Hurrah for the weekend! I've had a seriously long week as it sounds like everyone else has as well. Looks to be a busy weekend too. The blah weather has hit again and they are predicting some rain today so I'm hoping my tennis lesson doesn't get rained out. Either way I'm still planning to hit the gym later. As much as I would like to go for a run I think I need to do something more low impact like the elliptical after how my ankle was hurting the other day. It feels fine today, but I think I will give it another days rest just to be safe. At any rate I've got a saturday full of exercise and errands planned and tomorrow of course is mother's day which will keep me busy as well.

Hope everyone's weekend is off to a good start!

Good morning!

I joined the Eat More To Weigh Less group and read so much of the info there and many resources mentioned, and I've decided to give it a try. Three weeks ago I had started the south beach diet and lost five pounds the first week. The second week was tough because I didn't eat as much as I should have and I was very cranky. Then I made sure to eat all the food and started to slowly add back in the carbs but never felt right. I decided that I would have no more than three good starches and one fruit every day and have felt so much better. Now that I want to try the EMTWL idea I'm going to try to get in the 40% carbs but keep them at healthy carbs as much as possible. The idea of SBD for healthy carbs/less sugar can still be easily incorporated into eating more. So far I have not had cravings for sweet stuff past the first three days of SBD and have only had sweets in the form of fruit, stevia, 2tbsp honey, and one yoplait light when the lack of carbs got to me. For someone with a huge sweet tooth this is a major accomplishment. I even had a fresh baked cookie stare me down for an hour the other night but I didn't eat it. I realized that I didn't crave the cookie and only wanted it because it was there.

Anyway... I hope all of you are having a great weekend!

~Amanda

We managed to get out on a bike ride - hubby fixed his puncture this morning, and did various other bits of maintenance to everyone's bikes. So after lunch we went through the woods by our house and around the village at the other side, about an hour in total. It would probably have been quicker if DS2 had decided to ride his bike rather than push it most of the way. I nearly fell off on one of the really muddy parts, but managed to dismount and catch my bike before we both landed on the ground. Getting my confidence back, I was about 12 last time I rode a bike!

It probably isn't the done thing to consume exercise calories in the form of a large glass of wine, but it is the weekend! I still have a reasonable deficit...

Might paint the hallway tomorrow - I'll see how I feel...

Glad to have some more EMTWL peeps on here! I did strength training this am then played a little tennis tonight....but I had a huge lunch at a great cookout and then ice cream tonight with the fam after tennis. But I'm only over by a little. I actually gained a pound this week (TOM) but my body fat went down a half of a %! So I'm retaining fluid and losing fat and gaining muscle....I can deal with that.

I've had a really LAZY day - although I have stuck to my calorie allowance (even a little under, but above my BMR!) Hubby finally built the flat-pack bookcases that have been sat in the hallway for nine months, and I have filled them up with books! Just trying to persuade him to get rid of a few, as we still have more books than we have space for!

If the weather is good tomorrow, I'm going out for a bike ride on my own! If it's raining, I will stay in a do the ironing and play on the Wii. The scales may have been stubborn lately, but I'm feeling pretty good!

Just need to get over the Monday morning feeling tomorrow and I'll be fine!