Moo's year - 24 st start and restart

Lovely Moo, I am sorry to hear of your accommodation problems. Landlord/lady sound so uncaring. My fingers are crossed that you can find something better. You just do not need it and it is not fair that you and your husband are being messed about. I really hope that a new job will give you some more money as it doesn't go far I know.
Anyway, the brightest thing is that you are so well on track with weight loss! I am right behind you as always. You are a strong woman and I know you will achieve what you want!!
Much love and hugs, have to go see daughter off now. Bev x :)
 
Good morning everyone. Thank you for all good wishes :) Will have long day today. Lot of things going on I havent told you about. But yesterday thing got bit out of hand. As you know we are moved to UK in feb this year. And we live in share house. I would not say it is perfect but its not bad at all. Quiet, good area and nice neighbors. But landlords ( husband and wife )god help the owner of this house. Honest. We pay 450£ for one room. Bill inc. and we are happy to pay it as the room is big and we have made it home for us. But lets be honest 450£ is not bread-money either. So what happened is that 5 !! months ago in april out fire alarm started to scream with no reason. We manage to reset and kill the noise but main unit showed problems. So we called landlord and let them know what happened. They did no return to our call or voicemail. Two weeks later fire alarm started to work again. We send an e-mail again. No respond. It happened few times again. Every time we sent an email and they did not replay or do anything about it. In august the smoke detector started beeping as the battery is going empty. I send them an email again. Saying the beeping drives us crazy. Nothing. Then landlord come to house and we told her about it , she said " yes will deal with it " nothing. Last week after another fire alarm and reset the main unit the main unit started beeping too. So now we had two constantly beeping things in house. Hubby sent a mail but I called until they take the call and was very mad and angry. I manage to get the hubby on phone. He said he did not know about the problem ??? That hes wife is dealing it it ??? But I was very upset and he promise to send someone to come and look. 7 hours later nothing. I called again and manage to get wife on phone. She said that someone is coming but we should be able to reset it ourselves. Lucky someone did come and after 5-6 try's manage to reset unit. Until 3 days later ( last Friday ) when it went off 1 am. I think it woke up all the neighbors too. We could not made it quiet. The main unit is in error. After 20 min we manage to turn of alarm but not beeping. We slept with beeping .... Next day landlords again started to tell us they did not know and the electric will come on monday ?? We were not agree to be with beeping all weekend and made them to send someone same day. They did and guy who show up did turn off beeping but said there is still something wrong. Monday alarm activated again. Landlords said yes yes but did nothing. Tuesday - sent us mail they will come Wednesday as electric cant come tuesday ( 2 days living with beeping ) and yesterday when my hubby called em where are you , landlord the man said he cant make it. We will have to wait that hes doing hes best. There were my hubby lost it and told him that 5 months ignoring problem is not doing all you can. And landlord told that if we dont like it he is giving us 30 day notice and move out. Hubby told him that first of all we want notice on paper and second what would the landlords associate thing if we will tell them how we were kicked out because for 5 months there was faulty fire-alarm in house and they did nothing. At that point landlord stop call and turn phone out. Called back 30 min later saying phone died and saying hes sorry that we should work everything out and hes trying bla bla bla. I got home and hubby was so stresses. He cant find job and now if we need to love too, it will be hard to manage. I did try to cheer him up and started searching for rooms but there is not many options. I know we will be fine but Im worried too. Now my hubby called and said that the landlord called him and asking for 50£ to borrow so he could pay to guy who will come and see what is wrong with main unit ?? Like really ? Yesterday you kicking us out and today you want us to give you money ?? Do hope they will fix this unit once and for all and I have time to find new home. I dont want to stay there anymore. Not after this. But we can not afford anything our own atm. And its hard to find big room with all bills included. So thats whats going on in our house :( sorry for long story but worry is in my heart and just have to tell someone. About better news. Interview went well I think but pay was low. There is plus sides too - often sundays will be free as restaurant is closed on sundays and there is only 2 chefs working. Kitchen looked better then the one I am now. And I could learn pasty section. That would really suit me. Saturday I have another working interview. They should offer more money and if they do I will take it. After all thats going around here I need more to survive. Monday tho I think I will go and see how the Radisson works. Just out of interest :) Did I told already I love my job :D Scale were nice to me 116,7 this morning :D I had fast breakfast Eggs with mayo 2 syns, beans , cottage cheese, tomatoes, melon and coffee 1 syn. <img src="http://www.minimins.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153160"/> Right now Im in park ( weather is amazing) had big late ( will count milk as he) and add 2 syn for sugar. Had my chocolate wheats and writing this post. An hour I think, lol - Still have hour til my day starts and Im feeling good. I will be out of this place soon and I have lost huge amount of weight. <img src="http://www.minimins.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=153161"/> I have my hubby and my friends here. Life is beautiful even if sometimes there is clouds in blue sky :D Hugs to all

I really hope things start to get sorted out for you, it sounds like you have had a challenging few months, hope things start to improve and well done for staying on track x x
 
I've been on no bread since weds, so only 2 days in atm.. :) I decided to start the day after weigh in lol

And wow your land lord sounds... "lovely"!!!
Where abouts do you live? Could you look on spareroom.co.uk?

