A Healthier Lifestyle Quest!!
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Lady_Amalthea
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Thank you both 
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I'm off out for dinner with my friend tonight so will update my food diary afterwards. Not sure where we are going but I do know that I am going to be sensible with my food choices!!
In other news, I have found my target weight dress:
It's £30 and I have a petticoat that would go perfectly with it (stretchy waist to fit 8-20 so will do when I am at target too!). According to the website size guide, my current measurements make me 3 different sizes across my bust/waist/hips so hopefully by the time I'm at target I'll be roughly the same size all over. Turning into a bit of an upside down pear at the moment haha.
That's my nephew gone back home now. Wee lamb is loaded with the cold and still getting over his ear infection. Just wanted cuddles all the time...which I happily obliged to!
Shall check in later tonight
.I'm off out for dinner with my friend tonight so will update my food diary afterwards. Not sure where we are going but I do know that I am going to be sensible with my food choices!!
In other news, I have found my target weight dress:
It's £30 and I have a petticoat that would go perfectly with it (stretchy waist to fit 8-20 so will do when I am at target too!). According to the website size guide, my current measurements make me 3 different sizes across my bust/waist/hips so hopefully by the time I'm at target I'll be roughly the same size all over. Turning into a bit of an upside down pear at the moment haha.
That's my nephew gone back home now. Wee lamb is loaded with the cold and still getting over his ear infection
. Just wanted cuddles all the time...which I happily obliged to!Shall check in later tonight
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
Food diary!
B - Banana and black forest fruits smoothie 275
L - Ham roll 100 (mini roll, half slice ham)
D - Chinese chicken and sweetcorn soup,2 chicken satay sticks, spoonful of rice, 2 prawn crackers, spoonful of beef curry, 2 marshmallows in chocolate fountain. ???
Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Total calories: ???
My friend chose where we went for dinner and as she was treating me, I felt obliged to agree to the big bad chinese buffet! But, I feel I was quite conservative in my pickings!! Not gonna let it get to me, right back on it from tomorrow. It was a nice wee catch up anyway
I bought that schwartzkopf live xxl foam dye (velvet black colour) for the first time and dyed my hair tonight. It's quite good, much easier to apply than regular dye, smells great and very satisfied with the result. Only downside is the fact it was meant to be non-drip but a bit managed to slide off and land on my mum's white bathroom cabinet. I tried to clean it off asap but a grain must have sunk into the wood and the more I scrubbed, the bigger the mark got. My dad is gonna try and fix it somehow. Mum doesn't know yet...eek! Feel like a naughty teenager worrying about the reaction when she finds out lol.
Hope you all had a good Sunday
B - Banana and black forest fruits smoothie 275
L - Ham roll 100 (mini roll, half slice ham)
D - Chinese
chicken and sweetcorn soup,2 chicken satay sticks, spoonful of rice, 2 prawn crackers, spoonful of beef curry, 2 marshmallows in chocolate fountain. ???Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Total calories: ???
My friend chose where we went for dinner and as she was treating me, I felt obliged to agree to the big bad chinese buffet! But, I feel I was quite conservative in my pickings!! Not gonna let it get to me, right back on it from tomorrow. It was a nice wee catch up anyway
I bought that schwartzkopf live xxl foam dye (velvet black colour) for the first time and dyed my hair tonight. It's quite good, much easier to apply than regular dye, smells great and very satisfied with the result. Only downside is the fact it was meant to be non-drip but a bit managed to slide off and land on my mum's white bathroom cabinet. I tried to clean it off asap but a grain must have sunk into the wood and the more I scrubbed, the bigger the mark got
. My dad is gonna try and fix it somehow. Mum doesn't know yet...eek! Feel like a naughty teenager worrying about the reaction when she finds out lol.Hope you all had a good Sunday
PandaNate
Silver Member
Oooo dye is annoying. I got red dye on my sofa lol... oops!
May I ask which bank you use? I'm looking to change from Natwest and am unsure where to go, I want to do it this week.
Natwest for me were a great bank until last week when they changed how their banking system worked...
