Oh Julie I'm so sorry you're not feeling well. I hope that passes soon.

What are everyone's weekend plans? Come Monday morning, what do you want to be able to say you accomplished?

I'm going to see The Fault in Our Stars tomorrow in the early afternoon. I love the book and I've loved the author, John Green, and his brother, Hank Green, for years. They have several youtube channels (including CrashCourse, which is AP class lessons), but they started out with just one in 2007. They're hilarious, empathetic, intelligent, and just a joy to watch. I've made a lot of good friends through the fan community because it attracts lots of good people. I'm so excited that there's a major film coming out based on one of John's books!

When the weekend is over, I want to be able to say that I stayed under my calorie goal (which I have had trouble with on the weekends) and that I finished W4D2 of C25k without feeling as rough as I did yesterday for Day 1.

My goal for this weekend is not to carb binge. No all night parties with Mr. Oreo or any in his family or friends' circles. I went out to a Mexican restaurant last night and managed to stay under carbs, so I will do it again!

- Carly in OK

P.S. Sending positive healing energy to anyone not feeling their best. (huggles)

Morning all,

No big plans this weekend. Have done my meal plan for the next couple of days though so I am pretty sure it will be ok as long as I stick to it We live in an apartment so tomorrow while the in laws are out and DH is looking after the place (they run a small old folks home) Dean and I are going to head over there, fill up the paddling pool and use their grill for burgers at lunchtime, and steak and salad or corn for dinner. Also letting myself have a piece of the strawberry and cream victoria sponge cake I have frozen in the freezer tomorrow. Sunday despite the weather I think I am going to do a Pork roast with yorkies and all the trimmings, a bit of England Today Dean and I are having light cool whip, strawberries and crepes for lunch and quiche and salad for dinner. THe only danger is if MIL has icecream sandwiches in her freezer lol. I love those! I am going to try making my own in the next couple of weeks, a recipe for light chocolate chip cookies then a spoon of light cool whip between two.

OOps that is a lot of talk about food sorry!!! I just find the more I talk about a plan the more it sets into my mind so I can stick to it. I talk to my DH about meal plans too and he kinda glazes over and does the uh huh thing lol.

My back is a little better today thankfully! Going to try a little exercise today either some YOga or a slow walk, not sure would be best yet. Ok better get the work done I am putting off. Happy Friday all. Karen be a good girl!

Natasha

Norah - You'll have to tell us what you thought of the movie! That was my first John Green book, and I loved it. I'm really cheap, so I probably won't be seeing the movie until it comes out in the dollar theater (assuming there even still is one around here; haven't checked in a while). Then again, maybe I can work that into some sort of weight loss goal. Track every day and stay under and then I get to go? I don't know. I'll figure out. But you've given me a good idea for how to reward myself in a way that doesn't involve food, so thanks!

Hello everyone! Well I am slacking off in checking in, just been so busy with the kids home for the summer, so I will be sporadic, sorry! I had a bad 2 days, went way over in calories and I hate it. However, I am not going to beat myself up, I just log it and move on as we now say, right??!

I am trying to do better today, but I feel like I am in a slump, but right now, I still have1135 cals left for the day, so hopefully between dinner and an afternoon snack I will stick to it. I haven't done much walking the last few days because of all the rain. It's raining right now I did do about 25 mins of total gym last night, so that was some strength training I need. I tweaked my knee somehow though so I didn't get to do the cardio like I wanted. Hoping tonight.

We don't have any real big plans for the weekend, just cleaning up around the house, meal planning/grocery list planning for next week. I have a love/hate relationship with meal planning lol I want to scour some thrift stores too for a dresser for my little one. Her's is broke and only has 2 useable drawers so she needs it bad. I will try to check back in with everyone in the thread a bit later today.

Frances

My day has just started. I'm about to leave for a client so I'm figuring out what I will do for breakfast and lunch.

Tomorrow I will be going to the farmers market and then a bike safety class (who can turn down a free reflective vest and a goodie bag). The rest of the weekend will be spent working and hoping a potential new client doesn't email back and the pain in the *kitten* that has been dealing with them goes away.

Patrick, what do you do for these clients? Are you designing graphics for them? logos?

The strawberries I JUST bought have gone bad. The plums I just bought are sour.

My strawberries went bad too!!

Good day every one. Sorry I've not been around much, though I have been reading and keeping up with all of you. I've been in a very weird place the last few days and trying to keep the depression away. Most of it is a result of our financial situation and the fact that Michael just doesn't seem to understand we're broke. Food stamps finally came in today so we'll have food in the house for at least a bit. It gets harder and harder to make the food stretch. I know having the same foods over and over at the end of the month gets old but there's not much I can do about it. My food has been all over the place.....from eating too much to eating too little. Today's been a little better so maybe I'm finally on the upswing.

Sorry to hear about those not feeling well. Hope you're feeling better soon. Congratulations to those of you that lost weight. You're doing great. Karen, your binge after finding out that you finally qualified for surgery is actually kind of normal. A lot of people panic over the fact that there are so many of their favorite foods they won't be able to eat anymore. Maybe in your subconscious that's what was going on. Hoping you can get past it and everything works out for your next weigh in.

As for the weekend, no real plans here but that's nothing new. Most exciting thing I will do is a couple loads of laundry and maybe clean the apartment. WhooHooo, real excitement, lol. Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Good day every one. Sorry I've not been around much, though I have been reading and keeping up with all of you. I've been in a very weird place the last few days and trying to keep the depression away. Most of it is a result of our financial situation and the fact that Michael just doesn't seem to understand we're broke. Food stamps finally came in today so we'll have food in the house for at least a bit. It gets harder and harder to make the food stretch. I know having the same foods over and over at the end of the month gets old but there's not much I can do about it. My food has been all over the place.....from eating too much to eating too little. Today's been a little better so maybe I'm finally on the upswing.

Sorry to hear about those not feeling well. Hope you're feeling better soon. Congratulations to those of you that lost weight. You're doing great. Karen, your binge after finding out that you finally qualified for surgery is actually kind of normal. A lot of people panic over the fact that there are so many of their favorite foods they won't be able to eat anymore. Maybe in your subconscious that's what was going on. Hoping you can get past it and everything works out for your next weigh in.

As for the weekend, no real plans here but that's nothing new. Most exciting thing I will do is a couple loads of laundry and maybe clean the apartment. WhooHooo, real excitement, lol. Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Hang in there sweets! My hubs is the same way. I'm skipping my breathing meds this month but he splurged on pizza last night. Then again, I splurged on beer so we are both kind of irresponsible.

I hope you find something fun to do. Some new nature to explore. If you have a camera or picture phone I would love to see some shots of the beauty in your part of the world. I know you do a lot of walking. :-)