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I used a metal resizer to keep my wedding ring on, then a year or so after I started maintenance I found a local jeweler that did lessons, together we made a sterling silver band to fit inside the wedding ring, so it was resized by adding another layer rather than taking some of the ring away and making it smaller. If you…

Sunday 2nd June. Too much wine with dinner turned a good day into an unplanned pass day. Mon 3rd June. Feeling rough after last night's wine, but otherwise I was on track with 3 x yes. Back on track. Summary: 1 x pass, 2 x non-pass

Back for the third month, the ultimate aim of course is to get in the winners circle, but I'll settle for being mostly good and matching last month's split of pass and non pass days. Kicking off with a non-pass day for 1st June!

I made it to the end of the month, posting late due to tech issues (steam powered iPad wouldn't keep MFP open long enough to post). The last 2 days of the month were non-pass days, bringing me to 18 non-pass days and 13 pass days. Better than last month, not too bad considering 5 of those 13 were planned, or that's what…

I've missed a couple of days...... Mon 27/5 Planned pass day as I wasn't going to track the family BBQ, but I made sure I wasn't a pig except for the crudités while it was all cooking. Tues 28/5 Leftovers caused me to be 200 calories over, and then I had a snack before bed. Wed 29/5 3 x yes. I'm so far outside I don't…

Sunday 26/5 Pass day, I didn't track dinner. Monday 27/5 Another pass day, planned this time. I've just logged my food for the day so far, I'm not logging dinner, we're having a family BBQ. 13 pass days, 14 non-pass days. Neck and neck again.

24 May, Friday 3 x yes 25 May, Saturday 3 x yes, thanks to a bike ride that earnt me sufficient calories so that my attack of the 'munchies' didn't send me over. That's 11 pass days, 14 non-pass days. Will I be able to keep it up today? Tomorrow is a planned pass day, not that I'm going to be a total pig, just that I won't…

This is Fred, Fred was 13 last Sunday, he walked 8 miles with me today! He takes his sleeping VERY seriously! Checking in..... Monday 20/5 3 x yes Tuesday 21/5 3 x yes Wednesday 22/5 3 x yes Thursday 23/5 3 x yes I am on a roll, I seem to have got my head round this this week. 11 pass/12 non-pass days, I think that's the…

19/5 Sunday The least said about it the better. I was doing well up until after dinner when I said to hubby there's either chocolate cake (which I don't eat, unless I've had a bit too much wine) or cheese and biscuits for pudding. He chose the cheese and biscuits as he could then open a fresh bottle of wine. So I ate…

Checking in: not done it an ages! 15th I was all set to check in, but decided not to ruin everyone's NSV-day-parade with a winge. I felt really rough when I got home from work so went for a walk rather than the planned run, ate and logged dinner and was 35 calories over, discovered that the Garmin hadn't uploaded that…

Tuesday 3 X yes, it was a good day, I even had sufficient calories left in the evening to finish off the pot of Horlicks so it didn't need packing!

Are you copying me? Checking in for the last 3 days. Saturday was a pass day. It started off with a larger than normal breakfast due to clearing out/packing up the kitchen (that last bit of muesli was bigger than my normal portion would be but not sufficient to warrant keeping the pot going for yet another day, I wanted to…

My second non-pass day! I am on a roll!! 😆 I know why though, it's coz MFP/Garmin doesn't steal back the swimming calories coz the HRM doesn't work under water, if I hadn't gone for the swim I'd be reporting another pass day.

