Yeah thats what I use... that would be a great day... I get to sign people in 3 times a week for classes.. so feel free

I can't wait to pass my test - it wont be before time!!

I just ordered myself new GHD's online.. total bargain - £116 + free delivery + a free luxury starter kit with 4 full size products, carry case and heat mat!!

i'm a member of David Lloyd Gill, but its the one in Edinburgh. Ive been to the one in Renfrew a few times, have you been there? the pool is in the middle of the gym-very strange!!!

How many lessons you had? I had soooo many before I passed my test-I was awful. I am now a very good driver though!.

Ooooh. Do you have GHDs already? My dad's friend is a hairdresser and got me mine cost price a few years ago, every time anythign happens to them, they get fixed for free! (They are about 7 years old so tend to blow up every now and then)

You think you'll get them before your hollybags?
x

Our swimming pool is closed just now because of valdals smashing the windows.. We have ful access to the Renfrew one while it gets sorted.. Never been though, dunno if I like the sound of the swimming pool in the middle of the gym though!!

Yeah I have ghd's already but one of the plates keeps coming loose, I have had them for 6 years and that is the first time anything has gone wrong with them.. My hairdresser said about them getting repaired but TBH I want a shiny new pair! Its free next day delivery on weekdays so hopefully they will come Mon/Tues in time for my hols!

I have been taking lessons since LAST March....!!! Fecking ages, but becauseof the whole instructor swap it has been a nightmare, the 2 of them do things totally different.. Ah well, I will get there! - I can drive, I drive Jons car all the time with the L plates on but my current instructor says I have to brush up on my mirror work and manouvers b4 we put in for a test date... Soon hopefully...

You will be spinning as I type... I still have my jammies on!!

Spin done, been to bank and car wash, come home and ate lunch and now sitting doing nothing much before cinema at 4ish. I have one of those cinema cards which is why I go so often!

It is so cold today but I'm refusing to put the heating on so me and Craig are sitting with our fleecy dressing gowns on. lol.

Have you done your theory test yet? Practice was what did it for me, was out in my mums car all the time. I hated learning to drive, I just wanted on the road!

Xxxx

Yeah I passed my theory on Xmas eve!!

I took a leaf outta your book and went to the gym earlier - There was a wee gym class on that Rachy went to for an hour so I went up and did a short 20min run, 20mins xtrainer, 10mins rower and 5mins Powerplate - feel much better for it!

Just had a nice big bowl of wholemeal pasta with tuna, sweetcorn and half fat cheese..

We had those cinema cards before Rachy came along, just don't get a chance to go often enough anymore - although I keep nipping Jon's head to get on as he goes regularly!

What you going to see? xx

How long do you have from theory to sit your driving test?

Go you for going to the gym, I can never be bothered but normally when I get there I'm ok. Sometimes thought I get there and reallly cant be bothered and would have been better coming home and going for a nap. lol.

Going to see 500 days of summer. Looks ok. My choice but I normally see girly films with my friends so theres not much I'm fussed on. Going to the 4 o clock showing so I can get home and my dinner made for X factor viewing!

Xxx

Ahh so you have it all planned out!! hehe!

I will have roo bathed and bed for Xfactor too! - Jon will be at work so I will get some peace, wasgoing to get my pals up but I know I will eand up eating and drinking if I do that and Im so determined to get a good couple of weigh ins under my belt for going away (how sad is that!?)... but I know if i lose the plot tonight then it will be a slippery slop all the way to going away and I will feel like crap on hols!

OMG i'm glad you are the same as me! i hate when I have a really good few days or weeks and then someone asks you for take away/dinner/drinks.

Unfortunately I have to go to a funeral tomorrow and my aunty is putting on a lunch after it. How bad that I'm thinking about what on earth she's going to make, dont think i'll feel like eating anyway .

But anyway. It's so grey and miserable outside! Glad I'm going to sit in a dark cinema with my snack a jacks popcorn!

Xxx

I'm glad I dont sound like a complete loser!!

I know how much better I will feel going on holiday having given it 100% in the last week.. Im gonna run as much as I can and eat as well as I can between now and next Monday - It will be worth staying in every night for..

