Walking into another chapter ...

benbenandme

Morning all, last day of my week off today and I've got my 'back to work getting straight' mojo So far this morning I have stripped my bed, bedding has been washed and is on the line. Bed remade, bedroom cleaned, bathroom cleaned, downstairs loo cleaned, conservatory cleaned, plants planted AT LAST!! and second load of washing is on.

Still to do today: see Mum, take some stuff to the tip, buy milk for work, ironing, hoover the car and hoover through/ mop floors. 

benbenandme

And another weekend rolls around ... a crazy week at work but at least I can rest for a couple of days now. This morning I popped into M&S and picked up the apothecary bag, on offer from £50 to £25, I love this stuff, especially the 'calm' range. Well worth it at that price for me :)I also wanted to get some of their gingerbread and white chocolate cookies but they didn't have any. I popped in to see Mum on the way back.

The rest of the day will mainly be a football one and chilling. I'll stick some washing in and run the hoover round, but otherwise it's not too bad.

benbenandme

Morning, £20 from a matched bet and £45 from Quidco added to the holiday fund, that's coming along nicely now

Popped into the shops again and got a new foundation as I have been scraping the dregs out of my old one for a couple of weeks now. Also picked up the gingerbread and white chocolate cookies from M&S, oh my they are good!

I've dusted and hoovered through, a chicken is roasting in the oven and I'm going to tidy the front garden up a bit before the football starts.

MeandO

I'm always in awe of how well you do with your savings, Benben x

benbenandme

Morning, a wet, blustery one here, so I have been out and done the jobs that were needed and am now hunkering down for the rest of the day. 

I went to Boots and ordered my contact lenses, popped into Superdrug and picked up a couple of bits I needed there, then M&S for their pizza meal deal. Dropped off a parcel that needed to go back then the food shop in Sainsburys which included a new pair of work trousers for ds. They had their 25% off clothing offer on and I had a code for 900 points if I spent £25 on clothing, so the trousers were £18 and I got a lovely pair of slipper socks for an xmas present, so that qualified me for the points, however the coupon wouldn't scan so the lady added them manually. When I got home and checked the receipt I saw it was because the trousers were reduced (not marked though), so were only £12, plus 25% off, so £9 - hope that all made sense

Anyway, home now, shopping all put away, and now to potter indoors, catch up on the housework, hopefully enjoy some footie if its not all rained/snowed off, and generally just chill today. 

Oh, and this week I hit my 2 stone weightloss target It was 12 weeks exactly so very happy with that! I still have 3 weeks left of this pen (injections) so will keep going, then may start to lower the dosage to come off them.

beanielou

Well done on the 2 stone. 

MeandO

Amazing weight loss, well done benben! 

I’m not sure how I’m getting on with the pens at the moment tbh. I seem to have plateaued on the weight loss and haven’t had the appetite suppression or lack of food noise as strong since the first week or two of 2.5mg and am on my third week of 5mg. I also seem to be starting to suffer from some side effects this week too. I’m going to give it a week and then make a decision on whether to continue. 

Do you have a plan for sustaining the weight loss when you come off of it? That’s the bit that I’m worried about!

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I really enjoy the positivity and can do attitude of this diary. I assume you are no longer in any debt and are now concentrating on building up savings? I also expect someone as organised and efficient as yourself has pensions all sorted too! Well done!

benbenandme

Oops, been busy with work sorry! Lord Mattenly - I'm not in debt now, never really was but was a fine line for several years so learned good habits along the way, and now I just like being here

So this weekend was meant to be Christmas shopping but the storm has put paid to that. Instead I've popped out this morning and bought the Christmas tree, (it's being delivered in an hour or so), the plan now is to blitz the housework today, enjoy any football that's still going ahead and do some online shopping instead. 

Two weeks left at work til we break up and I cannot wait. Last night I was so tired, I was asleep by 7:30 and slept through until 7 this morning

benbenandme

Awake early this morning so I got up and decorated the Christmas tree. One load of washing is done, I need to hoover through but ds is asleep so it will have to wait.

Today I need to go and see Mum, get some Christmas shopping done and stop the cat from destroying the tree. I have had to put it near the sofa due to the new fire I bought being where it usually goes, and of course she can sit on the end of the sofa and play with the baubles. Hmm, this will be fun