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Its the best feeling! I hope it goes ok. I've spammed this everywhere now, but my ring arrived, I'm a crappy shot with my phone but: Unfortunately I did get stung with 20% VAT from the customs office and my poor love isn't here with me today, but its worth the wait/pennies

I have my hair cut every 4-5 weeks.. I have been going to a female hairdressers, despite being offered a few barber places for about 3-4 years now, simply because they did a good job and provided nice drinks/company. The problem recently has been that the lady who did my hair has gone from a regular hairdresser to the manager and the price went up from £26 to £38. For a pixie cut. In the end I now have a guy who does both barbering and haircutting come round my house and do it, really nice chap, think old rocker type. Does it for £15 every week. I actually highly recommend it, its at home, you can chill, I put the radio on and in 20 minutes he's done. Thank goodness.

This rings alarm bells simply because my friend has recently partially torn his achilles tendon. He mentioned its been a similar recovery, so maybe get checked out just in case? At any rate, its another new month, the weight seems to be peeling off fast again, I'll go weeks (usually 2 or so months if I'm truly honest) where my weight will stay consistent, which is good and sustainable and then suddenly it will drop in droves. Two scales now say 77.1 and 77.6 respectively, so I've now dropped a bit more since Monday, it means I've now nearly reached 19kg weight loss (40lbs/3 stone for those who work in other measurements), I'm really happy with that as I wanted to get to 76kg (12 stone) and see how I felt. I feel getting to 70kg (11 stone) is a nice healthy range, so 7 or so more kg to go Then its time to be making some GAINZ bois.

Managed 13 out of the mandatory 12 gym sessions a month in March. I want to get up to 4 sessions a week, not 3. Getting there slowly but endo kicks my ass at least 4-5 days a month now. Down to my lowest of 78.4, so 17.6kg down, just another 8.4 to go. I'm hoping within 2019. Its been slow progress, but steady, its too tempting to jump onto WW or slimming world to get the weight down quickly (for which I know I'll end up worse off eventually), argh.

Normally not into buying "branded" when it comes to my gym kit, but after last year, its time to get some decent kit that's going to last (compared to my primark/amazon kit).

We thought everything in the area was cheap, but only because in the UK the way me and my partner shop for things like that would be expensive regardless. We ended up taking over a £1000 in yen each, we came back without about half of that, because we thought it'd be far more expensive than it was.

My partner lost his mind over Super Potato @will' how we didn't come away with more stuff is amazing.

Geez, I hope you're doing alright @drahkon! This month is endometriosis month. Which is great, its a condition that occurs in 1 in 10 women and is pretty close to my heart. Recently women have been posting their scars from multiple surgeries, normally under the hashtag #thisisendometriosis. Its a hashtag that shows how it affects women and a lot of the posts are women showing their multiple (usually) surgery scars. However, jealousy is an ugly beast my friends. 99% of the women that have posted, whilst they do definitely have multiple scars, they are small, white and healed. My 6+ inch ugly, keloid scar plus the tiny white scars from surgery isn't something I mention often, I try to embrace it as much as I can, but god damn if it wasn't hard today.

We only went to Tokyo, but I'll reiterate perhaps what others have placed here. We went in October and we're already saving to go back again. 1. Get Google Maps - hands down, the reason me and my partner were able to do ANYTHING was because we were told to have this, it makes navigating the underground a piece of cake. If there's one thing I'll say to take note is this, honestly have so much appreciation for that app after our trip. 2. bob mentioned cards, Tokyo itself we didn't have much issue, but we brought quite a bit of yen just in case. There was a lot of opportunity for card if we wanted it. 3. We went go karting, highlight of our trip: https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/121104 we went with these guys and they were pretty good, we were told to do it at dusk and it did not disappoint. 4. Akiharbara was a highlight for us, we're both anime/manga fans and I found some items that were even hard to find in Japan! Super pleased. Notable places: Electric Town Club SEGA Arcade Taito Hey Arcade Super Potato 5. We went to an all you can eat korean bbq, pricey as hell, but worth it: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1066457-d1772739-Reviews-Rokkasen-Shinjuku_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html 6. Make sure to check out genki sushi, we went once and it was dirt cheap, we regret not going again: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1066456-d4234509-Reviews-Genki_Sushi_Shibuya-Shibuya_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html 7. Went to Metropolitan Government Observatory instead of Tokyo Tower because 1. it was less crowded and 2. its free. The views were stunning. We have loads more if you're stuck for ideas! I think you'll enjoy Tokyo and Japan in general, we got by with limit language and everyone was really nice (except the underground, I hated that). I'm jealous!

