Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!

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Thanks @beanielou, @jwil and @doingitanyway!😀. 

@doingitanyway- yes I agree about The Godfather trilogy. The first film is still my fav of all time - ever since I saw when it was released back in the early 70s and I was 17!

Well another month has begun!  The 1st September is always the official start of autumn in my head and also my favourite season. 🍁🍂
The weather here is still sunny and mild although we had a veritable monsoon of rain for about an hour yesterday afternoon. Still we needed it and the lawn outside looks a lot better for it. 

Yesterday was a quiet one - Pilates in the morning, then nails and just a few errands run in the afternoon. Today has been an early start as the flats' annual inspection of communal areas and our front doors has taken place to see that everything passes the fire regulations. Mine passed ok and I'm off to the gym later on this morning. 

SCRIMPY MSE THINGS
Most of my monthly DDs came out of my account yesterday as it was the start of the new month. Spends yesterday were Pilates and nails ( which now match my nice red toes!💅🏻

Today's spends will be gym, probably my usual post gym flat white and I need to buy fruit from the greengrocer and some toiletries. 

Money in - I had a nice surprise this morning - a £75 win on the PBs which will go into the Holiday fund plus I sold another top on Vinted!👍

WEIGHT
I emailed my online pharmacy yesterday about my outstanding pens and I received an answer back from them this morning to say they've reviewed the first order and the pen is being dispatched in one to two days. Such a relief!  I don't mind waiting a little longer for the second pen as I'll have a whole four weeks use of the first. 

I totted up the average of my weekly calorie intake last night and it came to 1143 daily. Obviously I've had to guesstimate when I've eaten out, but I think it's pretty accurate. 

On weigh in today I lost a pound which is ok by me!
As it's the start of a new season I wanted to overhaul my whole health plan. 

The diet is going well with good steady losses - my protein intake is fine, but I do fail a bit on the fibre front even though I have fruit and veg and try to have some sort of legume daily. I want to get my intake up to the recommended daily 30gm daily - most days it appears to be slightly over half that. I'm going to start eating flaxseeds again as I can stir this into my yoghurt.  

On the fitness front I do my twice weekly sessions of Pilates and gym, but I want to up the ante on the days when I don't do these. I could definitely do with walking for longer and I want to start some short YouTube home fitness workouts on non-Pilates/gym days as well. I'm not going to go gung ho with this as that never works for me. Just some simple additions to add to my day.