The '101 days to change our lives' challenge

Swishter

Yey!!!

Thank you for an honorable mention!

Swishter

Ooops not finished got overexcited! :j

Just worked out that starting from tomorrow 101 days takes us to the 8th August which is my big day! The start of the great adventure which is 30!

So I am going to get involved with all of you! My dinner is nearly ready to have to run, but will updating all my plans and progress with you all. :beer:

Swish
xx

CAFCGirl

Great to see you on board Swish since you were the divine inspiration for starting the thread

Lillibet_2

Please may I join? I don't post hear very often as I feel like a bit of an interloper:o I'm not actually a DFW as we don't have any debt but I have given up work to be a SAHM & we are digging into savings to stay afloat & I follow the DFW board (esp. I_A's brilliant diary:T).

We are going to Paris in August for my Mum's 60th birthday, I want to improve my self image a bit for that so that I don't look my usual dumpy self in the photos for once, so my challenges to myself are :

1) Lose some weight, don't care if it is 1lb or 1st (1st would be good:D but I'm a realist:o) anything will do. I will weigh myself tomorrow morning so that I have got a benchmark to kick off from.

2) Following on from losing weight, I pledge to eat a salad meal at least once every 2 days. It should be a it easier now summer is here, but does anyone else find salad a bit of a chore?

3) Have at least 1 chocolate free day every week. (best not clash with the salad day or I'll be a nightmare to live with!) Should save me...hummm... around £1 a week.:rolleyes:

4) List at least one item a week on ebay or amazon or do a car boot sale. I'm desperate to have a bit of a de-clutter, hubby is a natural hoarder! We have a car boot sale planned for next sunday so I am already on schedule for this:D

5) Cleanse my face everynight. I'm lazy about this:o and as I have naturally bad skin I really really must make more of an effort. I bought some BOGOF cleansing wipes this week so I've no excuse, althoguh I'm sure they're probably a rip off & soap & water would do the trick:cool:

6) Be stricter with myself about sticking to the grocery budget. I'm good with the others, food is my downfall:rolleyes:

EDIT :
7) Use that flipping Davina MaCall workout DVD at least once a week!

Hopefully by doing all of the above I'll look fab in Paris & have a bit of extra spending money.

Good luck everyone;)

taxi73

This sounds interesting....
I aim to pay as much as possible off my debts and at least clear the Halifax one
I aim to lose 2 stone
What do we do...do we post our stuff as it happens on this thread?

Spendaholic_Chick

I'm in!

My goals:

- lose 2 stones
- get up to date with OU work
- get overdraft down to 1500 pounds
- list something on ebay every week

If 8 Aug is the day as noted above then its the day before my birthday so would be great timing!

KellsBells

hey Taxi,

I'm also in Blackpool - who d'ya drive for?? Is it the one with lots of blue cars?? or the yellow cars? Or do you drive just for yourself?

To add to my 101 challenge I'm going to take more packed lunches to work with me to stop going me from having Pub Lunches as often!!

Purpleroses

Hey! good idea for a thread. i'd like to

~ Lose Weight
~ Get the business online and running

Thats the most important things right now really. C x

hypno06

My goals for the next three months are to:

- complete my assignments that I should have done weeks ago.....!
- get on top of the housework
- ditto re the garden
- increase business turnover
- get my Egg card under £1000
- start claims for all OH credit card charges
- enjoy life and to appreciate what I have, rather than to hanker over what I haven't

Good luck to everyone on this challenge x

debbycatz

emzig123 wrote: »

Hiya, can I join in?

I am about to do my Finals for my degree in two weeks and really need to make some changes to my life over the summer before I start a PGCE in the autumn.

Targets:

1. get down to 11st (I'm at 12 and a half now) in time for BF's sisters wedding in September
2. get a 2:1
3. get a tan :rotfl:
4. save up some money from my summer work for a holiday in september

So to do this:

1. Stop snacking and keep a food diary. my spending diary has saved me loads so hopefully my food one will work!
2. work harder, handing in dissertation tomorrow but gotta get on with the exams.
3. actually sit in the sun!
4. work at the evil shop and budget tightly so I can save up the money.
5. visit the gym/ go running/ swimming at least twice a week

Good luck guys, i look forward to keeping this up! :beer:

Emzig has a great idea here in that she has listed her goals but also exactly how she hopes to achieve them. It's good to SMART with goals (Simple, Measurable, Agreed/Acheivable, Realistic and on a Timescale. So many of us just say "I'm gonna lose 2 stone by summer" but don't think about exactly how we are going to do that and so end up failing. It's great if we can do a similar thing to Emzi i.e. say "I'm gonna lose 1 stone in 3 months and I'm going to do this by cutting out chocolate snacks in the week, eating smaller portions and go for a long walk/ride/swim/ on Mon, Wed & Friday after work and at the weekend.
Sorry if that sounds a bit preachy , but I've been reading a good book regarding 'Overcoming Weight Problems' using a CBT approach (Cognetive Behavioural Therapy) and it has a really good approach to the whole weight loss thing.

Anyway, I would like to join the challenge too and will post back with my goals.