Comments for Mongoose Holly

Comment on Lame! by Benjie

Benjie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:18:24 +0000

Great work Holly! Mini goals are wise – just try not to set them too ambitious! I lost 1 stone a month when I was seriously ill for 3 months last year so it sounds like quite a lot to me!

Comments on the blog: POST MORE! (Hah – I can talk… though at least your friends understand your blog!) Short posts are fine. Maybe tweet summaries of your thoughts and then expand on your blog when you get a chance. Also, pictures are good – they don’t have to be your own (though bonus points if they are!). Or graphs… Oh, and change your “Uncategorized” category…

Comment on Almost a milestone by Benjie

Benjie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:39:38 +0000

Yay! Well done Holly!

Playzone, done right, is a hell of a workout!!

Comment on New Year, new start. by Benjie

Benjie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:59:22 +0000

I don’t need any New Years resolutions. I’m already perfect, don’t you think?

Joking aside, I plan to eat better and look after myself a bit more to avoid getting ill again. When I’m feeling better I plan to start doing daily exercise again to help rebuild all the muscle I lost being ill – I’ve already been working on this by doing daily “throw Xander in the air” exercises, which are surprisingly exhausting! Hopefully I’ll get back into using FitFu a few times a week too!

Good on you for yours and putting them out there – it should help you stick to them! How do you plan to sort your finances? A tool like https://www.xero.com/personal/ might be useful for £24/year? When Jem and I wanted to be more careful of our spending we made sure that we put every purchase possible on debit cards (no cash) so that we could track where our money was going, and then I just manually collated it from my online banking into spreadsheets, and then did my own analysis, but it took me about a day every 2 months to do in that much detail! Xero would have done most of that for me.

Comment on Waste of fucking time. by Benjie

Benjie — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:43:09 +0000

Only you have the power to change this, Holly, no one can do it for you. And you do have the power, you just have to believe in yourself! Look how long you HAD stuck at this diet for, for example – you’ve already lost 10% body mass! That’s impressive in itself, surely you can see that?

You have to FORCE yourself to comply, and forgive yourself for little slip ups. Or big ones. Acknowledge your failures and then move on, no point crying over spilt milk, just go grab yourself a mop. Focus on your success, make it your goal, and then achieve it. Remember your successes, forget your failures – this, I think, is key to happiness and confidence.

Don’t give yourself another option.

You have the power, Holly; I believe in you.

xxx

Comment on 8 weeks in. by Simone

Simone — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:20:47 +0000

super proud of you!

Comment on HOORAY!! by admin

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:40:28 +0000

I’ll buy clothes as I go. I won’t do a big shop until I reach my goal weight cos what’s the point!

Comment on 8 weeks in. by Benjie

Benjie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:18:45 +0000

Yup!

Comment on HOORAY!! by Benjie

Benjie — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:18:13 +0000

Very well done – keep it up! The jeans falling down thing is good at first, but it really begins to get annoying after a while – I recommend buying some belts At what stage are you going to buy yourself a new wardrobe, since presumably your clothes will stop fitting…?

Comment on Week 6 I guess? by admin

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:40:21 +0000

How's this? It does sadly show my true weight but I got over that. My Weight Chart:

Comment on Week 6 I guess? by Benjie

Benjie — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:12:09 +0000

With your next post, I expect a pretty graph. One like this would suffice nicely: http://xkcd.com/963/

Well done on keeping it up! Next time you’re rushed/stressed, perhaps consider going for something a little less calorific than a KFC?

<3 B