Keep calm and carry on....

South_coast

They were very nice about it, hopefully they appreciated my initiative in downloading the app onto my phone and using that instead 🤣 That worked perfectly, so I I'll just do that for any future interviews I think. My Mum is an hour away, so I'd be too tight to drive up there to pinch hers!

South_coast

Well Monday = weigh-in day = wish I hadn't bothered ☹ I am STILL exactly the same weight. Very disheartening. Why is money so much easier to control than anything else? 

I ticked a couple of things off the to-do list yesterday, one of which had been on there since its original incarnation as a "jobs I'd like to get done in the Christmas holidays" list - at least it was only the 2019 Christmas holidays I suppose! Sadly, tidying up the big cupboard in my lounge has generated stuff to go down into my storeroom, so I don't think I can put off any longer the "go through storeroom" job on my list, so I'd better get on and have a shower and get down there 🙁🙁🙁

coldcazzie

South_coast said:

In other news, today is the start of week 4 of my healthy living regime and I have not lost a single lb 🙁 I'm walking loads, hardly drinking any alcohol and not consuming any sugar, so I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. I was hoping to have got a head start and some good habits in place by the time I start a new job, but it's not looking good so far. Oh well, will keep on....

I have been catching up (I last read on page 76!) but wanted to comment on this SC. Health =/= weight loss. You can be healthy and fat, and you can be unhealthy and thin. Please don't think that the only purpose to being more healthy is to lose weight because being more healthy is its own goal, regardless of what your weight does  

coldcazzie

killerpeaty said:

Did you feel good about the interview?  I always try to think of interviews as a two way thing, but I've only managed to do it once personally, one place was just awful! But I'm guessing (because you sound really positive) that it seems like a good workplace.

Interviews ARE a two way thing, but it takes practice. I interview with almost every client I take on (and of course, all the ones that enquire but don't book me too), which means in the last 8 years I've done well over 50 interviews. Now I'll happily put my hands up and say my interviews are probably more informal than most job interviews, but I absolutely see them as not just the clients interviewing me, but me interviewing them. It needs to work from both sides. However, I will also put my hands up and state that I am definitely coming from a place of privilege there, in that it isn't the end of the world (financially speaking) if I don't get a booking. It's hard, but it's not critical.

greenbee

I’ve been using my phone for interviews too, and it’s fine. My end date is 4th Sept, but I haven’t had the written notice or the settlement agreement yet so can’t get too far down the new job route. Like you, I plan to take some time to get annoying jobs out of the way before I start a new role, as it’ll help me be more focussed. A new printer arrived today, so I need to get my office tidied up, remove the old one and try to get this one working. 

I do have a couple of pieces of work to deliver before I leave - one tomorrow and one on Friday, both of which require effort but I’m remarkably unmotivated!

South_coast

greenbee said:

I do have a couple of pieces of work to deliver before I leave - one tomorrow and one on Friday, both of which require effort but I’m remarkably unmotivated!

Yeah, there's a reason why my July survey earnings were so high....🤣

It feels good to get some jobs out of the way - just wish I was doing better on the "lose weight" one!

South_coast

coldcazzie said:

South_coast said:

In other news, today is the start of week 4 of my healthy living regime and I have not lost a single lb 🙁 I'm walking loads, hardly drinking any alcohol and not consuming any sugar, so I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. I was hoping to have got a head start and some good habits in place by the time I start a new job, but it's not looking good so far. Oh well, will keep on....

I have been catching up (I last read on page 76!) but wanted to comment on this SC. Health =/= weight loss. You can be healthy and fat, and you can be unhealthy and thin. Please don't think that the only purpose to being more healthy is to lose weight because being more healthy is its own goal, regardless of what your weight does  

But it's the weight loss part that I really wanted 😮! Thank you, I know you're right, and I am much healthier now than I have been in the past (like the time I discovered I liked chips and pizza and ballooned up 3st, and the time I gave up alcohol for a year and substituted with packs of chocolate digestives and jaffa cakes - for dinner 😱 - and all the times I was drained after work and could only cobble together boiled eggs for dinner, washed down with copious amounts of vodka and coke), I just wish my efforts were being rewarded on the scales! It was just so much easier to recover from bad behaviour when I was younger, I only had to think about dieting and it would come off without even exercising 🙁 I know it gets harder as you get older, but I'm only 37, this doesn't bode well for the future 😮!

P.S. Page 76! I'm giving you a "must try harder" for that 🤣!

South_coast

Anyway, in more positive news, I have been downstairs, turfed everything out and gone through it. I have rationalised all but one of the empty boxes inside each other (y'know, for that copious amount of eBay selling I do 🙄), gone through every box, and chucked LOADS of stuff away. Interestingly, I seem to have gained a double air bed - I've definitely only ever bought one, but now seem to have two 🤣! Have texted BF and asked if he is missing one, as I can't think it's come from anywhere else. I also discovered I still own a DVD player I thought I'd thrown out when I moved (4.5 years ago), but despite not having used it in all that time, I couldn't bring myself to throw it away now. No, I can't explain that either, why was I compelled to keep something I thought I'd already got rid of??? Stupid brain 🙄

It looks a lot better down there now, so I need to crack on and get the timber/brackets for the last row of shelving (could be tricky, as I don't think S&S/Consumer Pulse are doing B&Q vouchers any more) and then start nagging BF to put them up for me so I can get the last of the stuff off the floor 😀

greenbee

Re. weight loss - I found that the Fast 800 works for me. Lowish carb, with an initial period of very low calorie (hence 800) until you reach a healthy weight, and time restricted eating (hence Fast). With all the work travel I did, eating like this when at home helped counteract it. During lockdown I got rid of the travel weight and went into maintenance keeping lowish carb and doing 5:2 with the two days being 800 calorie days. I kept the TRE as it suits me to skip breakfast and have two decent meals (the last one being fairly early). I've put some of this back on due to a prolonged fatigue episode which resulted in a diet of toast and chocolate with very little activity, followed by holiday (lots of proper food, but also alcohol, ice cream, biscuits, pudding...). I restarted on Saturday with an aggressively low carb target (20g - not achieving this, but am managing to stay under 25 I think) and am doing OK (I need to keep busy as the first few days are always hard) having shifted 2.5kg (probably mostly water weight) since Friday morning's weigh-in. 

I found this solution after a lot of reading on the science, encouraged by a friend who's PhD is in obesity. I certainly find I have more energy as well as dropping weight, and my GP has recommended sticking with low-carb long term to help with the fatigue. I just need enough energy to get back to the yoga and pilates - not only do they build strength and flexibility, but I also can't eat while I'm doing them

LeighofMar

You're doing great SC with your free money, organizing, and your interview. I hope you will hear positive news soon. Decluttering is always interesting. Sometimes you find the thing that you don't use, but you just can't bring yourself to throw it away because you might use it again in the future. Life sure was easier when I was a kid and my mom took care of all that stuff.