@Pearl4686 Good one! Thanks for getting it in early - now you don't have to worry about it. Well done, too!

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I thought February would be my reset month, that I would be able to recommit to exercise and good choices, but here we are already half way through and I haven't picked up a free-weight yet, and my commitment to my physio exercises to correct my hip problem has already dwindled.

I'm losing sleep over guilt and upset that I'm putting my goals aside out of laziness and pressure from my spouse to help on his projects instead of my own priorities. He thinks I look great and that I should just be happy with where I am. Should I be? Am I putting too much emphasis on a number or a dress size?

The Call of the Shoulds! They are always coming back to pester and bebother us. Exercises we should do. Pounds we should lose. Physio we know we should do. Husbands who don't think we should mess with perfection! It is a tough mess every time it hits. Maybe the priorities aren't needing a number tied to them right now? The physio sounds to me like it should be high on the list. Maybe picking one single thing to do for a bit will help. A good sit down with each should, a pencil, and no outside influence messing with what you want could help. Spring weather coming along sometime in the next months could help. But lying awake worrying is no fun at all. Give the "pick one thing and do it" a try and see how it goes. But #1 thing to take off your pile of worries is the team stats. If the weighing in and seeing where it goes helps YOU, do it. If you need to step away from the numbers for a bit, do that. And always accept all the hugs and compliments from OH and all of us!

Wow - it looks like our winds here were mere zephyrs compared with the UK - hope all of you over there are OK!

Food supplies, hoarders, kits - it's a crazy world! I'm enjoying being able to paw through my freezer a bit more easily, but now it is getting to that stage of the winter when I have used up a lot of the stuff I find easiest to slap into a recipe, and now there are lots of all the the things I use less. Apples and applesauce, whole tomatoes, way way way too much zucchini... I'll get back to zucchini bread/muffins/stir fries, apple crisp, fresh tomato sauces. It will all be gone by the time the new garden is making anything useful, I hope! I'm with you @ashleycarole86 on the food waste - it is truly a nightmare.

Weigh-in day question. Is it good to let weigh-in day be a bit of a party if you have lost some weight? I still do it, even after all these years. Fridays are for a bit of indulgence, as long as I have kept under my top maintenance weight. When I was losing, weigh-in day was always free day, but only if I had a loss that week, no matter how tiny. I think we all have that tendency to celebrate losing by letting loose. I don't think that is terrible, as long as it is only one day. The strict return the next day involves a lot of the "I don't have to have it just because I want it" thing. I still totally enjoy the feeling of whooping it up a bit for one day. A really big loss in one week was always cause for a week at maintenance to avoid bounce-back. I know @metaphysicalstudio has mentioned overdoing it when the scale # is good - but that is not a terrible thing. As long as it has boundaries.

Another week ending! We have not hit anywhere close to an average of 1 pound per person this week, but I have big hopes for next week And there are still many weigh-ins to go. I think there must be people without power from the storms and all, but hopefully everything will be up and running soon.

Week 3 remaining weigh-ins:
@KellyBgetsFit
@evangsimmons170
@mmarceau2
@Steph1498
@Micki48
@gak71
@conleywoods
@bonnie_red
@ells_bellz
@kellie_erin
@veronica1359

Thanks!