Boohoo £50 Outfit Challenge.

Hey Girlies,

So i recently got contacted by Karen from Fashion Vouchers about a new blogger challenge that they were running.  This was being run as Boohoo had made it into the list of the "The top 10 fashion money saving websites".  So the challenge that they gave me was to create an outfit of your choice using the Boohoo Website for £50 or less.

I decided that i would keep my look pretty simple, as i like simple, casual and comfy outfits.

So my outfit consisted of:

Firstly i picked up the Andrea studded front leggings.  Leggings are a staple essential of mine and i find them so easy to wear as well as being casual they can also be dressed up too which is always a bonus, so instead of just typical black i got the studded ones to add a little bit of jazziness. These were £15.

Next up i got a graphic tee, skulls are nice and this drop has a drop hem at the back so it's good for flowing over leggings. £12.

Lastly some nice wedges, Wedges are amazing, i've always been a fan of them and they are so easy to wear as well.  These ones have a little cut out detail which is a nice accent to have. £20

Perfecto! That's my outfit 3 simple and staple items for a total of £47! :)

small haul

hey girlies !

so sorry for the lack of blog posts lately been busy with lots of stuff but now i'm back and i'll get stuff sorted and get back to bloggin'.

anyway thought i would share the a few little things i picked up the other day, it's nothing major just a small haul but here's what i got!

So i picked up 3 little sets of earrings from Primark for just £1 each as they were on sale. I couldn't say no really.

The top ones are based on British'ness and London and are really quite cute.
The second lot are little plastic neon ones that form the shaped of different fruits, really cute, but i will bypass the bananas as i can't stand them in real life and even looking at the earrings makes me go eww.

The third set are more of a tropical theme with parrots and sunglasses etc, these ones are really cute too.
And like i said £1 for 6 pairs is a bit of a steal!! :)

I also picked up this little ring from Dorothy Perkins, i've always been much more of a silver fan than a gold fan and this little ring caught my eye, i like hearts and i liked the deisgn of this it reminds me of a peace sign but just a different style, i got for a brgain price of 50p instead of £5 so bargain had!!

I also picked up this nip and fab smooth leg fixer from boots on the clearance rack, it was a totally random find and honestly i hadn't even heard of it before until i say it on the clearance rack haha, but i picked it up and sometimes my legs can dry out a bit and this is to help it.  I picked it up for £1.50 and it retails at £8 in boots so that was a good saving.

that was all i got aside from a new luffah and a new sponge haha.

seems i got a good load of bragins!

Ebay

selling a mix match of stuff on ebay!
have a wee look if you fancy it.
see it all here.

full of the cold

having the cold is one of the most annoying things as i always just end up in bed for days and feeling sorry for myself but i'm finding that pretty hard today for the sole trason that i am watching the paralympics and the athletes are sbsolutely inspirational and it makes me feel terrible that i moan about having the cold when these people almost lost their lifes but they have turned all the negatives into positives and have become complete role models.

So instead i've just got cosy in fluffy jammies popped the decongestion tablets and had a toddy so hopeful i sweat it out in the night and i'll be over it by Monday!!

anyway here's all the luck to the Paralympic athletes!

getting there

So the healthy eating is still going strong, been having smaller portions too and i've cut down on my snacking specially crisps i have maximum two packets now and usually i could munch crisps haha.

I've also been keeping to nice snacks, like krisprolls or crackers and stuff, also been eating soup and a much smaller dinner and it keeps me much more full :)

I've not stopped myself from eating anything and i still have my all my carbs and cakes too, and fizzy juice because without that stuff life is boring.  So i don't see the point in locking it away when instead you can just cut it down like one glass of fizzy juice instead of maybes the whole bottle and stuff like that! :)

Still keeping up with the exercising too.  Been Wii fitting it every night at 8pm, and i have the weekends off and i do my work-out DVD on Sundays before i go in the bath. it doesn't sound much but i enjoy it.  So far come this morning i had lost just shy of 3 pounds in 2 weeks which i think is pretty good, like i say i'm by no means overweight i just wanted to slim areas and tone up and it's definitely starting to work, and next week i am going to go join the gym so i can do the classes and stuff but i won't be overdoing it because one i will be a gym bunny and two i do not wish to become stick thin and three after watchin 24 hours in A&E and that poor girl getting her leg muscles chopped out because a spin class left her with poisioned legs i would never touch a spin class again in my life plus the fact last time i did one my arms were bruised for weeks with those stupid bar things you need to rest on.

So yeah just a quick update that health and fitness is going goooooood!!

 :)

fitness.

So since i haven't signed up to the gym yet i got out my Wii and have been doing Wii fit for the past 4 days and it's actually really good, i honestly should have started doing this sooner.

