I hope you enjoyed your birthday...and that all you can eat crab dinner! Have you broken through the plateau yet?

Sounds like you are getting all set to do some serious moving. Way to go. Those cookies sound really nice. I might have to try them.

not long now hon. I'm getting excited for you

Way to go on the loss!

I definitely agree, I also have a kindle and love it but there really isn't anything like having the real deal in your hands. haha One time I was reading a paperback book and came across a word I had no idea what it meant and I went to click on it like I was using my kindle to get a definition. :P To my defense, it was the first paperback I had read in a long time because I had been using my kindle for quite some time so that can be expected. haha

Happy Tuesday! (I so wish it wasn't rainy, it has been gloomy and rainy here for the last week...sigh and mope. haha)

Hello Friends! This will be my last post before the cruise!!! SO looking forward to it. I know I'll eat horribly and drink way too much and gain weight, but it's a cruise. I'm going to enjoy myself. Hubby and I are already planning morning work-outs together in the gym and I'll be bringing my Garmin, so I'll at least try to keep up with my steps. I might take a step back in my fitness goals, but I'm going to do my best at making it a baby step. Packed everything last night and making last minute lists this morning.

My sisters and I are planning on leaving a voicemail on my dad's cell for him to play for mom on Mother's day and we'll pick up a postcard in FL before we set sail. I'll make it up to her with a late dinner sometime later this month. I'm sure she'll understand.

@50extra Thank you for your encouragement! I plan to look and feel awesome in my skin - no matter if I muffin-top or gain weight on the cruise. I packed two formal dresses - one is a little loose and is black and hides all of the lumps and bumps; the other is tight and clings to places I usually try to hide (I call it my fish-dress since it's yellow with a blue sheer overtop making it look like a green tropical fish). I'm going to try to force myself to wear the fish dress and be proud of my loss so far.

I won't be logging into MFP while I'm away (goodbye log-in streak) but I think I'll try to keep a mini-paper log while we're sailing. Nothing too in depth, just a reminder for myself day-to-day. One final weigh-in tomorrow morning before we leave and a weigh-in when we get back to see how bad I was. Crossing my fingers

Hope everyone has a great weekend, great week, and great weekend! Keep up the great work!

Haven't been on here in a while. Happy belated birthday. On the size changes you've really did a great job. Strut your stuff on the cruise !!!!

HELLO!!!!! I've miss you guys. My scale missed MFP too I had a TON of fun on this cruise and walked SO much. My Garmin said I reached my "goal" everyday - usually by noon. The ship was just so big you can't help but walk a ton and the excursions were all fairly energetic. So...

The bad news: I'm up 6 pounds. Not nearly as bad as I thought it'd be, but I'm back over 160 again. Back on track as of today and moving forward. I know I can make it.

The so-so news: we went to the gym... once.

The other bad news: I got a minor sinus infection (part of the reason we only went to the gym once) while on the ship and I'm still fighting off the remnants. Not nearly as bad as it could have been, I still went on my excursions (and I didn't get it until after my favorite excursion) but I took a lot of naps. So... I guess that makes it a good vacation

The good news: we had a blast. We swam with a sea lion and got a kiss! SO MUCH FUN. Worth every penny and I can't wait to do it again sometime. It was at a small aquarium-type park called Coral World in St. Thomas and I HIGHLY recommend you go if you're in the area. Not a big park, only there for three hours or so, but enough to see everything and get a wet fishy kiss They also had a huge under-water viewing area for the aquarium and a section where you can snorkel or use an under-water diving helmet. Lots of bang for the buck. Next day I got the sinus infection, but we did a driving tour of Tortola and it was fairly boring and didn't require a lot of effort on my part, so I could relax. If your "tour" includes showing us were the local trash incinerator and water desalination plants are, your town is too boring to charge for the tour. Sorry. The beach was beautiful and definitely the best part of that trip. I had to ease into the ocean since I was feverish, but once I was in the water was clear and lovely. The last day we were in Nassau and we did the "Atlantis Aquadventure." Let me tell you - skip it. It was terrible. The tour is so poorly organized and the park is so poorly laid out, that it was two hours in the hot sun before we even got to go down any water slides. Then, the operator of one of the slides must not have been paying attention and told another lady to go down too soon, and she hit my poor sister in the butt so hard she has a HUGE bruise. Terrible. Anyway - skip it if you ever go. Beautiful, but not worth the money.

All in all and awesome trip. Did some fresh-food shopping already but taking it easy so we can return to work healthy. I hope everyone had a great week!

Quzz don't even look at the 6 pounds as a bad thing. It is a side effect of going on a cruise. There is just too much good food and good drinks to not indulge for the week holiday. I learned the same thing in April for my holidays and while it stresses me out to have lost a month of losing, it was so worth it. For me personally I am never naturally going to be thin and fit and I am always going to gain weight fast but by living a Healy life most of the time it will afford luxuries like the cruise you just went on. You know what needs to be done to lose, now work hard and get back under 160 and closer to your goal again.

I'm willing to bet that most of that weight falls off quickly just by drinking a ton of water and flushing out your system. I bet you will be surprised.

Welcome back @Quzzdragon12 that cruise sounds awesome. Shame about the bugs but it doesn't seem to have slowed you down too much. As 50 said don't be too concerned about the gain. It will come off in no time and you seem very committed to making it happen so that is half the battle. 160 will come around again before you know what hit you.

Had one of those crazy hectic awful mornings, but it seems to have turned around (knock on wood!). I've been fasting since after dinner last night to get blood work done today (just routine check-up kinda blood work) so I didn't have breakfast. I packed one of my mini-quiches planning on eating it at work. Hubby put my coffee in a thermos for me to take and I planned on bringing my daily vitamins and some pseudophed since I'm still fighting this headcold. Well... I forgot the coffee and the pills at home. I had the address of the lab in my phone's GPS, but my brain (still coffee-deprived and sleepy) turned like I was going to work. I finally made it to the lab and they took me pretty quickly, but the phlebotomist used a large needle, had to wiggle it to find the vein, then my vein collapsed. So she had to stick me AGAIN. I requested a butterfly needle that time 'cuz that's crazy. She couldn't find the vein. She tried one more time before I finally asked for a new tech. She stuck me once and finished up the tubes. 4 needle sticks and two HUGE bruises later, I was finally on my way to work (and breakfast). Got to work, put my quiche in the microwave. Our microwave at home is ancient and SUPER weak - which I forgot. So a minute later I came back to a burnt disgusting quiche.

The turn around being that I needed to run to BJ's for work supplies anyway, so I ran home first (only 15 minutes) and got another quiche and my morning pills. Got the shopping done, put away, and back to my desk. Finally feeling like my day has evened out.

Sinus pressure is making me grumpy in the evenings and not feeling like working out at all. Trying to take a page from @Kell2912 's book and just do it anyway. My knees were hurting yesterday too - I think it's the weather, but also probably doesn't help that I fell off the PT exercise bandwagon for a while. Back to it. One more day until the weekend!