Before if I had money in my bank plus my overdraft I had £150 (£100 overdraft, £50 of my own) It would show, Balance £50, Available £150. Now it shows something like Balance £50, Available £47, I don't even know what this is suppose to mean so I've gone overdrawn once since it changed. I currently have so little in my bank even being paid Friday and I don't really understand where it's gone :/
I'm so uncomfortable with my bank I really am desperate to leave them, how does your bank account view online and mobile?
May I ask which bank you use? I'm looking to change from Natwest and am unsure where to go, I want to do it this week.
Natwest for me were a great bank until last week when they changed how their banking system worked...
Before if I had money in my bank plus my overdraft I had £150 (£100 overdraft, £50 of my own) It would show, Balance £50, Available £150. Now it shows something like Balance £50, Available £47, I don't even know what this is suppose to mean so I've gone overdrawn once since it changed. I currently have so little in my bank even being paid Friday and I don't really understand where it's gone :/
I'm so uncomfortable with my bank I really am desperate to leave them, how does your bank account view online and mobile?
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
That's odd, it's like they have changed your overdraft limit without letting you know? I'd go in and have a word with them and ask them to explain what has happened.
I'm with Halifax/HBOS and they display the way you say Natwest used to , I think. As a bank I have had no real trouble from them but they were merged/taken over by Lloyd's TSB not so long ago and my friend had a bit of bother with them when we were at uni.
I hate all this grown up stuff.
I'm with Halifax/HBOS and they display the way you say Natwest used to , I think. As a bank I have had no real trouble from them but they were merged/taken over by Lloyd's TSB not so long ago and my friend had a bit of bother with them when we were at uni.
I hate all this grown up stuff
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PandaNate
Silver Member
I've spoken to a online chat person for Natwest and she just kept saying you have £100 overdraft and pending payments. It just made no sense so I agreed, thanked her and quit the chat >.< I think going into the banks is good, least I know that Halifax as my preferred account view for one Thank you
Thank you
donnajt
Addicted to Minimins!
Pandanate - you need to get online banking so you can check your account yourself without having to telephone Indian Call Centres. Its just a quick phonecall - it also sounds like your overdraft facility has been removed - however, if you have direct debits coming out the banking system recognises this and doesn't allow you to withdraw - we've had this problem - we left our childminders wages in our account and drew out weekly (£120), one Monday Paul went to withdraw her money and it refused us as our mortgage ws due the next day which coincides with my payday sadly the system is sophisticated enough recognise paydays yet lol!
Sorry ERIN that dress is beautiful and it will suit you and your body shape perfectly - can't wait to see you wearing it - are you going to order it now so that you can look at it daily as an extra incentive?
Sorry ERIN that dress is beautiful and it will suit you and your body shape perfectly - can't wait to see you wearing it - are you going to order it now so that you can look at it daily as an extra incentive?
PandaNate
Silver Member
I'm on online and mobile internet banking.
The women on the WEBchat told me my overdraft still excised because that was my first thought when it changes. I posted on the calorie forum about it and people are just demanding I manage my own money instead of relying on the bank... I didn't even ask for advise on my bank, I asked for advise on other banks...
I just want the old layout back They said its better this way because I can see my pending balances but if I've only ever gone overdrawn since they've changed and I was find before without the pending payments showing, how am I better off... It seems more like OTHER people who asked for this change didn't manage their money and I did consciously so now the bank is doing it for me, it confuses me because they obviously don't do it like me... heh
Anyways, sorry for hi-jacking. x
The women on the WEBchat told me my overdraft still excised because that was my first thought when it changes. I posted on the calorie forum about it and people are just demanding I manage my own money instead of relying on the bank... I didn't even ask for advise on my bank, I asked for advise on other banks...
I just want the old layout back
They said its better this way because I can see my pending balances but if I've only ever gone overdrawn since they've changed and I was find before without the pending payments showing, how am I better off... It seems more like OTHER people who asked for this change didn't manage their money and I did consciously so now the bank is doing it for me, it confuses me because they obviously don't do it like me... hehAnyways, sorry for hi-jacking. x
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
No worries Panda - ignore the nasty folk, you are entitled to voice your concerns and ask for advice! I hope you manage to get used to the new layout / switch bank when you can.