Och, sorry to hear you have a funeral to go to tomorrow.. Hope it's not too upsetting xx

Oh, I meant to ask.. Do you have special trainers for when you are running? I think I may need to invest in a new pair.. When I was running the 5lm yest, at one point I had pins and needles in my feet... that can't be good surely?!

Ohhhh, just doing a wee catch up as i havent been about in a wee while..
Good Luck girlies,
its a great thread, u sound motivated and dont have much to go to get to target !!
xx

What kind of trainers do you have just now? I have nike shox which I got when I was in London last year. They are quite expensive but it was my holiday money. lol.

I like shox but know people who dont, they are quite often in the sale in foot locker, or you could treat yourself when you get to target!

Xxx

I have adidas air-breathing thingy-ma-bobs, they are quite good but it has been a while since I first bought them.. I might have a wee nosey when I get home and get my dad to buy me a pair for my birthday at the end of the month!

I'm playing bejeweled and it's hurting my eyes but I can't stop!! - Jon got the footie on b4 work and Roo watching Tinkerbell... I really should be cleaning... or showering as I haven't did that yet since the gym...

again.... - thanks!

hehe, aye but this time ur gonna stay there !! .
x

is it bad that we have as many replies as team 1 post for the week and team 2 post for the week. there's only 2 of us!!!

thanks Booty. Me and Gill are so competitive (in a motivating way) that when we get to target we will be staying there-isnt that right Gill?

Gill is it climacools you have (I used to work in foot locker). they're supposed to be quite good but I never fonud them that comfy.

Xxxx

Hopefully we will Booty - at least you have been at target PP!!

Yeah they are climacools...

Im eating peri peri chicken.... OMG soooooooo good!

how was film? x

Oooh, did you make it? I had WW chicken curry for dinner with roasted veg. It was ok. Just having a kit kat and cuppa now.

Film was great,nice and cheesy and just what I was after!

Ooooh, liking the Welsh girl Lucie on x factor, got goosebumps!

Xx

Im a bit behind you.. im getting them just arriving in wales!

naa its birds eye stuff... very nice!!

oops-sorry! she's good. lol.

I just realised you said you have never been at target, youre only 10pounds away-thats sooo good!!! I might have been at target but if you remember my post from May, I had almost no clothes on, hadn't eaten that day and was only that weight until I went home and had the biggest take away. Then I went to Australia the next day and my weight crept up and up since then.

When I get to target this time I will not be making a mess like that!!! I'm getting there and staying there!!

Today is day 6 of proper pepping, to quote my bf he says thats 'peptastic'

Xxxx

Awww he seems like a total sweetheart!!!

My hubby just grunts now and tells me to hurry up and get on with it!!!!

OMG Lucie was amazing!!

He has no choice in the matter. Lol. He is a foot taller and was a stone lighter than me so he has to eat loadsssss as he is trying to put weight on. We have a competition for me to weigh less than him at all times. lol.

The worst thing is me and you both know what we should be doing and know that it does work but we're only human and have our bad days/weeks (or in my case months!) which can set us back a few weeks losses in some cases and its just soo not worth it! (If only I listened to myself sometimes!)

Xxx

You are sooo right - I think Jon just lets my moaning about my weight go in one ear and out the other because I have been here sooooo many times... I have never been this close to target before.. I was 10st 12lbs for the SS photo shoot but pretty much went back up again straight after. I am sitting at 10st 10lbs and I'm soooo determined not to f*** it up this time!! :lol;

I think the main difference these days is my love for the gym, before I hated it and seen it as a chore, not I realise it helps me so much.. especailly when I am 'being bad' - it stops me putting on heaps! - I have been no heavier than 11st 7lbs this year so I have literally spent the whole year losing and then gaining the same 10lbs!!!!!!!!

NO MORE!!

This holiday is NOT going to mess it up for me.. I have set myself a 'mini challenge' - Whatever I lose between this Monday coming and the Monday I leave (exactly one week) is what I can gain on holiday (cause lets face it, I aint gonna lose!! )... Does that make sense?

I like the idea of your mini challenge!! How long you away for? Remember your on holiday so youre allowed to relax but at the same time you dont want to ruin all your hard work.

I'm the same with gym, I know it doesnt mean anything but I always convert calories 'burned' (I have a heart rate monitor watch which is quite accurate) into checks. If i'm being bad it makes me feel better and if I'm being good it means I've earned my extra fruit. I can usually still lose if I dont count my fruit as long as I'm 'burning' 1000-2000calories a week. Once I get closer to target I count every morsel!

