Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 30, 2009
I decided that I want to buy the Paul McKenna I can make you thin journal. Now before I had to start watching the pennies, I would have gone straight to Amazon. Now what I done was went to Amazon and as of today (29 September) it’s £8.49 however there is a used one in the market place for £4 including postage.
I then went to Play to see how the price compares to Amazon, and it’s also £8.49, but has one in its marketplace at £3.42.
If it was still around the £4 bracket, I would go to greenmetropolis.com to see if there is one there, as all the books are £3.75, but as I have one that is cheaper than that there’s no point.
Next stop is ebay, and I change the search so that the price and postage costs are at the lowest first. I was watching one that started at 99p, and then it went over the price of the one on Play.com.
I’ve now bought that one, saving myself £5.07.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 16, 2009
When I was diagnosed with hidredentis suppurativa I was put on a 2 month course of antibiotics to see if it would work. Now these pills had a very welcome side effect. All the spots I had cleared up. I didn’t change my skin care routine, and all of a sudden, my skin was completely spot free, and perfect looking.
The course finished about a month ago, and the difference in my skin is amazing; not in a good way. I’ve got about 15 whiteheads on my face right now including a really painful one on my nose (I’m sure I’ll laugh about it in about 10 years time!) and part of my forehead looks like I’ve got a rash. I’ve done absolutely nothing different apart from finishing the course of antibiotics.
Now I know that good skin really does start from within, I’m motivated to restart taking my msm. When I took it regularly, my skin looked amazing.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 14, 2009
As I said the day I got my laptop, I downloaded a few sites from recommendations. I thought I’d do a little update in how I’m finding them a month later.
First of all, I had to slap myself for forgetting an important programme… Skype! I can think of a few people I couldn’t speak to without it.
Abiword – I changed to openoffice because Abiword didn’t have a thesaurus. I’m happy with it, and looks so much like Word I forget I’m not using it. I can save documents in Word format, so it’s really handy.
Thunderbird – It took me a few goes, but I got it up and running, and I love it!
Workrave – I have to say, I haven’t played around with the settings, so I haven’t really used it as it was annoying me.
Picard – Took it off, it didn’t work for me at all.
Media Monkey – It is a good music player. I still haven’t learnt all the features yet though. I’ve just made a few playlists.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 4, 2009
This weekend is my one of my brother’s and my cousin’s son birthday. My brother is planning a picnic in the park, and my cousin is having a house party with a bouncy castle outside.
I on the other hand will be in hospital having a flexible sigmoidoscopy.My appointment is right in the middle of Saturday afternoon, and I can’t eat any solids today until my appointment mid afternoon, I’m not impressed!
According to the letter I’ll be having some type of anaesthetic, so will need someone to drive me home. Because of my back and neck, I haven’t really been paying any attention to the fact the hospital keep sending me for more of these tests.
I first had to go because of bleeding, and then after that I went back and they gave me some medication, and then after that they set up this test.
I suddenly thought how funny it would be (in a droll funny way) if I’ve got something seriously wrong with me down there when I’ve spent all my time worrying about somewhere else.
After doing a search for the procedure, I came across this post on a blog and it annoyed me greatly. The difference in treatment you get as a private patient can be really vast, and I wholeheartedly agree with the Lottie that misdiagnosis is a result of not wanting to look at each patient case by case.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, I really do think that I’d be a lot further on in my recovery if I had money. In a country where tax is supposed to go towards a health care system I don’t think it should be that way.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 3, 2009
I’ve had my N95 for about 2 years now, and want to upgrade as the back of the phone is being held on with cellotape, and the camera flash has stopped working. Thing is, I don’t want to tie myself into a contract. Also the phone I’m using for my Tesco PAYG chip is so bulky that I can’t carry about as it makes my bag heavy. This means I’m dialing 0870 numbers from my main mobile which defeats the object of having the PAYG.
So I’ve decided I’m happy getting 2 used phones, and have decided to look on ebay so I can get it as cheaply as possible. I’m used to Nokia’s and Ericsson’s, so I’m going to be getting one of these.
I’ve set up some searches and have saved them, butt I’m getting frustrated because when I look at the completed items, I’m seeing phones in my price range that didn’t show up on the search. It’s very very annoying.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 3, 2009
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to be using the Paul McKenna I can make you thin system to lose weight.
The first rule, the one I’m focusing on this week is: Eat when you’re hungry. I know it sounds like a no brainer, but when was the last time you were actually hungry?
In the book Mr McKenna suggests checking in with yourself to see if you’re hungry every hour using a scale of 1-10. The goal is to not to get to either extremes. He goes on to say that if you are not sure whether or not you’re hungry, have a glass of water, and describes hunger as a slow build up as opposed to a sudden craving.
Now that I’m listening to my body, I’m only beginning to feel peckish about 3 hours after being up.
I usually would have had breakfast in the first hour of being awake, and would have started thinking about lunch because of the time, and not because I was actually hungry.
I find it amazing how out of tune I am with my body, and am looking forward to being reconnected with myself again.
Posted by: Wealth&Healthy on: September 2, 2009
I’ve been slacking off big time from my goal to lose weight. I am good for a few days, but then I drift off somewhere and then I’m back to square one. I tried to put on a denim skirt today and realised I couldn’t fit in. Not that I couldn’t zip it up, I couldn’t get it any further up than mid thigh!
Enough is enough. I really like the Paul McKenna programme and I’m going to follow it exactly 4 weeks rigidly.
The book is a quick read, and so I’m going to dip into it everyday, and will focus on one of the four main principles a week. The principles are
There are many reviews on Amazon that slated the book because the rules were too easy, but if it was, we wouldn’t need the book!
I’m going to try and do all the steps, but I’m going to focus on one each week. So this week, I have done an online shop at Asda, and bought not just healthy things, but things I would actually want to eat like crisps, and Nice biscuits.I’m going to eat want I want, but am really going to focus on whether or not I’m hungry.
I’m going to take a picture, so I can I have a before and after. Not sure if I’ll put it online though…
If anyone wants to join me in doing this, please let me know! Always good to have a buddy when doing these things.
