levi: la vida loca

Levi-

Thanks Edwink & Westie :-)
I'll check on it tomorrow and see how it looks.

I am starting a proper diet on June 1st. Gives me a couple of days to get back to work and then get on the regime properly with diet and schedule. Starting to feel the fat growing on my neck, and my belly is outrageous.
I am getting more exercise whilst not at work (2 runs a day) but am eating far too much for 'comfort' - even as concious as I am of this I can't stop. Like whenever anything stressy happens about my mum, or I start thinking about stuff or any small trigger.. I go and reach for a bit of food... I've *never* had an issue with emotional eating before (this year) so am keen to make it go away.
I'd like to lose around 14lbs so will get cracking on that as soon as this godforsaken month is out of the way. Night folks. x

Westie983

Night Levi

MeandO

Hi Levi,

Hope the Sunflowers made it ok. Maybe you could get some old plastic drinks bottles, cut them in half and put them over the seedlings for a while, just to act as a bit of protection for them.

As for the diet, have you tried myfitnesspal before? It's free and incorporates a food and exercise diary, so may be worth a look if you need some extra motivation. (Says she who ate everything within easy reach yesterday:o).

lots of love
x

Westie983

Great idea about the milk bottles MeanO... Very girlguidish of you

Bobarella

Levi - I feel for your sunflowers. I planted about 8 rosemary plants that I have lovingly grown from scratch, out this weekend and the poor little things are robust enough having survived since November, but they arent very big. I could have torn my hair out at the crazy hail storms last night. Thankfully they look ok. But NAIL BITING STUFF...

Levi-

good plastic bottles idea Me&O thank you.

Bob, hope your little plants are OK today. the sunnies seem to have survived.. there is no obvious damage anyway. i have helped the taller of the two stand up by leaning them on twigs for support until they get their stronger stalks built up. will probably take them a couple of days to feel established in their new pot but they had some OK weather today and some nice afternoon sun.

(they have names by the way - because we planted them on the day that Kate&Wills had their baby, they are in height order William, Kate, George and Charlotte. <---- this was Luca's idea).

horrible day today so apologies for a lack of proper update. if I am not here a little bit don't worry, I think just have to crawl into a dark hole for a bit until the clouds go again. It may not take long but having crunched numbers today I also found my budget is all askew again and I may for the first ever time need a Payday loan.

I hate how everything is right now. I just hate it. And I'm trying so hard.

themarsbargirl

Huggles.

Before you go down the payday loan route please please please look at alternatives, f'rinstance - any local credit unions?

If you want to post here or PM me I can try and help you streeetch your money

Remember that we still love you and want you and include you in our thoughts daily.

:kisses:

stepuptothepl8

I've PMd you. Don't get a payday loan, please. Lots of hugs xx

Westie983

can I third - the pay day loan no no please - working for a bank i see so many people in a pickle due to these horrors, I understand it seems like the option for you, but please lets work together to work out if there is a alternative, like iron notes to make then stretch further (lol)...

Im pleased to read the sunflowers are still doing their thing, yippee, I think is uber cute that they are named, lets hope they al survive, other wise that would be a big slice missing from the "family"

hope the clouds pass you by fairly quickly, I am in the same corner as you I am struggling with real life atm due to my pain, I think i need some time to hibernate under my duvet and hope when I emerge that things have got easier.... thats the plan, or grab a bottle...

keep us posted and hope that we both bounce back again soon

:0)

hummingbird

hey...........regarding the payday loan, is that to get you through to this coming payday which I think you've said is the 28th?

Just that I resorted to payday loans and it was the start of a really bad downward spiral. Please don't do it, if my bad experience can be used for any good at all, it would be to warn you to steer well clear of these. (I still have them, paying £1 a month on each.:o Yes, my finances really are that bad but I no longer worry about them as they have been "tamed" - but it took loads of negotiation to get to that point with each of the .....just counting,.....5 yes 5 I ended up with, all being rolled over:eek::eek::eek:

The problem is that they are so short term, you just get the problem bounce straight back to you with interest the following month. This has the tendency of making you need another one to fill the gap, etc etc.

Do you have any room on any of your credit cards? Even if it undoes some of the good you've done in paying them down it will still be the better option rather than a payday loan.

I'm now at the stage where even the payday lenders won't lend to me:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Have to laugh but it's tragic really.

Also having payday loans can impact your credit record as it can be seen that you need emergency short term cash, even if you pay them back on time.

Was it the cash you had to give the landlord last payday that's caused the shortfall? That was a one-off situation, and if you can get through this point now without a payday loan you'll thank yourself so much next month.

Hugs xxxxxx