Does your landlord live in the same house as you? (I'm wondering if you're a tenant or lodger?) if you're a tenant landlord legally has to supply you with correct fire saftey measures, so properly working fire alarms.

If you take a picture of the alarm I could show it to the mister. He's an electrician and he has been installing fire alarms in a school for the past month so he should be able to help, lol!
 
Aww they sound like pretty mean landlords. I really hope they change their attitude soon because you don't deserve them messing you about like this! Well done for not letting it break you though and for even trying to cheer up your husband when he was stressed. And on top of that you're staying on plan too and being so lovely. It's so admirable moo. You'll get through this. And don't worry, I'm sure no one minds if you rant about stuff every so often. We're here to support you not only through the food stuff but other "life" too!
 
Thank you all for kind words =)

The landlord was here yesterday and they change sensors on main unit, so now the problem is fixed. But this fire alarm is not only problem we have in house- sad thing is landlords dont take care of house and its braking down bit by bit. My hubby made list of everything and basically landlord told my hubby that hes not working and doing " problems " from nothing , that all things at hes list + fire alarm was minor problem and not important. ( add the fact that front door dont close properly and back door is long broken and one of the rooms have broken window .. list goes on but I wont spend any more time one that ) Landlord did not give us the 4 weeks notice tho, I guess money is still to sweet and I want to see who will come to live here with all those problems, but we are searching for new home. As we have time, we will go slow but I hope to find another place to stay . And its not because of house mates . they nice but they are young and dont want to speak up, are scared and this way it looks like only we are complaining. Ah - I told you all now and now I drop it off from my shoulders and walk away. No need to carry this with me anymore.
;)

yesterday we had quiet at work , thank god =) and I could have nice meal without rushing.
Had veggies with potato chips and half a sirloin steak / all fat removed/ with hollandaise sauce ( 3 syn )
Coffee 2 syn
Total 5 syns

Today scale were smiling 116,0 :D im so happy
Hope everyone have nice day and I will see you soon =) Hugs to all
 
Your not far off 18st :) then thats another target met! You are doing so great, you must be so proud of yourself. I am proud of you :) x
landlord sounds like an a-hole. But i have come to the conclusion all landlords are a-holes. They only in it for the money. Which i understand, but you are paying for a service! It would be like me selling a 1/4lb with cheese, at the full price, and missing the cheese and bun (people would complain or comment) ;)
food sounds lush, i can visualize it lol as i cant see it (only joking)
today i am like dr dolittle. I have the pup in the hall (im house training her) and i have the 2 cats in the sitting room, (they got neutered yesterday :() ur man is feeling sorry for himself, he cant sit down. She isnt too bad.... Thankfully they can go out in a few days!
things with me are going well. 16st 1lb today :) (knowing my luck the scales wont move now for the next couple of days) i want to see 15st something/anything on my scales by tuesday :fingerscrossed:
heres to another great day :) x
 
Contact environmental health. They will do an inspection of the property and then mister LL will have to fix the problems!

It's a shame that you haven't got a nice landlord :(
 
You will Helen see this 15 st in few days - how exciting =)
Forot to add photo, lol

But as I had breakfast too I will add this one too =)
Ham and cheese(he) and cherry tomatoes and mayo ( 2 syn), coffee( 1syn) , salad, cottage cheese, chilly beans. banana =)
Feeling Happy
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:) smiles to all
 
Contact environmental health. They will do an inspection of the property and then mister LL will have to fix the problems!

It's a shame that you haven't got a nice landlord :(

Thank you hun =) Yes I could do that but not before we have somewhere to go first =) We would not like to sleep on street =)
 
My friends, all great news with weight! I am excited for you!! :) I am starting a 5 day Dukan attack. I know it is drastic but I thought I would get a kick start. I did it in 2010 and lost 5lbs in 5 days! I thought it would go straight back on but it didn't! It was the lack of fruit and veg that did me in but I thought I would give it another go. Any thoughts gratefully received.
Love and hugs as always. Bev x :eek:
p.s. If I said what I think of your landlord Rita I would get booted off here!!
 