Xxxx

One of my clients has a heart monitor for the gym and he swears by it! - I'm the same, I always have a wee extra something if I have been to the gym and am particularly hungry.. Not always fruit as I'm not keen (I know, another thing I dont like but force down!! ) maybe a wee bit of toast and laughing cow or some lentil soup

Have you seen my bejeweled scored btw

Gill I was at the cinema and all i could see was bejewelled jewels, I need to stop playing!!! But will try my best to get past you.

I agree, Id rather have something and at least write the checks down for it than end up starving and eat anything in sight/something out of bfs 'junk cupboard'

Do you have a heart rate monitor? I find it helps me push myself, I have a target and if I'm not working hard enough I work harder to get my heart rate up. Apparently you can get cheap ones in ALDI/LIDL (not sure which one!) if you fancied giving it a go. I got mine free for recommending someone to join the gym.

I am soooo full of tea. i can feel it swirling about in my tummy!

Xxx

Tea is so gross... I don't drink anything but water... well, that's not alcoholic anyway!!

Im on ebay the now, gonna look at a heart monitor.. are the comfy enough to wear?

I am bidding on 5 things.. all ending in the hour. Not good. Im broke after buying my straighteners!! hahaha!

Its a bit odd at first but you can change the size of the band. I tend to wear it under my bra and i dont really notice its there.

Mine measures heart rate and tells you if you are within your 'zone' which you can set yourself and you can set it to beep if you are outwith it. It also measures calories burnt and amount of time in fat burning zone. At the end of your workout, it gives you average heart rate, max heart rate,total calories and amount of time doing work out. At the end of each week it gives you your weekly total and I think mien saves about a year of data.

Some you can get that measure distance-good if your planning on running outside.Some can download your workout to your computer.

What you bidding for on ebay?Dont knwo that I would want a heart rate montior someone else had used-mine gets a bit sweaty. lol.

Xxx

bleugh. didnt think of that. PMSL!

Bidding on random holiday things... Im only away a week. Jon will freak out - my case barely closes as it is!!

Now im having a del monte 100% fruit ice lolly.. u tried them? sooo nice!

lol, maybe try the lidl/aldi approach!

Just sneak them in the case, if your man is anything like mine, he doesnt know whats what and when asked if its new just say 'what this old thing-cant believe you dont remember it'

oooh, are they the 1 check pineapple swirls my CM showed us on Monday night?

I have no checks left but its fine, my belly if fullll of liquid and I cant be bothered moving, although all that liquid may dictate otherwise very soon!

Xxx

No not those but they sound good anyway! - i love pineapple.. these are just pure orange juice.. yummy!

I keep wanting to move to take out washing but cant be arsed... i will wait til i need a pee too!!!

im trying my best to beat you at bejewelled, cant wait til you go on holiday! lol.

xxx

I won 3 out of the 5! yay!

haha.. its the first time ive ever been above minnie77!!

Gill tell me how to beat you at bejewelled so i can go to bed! lol x

Right Extra factor is finished am off to speak to poor bf who has been neglected for the past 2 hours! Have a good Sunday, so looking forward to our first weigh ins on monday, really hope we've both lost, thanks for keeping me going!

Night night - Im getting square eyes too!!

Have a good day xx

Morning!

Another crappy sleep last night the past 2 or 3 nights I have been wakening up lots and struggling to get back to sleep.. I'm bloody knackered now!! Not good. That and the fact Rachy woke up at 7.45am today.... ah well.

Going to get my hair cut and coloured today and going for a wax too.. I was going to wait til mid-week but I just can't wait any longer, I feel like a monkey

Off to have brekie and get ready... yaaaaaaaaaawn.

Morning! I couldnt really sleep either, had weirdo dreams!

Woke up at 6.27 on the dot, my work alarm is always set for 625 or 655. when i feel back asleep i woke up at 7. My body must have wanted me to go to work.Eh no thanks!!

I love the holiay pampering but its always so much money, but its worth it to make us a feel more human! hehe xxx

I'm quite lucky with my hair, my pal works in a hairdresser in town but comes to mine to do my hair for cheaper - Well, she usually comes here when Jon isn't on nights but because he is, shes going to my other pals to do it - Cut and colour for £25! Means I can stick to the every 6 week rule!!

