NSK: The June Overhaul!!!

XSpender

I went to Zumba today and loved it so will be going again next week. I am up to 6 out of 16 exercise sessions now but will swim today and tomorrow and try and get a good walk in at the weekend.


Today was going to be a SFD but I popped into the library for a gardening book for DH and some mags for me and had an o/s fine from 2012:eek: so paid that. That is how long it must have been since I went to the library. I will be making an effort to go now and stop buying kindle books.


My food budget is way over and this is an area I/we really need to work on. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on food for 2 adults, 1 small dog and a child who only eats at home on a weekend and at breakfast. I know I am GF but this shouldn't make that much of a difference as I don't buy a lot of bread or cakes. This is going to have to change from July onwards.


Oh and I didn't get the job I had the 2nd interview for. They kindly offered me a more junior role (same as I was doing before redundancy) but I feel the money wouldn't be great and I would end up doing some of the role I wasn't successful for. Luckily it is not urgent that I find a job immediately.


Totals


Food £265/£322.75
SFD 12/4
Exercise 16/6
Hols pot £309/£309:j
Lose 7lb/0
3 things to do/see list/0
No takeaways 30/17

mothernerd

Had a sleep, took hay fever pill (forgot this morning and no time to turn back for it), ate some things I shouldn't (delicious) and feeling much better. Leg is moving again and have managed some of my exercises (starting to feel like a goldfish, saying that).

Will go to doctor's as the last thing I need is hands going to useless claw stage, need to sort it now.

Keep hopping and I'll soon be hopping too.

Fmess

Quick check in. SFD number 12 Exercise session number 7 and over 11000 steps (just).

Not much else to report. My marking arrives tomorrow so hopefully that'll encourage SFDs and increase my bank balance.

NinjaSavingKat

Good Morning June Bugs..

Such a beautiful morning outside today. I honestly didn't want to get up. I think I need to start planning my days a little better as I am shattered by the time I get home and have no energy to do anything let alone get food ready - thank goodness for the lentil loaf I made last week that's in the freezer.

Anyhoo.... I see so many of you are hitting the gym hard.

I weighed myself at the weekend = 185lbs / 85KG / 13 ST. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I should be = 154lbs / 70KG / 11 ST. :T:T:T:T:T:T

I have precisely 19 weeks to sort this out. Will be checking in at the little local gym I located near my house a few weeks back. I need to do more. However I need to figure out how much they will charge me.

However I got another OT shift on the 29th - nothing quite like working yourself into the ground. YEAH!

Onwards and Upwards!!!

dolly84

Today will be another SFD. Having that mid month lull, nothing happening just waiting for payday.

nyc_451

May I ask why are you so obsessed with counting your steps, Fmess? Does walking help you lose weight?

mothernerd

10,000 steps is supposed to be a normal level of healthy activity - most office workers (sedentary) get a shock when they realise they only come in at around 500 - they get in the car to work, walk from the car park and sit slumped over their desks all day (often eating from the big box of sweets/ biscuits placed within arms reach). Once worked somewhere that had 'pizza Friday'. One worker said how glad she was when I turned up to take all the boxes away after a leaving do Friday - they had been 'stinking the place out all afternoon'. She nearly reeled in shock when I said that the security guard would have unlocked the cleaning room and given them a couple of binbags, if they had asked - still not sure if it was because they hadn't thought of it or if the suggestion that they might take responsibility for their own rubbish was revolutionary.

What I still consider my 'regular' walk (despite only having done it once this year) a 3 hour circuit outside of the local park and attached woodland comes in at well above and when I walked to the next town to deposit my Christmas cards for recycling that was over 16,000. On wet days I have tried walking round all the local charity shops and pound shops or the now familiar putting each item of washing up away in the cupboard separately but some pedometers don't recognise these (they have anti-cheating mechanisms to stop people standing on the spot moving from one leg to the other).

Went to the doctor's, the rash is eczema but it exacerbated by sunshine, so after collecting my (free) prescription I carried on into town to buy suncream. B**ts own brand - I know some people had good things to say about the pound emporium offerings last year but with skin as problematic as mine, it's wiser to stick to what I know (I quail ever time I see the words 'new improved' on something I use - 9 times out of 10 that's something else I am never going to be able to use again).

Have broken all the budgets as I decided I might as well buy a birthday present for mum's partner (next month), meal deal (had drunk all my water and needed to sit and eat before starting the long trudge home.

