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Morning all! @jkhoffe - congratulations on your youngest graduation. You are right that time goes so fast it is quite scary - I'm trying to slow down and take it all in with our little one but it's still shocking how fast they grow up. Enjoy your girls weekend! @etsar73 - sounds like on a certain level, you needed to rebel…

Morning all - back from our lovely weekend away and from eating too much on my birthday yesterday! However, the good news is that we walked so much over the weekend that I actually managed to lose just a little bit of weight despite all the nice food - so feeling pretty good :). Alistair is back in nursery today and my…

Morning everyone - just! Well, I'm shattered already today and it's not yet lunchtime :). took little one to nursery, took husband to work (yes, personal chauffeur service at the moment - saves on parking charges!), did the food shop for our weekend away, got a spare set of house keys cut and took them to my parents. Took…

@gilliansmith2 - hope the surgery will sort out the problems for you. Take care of yourself and you'll soon be back - two days isn't long :) Talk to me about fitbit and syncing with MFP good people. Do I log exercise on MFP or do I let my fitbit do all the work? I've just found my fitbit and have been setting it up/working…

@shycush6 - good to see you back, was wondering where you had got to and if you were ok. @bluepoppies777 and @health_guard - can I join the bouncing back group :). Burn out definitely exists and I think I've been feeling it but I logged and stayed within target yesterday and today is going well so far. We can do this!…

My rally cry was my little boy - I want to be around to see him grow up and achieve all the things in his life that he wants to achieve. I'm not talking the same amount to lose as you so I won't pretend to know where you are coming from and how you feel about it but the process is the same - you need to find the one thing…

@health_guard - undoing the damage of the weekend is definitely my focus for the week. My scale claims an increase of 3lbs and whilst I didn't eat anywhere near enough for that to be possible, it's a clear sign that I overindulged! Let's make the week count

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. I've got to the end of the bank holiday weekend and it's been fun - but I'm shattered! And I ate far too much pizza (and drank far to much wine) at the pizza party yesterday! Only a three day working week until we go on holiday - have to try and have a good week up to that point!

@rachel0778 - I'm hoping that will be the case with the pizza party! Alistair is coming with us to the cabin - his first ever holiday!!

@danan01 - sounds good for the long weekend for you. We've got a long weekend here with a bank holiday Monday and I've added to it by taking tomorrow as holiday (while husband works and son goes to nursery :smiley: ) so planning to spend a good chunk of it in the garden - loads to do out there and I figure I can get a lot…

thanks all for the kind comments for my little boy - thankfully, it appears to be some kind of 24 hour thing that he has now got over but it was a bit messy for a while! @ngolden3320 - very true though, good that it wasn't me that got thrown up on! @bluepoppies - I'm hoping he isn't also prone to ear infections, we've had…

@rachel0778 - good luck to you and your students :smiley: Well, I've just had a phone call to say that my little boy has a temperature and has just thrown up over one of his nursery carers - so please can I come and take him home! What a joyful start to the week - and husband started his new job this morning so although he…

happy Monday all - hope the week treats us all well :)

@Rachel0778 - I definitely miss home cooked food when I've been away for a while. I also find that I'm far fussier and harder to please when we eat out. I expect more from it and am fairly regularly disappointed by it! @danan01 - rather late on the response, but yes we can do it - we need to push through! Well done for…

Good loss Shy although as you say, not the best reason to lose it! Hope you are feeling better now. Nichole - sorry to hear about your dad, keeping everything crossed that he pulls through. @health_guard - well done with the meal planning. I'm stuck at my current weight - it will go up day to day but it stubbornly won't go…

@Rachel0778 - that sounds like a fun evening - enjoy!

@Rachel0778 - what a great goal to have and well done with the baggy trousers, that's a good victory and reminder that you are on the right track :) @MFPJVAL - it is so hard when you don't see the number move but remember that it's not all about the weight and that's really great feedback from your trainer. It sounds like…

Well - you guys have all been so busy being good, while I've spent the last 5 days falling spectacularly off the wagon! Went to see Captain America on Sunday night and ate popcorn and maltesers, more than my healthy share of a bottle of wine with friends on Monday and then stopped counting on Tuesday and Wednesday when my…

I've sent you a friend request - so much of what you said resonated with me. I'm 40 in June, happily married with a 16 month old boy who is the light of our lives. On the face of it, we are also 'all round healthy' but I'm starting to look beyond the face of it and look at the sugar content, fat content - what we really…

@ngolden3320 - way to go with the self defense lessons, it's probably a great workout and you never know when it might get you or your girls out of serious trouble so a winner all round. And pleasantly surprising dad - all the better :smiley: I hear you on the long weeks and how it takes so long to get to Friday at work.…

@Photograhicsoul - welcome! No support group - just post here regularly and share the good, bad and the ugly :smiley:

@jkhoffe - good job, no better way to clear the stresses of the day! Right - time to sort myself out and get healthy. I've been out to the shop today before work and picked up loads of fresh fruit for snacking - yesterday was a real eye opener about how chocolates and cookies can make me feel. I've tidied my home office…

Hey all - wow, we've all been busy! Welcome to all the newbies! Manic day at work where I barely had time to stop, ate my lunch while in a meeting - at 3pm! The whole day has been a fail - a long meeting this morning with pastries, cookies and chocolates provided as snacks - not helpful and my self control let me down. Not…

@Rachel0778 - the answer is, with difficulty - and we only have 1 child! I am full of respect for you guys who have multiples - managing my one rampaging loony is quite enough!! But in seriousness, we found that your priorities change. Social life (particularly night time) goes out of the window, you focus on other things…

@Rachel0778 - must try that yam with peanut butter option - sounds rather nice! @bluepoppies777 - way to go on the getting up early to exercise. I wish I was better in the mornings - I have grand intentions but they never materialise. Mind you, I was up at 5am this morning reading stories to my little one so, sat here at…

@bluepoppies777 - sorry to hear of your loss. Thoughts with you and your family - take care of yourselves. @Rachel0778 - not a major deal, just some comfort eating to deal with the fact that I'm streaming with cold and feeling sorry for myself - pathetic state of affairs! I don't 'do' ill very well - I get grumpy and…

Gorgeous day here in London - shame I'm working! Fighting off a cold and need to kick myself back into gear - comfort eating over the weekend has completely thrown me off track :(. Have a good Monday all!

Rachel - ok, next question then. How do I post pictures?? Never done it before on here! Shy - have a great anniversary and definitely have that glass of champagne. It's one of the things I've learnt on this weight loss/healthy eating journey that you have to be able to build the nice things into your daily life/diet - just…

Morning all! Feeling like a slight fraud being here - all the pictures of your lovely dogs and I have none of my own to contribute :smiley: . Would love a dog but we just don't have the lifestyle to support it - one day perhaps. Not sure our two feline friends would be too impressed though! @Rachel0778 - don't let us put…

Cari, so sorry for your loss. Thoughts are with you and your family at this difficult time.