Wow, can you believe its the end of August already! It feels like yesterday that I was starting this journey. I’m still not fully settled into blogging yet, but I have some foundation work laid out to hopefully keep me on track!
Food
Unfortunatly not really relevant as of yet. But I’m keeping it here as I did cook for the first time in forever today 31/8/25. This will be on tomorrow blog post so look forward to Monday.
Health
Well I lost weight! I went from 37st 7lbs (525lbs or 238kg) to 36st 10lbs (514lbs or 233kg) so 10lbs in roughly 2 weeks. Although I feel like I could of done more towards this. Reason being I only did 2 days of exercise. I prefer working out first thing, but feel self concious doing so around Erika. She goes back to school Wednesday so that should help.
I also found some triggers on days when sticking to the New You Plan, so I think I only managed 7 or 8 days in total on plan. I recieved some really terrible news, so that caused me to eat my feelings away. I got paid and as I have conditioned myself when you have money eat nice food, that is what I did. That said after a few days I did manage to get back on track so I know its only temporary. I also noticed during the second week I wasn’t eating as much food as normal, despite it being proper food. My brain realised I was full or I distracted myself enough that I didn’t need my old amount of calories, which is probably why I lost as much as I did.
Moving forward my health and fitness journey will be on a Wednesday, covering a bit of everything.
Travel
I didn’t really do much in terms of travel, as I had two weeks, I can’t walk to the end of the street and various other things. However, I did dream about short term and long term travel goals. I have 3 holidays planned for next year, Haven holiday park in April, back to Butlins in July and my first ever cruise straight after Butlins. I will be using Butlins onsight laundrette before I leave the resort! It will be my first taste of what traveling will be like and doing laundry not in the comfort of your own home.
Budget
Well I’m not in a negative balace anymore! I still have no savings and only £17 to my name, but that is roughly £110 better than I was at the middle of the month! I have not paid anything off towards, my holidays though nor started saving for Christmas. This is going to change next month and I will start paying them off. I would like to go on these adventures, and I’m sure you would like to see me achieve going there. Hopefully I have learnt more about my eating habit and I will be more mindful when doing random food orders when money comes in and I don’t actually need them, leaving me with more money saved next month also. I also have a couple of hidden bills and some extra surprised for you guys which will eat into my funds though.
Closing
All in all, this has been a fun learning period. I’m a little bit older, but also a little bit wiser. I have in place a structure that will hopefully keep this blog running and won’t lead to burnout. I’m looking forward to seeing what September brings and looking forward to exploring our first country together, which will be my home country of England!
Couch Potato to World Getter 
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