Where Have You Been, Missy?

Conspicuously absent, huh? (Or not so conspicuously, since about 3 people MAYBE read this blog, and I've probably lost the minimal readership I had thanks to not posting much.) Well, last week was CRAZY busy because the husband was working 24/7 finishing a paper, which means I was working 24/7 at a) my job and b) taking care of le bebe while husband was finishing his paper.

The good news is, I weighed in on Thursday and lost another 1.2 lbs. With the gain of the previous week, that's still 8.8 lbs down! Yay me. I only logged 9 activity points out of the 10 I was hoping for, but that's pretty good.

The notsogood news: We went away for the weekend and I totally indulged. I didn't count anything, I didn't journal anything, and I didn't pay any attention to my diet. I recognize that this is technically not part of the program, but with the weight I have to lose, I have to be in it for the long haul. And that means giving myself a break occasionally, and that includes when I travel. I don't travel much, so this is not a big issue in the grand scheme of things, but whoo boy this weekend. I ate a donut bigger than my HEAD (OK, maybe a third of the donut. No way I could finish that thing.) I drank cocktails. I had Dungeness Crab Canneloni and whole fried fish and a blackberry scone and it was glorious. It was totally worth it. But it wasn't failure. 3 days in the years it's going to take me to get this weight off is a mere drop in the bucket. And so necessary to my sanity.

To be fair, I also walked my butt off this weekend. That's the upside of traveling.

Now the 6 points I went over yesterday because I finished a bag of pretzels -- there's just no excuse for that. Onward and upward!