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  • rachmac3
    rachmac3 Posts: 490 Forumite
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    I am not a morning person, I felt a bit sick just reading that! Hats off to you though!

    Debts                 04/01/25        01/09/25   

    Tesco CC          £6,509.97       £5,930 (now NatWest2)
    NatWest CC      £7,612.74      £6,905
    Lloyds CC          £6,112.60      £4,943.12
    1st Direct CC     £176.03         £6.68
    CC total             £20,411.34   £17,784.80
    TSB OD             £500             £0
    1st Direct OD     £600             £250 (0%)
    Car loan             £4,000          £4,000
    1st Direct Loan  £10,684.44   £9,005
    Total                  £36,195.78   £30,789.80
    EF £500
  • FootyFanDan
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    🤣 i am not a morning person by choice ha. I just struggle to get to sleep once I’m awake. Some days I would have just laid on sofa and watched tv , but today I needed to just do something n bit too rainy to run outdoors. 

    I’m praying for a longer sleep tonight 
  • FootyFanDan
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    Morning Diary world, hope everyone having a decent weekend..currently sat having a nice earned cuppa. Up bright and early today and done the long overdue tip runs, slowly getting declutter on track


    This weekend had a few needed spends as had to buy some new work wear ( this is my reminder I need to get working on my fitness again 😳)


    Plan for rest of day is a bit of life admin n F1 

  • BlueJ94
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    I was supposed to do life admin, I've spent 3 hours decluttering the room of doom!
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    Debt owed;

    Salad Money - £616.47/£1200 JAJA - £679.70/ £900 Zable - £338.60/£1300 = £1,634.77

  • alt80
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    Hope you can work with your employer to secure a better balance at work mate. No answers for the sleep and diet other than I remind myself with both that we all have ups and downs - always had massive problems with sleep but these past couple of years I've struggled to stick to a diet, always !!!!!! craving sugar and carbs - have to be really disciplined. It's useful to weigh yourself everyday too - helps to get on top of weight gain quicker.
  • FootyFanDan
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    alt80 said:
    Hope you can work with your employer to secure a better balance at work mate. No answers for the sleep and diet other than I remind myself with both that we all have ups and downs - always had massive problems with sleep but these past couple of years I've struggled to stick to a diet, always !!!!!! craving sugar and carbs - have to be really disciplined. It's useful to weigh yourself everyday too - helps to get on top of weight gain quicker.
    The sleep and diet is a constant up and down with me to be honest. I have never really had an issue with weight, and I have always had it where I have been able to eat what I want, however this was matched with a pretty decent exercise routine which is pretty much non existent right now. Sleep wise I have become more conscious of over time, I used to always be up until all hours and run on limited sleep, so I am now trying to correct that.

    Work is something I am working on, I have managed to switch off this weekend which is a positive. 
  • alt80
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    @FootyFanDan glad to hear you're actively working on a balance mate. 

    If you're not doing resistance training, all the food which went on fuelling muscle piles on as fat which is why you suddenly can't 'eat what you want'. Idk I'm not overweight or anything but I do have to be really !!!!!! militant about it to not slip into eating too much and moving too little ha. 
  • FootyFanDan
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    haha, I am not really over weight, but as someone who was in the same size clothes and weighed about 10stone for 20 odd years it is deffo clear the eating junk crap and having a office job is not a good combo 😂

    Work is something that is in progress, I have started to be able to trade off some of the extreme technical stuff that is above my current capacity to colleagues in trade for some of their tasks and jobs that are small projects that they haven't had time to do and I am comfortable with, so that has helped. I am extremely busy for the next 6-7 weeks then I have annual leave booked when some of my projects complete. So I am just keeping my head down and cracking on. 

  • FootyFanDan
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    Not really checked in much here as finance stuff seems to be ticking along fine at the moment, we are in that place where only real expenses are food / petrol and then breakfast club. 

    Decluttering is going well and we have cleared a lot of the living area of boxes - although I am sure we must be a storage place for Amazon, coz their boxes are appearing everywhere. We need to declutter the back cupboard so we can have some space to get other things currently blocking kitchen in there so that might be a weekend task.

    hope everyone is doing well

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