I'm not overwieht but i have gained weight by just sitting about the house eating so i decided i would lose these pounds and just get fit and tone up, and to be quite frank i'm not a fan of sloggin for hours in the gym, i prefer to go have a full on hour class and even the Wii makes its all really fun.
I prefer the fun way to exercise so that you don't feel like your excerising and your having a good time, as when i go to the gym i'm bored within the hour or actual fact i'm bored after about 10 minutes of watching girls clad in a full face of make-up and tiny shorts prancing around adoring themselves in the mirror, and guys as orange as tango, making ridiculous noise and flexing themselves in the mirror then there is me, a sweaty red mess sans make-up huffin and puffin like a granny in the corner, that just puts me off the gym, so at least in your own home you can look as ridic as you want as it's only you who sees youself and you have no ridiculous people surrounding you and making you feel even more self conscious than you already do.  Plus when i go to the gym i spend more time watching the tvs that are built into the machines than actually doing any exercise.

So i took up the Wii, so far i have been doing an hour a day on the Wii Fit and an hour of Zumba for the Wii each day too, as well eating a bit more healthy than i usually do.

So 4 days ago i was 8st 6lbs and had a BMI of 19.57
Today i am almost down 8st 5, i'm about 3 wee bits over still, and my BMI is down to 19.20
so steady does it as they say.
since i have been doing it each day my muscles don't ache as much as after day one i could hardly lift my arm haha, but i'm all good again.

I have also purchased a work out DVD that i will do on a sunday just to change things up.

plus hopefully my zumba class starts up again soon and i'll get back to that!!

I'm eating healthier too and tring to cut out silly snacks, so instead of crisps i had a krisproll with some ham and cucumber :)

I don't believe in diets i honestly think they just hamper you, yes they work as a quick fix not a life long diet and nutritional plan.  My motto is moderation, everything in moderation.  It's so stupid to cut out treats, because it leads you to want them all the more, so have a treat all be it once day a week or just have a biscuit it's not going to put a pound on, you can eat what you want, you just do it in smaller portions and eat food that will keep you going, slow releasing carbs, yes carbs, they are not the end of the world.
Cut out carbs and you replace it with something else, thats what diets do, cut out one things and pile in loads of other bad things, there is no miracle cure and everything is bad for you these days, so suck it up eat what you like all be it in a sensible manner and do some light exercise everyday even if its half an hour, sitting down you can still exercise so try it.

This is just a silly post about me trying new exercise things, it's not a moan nor something i intend anyone to follow.

The Healthy Side of life...

So i deicded i should probably start doing something with all this time off i have instead of just eating, sleeping and watching terrible tele.
So low and behold i decided i would go and re-join the gym and surprisingly it was actually not badly priced at £20pm.  Plus my brother goes to the gym too, so i can tag along with him, and everyone is getting back to work and uni soon so it will give me something to do during the day plus all the people i don't like won't be there as they'll be at work or whatever so i'll have free rain to go and do what i want and look like a beetroot without any judgement.

So i also thought once i get back to the gym i should probably start eating slightly better, don't get me wrong i don't have a really bad diet, i don't eat takeaways very often actually it's once in a blue moon, even with subway and McD's etc i hardly eat in those places unless it's just a quick lunch and even then it's only a burger and chips as i don't eat the caloric stuffed stuff coz i'm still a bit fussy aha.

So last night i decided there really is nothing better than a stir fry to kick off the good healthy kick and i adore a stir fry, just because you can put in it what you want and you make it to taste, it's just the best, plus you know exactly what you are eating.
Last night i made myself and mum n dad a stir fry and not to boast but it was soooo nice, and they are so easy and quick to make, if anything the preperation takes a while, but i found the easy way out but the pre prepared stuff if you can't be bothered because really it's not that expensive.

This was my stir fry:

So i'll give you guys a quick run down on what i used.

2x bags of beansprouts
2x rolls of straight to wok noodles.
carrots that i ribboned
syboes (salad onion)
1 red onion
4x pak choi, green leaves only
1x red pepper
1xyellow pepper
1xgeen pepper
1 bag of sugar snap peas
1 bag of baby sweetcorn
1 tin of bamboo shoots
1 tin of water chesnuts
1 half of shredded cabbage (white  / red)
2x diced chicen breast
mushrooms ( a handful)

that what was i used,
firstly i put in sesame oil for taste with 2 cloves of chopped garlic and 1 bit of ginger grated, this automatically gives flavour and gives the taste to the oil which will be carried through, add in the veggies in accordance with what takes longest etc, pak choi and syboes last as they just get a swish and no more of they will go soggy, add in soy sauce to add taste, then oyster sauce which coats it and also gives it the full flavour, let it boil through then ta dah Dinner!!

So lets see how long my healthy lasts, but i will still be eating what i want, i don't cut out and i don't diet it's pointless, as when you cut out one thing you pile in other bad things, so moderation its whats it is all about.

:)