I don't interact much, but do spend the time to read through everyone's posts. @ForAmanda222 walk to school week? I have a collection of badges my daughter earned. It's a good way of getting the kids walking to school. I can finally report a non-pass day for May!!!! 3 X yes, whoopeeeee! Now let's see if I can make it 2 in…

And another pass day for me! That's 9/9 so far, what do I win if I manage all 31????😜😜 Seriously though.... 4 mile run, kept busy at work, 2 1/2 mile dog walk, 25k total steps, but according to MFP/Garmin 1600 cals was 50 too many! 🙁 And I've managed to bugger up my shoulder somehow. Don't know if I slept on it funny or…

Pass day 7 for me. Although I was sensible, did plenty of exercise (ran, walked, kept busy at work so final step count was 26k+, took my new bike out for an hour) I still finished 26 calories over!!! Am I regretting that macaron that daughter took it into her head to buy a box of, YES! I know they're not nice, that they're…

Thanks, will have a good look after work.

I ride a hybrid, yes when we go out for club rides I'm generally at the back. I keep getting told I would go faster with less effort if I had a road bike (drop handlebars) but quite frankly my hybrid has similar gearing, frame geometry and weight as the road bikes so I really don't understand what the difference is. I did…

@MadisonMolly2017 There are online yoga classes? This sounds interesting, would you have any links to good ones? I'm finally checking in for he first time this month, it's been pass days so far, I've been away for a long weekend in Paris. Exercise has happened, Saturday was the big day with 39,000 steps up and down the…

Congratulations to all of you in the circle, and further congrats to those who've not made it but still checked in each day. Checking in for the last day of April. I've not hit the winners' circle but will be coming back next month (though with 4 planned pass days in the first week I won't be in the circle again). As of…

Checking in for Sunday and Monday. Sunday was a good day until the half bottle of wine and remains of daughter's b'day cake (though I did take remedial measures beforehand and took a couple of slices of cake up to my mum's before dinner), so that's another pass day. Monday was a good day with 3 x yes.

I am so far over my pass days that the winners' circle is not even in view! This was one of the 2 planned pass days, my baby's 21st birthday! We went out for dinner and after there was cake, cake with buttercream icing, vanilla buttercream! Buttercream is my downfall, or at least good buttercream is, I've had some…

I was hoping to post yesterday as a non-pass day, having run and walked a decent distance and generally kept going (29k steps) I finished the day having eaten just over 1600 cals, with 12 spares left over. I went to bed about half an hour early, with a book. Unfortunately I must not move or fidget or twitch in my sleep…

I've not checked in since Monday, put me down for a couple of pass days (including today, there was cake at work, there still is, but having had a slice I can now resist). I've been bad at logging and did my 'pigging out' for my logging last night, this is what I really need to get under control.

I should've checked in here yesterday just before bed, I would have been able to say 3 X yes. I was close to being over calorie budget so went for an after dinner walk to earn a few spares and account for the apple I'd eaten after dinner. When I went to bed I was 15 calories under budget, yay! My Garmin has just sync'ed,…

Planned pass day as it was a family party for my BIL's 60th birthday. I ate too much, drank too much and had great fun playing with the kids on the bouncy castle! Garmin reckons I burnt about 3000 calories! I've been dreaming of Victoria sponge since seeing slices of one for sale at the swimming pool cafeteria, so between…

I came here thinking that confessing to pass days too often would keep me on track and yet here I am recording another one. Exercise was good, food choices were good up to the half bottle of wine with dinner; I'm so glad I let the lady behind me have that last bottle of 'Baileys' on the shelf in tesco yesterday, so at…

Checking in for Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday was a good day, 3 X yes Thursday not so good. 2 x yes and a no. Exercise was a yes, 6 mile run and 3 mile walk with the dog and a friend. A pub lunch to celebrate finishing our book, 50 walks in London, fish and chips (shared with the dog), logged as an IKEA meal as it…

Yesterday was a hard day, after being very comfortably under my calorie goal on Monday I just felt extra hungry yesterday. When I had eaten (and logged) an extended lunch, logged half of dinner and realised I only had 100 calories left and my stomach was telling me it was still hungry I gave myself a stiff talking to and…

Exercised: yes, used the bike for commuting Calories: easily, with the biking I even managed to sneak a couple of hot cross buns and still came well under budget Tracking: yes, even the HXBs