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I hope so Vix (on both counts!) Weight loss was much easier before 30 (and 35 😮!)Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!4 -
Maybe it's turned into muscle, SC. Well done on the to-do-list! 🙂Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!5 -
I'd say make sure you're drinking enough water - when you start moving more basically you retain more. I've found that drinking about 3 litres of water a day is the optimum that I need. Also pay attention to how your clothes feel rather than the number on the scales. My weight is all over the place but I can see and feel that my body is getting more toned.
Hope the BF had a good first day at work and hopefully you won't be far behind him with a new job yourself.Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 20175 -
3 litres 😮!!! I manage around 2 and that leaves me making constant toilet trips! With 3 I think we'd be back in the realms of toilet paper shortages 🤣!
Love the idea of it turning into muscle Jessy, but think that's unlikely! I've got to wear a work dress later for my interview (it's on Teams, but they'll still be able to see the top of me), that will be fun after 5 months! I'm going for the one in the larger size....🙄Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!6 -
Oooh good luck with your interview!
I'm guessing that if 3 litres is optimal for @ruby_eskimo then it won't be running through!6 -
Good luck for later SC, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
Good luck, everything crossed!If it's not adding up, compound it!5
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Must admit when I first started upping my water I was running to the loo a lot, but my body's got used to it now. I'm not chugging it down and just sipping throughout the day but aim to have 500ml after I've done my morning workout then another litre by lunchtime which is 4-5 hours later, then another litre between then and dinner and then the final 500ml after dinner before bed. I was having issues with lots of ankle swelling and fluid retention so I consciously upped it to 3 litres and both issues appear to have gone.
Sorry will stop taking over your thread with talk on water intake nowEmergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 20176 -
Excuse me while I pop to the loo a moment....🤣!
Thanks for your good wishes all. Think it went OK, although I was late joining due to an epic IT fail with stupid laptop 🙄 Should hear next week....
And the dress fitted! Was a struggle getting the top bit of the zip done up though 😮!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!8 -
Pouring with rain this morning, so no walk for SC. Instead I will acquaint myself with the skipping rope I bought years ago and have never used and see if I can burn some calories that way instead. Not yet though, as I am still in bed after being awake half the night 😥
I've also got myself into an MFW pickle.... As I'm trying to earn free money to cancel out the cost of this month's ERC's and mortgage interest, when it arrives I am transferring it to the EF as this is the source of all my income at the moment. I am also trying to be a proper MFW by doing the same thing when vouchers arrive, although they obviously don't arrive as actual money in my account so I'm taking it out of my grocery and personal pots instead. I've now earned £42.50 in vouchers this month (with another £5.00 to claim in Nectar points later), so have run out of money in the pots to transfer out - and to pay for this week's food shopping 🤣! So I've been a bit of a victim of my own success! I am undeterred though, so am going to raid the petrol pot instead 😀 and top that back up instead of the EF when actual cash free money arrives. Phew, who would have thought it would be so complicated? The moral of the story is that free money is good, and it's all contributing to the overall picture (now matter how much I complicate it!), so I'm not complaining!
Once I've cashed in today's Nectar points I'll be on a daily average of £4.52, so there's a good chance of catching up to £4.58. Job activity is on hold for a couple of days until I hear the outcome of yesterday, as I do quite fancy this one, so free money generation it is!!!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!7
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