2 X MOT

[Jim]

Hmm, but you are a special case surely abz, as you say you are no longer a trainee love.

 

[abz]

that seems to make no difference. And i'm lucky really jim. i didn't sign a trainee contract, i signed a permanent contract starting at a trainee salary. which means it's not official. but since they laid off all the trainees at the other office as their 1-year trainee contract finished recently i'd rather be on low pay than have no job...

 

[Jim]

ah, good point abz, your safer that way love.

 

[abz]

i am, but more dosh would be nice

 

[Jim]

more dosh is always nice love, having said that I'm happy here and wouldn't change this job for more, I know what sort of pressures I'd be under. That's the trouble in IT, well in any job I suppose, the more you earn, the more is expected of you. I worked for a company called CSG once abz, they are a big multinational, the CEO there said to me once, "You belong to the Company from 9 O'clock on Monday morning to 5 O'clock Friday night, and if we need you, for the weekend as well"

 

[Jellababy]

Oh jim that must have felt awfull, no room for a life!!! My oh had years of stress in his current job because his boss was a bully, he's come in at 10.30 and leave at 3 and no one stood up to him. But anyways Abz your right it's better to have a job alright! Hopefully the pay freeze wont last forever. I know my hubby has another 5% pay cut to come but it could always be worse

 

[Jim]

I did it for the money and the lifestyle Jella, having always worked for corporates since leaving I didn't realise it could be different, now though I have a nice quiet unstressed job, and being IT it's still well paid. LOL

 

[Jim]

Morning all, good reports on the blood tests! everything optimal and in particular I have a low cholesterol reading so that's fine, and very good liver and kidney function as well. I'm in good shape it seems.

 

[abz]

excellent news jim

now i thought i'd be well paid being in IT too... alas, it is not to be. if i'd gone for this job when i worked here in the office i'd probably be night on 25k now... but i didn't want to work in IT then. I'd just graduated and i was sick of it... so here i am, five years late on a pittance, hee. still. like i said, it's a job. and i don't hate it, which is saying something, ha.

abz xx

 

[Jim]

I know abz, I suspect *SHE* is disappointed, no life insurance bonus looming.

 

[abz]

ha. i doubt she is disappointed jim. more time with your good fine self

 

[Jim]

LOL, well maybe abz, *SHE* is always throwing me out of the house complaining I get in her way, that and chasing me round the house with the hoover. Or worse, jobs she want's me to do.

 

[abz]

i'm a big fan of 'jobs for OH to do' jim

 

[Jim]

Oh aren't you all abz, women are born that way.

I was just thinking of how much a chore my annual medical used to be, waiting for the results knowing they would be horrendousand the bollocking from the Dr and Colleen. Seems so long ago now, almost like a nightmare really.

 

[Jim]

It is a good feeling isn't it Laura.

 

[abz]

i'm quite surprised that the doc hasn't tried to weigh me for quite some time. used to be that whenever i went for anything they'd make me get on the scales, but they seemed to stop doing that, even when i was much heavier... now i don't expect it, but i used to hate anticipating it!!

abz xx

 

[Jim]

Same here abz, except they never stopped, what was good was when I started Atkins and he was seeing me monthly, was the look on his face when he saw how much I was losing. that and the 3 monthly blood tests and how they were improving as well. I single handedly converted my Dr into an Atkins believer.

 

[abz]

ha. well done jim. but then i bet you've turned a lot of us on here into atkins believers too

how fast did you lose weight at first then jim? i know you slowed it down after a while, but how much were you losing when you continued to do induction?

 

[Jim]

Well, I don't know how much I lost in the first month abz as I was to heavy for our scales, they only went up to 25 stone. I saw the first flicker at the end of week 4, then week 5 I was 24st 12 lbs I think, I'd have to check my log. I had a couple of weeks with big losses then, 7lb and then 6lb the next week. I slowed down to about 2 or 3lbs most weeks then with the odd 4 - 5lb er for the rest of my 6 month on induction. Once I moved into OWL that was about a lb a week with the odd 2 or 3 lber. It was slow, but I was happy with that, I've always said that slow loss is sustainable loss love.

 

[Jot]

Morning all, good reports on the blood tests! everything optimal and in particular I have a low cholesterol reading so that's fine, and very good liver and kidney function as well. I'm in good shape it seems.

hi Jim,

just wanted to pop in a say good job on your MOT. x