You should have all congratulated me for being alive and fucking amazing tbh. But you didn't, so you lot will get NOTHING. (obviously for anyone who doesn't see it - the above is a la joke)

+1 for PIA, been using it for a couple of years now at least, I enjoy that its easy to use, not expensive and doesn't hold my info

Aye you're right! I'm a lucky (if rather spoiled girl) and he proposed with a much cheaper ring on the day, so I can wear it in the mean time or on the days I don't want to get my ring damaged. We had spoken before about rings/proposals so thankfully it's worked out for both of us. Thank you everyone! 😍

...and just like that, I'm engaged. My ring that I'm currently waiting to be made:

I never even knew they existed! TIL I guess. Does anyone else seemingly suffer weird comments when it comes to weight loss? I have had more negativity my way with losing weight than I have ever had with my size. I had heard of this happening with people around you, but never realised that I would have this also. New lowest though - 79.4kg, 16.6kg down, 9.4kg to go til the "goal". Its been slow and steady over the last year, allowing me to drop down from a size 20 at my biggest to a size 14 (32 inch waist) now, woo!

I don't know what it is with Ariana recently, but I am here for it.

Aye, my current weight loss seems to suggest I'll be close to 70kg by this time next year, it'd be good if I can get before that. As for last year, up until the end of November it was a mix of compound exercises and going for walks at lunch. 3 to 4 times a week for an hour each time. Then a 30 minute walk each day. I got pretty bored of just doing weights in December and have been doing cardio only - so an hour 3 to 4 times a week instead, plus the walk at lunch time for work. I'm now going to start doing a mix of compound exercises and cardio :).

I'd agree, 4 or so days in Tokyo was enough for us, I wish we'd done another week for other places. We spent the last 3-4 hours deep cleaning the house. Why is this a good thing you ask? Because the house is CLEAN and my partner helped me do it, so it hasn't taken a fucking week for me to do. Phew.

Yes! Man going to Tokyo was STRESSFUL for me to organise for my partner last year, but its so ridiculously great. I really wish I had pushed to get us more time over there and explore more, but maybe next time.

Ah such goals! I'm looking forward to dipping in here and seeing how you guys get on. Well last year I dropped from 96kg I had in August 2017, Tuesday I weighed in and had dropped to 80.4kg. So a good 15.6kg loss. This year I really want to get to 70kg, so the push is real. At the moment I'm doing a lot of cardio, because I spent the whole of last year doing 3 to 4 sessions a week of pure weight lifting I decided to mix it up a bit. I must admit I am missing my compound exercises though! So perhaps in the next few weeks I'll get back to benching and deadlifting at least. Thankfully, the gym I go to whilst out of my way a tiny bit has everything I need, I wish I could join the boxing classes, but they are at a time that's really difficult for me to make - sadface. I'm excited however, to see if I can reach 70kg, something we worked out I have not been since before university (at which I would have been 17!!!), a healthy, reasonable weight to be. Although my gymming won't stop after I do reach that weight. 4 sessions down for this year - the rest of my life to go! ./waffle

I have the same reaction with Yodel. I swear to god they are out to get me.

From last year's thread: 1. Joined the gym way back in October 2017. In this old thread I wanted to consistently go. I did that! I on average went to the gym 3-4 times a week and lost 15kg. 5 more to go! 2. Live to 2018. Well, sending this beyond the grave, I meant a bit more than this at the time, but I started really addressing my mental health and doing more things, we went to the zoo, harry potter, japan, cotswolds etc etc. It was a good year for trips. I also started being more open and honest and this has earned me 2 payrises this year! 3. Skincare, heck yes! My skin is still a battle, but its SO much better than 2017/2018. This year Lose more weight. I lost enough to drop down a couple of dress sizes, so I now stand at 12 stone 9. Which aint too shabby. I'd love to get down a wee bit further so that I can level out. Be less worried. Did you know I'm a Taylor Swift fan? No? Probably not. I have yet to shake off the "I need to be cool", a knock off I learned in therapy from having some really shitty friends the last few years. So "Be less worried" is a general term to myself. Be more me and less what others want. Keep going with my mental health. In 2018 I went to therapy and it was a weird but really cool thing. I finally admitted after many, many years and 2017 that I really needed someone to speak too. I only did a certain amount due to money, but it was eye opening. I want to keep going and have less mental "blips" than I did late 2018. I genuinely hope that end of 2019 I have smashed the above like I did last year, I am so dang proud of myself for it, never thought I'd ever lose weight never mind anything else. Cheers!

Will do Animal! Honestly, I've been playing Red Dead quite a lot, but then someone bought me Spyro and the completionist in me came roaring back to life. Send help.

Think doggo got his revenge without you - good boy!

Will add you later my dear