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Wow! You're really well organised lush and you're spoiling that husband of yours!:).

I try to be - I have to admit I ended up getting an over draft (£100) a couple of months ago and I need to get rid of it and I also have an account with Studio that I bought some holiday clothes on as I desperately needed them and couldn't find any in any stores. I have worked out if I save £100 less than usual this month (usually save about £325 per month in two accounts - a personal one and a joint; I'll not add to my personal one for two months) then I should be able to get Studio paid off and also hopefully half my overdraft if not get rid of it completely.


I'm desperate to be back on top finances wise - I had to up the amount going in to joint savings to £200 when OH wasn't selected for Rio to cover the income he was going to lose from his athlete funding but have found it hard to adjust to so little truly disposable income (under £90 a month now which after SW, a copy of the magazine, a strip of raffle tickets at each group and maybe a coffee or a breakfast out and OHs weekly chip shop tea doesn't leave a busting amount for incidentals/replacing clothes/shoes etc!)


I'm trying not to spoil him so much as truth be told I miss out on a lot to appease him which is mad as he's a grown man (and I'd rather be spending my money on littlie!) really want to challenge myself so I think I'll do a 7 day (non essential) spending fast and also probably do a one month food/exercise based challenge too - maybe a 3 SP days a week plus 1hr of zumba twice a week type thing in November to properly get back on the straight.


I have added another 2 syn mocha and also a cookie at a whopping 6 syns. SIX. that's ridiculous. but anyway syns done for the day as no syns in my evening meal and no snacking tonight

Evening all,

-.5lbs please Shala. 1.5lbs to target and I'm determined to do that next week - famous last works or what??? :rotfl:

After all my angsting last week about whether to drop the target, I've decided to stick with it for now and concentrate on staying there once I get there...

Hope all are well and carry on plodding/speeding or in my case trudging to a slimmer life.

Hi TIE, my heart goes out to you. In my previous life, I was DHT responsible for the management of a unit for children with moderate learning difficulties (among many other things, of course) in our school, When it opened it was fine, but then the mld bit went by the board and we started to take in children with much more severe difficulties, then behavioural difficulties - and all this with a presumption of mainstream integration! Teachers, SAs (and kids) were not adequately supported - and there wasn't a thing I could do about it. It was demoralising. I loved my job, I did find it very stressful - and I didn't realise how badly it was affecting me until I was off with breast cancer. I retired on ill health grounds. So, TIE, take all time you need to get yourself sorted. If you want/need to go back, make sure you're in good health and in the right frame of mind. It's a job that needs all your energies.