Weight : 209.6

As expected, I am up in weight. Am I fooling myself by telling myself I don’t mind because I was on vacation? Perhaps but I did enjoy my time away and I definitely did not focus the way I should on what I ate and drank – lesson there is if I want continues progress, 2 weeks out of 3 doesn’t cut it 🙂

One of my challenges is this – I don’t have what you would call regular weeks (due to work, travel for work etc) and I have different groups of friends – what if you see those different groups of friends and eat and drink what they/you want but each of them go back to their routine – and my routine has become going out with friends when they are willing to give up their routine for that one night (mine is then a string of nights) if that makes sense – I think going out with friends can no longer be my get-out-of-jail card because it does come in waves where I can’t get back on track – like these three trips/friends in a row for 3-4 nights each (Finger Lakes, Canoe, Retirement weekend)

I think I need to expand my socializing to active groups who spend time doing the activity and earning the food/drinks rather than only the food/drinks.

For this weekend, I will strategize as follows:

• I have 2 bottles of nonalcoholic wine – no one needs to know that is what I am drinking (similarly nonalcoholic beer)
• I can avoid the snacks that everyone inevitably brings for the weekend – I have a watermelon and mango in the fridge- will stick with that
• I will not have the eggs benedict that one friend makes every time we get together- will have the eggs and english muffin only
• I will do a hike on Saturday and Sunday with whoever wants to join me but I will fit it in

Monday starts my last week at work – I will go into that week with an eating and exercise plan so that I get back on track – I expect to see flat-to-down next week and back at it.