I hate when that happens - Not that I have a wok alarm set, but whenever Rachy isn't here, I can't lie in - My body automatically wakes between 7.30-8am... Not good!

Well, I'm off to get ready... Catch you later xx

£25!!!! You are sooo lcuky, mine is about 3 times that and I have really dark hair so need to stick to the 'im going to wait until i look like a tramp until i get it done' lol.

Enjoy your pamper day. See ya later!

x

What a day - Totally 4got it was a sunday and the wax/nail place didn't open til 12pm.. Grr... Was there at 10am!!! Ahh well, it can just wait until tomorrow... Will have to hide my bushy brows til then

Hair done, just a got a few wee foils through it to give me the sunkissed look!! haha!!

Went over to Clydebank shops and bought new leggings, shoes I don't need and make up I don't need. ooops!

Hows your day going? xx

Hey, just back from Glasgow just now. Day has been ok, managed to avoid eating anything at lunch and stuck to the fruit platter! Just home and rammed some toast and snack a jacks in. lol!

Cant believe Sunday is nearly finished which means back to work tomorrow for another week!

Xxx

What do you work as? If you don't mind me asking?

Work tomorrow for me tomorrow too!

Weigh in in the morning... Gutted though as I got totm about an hour ago... good news though that i wont get them on my hols!!

What you having for dinner? xx

I'm a scientist, I work in a lab doing clinical research. Not as glamorous as it sounds but like to pretend to people its as exciting as CSI. Its not and just a regular job. lol.

What about you, what did you do before baby, I mean are you still doing the same thing.

I have in my mind you are a SS coach (<---- is that even the right word?) but excuse my ignorance as I dont really know!! lol.

Had a terrible dinner nutrition wise but sometimes I need rubbish to remind myself I can follow SS and still eat what I want! Now, dont judge me but I had potato waffles,crispy pancakes and baked beans.

I feel I retain most water/am heaviset a week before TOTM right until it goes away. But I'm also hungriest at this point and its usually when I give in PEPing so maybe thats why Im heavier! Today was day 7 of PEPing so Im half way there to winning a prize from bf for my 14 days in a row! (Not that i want that to be an excuse to go awol)

Xxxx

Yeah I do work for SS! Love it part time.. I am a qualified Nursery teacher though..

Your dinner sounds boggin' I hate waffles and crispy pancakes.. God, Im sooo fussy!! - I think it's cause it got force fed that shite from my evil wicked mother when I was little (that's a whoooole other story!!)

Your job sounds well exciting! haha!!

That would make sense with you weighing heavier a week b4 totm.. that would make sense as to why I sts last week when I bloody deserved a loss!! haha!

Hi just popped into wish you both good luck for weigh ins this week

Onaxx

haha, yes my dinner is gross so most grown humans but i like junk food every now and then!And I probably eat it now cause there's no way my mum would of fed me that. If she knew her 25 year old was eating such junk.... well ssshhh! she'll never know. lol. What did you have?

I always think its soooo hard to keep motivated afetr a sts or loss, even when we know why so I'm trying to drink loads of water but I just keep visiting the loo!

How bad Im lying on couch in my jammies already!? Lunches are made for tomorrow, all tonights dishes are away and bags are packed for work so why not?!

xxx

Exactly - As long as you are organised then that's the main thing.. I'm in my jammies watching Hollyoaks Omnibus!

How much water do you drink a day roughly? I seriously can't function without at least 2lts a day.. about 3ltrs at least if Im going to the gym!

I had a small baked potato with egg mayo (but with laughing cow instead of mayo ) and a chicken breast with cajun spices... Mmmm.... Can you tell im trying to use the contents of my fridge this week... egg and cajun chicken together!!! haha!

oooh, i never thought to use laughing cow as mayo, good idea!!

I try drink 2 x 750ml bottles at work and i usually have another 750ml bottle at gym and i have water/diluting juice with dinner and a few cups of green tea a day. i just use the same bottle and am happy to re fill with tap water and some days i drink more or less than others. Sometimes I just forget and since i work in a laboratory I can only drink on breaks!

I love hollyoaks!!! Fridays ending is soooo good!

Xxxx