Joyous January's No-Spend Days Challenge!

Flying_By

Oh dear, no NSD for me today as needed cat food, confectionery for DH and some semi-skimmed mild to last us over the weekend, my grown up DS drinks pints of it! Hopefully I'll crack the 10 NSD's by the end of next week.
Stay warm people!

KajiKita

HotDog2020 said:

I am not doing so well, I keep feeling like I need more then the basics food wise, I just can't stick to healthy eating however much I try and I am on wegovy, I don't think it is working for me like they say it should, I keep buying junk food, I really enjoy it, I hate healthy food, I am always left feeling unsatisfied (with healthy food), does anyone else feel like that?

It takes a while for your palate to adjust. Try not going the whole hog all at once and make one change at once; go to oats instead of cereal for breakfast, add fruit to your breakfast. For savoury, try making your own soups - almost bombproof and every flavour you could think of. Gradually increase the cocoa content of your chocolate from milk through to dark, just eat two squares at time. Experiment with sauces - cauli and broccoli get pretty boring but a mix, lightly boiled, covered with a HM cheese sauce (not difficult) and then finished off under the grill transforms them 😉

KK

KajiKita

NSD today 🥳

KK

Rupacomp

One today 🥳

cathybird

GeorgianaCavendish said:

Adding another 4 NSDs (12th, 15th, 16th and 17th Jan) bringing me to 10 NSDs

Hope that you got your bulbs @cathybird

@GeorgianaCavendish, sadly think I was too slow! I did have a search but couldn't find any deals, except for a Thompson & Morgan deal for this month which had already expired. I bet it was popular. My bad, I'll have to keep a better eye out for these things 

cathybird

January

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January targets

AuntieL 11/12       

Balancinglife 11/18       

basketcase 1/12   

Baxtersmum 12

beanielou 17/19       

bloomfelt 3/10   

blubella 12

BudgetingBelinda 10/15       

cathybird 14/15       

Caeraugirl 11/20       

Couldsavemore 11/15       

craftingmad 16

Crazycatlady2 16/20       

Doily94 4/16     

Dorothy707 6/12     

Flying By 8/10   

FrugalMum3 1/26   

GeorgianaCavendish 11/15       

Hawley Gryphon 4/10   

Honeysucklelou2 3/10   

HotDog2020 8/16     

ilovetea 16/20       

KajiKita 12/15       

keggie 10/12       

laura lau 12/16       

leftatthetrafficlights 13/24       

lianne1984 6/10     

LittleMissDetermined 14/22       

Makingabobor2 8/15     

Money Choices 7/10     

MrsCautious 18/20       

outoftheviciouscircle 11/15       

PurplePhoenix62 10/10       

QueenJess

Rupacomp 5/12     

Saver-upper

SecondStar 16/TF      

short bird 13/20       

SpruceDog 12

TheScarletPixie 2/20   

Thevalueofless 10/10       

try harder 20

Newcomers welcome

Balancinglife

Yesterday ended up being a NSD as my cambelt change has been moved to next month. Today was a spend day as needed a card for my cousins big birthday. 

11/18

cathybird

HotDog2020 said:

I am not doing so well, I keep feeling like I need more then the basics food wise, I just can't stick to healthy eating however much I try and I am on wegovy, I don't think it is working for me like they say it should, I keep buying junk food, I really enjoy it, I hate healthy food, I am always left feeling unsatisfied (with healthy food), does anyone else feel like that?

@HotDog2020 I agree with KajiKita that it takes time to adjust. I had a friend who used to get cravings for unhealthy stuff so she would keep semi-healthy snacks in the house like good chocolate and nuts and she found that helped. You have my sympathy though because January is such a hard month to cut down - it's so dark and cold at this time of year and all I ever want is to hunker down at home with creature comforts to hand. There are threads on MSE that deal with this issue, such as this one - different slimming system I know but I bet they have helpful ideas about dealing with cravings, and hopefully can point you in the right direction

cathybird

Well done PurplePhoenix62, LittleMissDetermined, Crazycatlady2, beanie, GeorgianaCavendish, laura lau, AuntieL, short bird, MrsCautious, KajiKita, Rupacomp and Balancinglife

MrsCautious

Happy Saturday everyone, NSD number 18 today. I think I may manage tomorrow and Monday/Tuesday  fingers crossed but will need to spend some money on Wednesday for sure.