Called in Wilk*s in case birthday present was available cheaper (it was, but not sure it's the right product - he will use it and will probably like it, as long as no - one says 'it's moisturiser') and bought 2 lots of weedkiller (not cheapest but not dearest - they just seemed to get more complicated trigger systems). Hope these will help with path and edge weeds - an hour or so going round spraying stuff should make the job easier. Got a cheaper one last year but it just killed the weeds - still couldn't get them out of the ground. Think green weeds are marginally more attractive than dead straw weeds but hope these are the type I have used in previous years.

Bought a 'family pack' of 4 bottles of suncream for £13.99 - the same price as one large bottle and double the quantity and will start with the children's (spf 50) once the medicine cream sinks in (may need a list for my morning routine to make sure pills/creams don't get forgotten). However as I haven't bought any toiletries for 2+ years and have been using the (free on prescription) 500ml pump of E45 for general face/ hand/ body anywhere that needs it lotion I have to be winning overall. Indeed even the suncream purchase has been delayed (ie that money has stayed in my possession) by about 4 weeks.

Must be a long time since I bought toiletries as I looked at shampoo - who knew that shampoo starts at around £3.49 a bottle. There was one own brand at 60p but I have vague memories of buying it once and having to get one of the boys to use it up (may have sent it back to uni with DS2) after trying it twice.

My hair is not behaving well. it is not quite shoulder length at the moment - when it gets to my shoulders it should start behaving again (it's just difficult when it's between chin length and shoulder length). I am currently using a dandruff shampoo and a baby shampoo alternately. Last night my head was itching - not sure if it was dandruff, the eczema (some around my ears and jawline) or just the hot day. So after having a bath I threw several scoops of water over my scalp. When it dried it looked 'greasy' - it isn't, it feels clean, just looks bad.

So I walked up and down looking at shampoos (some a lot more than £3.49). Then I bought a box of hair colour (£4). When I was a teenager I used the shampoo in colour to 'condition' my hair. My hair is very dark brown so they didn't colour my hair, they just made it shine and behave a little better. Well it was worth a try. Did wonder on the way home if the grey bits would go coloured.

So now have red hair - not beetroot, not carrot, red. It's still dark but also has this red sheen when the light hits it and yes the grey bits went coloured - so temple tufts, a bit along the top of my forehead and a wisp framing each side of my face are very red (rich copper?). It's different. Have decided different is good.

Yes just had another look now that it's properly dry and I really like it - just a bit weird, tried for this colour so many times in my twenties and thirties and it stayed relentlessly brown. Not sure about mum's reaction. Been trying to think who it reminds me of and think one of mum's cousin's girls had hers done like this. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. Redheads probably don't disappear into the background as easily as brown mice. Scalp also feels wonderful.

Not expecting great things of the physio and health trainer appointments next week. Not made great progress but I think the important thing at the moment is just to keep trying - even if I only lose 2lbs per month that would be another stone gone before the end of the year. Just keep on plodding.

You gym bunnies can hop. I will live to hop another day (before Christmas).

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for a photocopier, for hb eggs, for a working sewing machine, for cuddles, for tinterweb.

Got a workout in early today - even before my morning coffee! But not a NSD as I visited charity shops and got some good fabric and 2 tops for dd and trousers for her too, all for £3 total!

mothernerd, have you tried the 'shampoo' that is water plus apple cider vinegar, and the 'conditioner' that is water plus bicarb? I plan to shift to this in July, so need to check the ratios. I keep fi ding them out, writing them down, then mislaying them. D'oh!

nyc_451

mothernerd wrote: »

10,000 steps is supposed to be a normal level of healthy activity - most office workers (sedentary) get a shock when they realise they only come in at around 500 - they get in the car to work, walk from the car park and sit slumped over their desks all day (often eating from the big box of sweets/ biscuits placed within arms reach).

I see... Well I walk for almost 2 hours every day but that doesn't help me in losing inches, just made my legs stronger, that's all...

Today I haven't spent anything and done some light exercise for 30min or so - would have carried on but the delivery man came, and then soon football was starting. No luck for England, ha?

Fmess

blue_mango wrote: »

I see... Well I walk for almost 2 hours every day but that doesn't help me in losing inches, just made my legs stronger, that's all...

Today I haven't spent anything and done some light exercise for 30min or so - would have carried on but the delivery man came, and then soon football was starting. No luck for England, ha?

On it's own it doesn't help me lose weight but if I do over 11000 steps (I think my pedometer is 10% inaccurate) and eat less than 1300 calories, the weight does go down. The calories makes the most difference but the pedometer helps me quantify how much activity I've done.

Today was a spend day and no exercise achieved due to what I assume was me being glutenated and therefore poorly for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow should be run day so will endeavour to stick to the calories too.

Got a refund from the utility company today OH and I have decided to split it and pay it off our respective debts