Surfhunny's Countdown to Florida

[MinnieMel]

Hi Sal,

I am glad you are back posting and have a plan.

So this is my plan: start on CD SS (using K products for savoury each day) on 6th June and continue until I'm at target, no stepping off for this occasion or that night out! It's too hard for me to keep trying to get back on plan every time. I'm not going to weigh myself for the first month, I don't want to get sidetracked or disheartened by the numbers. I'll weigh on the 6th July to check my progress.

I think this is very sound and reasonable. And, you are familiar with Beck and so adding to it with The 100 Days is a good idea. Having the app on your phone should make it a lot easier to access, as it seems you work a lot and varied shifts.

I've just had a thought... Instead of celebrating the lbs coming off and getting fixated on the losses, I'm going to change my focus a bit and celebrate the number of days in plan, Alcoholics Anonymous style. Celebrate the days, weeks then months on plan. Don't know if that plan will work, I just think it's unhelpful for me to get all hung up on the numbers on the scales, so long as I'm on the plan I will lose weight, so my ficus should be the plan not the scales!!

JanelleKay kind of does this... she had a thread where she and others were counting towards 100 days at 100%. You could do likewise.

I hope all is well with you, and that you find getting back on plan a lot easier than I have.

Mel

 

[*Shanny*]

I agree with mel glad your posting and like your up coming plan too.!

how's your evening lovely sal?x

 

[Surfhunny]

My evening is very very windy!!! Just had to chuck bits of next doors shed back over the fence, and wedge my bin to stop it wandering round the side garden on it's own! Nightmare, I hate the wind feel like my house is going to take off.

Am cross with myself a bit for letting Tactless Tessie get to me. I told my friend at lunch time and she said "Sal you may have gained a few lbs, but you can lose them easily TT will never be beautiful! Ugly on the inside, ugly on the outside!" Ouch lol. Made me feel better though.

 

[Surfhunny]

I had the weirdest dream last night, I've been dreaming of zumba all night but I've woken up with achey arms. I dread to think what I've been up to in my sleep!!

 

[cornishkez]

i wonder if you can get virtual work outs?

 

[Surfhunny]

God only knows what I've been doing but my biceps are killing me this morning!

 

[Surfhunny]

Oh my god Renault are robbing b@st@rds!! I need my front brake discs doing and they quoted me £300 for parts then labour on top!!!!! Just been on t'internet and same discs on Renaults website are £208!!!!! Don't think I'll be taking it there! Luckily Dads friend Terry is a mechanic and will do it for parts and a crate of Stella! Still going to cost a bomb but not as much as Renault want to charge me!! Thieving gypsies!

 

[cornishkez]

do they need to be specific parts? i just had mine done on the golf, new front brake pads and new front discs. £70 plus labour. i buy my parts from mill auto, not sure if they're nationwide or not.

 

[Surfhunny]

I think they do but Terry will get them from an autoshop not Renault so £200 is max price. They're special brake discs my bro just had his done for just over £50, it's just my stupid car!

Ps just found the exact ones I need on net for £70 and pads are £25 so not looking too bad. So glad I have a Terry and don't have to rely on bloody Renault, they'd steal the clothes off your back!

I have learned my lesson when buying cars. Im not just going to buy my next car because it looks pretty, I'll research cost of tyres, brakes, headlight bulbs etc and common faults before I buy!!

 

[cornishkez]

well i thought i had researched my new car well, was even adamant on the best model to get hence drove 120 miles to get one. but it broke down half way home! serves me right for being vain and aanting something newer, my old banger wouldnt have let me down! lol

 

[Surfhunny]

well i thought i had researched my new car well, was even adamant on the best model to get hence drove 120 miles to get one. but it broke down half way home! serves me right for being vain and aanting something newer, my old banger wouldnt have let me down! lol

Oh no that's the kind of thing that'd happen to me! My most reliable car was my G reg micra, it ran perfectly for years before going to the big garage in the sky.

 

[trisha]

We used to have a Renault, it was a lovely car until it was 3 years old and out of warranty, and then it cost us just over £3000 in 7 months on repairs, every other month something major went wrong with it (not just general wear and tear like brakes) and cost a fortune to repair, at local garage, we kept thinking nothing else could go wrong but it did, dread to think what it would have cost at Renault garage. The last straw was when it decided to put itself into "limp home" mode and would only go at about 5 mph, can't remember exactly what the thing was but as soon as we got it back we traded it in for a Ford.

 

[Surfhunny]

I went through all that with mine last year. Got towed home on my birthday then every month it cost me a couple of hundred a month on repairs for ages after that. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that the brakes are the end of it for a while again, I can't complain recently.

 

[MinnieMel]

Hi Sal --

I hate to say this -- but I usually drive a Honda. You cannot kill those Japanese cars no matter how hard you try. Our CRX and Accord (that are owned by others and live in the U.S.) are both over 20 years old and still going strong! My Odessey is over 12 years old... and still on the road daily.

Mel

Mel

 

[Surfhunny]

Oh my freaking god!!! I'm at lunch in the staffroom and Tactless Tessie is sitting about 6 feet away from me. I've just heard her say to one of my colleagues "Are you on a diet? You always seem to be on a diet!" cheeky mare, as far as I know this is the first diet my colleague has been on a diet. Aaargh, dread to think what she'll come out with next. Id already eaten my lunch before she came in so in effect she hasn't seen me eat, so she'll comment on that no doubt!!

 

[trisha]

We have someone like that where I work, she doesn't care who she offends, always coming out with tactless remarks, yesterday were all complaining how cold it was and heating had been turned off and she said to one colleague, I'm surprised you feel the cold, you've plenty of meat on you to keep you warm.

 

[Surfhunny]

11 days to go until I can start back on CD I'm so pleased, I can't wait, it seems a long time coming!! I feel absolutely enormous at the moment and my jeans are starting to feel too tight I must admit I haven't been particularly good in fact I've had a few days where I've been down right bad. And I know I'm creating a rod for my own back, meaning I'll have more to lose.

Mum asked why I didn't start sooner if I was that keen to get cracking, but I don't want to start CD then come off again for London then try and start again afterwards. This is exactly where I've been going wrong these times I've tried and tried to get restarted. I just want to have a clean run at it, no breaks, no nights off. It's how I did it the first time and it worked perfectly, so it's how I'm doing it this time, properly, no messing!

 

[Surfhunny]

Oh my god I've got horrendous PMT I'm totally evil, and I can't help it. I'm in such a foul mood!! I wish I could stop it but I'm so grumpy! To make matters worse um working with a colleague who I don't get on with and who's lazy and disappears to avoid work. Grrr I feel a hissy fit coming on

 

[Surfhunny]

Long long day, I've avoided killing the lazy colleague, she tried bossing me about a bit so being in the hideous mood I've been in today I pulled rank and set things straight, she wound her neck in after that but did even less work than normal for her. She's a nightmare, I realize this makes me sound like a b!tch but ive done 4 times the work she has today and I'm tired, trouble is she's a managers pet so gets away with shirking!!

 

[cornishkez]

doesnt make you sound like a ***** at all!