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@clicketykeys - and anyone else interested, the link to the Hogwarts challenge! http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10563559/hogwarts-weight-loss-challenge-term-15-8-week-challenge#latest @Locolady98 - welcome! @HGSmith0920 - hope all is going ok at work :). Sounds good that you are in a better branch now with…

@clicketykeys - I thought the next Harry Potter/Hogwarts term challenge was open to new students now but I can't find it on the forums so I've asked a friend if they have the link. Basically, it's a HP themed weight loss challenge - I've only been in for one term but it was a serious lot of fun, nice and competitive and…

@gymprincess1234 - congratulations on your PB - that's an awesome achievement! @clicketykeys - hope you get your quiet day! Well done on the 20k steps - I got one of those days in a couple of weeks ago and really felt it! @evamutt - glad your husband is doing better right now. Hope this continues for many years for you…

Hello good people! I'm still here - suffering from a severe lack of motivation this week. I've travelled into the office for 4 days in a row (a 3 hour round trip) which hasn't helped. Going to stop thinking about logging this weekend as we've got friends coming for lunch tomorrow (early celebration for my birthday on…

Nicole - welcome back, it's good to see you! I hope you and hubby can continue to work things through. Thank you for your thoughts - thankfully, I don't know anyone involved but it's just so grim - I hate what our world is turning into. @clicketykeys - what a horrible experience. I had some nasty experiences with blood…

Jen - boo! That's lousy. Hopefully it won't come to you havning to move but if it does these things often open up new oportunities - a little bit of a cliche but it is often true. Hope the competition results went well for you last night! You are very right about the development checks - we are lucky to have them and I do…

@melaniedscott - hope you got your walk in! Jen - hang in there, as @evamutt says, we all have bad times. You have come so far and done so much and you have clearly lovely kids who think the world of you. So be kind to yourself - but don't give up girl!!! Happy to listen via PM if you need to. Rachel - what a great…

After a week and a half of stressful hell with the parents and a workload at work to kill anyone off, I think I'm back! I haven't sorted the parents cos I'm not sure I can but I'm providing what support I can and trying to make sure that it doesn't impact my husband and son and our life too badly. On the plus side, I…

Jen - not the most awesome set of advice from them, no! Nothing that I hadn't already considered - and one thing that just made me think - you're not listening to what I'm saying! I have told my husband as I'm not prepared to keep secrets - and he could tell something was up anyway! Going to chill over the weekend - I'm…

@HGSmith0920 - I so sympathise with you on the issue of budget. It is awful how even a few changes can wreak such chaos on a carefully planned budget and it is one of the things that has the capacity to scare me and stress me out badly if I give it the chance. Good for you for grabbing your Dad - sometimes we just need to…

Rachel - what a brilliant job you've done over the weekend! You will be fine at the conference - all your pre-planning will pay off and put you in a really great place. Jen - sounds like you are rocking things as well. Squat challenge - I think that's a great idea. I want to do something more serious to my upper body - arm…

So glad it's Friday - we have a bank holiday in the U.K. so it's a 3 day weekend. Going to focus on getting healthy and hit things hard again next week. Hope all have lovely weekends

Still here, still coughing!! Jen - good for you having such a positive day - and wow, that's a lot of steps. Rachel - pre-logging is such a good idea and one that I need to get back to.

@lallybc - Welcome! Support is always available on this thread :). Sounds like you are getting a few things sorted out - take it step by step and you will make progress. Rachel - surviving the week is about the extent of it here as well! You are doing really well on the competition - bet the SO doesn't know what has hit…

@melaniedscott - glad the rehab is going well. You are doing so well with the exercise - even if you did nothing else that day, you got some serious work in there so you were productive, don't be too hard on yourself! @Evamutt - good going on the zumba! It is something that I would love to try but I'm so very uncoordinated…

Joy - ha, I'll look it up - I'm on the hunt for something different to read, getting tired of going for the same kind of book every time! Well done for avoiding the muffins - my manager is constantly bringing food into the office (and it's not healthy stuff) and I have a daily fight to not partake. However, I have found…

Shy - good to see you back! Hope the training is going well and that the pressure of it starts to ease - I hate it when you get to the end of the day with a headache brought about by work, it happens more often than I like. Joy - good to see you back too! I sympathise with the feeling of funk and needing to get back in the…

I'm here - recovering from a lovely but very tiring Easter weekend! Jen: sorry you had such a bad day, hope today is treating you better. Rachel - good to see you back, hope the cold goes away for you soon!

Happy Easter all!

@melaniedscott - ridiculous isn't it, how we are affected like that by things and people that shouldn't bother us! And yes, where is everyone?? Understand about Rachel obviously but wow, it's quiet! Having said that, i will likely disapear for a couple of days. Busy Easter weekend coming up - play date tomorrow morning for…

Jen - RofR achieved yesterday - 15 minutes of insanity in the garden with Alistair - once I'd finished laughing at his effort to do a jumping jack :smiley: . Doing ok with the challenges so far this week - just need to get the Ninja workout in and submit some more points for our Quidditch match and I'll be pretty much up…

@lnewsome - welcome! I wish there was an easy answer on the sweet stuff. We try not to have it in the house for our two year old - but I totally understand what you would find that hard to do with your daughter. I think it's about having a balance of snacks so that you (and they) can make the nice, healthy choices as well!…

@melaniedscott - ha, I like the one of me, five thousand of you line - must remember that when too many people want a piece of me! The pancakes were fairly awesome and I was very careful with the amount of chocolate sauce that I had so it didn't do too much damage :). I've said it before but it bears repeating - you are…

@Luv2Dispatch911 - welcome! I've been in that place where I thought I was ready - it's nice when you realise that it really is the right time now. Come back and post often - we are a good, supportive bunch! @evamutt - jobs like that aren't worth it! Life is too short and we have to find a balance so well done to you and…

Shy - congrats on the new job, that's all happened rather fast! Rachel - house buying, what scary fun! What's a housing class? Not something that I think we have here in the UK. Jen - hope today is better for you. How are you doing with the HP challenge? I need to do something to day to get my non walking 2 miles exercise…

This is not a proper check in cos I'm just too stupidly busy at work - just to say that although I love my job, there are days when it drives me mad - and today is one of them! Hope today treats you all well and catch up later :)

I fell off the wagon big time yesterday - too many snacks and too few distractions! However I logged it all and I've moved on - today is a new day and I've pre-logged all my meals for the day so I know what I'm dealing with. Quiet on here this week - hope everyone is doing ok

Rachel - doesn't sound like a binge at all, just a conscious decision to enjoy yourself! Jen - I'm glad I'm not the only one who had to look up team colours! However, now I'm not sure I have any clothes that match them! My good friend Google was a major help when it came to the questions so I would recommend you head in…