Hi Rennie! Thanks for the greetings; and congrats on the loss- mine seem to be so hit or miss these days I'm not sure if I'm right to take credit for them, lol! I never change my ticker when I gain; it's recorded in the weigh-in thread, so it's just a matter of principal. I refuse to go back!

Just had a houseguest and apropos snoring, she told me she and DH rarely sleep in the same room nowadays because he snores so badly! Perhaps I should count myself lucky mine's just a blanket hog

Zumba, fantastic about the cruise! That will be so exciting! I hope you have lots of interesting new experiences!

Cattails, my sympathies on the critter difficulties; we grow ours on our large balcony so our main enemy is the uncooperative weather. Rain, rain, rain. Getting ready to fight the powdery mildew.

Shannonsnail, I'm so sorry you're having trouble. It took us a while to find our house- persistence and a bit of luck in the end. Good luck whipping the urge to eat- it's so hard to substitute small, positive actions instead of brownies and such when it's a lifetime's habit! Ah, my nemesis; Cakus Anglo-Americanus.

Good luck with the weight, Andrew. I was pleasantly surprised when I got back from my last holiday; lot's of food, but lots and lots of walking too kept things pretty even...

Seana, welcome!

It's "summer" now (if you call 13c and rain "summer") and the kids are home from school. So far I'm keeping up with my running and stuff, and trying to be faithful (again) about the lifting, because the floppy bits are really getting me down. Other than that, I'm just trying to get the 800 projects I wanted to accomplish done and keep the kids from eating each other...

I haven't disappeared, just being quiet. I keep checking in to see what others are up to, though! Shannon, sorry about the frustrating house hunting - I'm sure the right place will come along soon. Hope you can get your groove back quickly - you've done so well, !

Great attitude, Zumba - just keep on taking care of yourself.

andrew, good job sticking to the low-carb. Are you still on vacation?

Susan, my DH is a blanket hog too! It's so bad that we now each have our own blanket - I gave up on fighting him through the night.

No worries on the cilantro, I've got other pots coming along nicely. I think it was a couple armyworms munching away, darn things. The morning glories are looking so pretty crawling over everything and up the trellises. I'll be picking zucchini in a few more days, and the cucumbers are growing rapidly, yay! I've been having a huge Greek salad every day, yum.

What is everyone doing this weekend?

Hi all..well i had a little relapse and gained some weight back, now i'm back to trying to get it off...i feel like i'm always starting over and getting nowhere.

Kickboxing last night was amazing and I'm feeling it this morning, i feel like i've been beat up...or hit by a truck. I'm not complaining, i know that i got a crazy good workout.

CATTAILS your garden sounds amazing. I have always had a garden, this is the first year that i don't. Just feel so overwhelmed with this house that I never managed to put one in. I did buy a potted tomato plant and I'm hoping to have tomatoes by the end of summer... Nothing like fresh vegetables...

Im going out with friends on friday night. Hanging with my kids the rest of the weekend, I try and stay close to home on weekends, it gets so crazy around here in the summer..between the traffic and tourists. Besides I think given how much it is costing me to maintain my pool I may as well enjoy it

Have a great day y'all.

I was wondering where everyone was. I am still on vacation, sort of. I work in IT operations and we've been having some issues lately so I've been working remote a fair amount. Let me say I'm still at the beach and it's storming this morning. Still doing what I've been doing, splurged a little last night and got a chocolate caramel turtle from one of the shops we hit when we come down here. It was delicious. Otherwise, I'm just eating a TON of seafood and as low carb as I can manage.

Shannon I love house hunting, but I've been in that same place as you a couple of times and that is SO frustrating. We had the same thing happen to us on a place we loved. We ended up with something else and found out the contract fell through on the place we wanted. That was infuriating. Hang in there, you'll find something.

cattails I envy people that can garden. I have a brown thumb, unless it's food. I can grow food.

Susan I'm hoping. I have partaken of the occasional adult beverage, but haven't gone overboard. Hopefully, I'll at least break even.

Zumba Hang in there. You only fail if you quit. Doesn't matter how many times you restart.

Where's Rennie?

Cattails, I suggested two single duvets (it's not as if I was suggesting separate beds!) to DH and he was so hurt! And then he tells me I'm the blanket hog go figure... Had a very wet run this morning- the Aare is flooded, and the only good news is that I was supposed to water the neighbour's tomatoes and peppers and there hasn't been much to do...

Zumba- kickboxing... I took tae kwon do as a kid. If I ever get rid of some of this weight, I might take it up again. Hmmm...
When is the cruise?

Andrew, It sounds as if you're doing it right; after all, this should be a good healthy, enjoyable life, not a diet, right? I'm wondering if my scale is possessed- have you seen my weigh-ins lately? I know I probably shouldn't rely on my nintendo wii board for accuracy, but I must confess to being that much of a sucker for cute and cheerful... I love the way it waves at me...

Zumba hope the scale is moving back down for you, it's just water Ha Zumba I feel the same way ... losing what I already loss again

Andrew, have fun, enjoy ... needed to hear that (doesn't matter how many times you restart!) I restart every week here lately, smh. Thanks for asking about me.

