The night before March’s payday

In review:

Move: Most days, with on average every second day involving a ‘proper workout’ and the others either a lot of walking or weights and stretching at home. I ran 110km, twice as many as January – last February I ran 126km and hadn’t broken 100 since, so I am pleased with that. I’ve also managed to incorporate more weights into my routine; last time I was running this much I wan’t using weights as often.

Food: I ate 11 meals out, which was a lot less than expected. There was a lot of snacking, a lot of picking on stuff that I should try and put a stop to, if only to lose the last of the weight I put on over Christmas, but it seems unlikely if my training is to stay at this level. I’m working really hard to neutralise food, especially while training.

Spend: On myself, £205.41. On the wedding, £383.03. On groceries, £142 including various lunch bits I needed. On eating out, including various glasses of wine and times I bought lunch from somewhere other than Tesco, £205.09

I started the month with £672 (£922 if we count the savings I shouldn’t, but do, touch). Excluding wedding expenses, I spent £552.50 on myself and food – I didn’t count various small expenses, but I doubt they would’ve brought my overall spending to £672. Chris is giving me £80 towards the wedding expenses to even the cost, which would bring me within the £922 – this bodes well going forward, but I think I need a more coherent system of recording everything.

Going forward:

Total in: £2013.42 – I received my annual increment this pay, as well as a small amount of backpay because I started mid-month.

Rent: £525

Bills: £95 (Council Tax, electric, internet)

Gym: £17.99

Phone: £12

Netflix: cancelled!!!

Socialist commitments: £20

Savings I can’t touch: £350

Savings I shouldn’t but invariably do touch: £250

Joint wedding fund: £200

Which leaves a grand total of £543.43 for the whole month, until I end up dipping into those savings again because I am the worst and life is expensive.

I have 5 scheduled meals out, one half marathon, one friend arriving from NZ, two theatre trips, and countless trips to Asda in the diary so far, so let’s see how far this goes.