I walk past a Pour House every day I park in the lot, when I drive, instead of train to work- NYC :)

There is a new grandaughter coming into my life. Doctor say she can come any time, now. The name they have selected for her is Faith. I like it. Not a name that you hear a lot and definitely a girls name.

Well you know I love the name BARGOO...

since I have a Kaia Faith and now a Claire Elaine....

Oh, Gary I didn't know Kaia's middle name was Faith. I like Claire, too. My FIL had a sister named Faith, but they said they picked It because they liked it, not because of Auntie Faith.

Congrats bargoo! Let's hope for an easy delivery.

I'm proud to say I'm down another 1/2 pound. I am now half-way to my goal.

Congrats, bargoo! That's exciting :D

I can't keep up with this thread! It moves too fast. But I need some accountability, so... I fell off the wagon hard on Saturday. I ate 3000 calories. I hate when I do that. The last time I'd done it was Feb 5th. As if I wasn't losing slowly enough, now I'll have to deal with this binge. Ugh. My plan is to eat no more than 1500 for the rest of the week. Or better, until I reach my stupid goal, which is no more than 132. I'm sick and tired of not being there.
Ugh. I'm not in a good place mentally right now, and I feel that if I can't even do this (lose weight) right, I'll drown completely.

Heh, sorry to be a downer. Have a good week, guys!

I stayed OP all weekend! Woohoo! :carrot: The scale rewarded me by finally showing a pound lost Saturday AM, and it was still there Sunday, and today! I'm trying to remember this feeling and store it up for next weekend, when my parents arrive, and I'm faced with temptations eating out, etc. I'm going to try and carry this momentum through the week and lose another # before next weekend.

Kitty, great job running!

Allison, great job!!! :carrot: Keep it up!

Bargoo, how exciting! Faith is a very nice name. My BF's sister's children are Evan Faith and Collins Hope. Both girls.

Clarabr, sorry for you bad mood. We all sometimes overeat or binge. There's no point beating yourself up about it. Just look at today as a new opportunity to eat healthily and treat your body well. Oh, and drink lots of water with lemon slices in it. I'm channeling our moderator Meg and this was always her cure-all, it's become mine as well.

Happy Monday, everyone! :wave:

I'm just "off" today. I don't know if it's remnants of the time change, or the dark, dreary, rainy skies, but I can tell it's a 2-cup morning. I want to skulk back to bed and sleep for another 16 hours or so. I probably maintained over the weekend; I thought about the scale after I ran this morning, and couldn't make myself care enough to get on it. It'll be there tomorrow, waiting in judgment as always.

I want to go back to bed, too. Too tired this morning after waking up at 3 AM and never really getting back to a proper sleep.

Weight up a pound from the weekend, but I'm pretty confident that will be gone by Wednesday and then it's work to get another off by the weekend.

clarabr, you are not a downer at all. I have felt the same way many times. Sometimes these downtimes are just what we need to kick butt and get us going again. Good luck.

I went to a baby shower yesterday for expected grandaugher. I have been to a fair amount of baby showers and have hosted a few, most showers have cake and punch and maybe fancy sandwiches but this one was a barbeque. we are talking about, barbequed ribs, chicken and tri tip with chili, potato salad, lasagna, salad,garlic bread and cake and cookies. Wow ! I managed to do a little portion control, I had the chicken although the ribs looked scrumptious but I did have one cookie and a monstrous piece of cake. The scale was kind to me this A.M. but maybe it just forgot about the cake, I hope so.

clarabr- I so get it. Fortunately you WILL feel better. Eye on the end game---
You Are OK
come back soon :)

bargoo - some events are special enough to call for cake; baby showers are probably right up there. :) Faith is a very pretty name!

clara - give yourself at least a little credit for quantifying the damage! Knowledge and data are important positives!

megan - hearing about on-plan weekends always makes me more determined to try to follow suit. Thanks for reinforcing that it can be done, with good planning and intent!

saef - hooray for contractors working again! Hopefully the trend will continue; I think the universe owes you some (a whole lot of) good news soon. :)

allison - congrats on the continuing downward trend!

Time to get back on track for me. Less junk, more veggies, more running. I'm keeping the caffeine though, because who am I kidding? :coffee: I can't even deal with myself without it!

Bargoo, I love the idea of bbq for a baby shower! Your list of the spread totally made me salivate, but great job not loading up your plate with a bit of everything. I don't know if I could have resisted.

I survived DSS's birthday party this weekend (joint with XW) so am back to the real world today. Woo hoo!

Thanks for the encouragement, guys. I did feel better after going to the gym yesterday. I managed to keep calories down Sunday and yesterday (though not as low as I'd like, I'm never able to do that after a binge). Oh well, let's move on.

ICUwishing, I always quantify the damage! I'm not sure it helps, since it only makes me angry for losing X days to burn those calories!