Learning to walk before I run

KajiKita

No it doesn’t sound negative to keep your head down and work as much OT before you leave as possible. It sounds like a logical survival response to a boss that has treated you the way they have. You are the personification / text book case of how not to treat staff unless you want to disengage and demotivate them …. 🤷‍♀️ Remember how bad you felt in that role and under that boss last year and park any guilt or professional conscience twinges you have, for now. Those professional person instincts do resurface when you are in a new role - I speak from experience here … 😉

Do you have strategies / techniques in place to keep the weight down as and when you have to stop the pens? 

KK

debtfreewannabe321

I love socks! One Christmas when I was struggling for money I made sock monkeys so I could buy Christmas presents for the kids, it was great I got to go sock shopping every week finding lovely patterns! I hadn't realised how many nice socks there were before that 🤣.

Suffolk_lass

Well done on the weight loss. One of my Village friends has just reached his target using Mountjaro. He has lost over 2 stone and looks years younger. He was eulogising about the low/no sugar regime he is following. That (on the 8WLBSD) is the only way I have kept weight off. Ever. I have done the 8 week bit 4 times now and I am roughly four and a half stone lighter than when I first did it. My issue is that I only maintain once I stop it (except the first time). My wicked taste for chocolate (good chocolate) and good dairy ice cream are my undoing. I hope you are ready with your follow-up regime to stop any creeping back on.

I like loose topped socks (think those 1980s footless things over leggings, but with feet). Caught myself looking at some fantastic slippers (Sullivan Glove Co) in goatskin or elk but can't justify the cost after buying a new truck last week

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - I have no plan! I fully accept that I have been making excuses, but the MJ has been doing the lifting that scrupulously healthy eating and increased activity might do in a world without these marvellous medicines. 

Lack of time and frankly ridiculous amounts of stress chemicals mean that it is the only thing that has worked in recent years. 

I will need to change, as (current job) stress and overtime aren't excuses if a) I'm leaving current job and b) Mrs E would very much like me to stop doing overtime. I have not decided to do b) forever, but I have agreed to stop doing it from mid-December until the end of the financial year, as a trial of sorts. This would give me gym time, and I guess the other necessary will be sticking to a lower calorie diet. 

Not really in keeping with my lower carb diets of yore, but I have purchased a lovely Panasonic breadmaker as a wee "congratulations" treat to myself for getting the new job (I know how to live) Now I need to figure out where to store 25kg of organic flour  

£9.99 OPed and a few £ to my personal cash savings. 

Ps. I'm not Googling the posh slippers, my wallet still hasn't recovered from you introducing me to Soak & Sleep!

ladybird1106

I love your celebration bread maker that’s the sort of thing we would buy. 

Love 🐞

Suffolk_lass

Maybe go paleo 2 or 3 work days a week? Meat and plain veg. No sweet or rich sauces. I have found dry frying seasoned, smeared with oil, meat into a really hot cast iron pan with a lid on, turned and removed from heat simultaneously after a few minutes and rested while veg steams is a revelation. Much better flavour, succulent and tender. Chicken, pork, lamb, steak, fish. Such a simple thing. I am lighter and in smaller jeans since I got married (1990). If I skip dessert or chocolate, my weight drops, if I eat it, I stay the same. I use a medium sized plate on these days. What a difference. I just wasn't burning it.

It might work. It's so simple.

Baileys_Babe

edinburgher said:

Now I need to figure out where to store 25kg of organic flour  

We decant our bulk purchased flour in to some really useful boxes 

edinburgher

I do love a RUB @Baileys_Babe - our wrapping paper one was life-changing  - are they food safe?

debtfreewannabe321

Ooo I'm coveting a bread maker at the moment but can't justify buying it just yet! 

Suffolk_lass

We use these (3 and a couple of sweet jars for the 25k bag of Italian high protein flour I just bought). It was almost the same price as the 15k sack I usually get (because I feel sorry for the delivery driver; just not that sorry!)

BTW, I deny all recommendations of those pillows. Silk duvets from Jasmin? Yes. Game-changer  with (dunlopillo) latex pillow and mattress for me (as no dust mites) and nice bed linen from King of Cotton