Ooo yes, I'm intrigued by dukan too. What does it entail? Excellent name though. It's sounds exotic
 
Dukan is on this forum under other diets but it fell out of favour some time ago. It is a bit like Atkins but different! What you can eat while on attack is lean meat, fish, seafood, eggs, 0% fat yog and cottage cheese, skimmed milk and must have tablespoon and a half of oat bran a day (or you would get bunged up) lol. No veg, no salad, no fruit, no other dairy. It is very restrictive but it works so fast. Fingers crossed this time it will again. How many days you do attack depends on weight and how much you want to lose. After attack it changes to allow some carbs, that is veg. I have forgotten all of it so am going to order the book today. I didn't get it last time as I thought it wasn't for me. I think I need to have the discipline. I am such a rebel otherwise, give me an inch and I will take a mile! lol Have had cottage cheese with prawns for lunch. Nice. Just for 5 days! :eek: Bev x
 
I was just thinking you're nearly out of the 18s!! For some reason in my brain 17 sounds lots less than 18 !

It's amazing what you've achieved and how focused you still are. Quite frankly I think you're an inspiration.
 
Dukan is on this forum under other diets but it fell out of favour some time ago. It is a bit like Atkins but different! What you can eat while on attack is lean meat, fish, seafood, eggs, 0% fat yog and cottage cheese, skimmed milk and must have tablespoon and a half of oat bran a day (or you would get bunged up) lol. No veg, no salad, no fruit, no other dairy. It is very restrictive but it works so fast. Fingers crossed this time it will again. How many days you do attack depends on weight and how much you want to lose. After attack it changes to allow some carbs, that is veg. I have forgotten all of it so am going to order the book today. I didn't get it last time as I thought it wasn't for me. I think I need to have the discipline. I am such a rebel otherwise, give me an inch and I will take a mile! lol Have had cottage cheese with prawns for lunch. Nice. Just for 5 days! :eek: Bev x

Dont seems bad. I love cottage cheese and my meat , but I dont think I could do without veggies and fruits. Its seems expensive too - lol , or would be if I would do it, as I would full my face with meat and then some more meat, as I like to eat until Im full :p
Let us know how you doing Im very interested is it hard to stay on plan and how well it works. 5 lbs for 5 days seems amazing tho :) fingers crossed for you. Good luck Bev ;) xx
 
I was just thinking you're nearly out of the 18s!! For some reason in my brain 17 sounds lots less than 18 !

It's amazing what you've achieved and how focused you still are. Quite frankly I think you're an inspiration.

Thank you Cat you so sweet :) hugs

Lol for me is still strange to use stones and pounds. I never get the same emotion when I say to myself I have lost near 6 st when I think 37 kg :)
What maybe is the reason I can stay on plan so well. I have time of my life- eating well and losing weight too :)
Just today I told my husband , that now after I hit 116 kg mark I can see myself bigger then I ever seen myself. Lol. But not bad way - " oh Im so fat and ugly " but good way - like today I was surprised I still have big hips. Hahha, made us laugh. I was looking at myself in mirror and husband was looking what Im doing. And I kept turning sides with funny face and trying to think where did those hips come from. Lol -
It may not sound funny but it sure was :)
Another thing I did today was putting my underwear to dry and I just looked at my knickers and thinking why they still so big, hahah- until I remember 116 kg again. :D

Later I walked to bus and was thinking how easy it is to walk now. I can run. Dance . Jump. And only in 8 months I have got my life back. I will never ever , ever go back where I was.
Im so happy to be here and now and have this change. I hope to help others too in one point.
I havent told you but I dream of being an consultant myself. I know its not possible just now, as my english is not good. But maybe one day - 5 years from now I could be one.

Hope everyone have a nice day and keep smiling :) I know I am xx
 
Thats a fab idea. You definitely should aim for that. You have inspired so many people on here, i am one of them. Just think what you could do in person. All your food pics could come in handy ;)
i have to admit, Bev, i had to google the dukan diet lol (what did i do before google) sounds ok, if its only for 5 days. Let us know how hou get on! :)
hope everyone else is having a good day :) xx
 
Lunch and dinner

For lunch I had my bread free salmon sw :) with coffee 2 syn
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And strawberries
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Dinner
Spaghetti carbonara mushroom with eggs and parmesan (5syn)
Ice cream (5syns)

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Hope everyone have nice evening :)
 
You are allowed all that within your SW diet :) (if that's right, we should be all doing SW, looks absolutely fab!!!) right I'm hungry now, off for my final shake of the day :(


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