chickens OUT :eek:

muddywhitechicken

It's the weekend :j:j:j

And it's a much warmer day to have all the windows wide open :j:j:j

The decorators left 30 minutes ago. I'm very pleased - lovely couple and they have done a good job

Today is our second fast day - so far, so good :cool:

Eggs IN 14 (7 yesterday and 7 today)
Eggs OUT 24 (1 box of eggs to the decorators and 3 boxes sold at work for £5.50)