& Donna, I am gonna hold off buying the dress for now til I have a better idea of what size I will be closer to target weight!!
Evening all!
So, today has been a bit bleurgh food-wise. I can't seem to get a proper grip on things since moving back. I just don't feel in the zone. I skipped breakfast today cause I was too nervous about the jobcentre appointment (which went well!) then had a finger roll and sausage with onions for lunch but ended up going out for dinner and having a cajun chicken burger,chips, 2 fruit cider and a full fat coke
However, I have had a very lovely day with a couple that started at the hotel the week before we left and got fired by the horrible boss guy on Friday past!! His reason? That they 'weren't suited' to the job or 'working hard enough' - I can assure you, we all worked out fingers to the bone, quite literally if stuck on a sink shift for 10 hours!! The same day they got fired, another couple (who managed to last a year in that awful place!!) quit. So including me and Calum that's him 6 staff down in less than a week. The couple I met today tried to find work at other hotels/guest houses on the island before leaving and were told the same story everywhere they went: 1)no jobs and 2)the boss of the hotel we all worked in is a 'slave driver', 'evil', 'nasty man' that basically noone likes!!
The jobcentre have yet to make a decision on whether or not they will sanction me for 13 weeks due to quitting but if they do you can bet all this will be going in my appeal - a whole community can't be wrong!
Food-wise, tomorrow is a new day and I am determined to stick to it and be good as gold - that means healthy meal plans, dancing/walking exercise fun and water,water,water!
Over and out!
& Donna, I am gonna hold off buying the dress for now til I have a better idea of what size I will be closer to target weight!!
Evening all!
So, today has been a bit bleurgh food-wise. I can't seem to get a proper grip on things since moving back. I just don't feel in the zone
. I skipped breakfast today cause I was too nervous about the jobcentre appointment (which went well!) then had a finger roll and sausage with onions for lunch but ended up going out for dinner and having a cajun chicken burger,chips, 2 fruit cider and a full fat coke However, I have had a very lovely day with a couple that started at the hotel the week before we left and got fired by the horrible boss guy on Friday past!! His reason? That they 'weren't suited' to the job or 'working hard enough' - I can assure you, we all worked out fingers to the bone, quite literally if stuck on a sink shift for 10 hours!! The same day they got fired, another couple (who managed to last a year in that awful place!!) quit. So including me and Calum that's him 6 staff down in less than a week. The couple I met today tried to find work at other hotels/guest houses on the island before leaving and were told the same story everywhere they went: 1)no jobs
and 2)the boss of the hotel we all worked in is a 'slave driver', 'evil', 'nasty man' that basically noone likes!!The jobcentre have yet to make a decision on whether or not they will sanction me for 13 weeks due to quitting but if they do you can bet all this will be going in my appeal - a whole community can't be wrong!
Food-wise, tomorrow is a new day and I am determined to stick to it and be good as gold - that means healthy meal plans, dancing/walking exercise fun and water,water,water!
Over and out!
PandaNate
Silver Member
I hope you get what you deserve from the Job Centre, it's clear you shouldn't of stayed any longer than you did and the fact so many people quit is a statement toward his 'leader' skills. However the job centre can be very black and white, it's why I've stayed at Tenpin so long, I'm too scared to quit then fail getting the JSA again whilst I look for another job. Oh well..
***Blowing goodluck sprinkles your way***
***Blowing goodluck sprinkles your way***
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
Thank you both.
I'm at my sister's til after 3pm today (waiting on a delivery for her while she is at work) so will update properly when I get home.
Hope everyone is having a good day so far!
I'm at my sister's til after 3pm today (waiting on a delivery for her while she is at work) so will update properly when I get home.
Hope everyone is having a good day so far!
