What's on your Monday Menu, RNYers?

I have read this thread for years and not participated. I saw the word NUTELLA and got excited. Sorry NUTELLA cafe must look that up.

amazing place - I'm surprised they don't have them all over. But maybe the Chicago one is a "test". It's probably just as well we don't have one here (Madison, WI) - I'd weigh over 300 lbs again in a heartbeat!

edited to add that I just checked - there's one in New York City now, too - 116 University Place. The East Coasters on here are in luck! (or out of luck, depending on your perspective...)

Hmmmmm...what did the family disapprove of? If her whole family disapproves, there is usually a reason. Does he treat her badly? Is the new husband a loser? Does she have to support him? That is what comes to mind to me. I know of too many women who are taken advantage of my men especially those 40+. My mom had several friends who let themselves be swindled out of thousands of dollars. The stories I know are crazy. If the woman has money, I hope she got a prenup.

I have decided today will be a good day. We took down all the Christmas decorations yesterday. I survived the holidays which was the best I could do this year. I am hoping next Christmas will be better.

Yesterday I had 31 WW points. My goal is 30 but I get 35 weekly points to use. I am trying to stay on the low end. As of today I am down 7.6 pounds of the 30 I need to lose. The loss has slowed down and I am OK with that. My goal is 1.5 pounds per week which should get me to my goal of losing 30 pounds by the end of the school year (22 weeks, but who is counting...lol).

As long as I lose it by August, I am good. My overall goal is to fit in my school clothes by the new school year. Since I can technically retire now, I refuse to buy a whole new wardrobe. I have a few things from Goodwill holding me over now but I want to get back in my nice clothes. I also feel better at my goal weight.

QOTD: Right now my go-to appliance is my coffee maker...lol. We want to get an air fryer but haven't yet.

Happy Monday, everyone!!

Ok here is the controversy in a nutshell... Thankfully nothing terrible, just a little dumb.

The groom is a widower and has 5 children in their 20s. His wife died 6 years ago and he made a really, really bad decision to get into a dysfunctional marriage immediately after his wide died (out of grief, of course), and it ended in a divorce just one year ago. So it was a shock to everyone that he got engaged to yet another woman 6 months later...

She is also a widow, and her husband died only 2 years ago. He adult children are very suspicious of this new guy who is on his 3rd marriage in 6 years (fair). And apparently there are a lot of feelings towards their mom about the relationship she had with their father...

Anyway, the whole thing is pretty innocent--they are both good people, met at church, and just want to have stable happy lives together. Moving a little too quickly, perhaps, but nothing nefarious.

In my opinion, it was just a dumb move to do this so quickly and not give the families a chance to meet and get to know one another before they moved straight to marriage, but I sincerely think that both of them mean well and didn't know it was gong to sting their families so much.

Hopefully everyone gets over themselves, soon and finds a way to be kinder.

No matter how I feel, I am always civil at funerals and weddings. That family is just classless and clueless to me.

quick rebound relationships/marriages are often bad decisions, it seems. My sister remarried months after she divorced her first husband - out of loneliness, I guess - and it was a disaster. She's now on husband #3 and is much happier (and has been married a lot longer!). She and her current husband have both been married & divorced twice before so they took their time before committing the third time around. Maybe this guy (the one you know) will be fine this time around since his last marriage was so dysfunctional. Hopefully he learned something from it...

as for the kids, I think it's often hard when a parent remarries regardless of what happened to the original spouse. It was really hard on us when my father remarried. My parents were divorced, but even if my mother had died, I think it still would have been hard if my father remarried as no one could replace my mother. But you...and White Dove...are right - they could have been civil regardless of how they were feeling inside.

hi all- well I have been on new macros for about a week plus adding daily workouts instead of 3 times a week- and have not weighed in close to 2 weeks, and apparently up 3.5 pounds despite thinking I had LOST weight - apparently my body is rebelling-grrr- so annoying

QOTD: my mini electric skillet for pancakes, eggs, etc and my IP. I DO want to get the air fryer attachment for the IP- not a stand alone machine.

food plan today: coffee, water, more coffee, water, homemade yogurt, ground turkey stir fry with tofu

ground turkey/pork meatballs

not sure what else.

That's so frustrating, sorry... I have avoided the scale for a few weeks, too, which is never a good idea. I am hoping to lose a few so that I don't have to see the number that I know is there, but I should just face it and get serious.

I waited a week after Christmas for this exact reason, for the scale to go down. My pants were fitting better but oh well- I'm not getting discouraged about it. It will go back down. plus the added exercise makes me spike up on weight also.

Good Monday morning.

i fear today I'll have to do some fighting on my own behalf today. I left a message with the doctor Friday for something for the pain and never heard back. Going to call again here in an hour so. He may of been out of the office but they could of at least told me so. So frustrating!

my nieces and nephew are here this morning and will be here until 6. I actually managed a little more sleep last night...I only got up 3 times and 5 total for shift position in bed. I'll take it but I'm still feeling exhausted and my eyes feel like someone poured concrete in my eyes!

I'm so ashamed of how I've been eating. It just ridiculous. Trying to do better day after day but it gets hard. The stuff with my back has really knocked me on my ass with my BPD and depression. I'm not giving up but sometimes I wish I hated food.

qotd:ice maker!

b:PP shake

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