7th February 2017
Avoid negative
people, they have a problem for every solution!
Good day yesterday,
we went for an interview to try and get mom a disability blue badge, it's
looking promising and the lady suggested we consider a wheelchair so that when
we are out for the day, we can cover more ground, I might look into hiring one
first to see how she feels, but I love the idea, think of the Fit Points I'll
earn and the fun we could have shouting, "Beep, Beep!" as we run
round ;)
We celebrated by
having a trip to Pizza Hut (moms request, makes a change from a cake shop), we
had the buffet, she proceed to eat 2 very small slices, then request pudding as
pizza wasn't really doing it for her. I
was surprised at myself, I managed 6 slices (they are small might I add), plus
I left the crusts too, didn't want to fill up on the dough bit - I remember the
days when I could honestly eat an 18in pizza with all the trimmings no problem
at all! Yesterday I struggled to finish 1/2 of a 12 inch and left the
crusts! I would've had a bit of garlic
bread with that 18in too, just goes to show you can change your eating
habits.
On the way home my
petrol light showed red, so we stopped at Sainsbury's to fill up. On Saturday I'd driven to Cannock Sainsbury's
to spend £40 to get 12p off per litre, I didn't have the time but the coupon
was an instore only coupon and it was expiring that day. I didn't fill up on Saturday because there
was a massive queue, the price is usually more expensive at the Cannock branch
and I needed to get home for mom. I
filled the car to the brim, then couldn't find the damn ticket, DOH, what am I
like. I was about to get wound up but
instead we ranted in a jokey way because let's be honest how much would I have
saved, a fiver max, that's really not worth getting angry about is it. Maybe I'll start ignoring these coupons, I
have one in front of me that is £6 off if I spend £40 or more but again
instore, I took out a delivery pass for a reason and it wasn't so I could go to
the shop when I don't have time.
I needed milk too
but they didn't have skimmed in their petrol station so I popped into the Tesco
express just before I got home, I noticed cartons of the best of both milk
people have told me about and checked the labels, both 200ml skimmed milk and 200ml
of Arla B.O.B. is 3sp but when you look at the nutritional info the calories
and protein are slightly higher with BOB, fat and sugar slightly lower, it does
taste more like semi skimmed milk though for same points as skimmed, so worth a
try and it's on offer in Tesco £1 for 2 litres.
Another good day on
the charity from, I'm starting to sell tickets for our Time for a Cuppa Tea
Party raffle today, the prizes we have been donated
so far are;
6 bottles
of wine
Bottle of whisky & miniature set
Cut & blow dry at 'Love is in the
Hair' (Bloxwich Hgh Street)
£20 voucher for Potsy Pamsy paint a
pot studio (at the Hollybush garden centre)
Happy Owl hamper
WW friendly Hamper
Pamper Hamper
Bouquet of flowers
Voucher for any wall sticker at www.stick-em-up.co.uk
Then last
night, one of my BeYOUtiful members said she can get me tickets to the Walsall
v Port Vale match and a signed autographed football, I sold them within the
hour for £70, I think she might be getting me a second pair and it looks like I
already have a buyer, if not, I'm thinking another little raffle. My sponsor money is now at £1063.78 on my
justgiving page too.
How fab is
that, I'm good at this fundraising lark ain't I, as I was putting together a
bit of gumph to contact the papers, I started to realise how much money I've
raised over the years, it's been a lot, I don't know how much in total but I'd guess
at around the £50k mark but I've never kept a track to be honest, it's just
something I do because I can.
On Saturday the day
after my award, I was having the banter with my helpers and I kept jokingly saying
"Have I mentioned I'm brilliant?", they groaned, I chuckled and we
played up to it for a while. You know
what though, how often do we as individuals big ourselves up? I've just won the most prestigious award I
can possibly win in my role as a WW Coach, why shouldn't I be proud of myself
and say 'YAY, I'm awesome!' I didn't
want to approach the press myself because I thought I was being conceited, we
don't praise ourselves because we've usually been brought up to believe that's
big headed, is it? I don't think so, if
you keep bashing on about how amazing you are, continually, then yeah, that's
heading toward conceited but appreciating your worth, knowing what you're good
at, feeling proud of yourself, that's absolutely okay. Just
take a moment to acknowledge the things you do that make you absolutely
fabulous.
It's the same with
accepting praise or compliments, why do we have trouble with that? Having low self esteem makes it hard to
accept compliments, we can work on it though.
As for praise, well humility is a virtue, but self-abasement -
manifested in our refusal to accept praise - is not humility. Accept that praise, take those compliments,
remind yourself we think you're awesome, even if you've not realised it yet.
Let's start
accepting those compliments, the next time someone says "you're dress is
lovely", don't reply with "oh this, it was only cheap", the next
time someone praises you for doing something well, say "thank you"
and realise you earned that praise.
Today as well as
focusing on the healthy and happy, let's all go out there and be amazing! We already are of course, let's just
acknowledge it BeYOUtiful. Xx
OH and I lost 3lb
this week, this not drinking lark is helping on the scales - YAY, go me :)
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