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
B - Banana and black forest fruits smoothie 275
L - Ham + crisp! sandwich with mayo 400
D - Salad with ham, beetroot, coleslaw, potato salad, a few prawns 555
Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Total calories: 1,230
Not too bad a day today!! Managed to fit into another zippy size 14 dress (from H&M nonetheless!) BUT! I can't wear a bra with it, my boobs are crushed in it aaaand there's still some back fat ahoy:
I figure another half a stone and I should be comfortable in it *fingers crossed*. Maybe lose some of my derriere by then too as starting to feel a little out of proportion!! Seem to be losing most of my weight from my waist area and not really anywhere else. Still, no point on dwelling - just need to start toning exercises I think!!
Sorry for the mish mash of dress-pics lately. I'm just excited that I am starting to fit into the next size down.
Over and out!
L - Ham + crisp! sandwich with mayo 400
D - Salad with ham, beetroot, coleslaw, potato salad, a few prawns 555
Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Total calories: 1,230
Not too bad a day today!! Managed to fit into another zippy size 14 dress (from H&M nonetheless!) BUT! I can't wear a bra with it, my boobs are crushed in it aaaand there's still some back fat ahoy:
I figure another half a stone and I should be comfortable in it *fingers crossed*. Maybe lose some of my derriere by then too as starting to feel a little out of proportion!! Seem to be losing most of my weight from my waist area and not really anywhere else. Still, no point on dwelling - just need to start toning exercises I think!!
Sorry for the mish mash of dress-pics lately. I'm just excited that I am starting to fit into the next size down
.Over and out!
Lady_Amalthea
Looking for Slimville!
Hello everyone
I'm in a slight panic at the moment as my totm is now 6 days late. Never usually this late, still haven't taken a test as have always been in town with friends/family and I kinda wanna keep shtum about the possibility haha. However, my wee sis is gonna pick one up for me today (I'm glad we are close now even if we used to fight like cat and dog when growing up!!) so I'll be able to take it tomorrow morning and rule that out/find that out before making another doctors appointment. I'm hoping my body still hasn't returned to normal after stopping the pill a few months ago and that's what's going on. Obviously been using other precautions since then, I'm not a silly girl!!
Anyway....fooood:
B - Banana and black forest fruits smoothie 275
L - Cheesy beans on toast 367
D - ???
Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Can't decide on dinner tonight. Which is bad, I know, it should be planned out. There's no junk food in the cupboards though so whatever I end up having will be healthy. Shall update later when I figure it out!! And if I have cals left I will have an extra snack-smoothie or fruit and yoghurt mid-afternoon.
Over and out!
I'm in a slight panic at the moment as my totm is now 6 days late. Never usually this late, still haven't taken a test as have always been in town with friends/family and I kinda wanna keep shtum about the possibility haha. However, my wee sis is gonna pick one up for me today (I'm glad we are close now even if we used to fight like cat and dog when growing up!!) so I'll be able to take it tomorrow morning and rule that out/find that out before making another doctors appointment. I'm hoping my body still hasn't returned to normal after stopping the pill a few months ago and that's what's going on. Obviously been using other precautions since then, I'm not a silly girl!!
Anyway....fooood:
B - Banana and black forest fruits smoothie 275
L - Cheesy beans on toast 367
D - ???
Others: 2 litres water.
Exercise: Half hour Dance Central
Can't decide on dinner tonight. Which is bad, I know, it should be planned out. There's no junk food in the cupboards though so whatever I end up having will be healthy. Shall update later when I figure it out!! And if I have cals left I will have an extra snack-smoothie or fruit and yoghurt mid-afternoon.
Over and out!
Cas3
Gold Member
Aw hope you get the result you want, try not to worry as it can take a few months for your body to adjust coming of the pill- I'm sure your be fine- at one point I went over year without having totm.
I love how excited you are trying on new clothes- they all look lovely I'm waiting to get another st off so I can do some Summer shopping- I do like H&M, we about the same size- can't wait till I'm buying 12's xx
I love how excited you are trying on new clothes- they all look lovely
I'm waiting to get another st off so I can do some Summer shopping- I do like H&M, we about the same size- can't wait till I'm buying 12's xx
