Frugaleers - August 21 onwards

[Not2bObvious]

New thread! Time to get our act together

Thanks mrs and life
We are taking MIL out for lunch for her birthday today. I hope she behaves herself. The last time we took her out she started crying about DH divorce from his ex at the table in the middle of the place!! She struggles to move on…
Hoping they’ll have some healthy options to choose from as don’t want to torch my good week with a stress eating meal with MIL 😂
Weighed and I have STS which is a win as IVF drugs are really bloating me, my boobs are giant and really sore. I’ll weigh after egg collection mid week and hope to see a loss then.

There are no words gen, best of luck with that. Think
My euphoria at hitting my first mini goal was short lived as UBSOD (utter b* scale of doom) rewarded me with a pound of fluxxing flux. It's fine, down to yesterday's too carby/salty/sugary food day. Back to 168.8 for a short stay. Company coming later, so some shopping & cleaning to do but not too much.

Gen sts while super bloated is a good result I think. Hopefully it'll be a success this time.

Not

Sts again this morn here, maybe it'll drop tomo

Have teeth whitening strips on, food mask & face mask, I never do this!
Tried out magnetic false eyelashes this morning, one eye good other eye a disaster but with practice I think I'll get it alright.

I bought the foot mask while on hols & never did it & face mask came in my cloud 10 hamper last week. Was going to keep it as a Christmas present to myself but didn't.
I took the time every day on hols to do hot cloth cleanser & moisturise and my skins glowing so going to keep it up.

Reflexology booked for wed week it's supposed to be good for fluid retention, my feet still suffering

Today's going to be an at home day, getting dc books & bags sorted for back to school and walking dog etc

Keep the faith happier, you're back on track and you'll see it reflected very soon. Watch your clothes too, I had this awful thing on holidays that when I saw all the high numbers I was convinced my clothes were super tight (they were a bit but not as bad as my head said!) and when I had a low (1!) day I thought my clothes felt looser. I know 100% I've had 5 really good days, from highest to lowest, excusing wee flux, I'm down 4-5lb of bloat. There's no way that won't be reflected in my clothes today so I'm going to stand a bit taller & feel good!
Now I just have to peel myself out this bed & go do it😂

I get what you're saying, it'll be grand in time

Btw love the self care routine you've started, I need to get into a routine. Feeling very lethargic today which is not good when I've people coming! Got up and did a bit of cleaning but back on the bed now. Felt like a very tiring week

I've been on the bed all morning other than taking off the face mask & letting dog out.

Have got my nails done lately too.

Dragged myself up and out to get the bit of shopping, spent the last hour cleaning/hoovering etc. I'm a sweaty mess! Might paint my nails when I get cleaned up🤔

I made brunch & getting dressed to go walk the dog with dc. None of the back to school getting ready has been done, that I planned we would do today. Oh well.

Gen your MIL 🙄 grim !
You poor things 💐
Well done on STS 👋👍😀
Happier reflexology oh my God, that sounds like heaven to me enjoy! 😁👋👍
Not that's amazing well done! 💐👏👍😁

Woke up at 6am with the pain in my ovaries it’s settled now thankfully. Rescan is tomorrow so praying they say they’re big enough then!!

Rest up today gen,
Yy to the great self care happier
And the lazy Saturday mornings both

Busy day yesterday. Food festival in town and had a delicious armenian dinner then danced to lots of music in town and then at olly murs 23600 steps yesterday

Wow super steps everyone. Mine was at 9400 when I changed to dressy watch so I'm guessing about 10000 when I finished.

This was dinner, ate very little yesterday. But had two whiskies after coming home last night so that probably filled up my calories

life food festival sounds awesome
happier that looks yum, I would have that for dinner!

Cals yesterday were bad - I skipped breakfast and had a chicken salad for lunch but then had carrot cake with this very rich zabaglione cream for pudding and then when we went back to MILs there was cherry birthday cake. Dinner was a ratatouille and two pieces of garlic bread. One glass of Prosecco with cake at MILs.
Today we have a BBQ at an old friends but I’m so bloated I don’t feel like eating anything!
Exercise has gone out the window, but I can’t bring myself to care.

I've the other half of meat from 🦞 to go with some salmon and going to make creamy seafood linguine for tonight.
Scales dropped to 196.4 this morning, hopefully I'll see under 196 this coming week.

I'd no salad veg to mix in with it last night, would've been nice.

There was cake & baileys cheese cake at party last night but I was full from lobster and I didn't fancy having any.

Gen at least no drama yesterday

Sod the exercise gen if you're not feeling up to it, having all those chemicals in your system feel whatever you want to feel. Hope you have a lovely day & good luck for tomorrow.
Was Olly good life? Excellent steps and you got to dance! That's a great day all round.
Up another .6 but after takeaway food and booze, I think that's fair enough. And no, ahem, movement this morning so it's more likely a maintain. I give no sh*ts (quite literally!) Had a great night with company, cooking brekkie for the guests, have a bit of a hangover which reinforces my resolve to have no wine today. Happy Sunday y'all!

Olly was good, as was Sophie Ellis bexter

Definitely sod the exercise today gen. do what you need to get you through.

Sounds lush happier

I do love a food festival

Gen don't overdo it lovely , hopefully it 's a good sign that the eggs are maturing ready for the harvesting. I sound like l know what l am on about , l don't Wishing you the very very best of luck

Not that sounds fair enough to me in fact it sounds amazing after a takeaway and booze , great stuff
Life it sounds brilliant
Happier YOUR FOOD SOUNDS EXCELLENT AND AS FOR YOUR WEIGHT THAT IS FANTASTIC! sorry caps
Have not been too bad considering the provocation l have had from Mum today, she is getting someone to decorate their bedroom & said amongst other things and l quote 'l will have to brush the walls down before she starts, do you think you can help her decorate it and we will have to feed her too'. She was on about curtains then , 'l need new curtains for in there as well' I said nothing. My back is in half , she sees me struggling to do things and Dh is not good with his knee and shoulder. She knows we are not well yet she asks me this . I think l will have to make it clear to the decorator that 'sorry we will not be helping' , trouble is l feel bloody guilty now , there is no pleasing me !

Not a great day of steps or tracking here but hey tomorrow another day

I missed your weight update happier, that's bloody brilliant!
No guilt mrs seriously, she's not your child or your boss. The decorator is doing their job, it's not your job. Boundaries need establishing

@Not2bObvious

I missed your weight update happier, that's bloody brilliant! No guilt mrs seriously, she's not your child or your boss. The decorator is doing their job, it's not your job. Boundaries need establishing

Thank you Not You are so right Not .l am not going to do it and that is all there is to it , tbh with you l don't think l physically could do it anyway

mrs do not help with the decorating that is absolutely ridiculous!! I’m cross on your behalf!
happier well done on the weight loss!

BBQ was lovely but weather was quite cold, I started to feel sick (IVF drugs again) about halfway through the meal so I didn’t eat as much as I probably would have otherwise. Now feeling really quite bad, roll on this scan tomorrow!

My weekend caught up with me, 171.2 - so again back to trying to clay my way under 170, then 168. To be up a couple on a Monday is the norm, so I won't worry. In another month it'll be much better. Chip chip chip.
Have to start planning my meals for the week, had so much focus on visitors over the weekend I'm not really prepared. Wayyy too much junk food in the house too that I'll need to put away so I can have a shot at not sabotaging myself

Clay? Claw even!
Best of luck today with the scan gen