Hello everyone! Almost the weekend - yay!

So, I was MIA yesterday, but with good reason. Spent the morning at a work seminar on health reform . . . try not to be jealous. Then I took the rest of the day off to take my son out for a celebratory lunch. Yesterday was officially his last day of elementary school. My baby is anything but . . . he'll be in 6th grade this fall, a middle-schooler. That's so strange for me . . . not just because it doesn't seem like he should be that old, but because when I was his age, 6th grade was still elementary school! *sigh* He's so proud, and I'm proud of him. Just hope he learns some organization and self-motivation skills over the summer . . . he'll need them at the new school!

I didn't touch any of the tempting pastries or breakfast sammiches at the seminar - just stuck with green tea, bottled water, and even brought my own baggie of almonds to nibble. :happy:

We went to lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings - I did have fries, but I also had "naked tenders" with fat free mango habenero on the side and a veggie boat with fat free ranch. Still made it to the gym in the evening.

I'm working towards upping my calories again and increasing protein while decreasing fat - macros of 40/35/25. Yesterday was nearly perfect, except I underestimated my workout and netted under BMR. :ohwell: But not by much - maybe 50 calories. Today I'll be over BMR, but under the new calories goal (which I need to update). I'm hoping I'll see more "slimming" by making these changes . . . we'll see. I am wearing a dress today that I haven't worn for a while, so that's something.

Hiya gang, hope everyone's ok . Had a heck of a day today at work. After all the heat and panic of yesterday something had to be done. I came up with the only workable scenario. I was going to have to move 4 tonnes of fish to another section by hand. So armed with a net and my trusty water bottle (have drunk so much water today, what's the lethal amount?) i got on with it. And you know what. It felt really good to be out working in the sunshine. Plus that many fish is a heck of a workout. Just a shame i can't list it under exercise!
Did my weigh in this morning. I have reached and gone past my weight goal. I'm pleased clearly and have never felt better which is making such a difference in my day to day life. Thanks so much for everyones support. I came here out of curiosity and was welcomed for which i'm hugely grateful.

Paul, how hot was it?!? Congrats on surpassing your goals!

It's been 27 C here for the last couple of days which is about 80 degrees fahrenheit. Not the hottest it's ever been but to go from cold weather with frosts to it being like this really upset the fish. Has taken us a couple of days to get them calmed down.

Oh and thanks :-).

Hi all, another hot one in the UK and I have made the best of being outdoors! It was the boys' sports day this morning, so I went and walked around the playing field with my camera for an hour. No 1 son was well enough to take part, although he didn't put enough effort in according to some of his team-mates - but it was very hot. No 2 son wasn't putting 100% in either - didn't seem to understand WHY he needed to run! I then took my mother-in-law shopping - and she buys me naughty things like cream-filled meringues! In the afternoon, we retreated to the pub (again!) for a couple of drinks (one sparkling water, one diet Pepsi) with a twenty minute gap to walk and fetch the kids from school. To top it off this evening, I went to my Zumba class - most people had stayed away because of the heat, but more than 15 people in that room this evening would have been unbearable. Came home and had a protein-rich tea, now sipping a gin and tonic, but I know I need to go and shower! (TMI!!!)

Paul: congratulations on passing your goal! I can imagine that the fish wouldn't be happy with such a big range of temperature in a matter of days. Don't have any "official" confirmation of this, but when we rolled out of the pub at 4.30 our car said it was 31 C - which is high 80's farenheit. Question is: does the weather know there's a Bank Holiday around the corner? Probably. Most likely back to cold and damp by the beginning of June!!