Moooving on up!

rising_from_the_ashes

Ahhhh but it's the after one that matters Beanielou and you've done absolutely brilliantly well!:j:j

mooomin

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Ahhhh but it's the after one that matters Beanielou and you've done absolutely brilliantly well!:j:j

An excellent point. I have very few before pictures because I avoided getting pictures taken of myself, something I still do

MSE things are pootling away nicely here. I had a *small* splurge on crafty things, but it cost me less than £2 as I had money sitting in Paypal.

I added another £10 of Amazon vouchers to the fund which is back up to £26ish and will have enough to claim another £5 voucher tomorrow. That should give me enough to buy a present for Mr Moo's stepdad so now it's just Mr Moo and my wee brother to get gifts for. Suggestions on a postcard for either please :eek:

Today I spent £3.09 on tea and a scone (post Fat Club reward for losing 2lbs this week) and £4.45 on some Fat Club fudge, which is so tasty it's like a real treat, and a weightloss journal thingie which was half price. Although I have Fat Club Online, I don't remember to use it and as I'm trying to get back on track it was an essential purchase. I reached my goal weight earlier in the year but haven't seen it again since, so discipline needed

Nowt else to report, just plodding away. Tomorrow I'm going to go to the gym for the first time in a few weeks. Another thing I need to do more of. Hoping that it will keep me a bit perkier if I keep going. As nice as it is to snuggle in the house when the weather is poor, it makes for cabin fever!

Hope everyone else is fine

taxi73

Well done Beanie x
fudge sounds nice Moomin and good luck at the gym

mooomin

My first week of returning to MSE living has been not too bad.

I went to the shops today and spent £23.50 on groceries, but this includes a fortnight's worth of cat litter, so that's not too bad. Aldi have peppers in their Super Six, so I bought two packs which will be chopped and put in the freezer for adding to pasta sauces (ditto the enormous pack of mushrooms I bought). I managed to get two posh loaves reduced to 50p each so one is being munched this week and the other has been split into four-slice packs and put in the freezer for the coming weeks.

I made a mahoosive pot of minestrone soup this afternoon which is very tasty indeed and very low in Fat Points, so that will do my lunches for most of the week - assuming that Mr Moo doesn't munch it all, of course.

Current state of pennies is this:

Bills account - ticking over, money there to cover all direct debits, all is well.
Food money - £121.65
Spends money - £125.37
Car fund - £454.25 with MOT looming...:eek:

I'm happy with the way that the food account is going and with the cooking from scratch I've been doing. Mr Moo is going north for a week so I will be spending a lot less (he can go through ten litres of milk a week on his own :eek:) and something I normally cook for the two of us will last me a couple of days which will be very economical. I'll also be exercising more as he'll be taking the car!

Oh, and I did go to the gym today I managed eight minutes on the exercise bike which was 3.5km and nineteen minutes on the cross-trainer. I tried to cling on and do twenty minutes, but thought I might die! I'm aiming to improve that next time I go though...watch this space.

slowlyfading

All sounds good

rising_from_the_ashes

mooomin wrote: »

I went to the shops today and spent £23.50 on groceries

*sigh* - I'm spending a fortune atm - combination of weird new diet (that's taking a bit of getting used to ) and being stuck in the house so doing it online (ie can't shop around and get from several places to get best deals like I usually do)

You've just reminded me I've 1/2 a loaf I must package up & freeze today... thanks:T

mooomin wrote: »

Mr Moo is going north for a week so I will be spending a lot less (he can go through ten litres of milk a week on his own :eek:)

Being nosey - how did the Lactofree go? Did it help at all?

Wishing Fred best of luck!:)

mmmmm to the thought of HM Minestrone soup .....

mooomin

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Being nosey - how did the Lactofree go? Did it help at all?


mmmmm to the thought of HM Minestrone soup .....

Didn't make much difference and cost me a fortune, so he's back on bogstandard moojuice

I use this recipe for my minestrone although it's varied every time I make it depending on what's in the house! Tonight I had no butter beans so left them out, and I only add half the pasta as it's still plenty and it makes it better for Fat Club. I also added a leek as I didn't have any cabbage/tatties in the house either. It makes plenty for four (if you want a HUGE bowl) but I find it does six portions generously using the recipe. We have it as a meal rather than a starter as it's proper winter soup

shaun40400

moomin ? did i miss something? so out of the loop
baaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr

Double_Trouble

shaun40400 wrote: »

moomin ? did i miss something? so out of the loop
baaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr

You really need to keep up Shaun lol

DTxx

mooomin

Double_Trouble wrote: »

You really need to keep up Shaun lol

He's always been a bit slow :P