Hi Doug - it's a worthwhile cause.  Better to step in early rather than when the problem is overwelming. Money's short all round, but every bit helps. I'm in.

Hi hollly - everyone here is just great and really helpful.

Umpa - what a cutie (little devil grandson).  Hmmm - does it reflect his personality?

Memorial Day is a US national holiday to remember men and women who died in defense of our country.  Many people expand the meaning to everyone who has died.  My husband's family is from a rural area and they have a tradition of decorating the graves of their relatives with flowers and wreaths.

Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday of May.

Good question, Morgan.

Thanks Andrea - we have Anzac Day which is the 25 April to honour our dead (and those still living) soldiers.  We have a public holiday and services around the nation.

Congrats Millie - well done

Umpa and Big Tex - you guys are classic! What are you like on Halloween?

It really does explain a lot, doesn't it.

Well Week 3 has rolled along. I couldn't weigh in on my normal day as I was stranded far from home - resisting temptation .  Now I know why doug insists we empty our homes from the high carb stuff.  When I am home I feel "safe". I know almost everything at home is edible without any consequence.  In someone elses home it's like a minefield.  But the scales are my friend this week as they registered a-

Drumroll please - 5lb loss (consigned to the universe to find a new home) - making a total of 8lbs in 3 weeks.

Thank you to all for just being there.  Thanks doug and umpa for my free book (Bakery) -it will have a good home with me

OMG!  doug and umpa - who drives? - how do you manouver that thing.  It's well, it looks the size of a small house. I mean you've packed even the kitchen sink 

I was stranded away from home for a couple of days and eating breakfast out seemed like a good idea.  I went to the local food hall in the shopping mall and had a souvlaki salad (lamb chicken lettuce  cucumber tomato), not something I would have normally have for breakfast but really did not want bacon and eggs that had been sitting for a while.  Beside the point.  Whilst eating I people watched and was amazed and somewhat horrified at the amount of small children (under 5) that were sitting eating iced donuts (from donut king) and having bubbacinos ( cappacinos for children).  Mothers encouraging these children to finish it all up.  All one little boy wanted to do was run around and play but he was called back to finish.  I'm hoping that this was all a treat for them and not a daily event because it seems like early training for bad habits.  The next day I was in a different mall waiting for a friend and watched lots of children walking with parents with cups full of cinnamon-sugared 'donut holes' (little balls).  I've never really paid much attention but since doing FTS a lot of these things are really standing out to me and I think I am getting concerned about all the sugar laden stuff out there affecting all these young people.