paid my deposit today, almost didn't because of 'discussions'!

Jill, hope you're feeling better. I guess it's nice to know that it's a general fiancee thing rather than any of our specific significant others that they aren't all that interested in wedding planning and it falls on us. I figure the "discussions" are good practice for marriage; they're going to happen, the important part is that afterwards, you still want to spend the rest of your life with the other person.

On a goals front. I completely failed on workouts this week. I'm hoping tonight and tomorrow morning, but haven't done a real workout since Saturday :-( . On the up side, I've been pretty good on food and actually seen some great losses on the scale (only 0.6 away from goal for the month this morning). I'm hoping I don't blow it all this weekend (tailgate for football game tomorrow, then going away with fiancee until Tuesday). Planning at least one good hike during the vacation and the resort has a gym so hopefully will balance the tailgating.

Can you believe, I STILL have my headache. I feel like it might be responding a little bit to meds now. I was shocked that Tylenol 3's didn't seem to help at all. I've debated going to a dr, but it's not severe enough to really put me out of commission...still able to work and all. If I keep my head still it's ok, but if I bend over it's almost unbearable. If it continues a few more days, I'll def have to see a dr about it.

Great job on the food and the loss so far! This morning I was 0.6lbs away from my August goal, too. So close!
I'm going to use the 29th (tomorrow) as my final weigh in for the month because that makes it 4 weeks and I also might not be able to weigh on the 31st.

Where are you going on vacation? Have a wonderful time tailgating and during your time away with the fiancé.

I have a coworker who recently got married and her man was way more into the wedding planning than she was, but I think that's pretty rare. For their engagement, he had her change into a dress that he'd had custom made. Like, what?! I think we are all experiencing the more typical fiancé behaviour. A big thing for me was to just come to terms with what kind of support I should expect from my fiancé versus my sister or my girlfriends. By adjusting my expectations, I've avoided getting disappointed during the wedding planning. Feeling like he didn't help me in any way was one of my big issues with him from the early days of our relationship, and he hasn't really changed, but my definition of "help" has changed with respect to him, and that has made all the difference. Don't know if that made much sense, but yeah, basically we can't expect our guys to be as involved because they simply don't care about all the little details like we do.

Week 4 update:
Goal: continue walking to and from work and try to keep averaging 20,000 steps each weekday
w1: my weekday average was 18,510, so not bad.
w2: I was over 20,000 3 days, and around 15,000 on the other two days.
w3: I think I only hit 20,000 once, maybe twice, this week, but did more than 10,000 each day, so that's ok. Weather wasn't good, and it was a busy week. Didn't get any runs or other workouts at all, so I want to try to pick it up a little more.
w4: I didn't get to 20,000, but did hit 15-19,000 every weekday this week. No other exercise though.

Goal: stick to my calorie limits all weekdays (I'm a bit more lenient on the weekends)
w1: I stayed under my limit Monday-Friday. woohoo! I'm going to really try to stick to this all month, and try to keep at least 1 weekend day totally on goal.
w2: Success! I went crazy over last Saturday, but stuck to my limit since then.
w3: Success! I stuck to goal every day except Sunday, when I went out for brunch and dinner. Since it wasn't a binge, I'm ok with it.
w4: I went over on Tuesday. I'd done well all day and then snack attacked in the evening. Did pretty well the rest of the week in terms of calories, but not really nutrition.
- SW 137, GW 134
w1: 136!
w2: 134.8
w3: 136 I'm up a bit, but it's my TOM, so I'm not going to stress. I've been feeling super bloated all week and was up to 138 some days, so if I'm good this weekend, I think I should be ok by next week. I hope!
w4: 135.8 Kinda disappointed that I'm almost 2 lbs over goal and lost only a lb all month. I've seen 134 a few times during the month, so today's weigh-in might have been up due to water retention or whatever. I know it's just a tiny difference on the scale, but I was still pretty disappointed to see that number on the scale when I was really hoping to hit my goal. Gotta tighten things up in September, for sure!