Drinking tea for sure. Stay strong you can totally beat this. Post here as often as you need to, I am working from home and in all day apart from seeing if I feel like a play in the rain with my son, so I can answer you so you don't feel like you are raving to yourself Linger in places where there is no food, like the pool. Thanks for the idea about local hotels, there are a couple, not big ones though so I do not know if they have one, gonna check it out

I am so shocked at my WI today. I lost 4.4lbs! I have not had a big loss like that for a couple of years lol. Last week I put on 2.6lbs, it was my birthday and I had used that as an excuse to be lax the whole week. I was just hoping to shift that 2.6 so I could begin again from where I had gotten. Typically I lose 0.5 to 1.4lbs a week, but I usually have one week a month where hormones mess that up. So anyway I am rambling because I am soo happy with being not just back on track, but it is as if I had a small loss last week and this week too now. I stayed in my cals apart from one day, and then I only used up the cals I had 'earnt' with exercise. I also focussed really hard on keeping my fat at 30%, I find I can stay in cals but still go over in fat and I have been working on changing that. So apart from tomorrow gonna stick with that plan again this week, probably won't see that kind of loss but at least I know what to focus on.

Success! Hardboiled eggs, yoghurt, apple. Breakfast buffet has been conquered! :drinker:

WooHoo! Great choices!

Since your traveling see if they have a specialty tea shops in your area. They can be pushy so don't get talked into to much. Lol! Teavanna is known for being the pushiest!!!

It's been a bad couple of days, it was a mega stressful week and I seemed to just crash at the end of it. We have some stuff going on that has me more depressed than usual too. Everything seemed to work together and I didn't want to go near a computer and my eating has been well out of whack. However, I slept a LOT today and I am feeling like the batteries are beginning to recharge. I have decided to go to bed early and get even MORE sleep and I am sure that will really help.

I have PG tips too tishtash, I had my son bring them over for me when he visited a few months ago. However, I am also getting turned on to herbal and green teas, they really are very soothing and comforting.. now to just replace craving to eat things with hot tea every time!! I will buy some new flavors tomorrow.

I want to say thank you to you all. I see the positivity here and it is also lifting me up.

Weekends are so busy around here that I just havent had a lot of time to get online . Which is good and bad lol. Good because I have been out moving around more and not sitting on my rear at the computer lol, but bad because I want to have time to sit down and catch up on everyone and get to know the new people too!!

Today we went out to a U-Pick tomato farm and picked 25 pounds of tomatoes....OMG what am I going to do with all of those?!!! haha I have no clue what to do with them now :laugh: Not only that, we got a ton of other veggies,...onions, peppers of all kinds a few red potatoes to have sparingly, and OMG I got a case of spaghetti squash which I LOVE LOVE LOVE, for $5. I got home and opened the squash and about stroked out LOL . There are 17 squash in that thing!! So I am OMGing what am I going to do with all these squash AND tomatoes :laugh: On a good note, we have alot of healthy side dishes now lol. AND we got in exercise getting them too!

I am hoping things settle down some tomorrow, but i doubt it lol. If I don't get to catch up then I WILL do it Monday darn it lol . I hope you all are having active and amazing weekends so far

Fairly good day. Released some of the stress by staying within my calories but now worrying huge amounts about my macros.

I had a chocolate chip muffin for breakfast... it was delicious and i wont apologies. I bought it last night during a dangerous late night trip to the grocery store to pickup ice and a few items. I had a chocolate craving and decided on a pack of four muffins rather then a candy bar. Can't really say that was a better idea but it stopped me fro stuffing my face with something sweet. It's only abut 350cal. Enjoyed it alongside a large ripe yellow peach.

I went to the farmers market to pickup some mothers day flowers and all I can say is i'm glad I left my tote bag at home or i would have done some serious damage to my wallet their (I swear it feels like your handing a $20 to ever stall you stop at). I couldn't resist some samples of the fresh strawberries and peaches (oh to live in northern California). I left with two bunches of flowers, four fresh and ripe peaches and a cart of fresh strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. The fresh lettuce and asparagus looked tempting but i resisted. I eat fresh fruit with all my salads and last weeks fruit from the supermarket had been a huge disappointment so i jumped on the fresh ripe fruit.

For lunch I had some leftover buffalo chicken, another late night supermarket purchase. It's something I had been thinking about for a long time so I'm fine with getting it out of my system. I finished it off today so thats done and over with. For dinner i picked up a sandwich since after running errands most of the day I just wasn't interested in cooking.

Tomorrow is what I am worried about. We will be stoping by the bakery in the morning before going to the gardens and then tea service in the afternoon. I'll try not to worry about it to much, just have reasonable portions and enjoy it. I think I'll be having a nice salad for dinner.

This last week was a challenge for motivation as you will know if you read any of my posts. It was a pissy week and I had a pissy attitude throughout it. One I dealt with the stress that was bringing it on I was able to get back to where I needed to be. I let myself contemplate giving up and could see nothing it it. Give up something that has been relatively easy so far for hating yourself and being back in the same position, what a choice!

It's been a bad couple of days, it was a mega stressful week and I seemed to just crash at the end of it. We have some stuff going on that has me more depressed than usual too. Everything seemed to work together and I didn't want to go near a computer and my eating has been well out of whack. However, I slept a LOT today and I am feeling like the batteries are beginning to recharge. I have decided to go to bed early and get even MORE sleep and I am sure that will really help.

I have PG tips too tishtash, I had my son bring them over for me when he visited a few months ago. However, I am also getting turned on to herbal and green teas, they really are very soothing and comforting.. now to just replace craving to eat things with hot tea every time!! I will buy some new flavors tomorrow.

I want to say thank you to you all. I see the positivity here and it is also lifting me up.

I hope your doing better today. I hate hearing that you're stressed and depressed :frown: Get on here, read and share! Its the best way I've found to get through all the crap life dishes out sometimes. Blessing :flowerforyou: