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  • whats our weigh in day?
    mine is going to be friday, should lose some this week as im walking the 2 miles to work and back 4 times this week, so it will be 4 miles per shift....16 miles not counting what i normally do, plus my exercise dvd, i hope i lose something this week!!!

    mm
    x
    LBM 29/07/ 07
    TOTAL DEBT: [strike]3300[/strike]1500
    DFD: Aug '08
    :rudolf:Pesky Xmas Savings Challenge: 62/500 No.006 Of Lucys Party Season Challenge 14/09/07: 4.5:mad:/28lbs:xmassmile

    Official DFW Nerd Club No.641
    Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts
  • Friday seems a good day for me too! Teaching spinning tonight, having a run too so should be a good day for me!And some unexpected income with the class too!
    Proud to be dealing with my debts!DFW Nerd No. 634 LBM: 3rd time - Dec2008 I NEED TO BEAT IT THIS TIME!
    Total Loan Debt = £[strike]13,737.80[/strike] 13,042.44, Total Non-loan Debt = £[strike]5,289.33[/strike] 4,704.45 - Total= [strike]19,027.13[/strike] 17,746.89 FEB 09
    Freelance earnings - Feb 09 = £260 so far Make £30 a day in Feb - £260.40 of £840 5 NSD in Feb 09 - 1 of 5
  • kathy206
    kathy206 Posts: 1,438 Forumite
    Can I join too please? Been doing SW for last 4 weeks, as you can see from my sig the weight is taking it's time to come off:mad: . Have started salsa fit and walking to try and burn a bit more:j Thanks xx
    Nuts oh Hazelnuts:rotfl:
  • Hi Kathy206, welcome aboard :D

    Re weigh in, Friday's good for me too. I'll weigh in the morning and post after work.

    Well, I didn't drink loads last night as I felt a bit rough and had to catch the last bus at 11pm. Ate quite a bit of rubbish tho. Cheese sandwich and crisps for lunch in town (not very MS...), a few of someone's chips, a 6th share in 2 big packets of crisps during the quiz and a cheese ploughmans.

    Today I had cereal for b'fast, went to the gym for my induction then did around 40 mins there. Came back and had cheese and crackers and a chunky kitkat, oops... :o

    Oh well, I'm going to take lunch to work tomorrow so I don't lose my resolve round the supermarket at lunchtime. And I'm going to meal plan for next week in a minute as haven't done that for a while. Think I'll also update my sig to include money saved from taking in a packed lunch.

    How's everyone else doing?
    x
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Please can I join in with this!!!...I want to lose 2 stone by christmas and am going to join SW on thursday...on the DF front I have 2 challenges going want to clear £7000 by christmas(so far I'm up to waht it says in my sig) and I have a challenge with SEaxwyn,Hypno and Oliveoyl the first to reach £35000...so will do my upmost to achieve all those targets
  • daniso
    daniso Posts: 28 Forumite
    Hi all

    Thought I would post my goals over the next few days to keep me motivated.

    firstly I will not hit the chocolate when my daughter eventually goes to sleep during the day, they are only treat/mini size but the amount i eat will add up to a lot.......

    secondly have managed to talk a friend into going to an exercise class tuesday evening so will force myself to go

    and lastly i will make sure a cook from scratch and not have takeout at all this week.

    wish me luck! and hope that on wednesday i wont be to stiff, my first exercise class since daughter was born:eek:
  • :jhi all n welcome aboard!!!

    So Friday it is then? not had a very good day today, veeerrry stressed at work which led to a bloody breakdown halfway thru my shift, i need to find another job and fast!! trouble is, i havent got the confidence/clothes/time to start interviews etc, which is yet another reason why i want to lose weight. goals for me for tomorrow are:
    do all the housework in the morning
    after dropping off ds come back n do my exercise dvd
    walk to work and back tomorrow night (which will be 4 miles in total)
    good luck every1:T
    LBM 29/07/ 07
    TOTAL DEBT: [strike]3300[/strike]1500
    DFD: Aug '08
    :rudolf:Pesky Xmas Savings Challenge: 62/500 No.006 Of Lucys Party Season Challenge 14/09/07: 4.5:mad:/28lbs:xmassmile

    Official DFW Nerd Club No.641
    Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts
  • Lucy1982_2
    Lucy1982_2 Posts: 4,611 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi Guys

    Sorry I've not been around much. Well OH won his rugby match :T Although is now covered in bruises :rolleyes:. I was going to post last night, although became to busy eating my own weight in junk food :eek:. I had one of those weekend, where I manage to consolidated a load of my debts onto my big lloyds loan?!! But I do feel better for it, just need to ring everyone and pay them off now. So the figures in my sig are a bit wrong, but hopefully everything will be sorted by the end of the week.

    Anyway.... Friday is good for me to, I have my weigh in on a Thursday night, so will be ready and willing to go on Friday mornings. I'm happy to run alongside Lenny's thread, I can't remember when he is due back... I wonder if he'll join us?

    Does anyone have any idea's when we should hold the Christmas party?? I'd guess either the friday or Saturday before Christmas would be a good move, but let me know if you have any suggestions.

    Right I've off to be good and do some work.... I had a fruit salad for breakfast so aiming for a really good day... I'm going to need them after what I ate at the weekend :eek:

    have fun x
    Current debt - £16,300 :(
    Debt at worst 17/03/2011 - £18,067.62:eek::eek:
    :ANot going anywhere else, ever again :A
  • tigzem
    tigzem Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    Friday is good for me for weigh ins. I have my starting weight :eek: I'll PM Lucy with it so she knows how good I'll have done come Christmas! x
    "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke
  • Not that I am letting myself off the hook or anything as I really need to get loosing again....

    But so long as we finish lighter than we started it can only be a good thing!

    Good luck again everyone x
    Current debt - £16,300 :(
    Debt at worst 17/03/2011 - £18,067.62:eek::eek:
    :ANot going anywhere else, ever again :A
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