Shannon I hope things get better with your house hunting

Thanks Susan LOL on the blanket hog It took me some to get use to sleeping with my husband where covers are concerned. He's 6'6 and I'm 5'3. I was use to sleeping with my feet at the bottom of the bed. It just made me feel secure for some reason. Well he would pull the cover completely over my head and I would snatch it down (can you visualize two grown ups tugging at the covers) I had to get use to sleeping up top so his shoulders could be covered. ... same here with the children and summer ... some days they're nice and some days I have to say who wants to sit with Mommy? That makes them get it together Sum my kids crack up when the Wii says, "oh"

Cattails I wish I had a garden. No room in here for one and can't do one outside. So when I move I will definitely have one prayerfully Not doing a thing this weekend

I've been reading but the threads have been pretty quite. My kids say I live on here My weight is back at 159 today. It was up to 161.2. I'm sure it will be high again tomorrow, today has been a free for all with my mouth. I haven't had one good for me thing to eat since breakfast, smh. Hoping to do a restart tomorrow and GET IT RIGHT Gotta have a good weigh in on Monday . It has to be under 158

We looked at 5 more houses today and saw one we liked. We are interested in making an offer but are waiting on some info from the seller. Hopefully we will get the info soon. Anxious about whether this will turn out like the others. The last one that was under contract, just a few days ago, already closed!! The buyer paid in CASH! Wowzers! The house today has a great yard with room for a garden if I want one!!

I've been back on plan for two days now. Weight is coming back down. Blood sugar has not been so great but hopefully it will improve with more days on plan.

On the subject of bed covers, I get them all! My hubby is very hot natured and rarely ever wants any covers. I am very cold natured so that works out great for me, lol!

Went out last night and had a cheeseburger and fries. How's that for willpower? Didn't gain alot from it, probably because i was OP all day until that moment. I must have burned some calories dancing in heels all night. Didn't sit for hours....going to kickboxing today even though my head feels heavy.....i can't drink cheap vodka..lesson learned

Hope everyone has a good Saturday.

Shannon the house buying process is definitely a challenge. If a house falls through it wasn't meant to be...something else will come up and you'll know it all happened the way that it was supposed to.

As expected my weight is back to 161, but it's ok. I thought it would definitely be more. My plan for today is to do a low day on 5:2 which I haven't done in awhile. Dinner will be mock potato salad, mustard/turnip greens and baked tilapia and water water water.

Enjoy your day

I totally agree Zumba, it's just such an emotional process. It's very draining plus the hubby kind of goes back and forth on moving in general. One day he's gung ho, the next not sure. We started this search a year ago but quit for a while because of that. Now we need to either move or decide we aren't because my daughter starts kindergarten next year and we need to figure out where we are going to be by the time registration rolls around. I do not do that kind of chaos well and need us to be settled in a new house by end of year in one place or the other. If we stay here we still need more space so either way we need to move. I'd like to at least settle on the city, lol!

Hope it went well! I finally have 3 on plan days under my belt! Of course, I have to take Olivia to a kid bday party this afternoon (hubby was supposed to but they are coming back early from the beach bc he wants me to) which has messed me up 3 or more times in the past....sigh.

Thanks Shannon Congratulations on three great days, I hope you did well at the party I did well yesterday, came down .4 tp 160.6. Went to the gym after church, burned 752 calories, did my longest walk/jog 6.13, came home my daughter was here ... talking about fresh baked cookies (not good for me) we went to the store, while standing in line I picked up a 1oz bag of chips and a Reeces peanut butter cup. Ate two cookies and a bunch of gold fish crackers, who's an idiot ME!! 680 calories and 80 carbs

I'm back from vacation and have been struggling getting the scale to stabilize. Been all over the place, I weighed in at 229.2 this morning, 228.2 yesterday. Still holding on to some water weight. But I did drop another inch off my gut measurement. So now four total inches off so far, so that's progress. Starting my new workout program this evening and I'm looking forward to doing something different.

Shannon Sounds like you are making good progress on both the house hunt and your plan. Hang in there.

Rennie and Zumba No sabotage like self sabotage. Gotta get back at it.

Susan Starting to feel the same about my scale. It's been all over the place, but then again so has my eating. Still doing very low carb, but I slipped up a time or two.

9 weeks until my birthday. I'm hoping to be in the 200 pound range by then. I have a LOT of work to do. Not sure I can get 25-ish pounds off by then, but I can accept being under 210. That will still put me at goal around Thanksgiving.

Welcome back Andrew! Give it a few more days and hopefully the scale will stabilize. I finally have lost the extra weight from getting constipated so my loss for the week was over six pounds.....crazy huh?

Rennie I super love Reeses cups! I know the products are controversial but I do really enjoy the Atkins version. It's the only boxed treat like that I will buy. I have a few recipes for them I want to try but just haven't had time yet.

Hubby is working on our offer letter. Yikes!!

Reached a new low of 179.4 today. Two weeks ago I was just over 181 so it took two weeks to cross over bc of my GI issues, lol! I hope my body is nicely adjusted and not interested in returning to the 180s.

Shannon - thanks for the visit that reminded me to come out of hiding. Both my home buying experiences have been MEGA-stressful, I have my fingers crossed for you!

Welcome Seana!

I'm perimenopausal myself, and it has really been throwing me a whammy in the migraine department (which was never good to begin with).

Hi and hugs to everyone else!

I've been MIA. So far July hasn't been the greatest for me. Continuing stress with 2 parents in dire medical straits has made me a bit mental, and I've been eating way too much ice cream and vodka -- and once even ice cream in vodka.

I'm not gaining weight, but only because I try to balance the bad choices by skipping meals and that NEVER works long term. It's fine for me to skip healthy meals for junk on a special day, but it can't be an every day occurrence, and that's what I've been doing for at least 50% of July. Sigh.

I keep telling myself that good, supportive nutrition is so important during times of stress, and then I keep totally IGNORING myself.

Anyway, I'm trying to wrangle all my nutty mental cats into a semblance of normality today and set the tone for the rest of the month.