When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[MichelleLT]

Inches matter more than pouds in weight loss anyways. As long as you feel like you are making progress and are feeling good, that's all that matters. I'm so glad your foot is feeling better! Try and do a bit of weight-lifting or use those stretchy bands or a medicine ball to add some variety to your routine and give your foot a break some days. Weight-lifting or anything like it is a great metabolism booster, and lean muscle mass burns more calories even when you're not doing anything. (Ironically that's why guys are often more successful at weight loss than women, they hit the weights while we tend to try to start a cardio program)

Glad you are feeling better. It's always so hard when you're sick on top of everything else.

With the date night thing, it might not be that he's really trying to convey that you are a low priority. I'm sure he's working as much as he is to try and provide for you and Marc, that's a very typical male way to try and show care. So asking him to take time off conflicts with his desire to provide for you, even though you are asking for something that would help your R. It's a bit of a rock and a hard place perhaps from his perspective. He may just need to hear how important it is. "Gabe, I really like spending time with you / doing X / whatever. I would really like to have time where the two of us can spend time together without Marc or any other distractions and just have fun, but I appreciate how hard you work too. Can you take just one night off a month?" Or some such.

As for timing these conversations, I'd try for a time when he is the least stressed from work. Maybe after you guys have ML and are both feeling good about the R? Seems to me most guys would be more relaxed / least threatened by a talk after sex lol.