Beautiful photo @RangerRickL hope you had a great day!

Today was a yes x3 which is a massive personal victory as I had mentioned yesterday that I have my "feeder" mother in law in town. Thanks so much to @Hollis100 and @LoriAnna62 for your support. She kindly brought 3 bottles of wine with her to our house (which remain unopened as 2 were consumed by the group at lunch anyway) and really kindly brought a box of chocolates (which remains untouched as once opened she declined one). I'd agreed to go out for lunch. There was a bit of sulking when I said I wouldn't share garlic bread as a side. It's a gorgeous family run Italian. She nearly always chooses it yet always makes a fuss about something. Today apparently her main meal was too salty so she left half. I wonder whether actually she just only wanted half as she's always watching her weight. Mine was delicious and with minimal eating the rest of the day left me within my allowance and I declined a dessert. The baby was fed up by this point so I was able to take him out for a walk leaving my husband, daughter and father in law with the pressure on them to have a pudding - not that my daughter needed any convincing! Anyway, rant over but I'm pleased with my choices today and it's given me the strength and confidence that I can do it again tomorrow. And taught me the lesson that Ill try to avoid turning crazy myself on this journey by force feeding others what I don't eat myself and I won't make a scene in restaurants when I don't want to eat all of my plate.

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, walked Ollie 23 minutes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

@am_change Glad to read about your success! It can be a battle to perserve good relationships and stand up for ourselves. You've helped me, too. I won't see my feeder friend for about a week -- she's busy with family -- but will face her in the future with a better battle plan.

@RangerRickL stunning photo! Thank you for sharing such beautiful nature photos with us.

Exercise: did 20 min Yoga DVD
Track: yes
Within calories: No

Yes to all three. 1 pass left. Hope everyone has a great Sunday.

Exercise - 100 min
Calories - under (barely)
Tracking - all

3/7
Exercise- yes 20 mins of strength training
Calories - yes - under
Logged - yes

Saturday, 3/7

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, just a walk. Still tired.

Flying tomorrow. It will be good to get back to warmer weather. If someone could please explain to me why we feel the need to bring so many snacks on a four hour flight as though we might starve mid flight, I would truly appreciate the insight.

Pass days to date - 2

I have been reading the posts about feeder friends, and mother-in-laws (whole other dimension added there!). I have always been a female people pleaser. Which is really weird because in my professional life I am effectively intimidating and somewhat scary. The opposition tends to hire me for future needs. Not so in my personal life. I have always been the last one to stand up for myself. If someone gives me a compliment, I point out one of my many flaws. I need to learn to accept compliments without shame. I have found that my heavy friends want to eat. I’m their eating buddy. My alcohol friends want to drink. I’m their drinking buddy. As long as I fulfilled my role, everything was great. They were all quite angry with me and hurt when I up and changed the rules. So I look at it more that I threw them a curveball rather than their not accepting and respecting my needs. My bad. I would give them time to adjust. Unfortunately, few do and I was replaced. We had very little in common after my decision to change. I have accepted that this happens. I seek out like minded people now and am assuming my old friends have done the same. As for mother-in-laws — she created and raised someone you love so try really, really hard not to kick her in the shins - no matter how much you may want to and no matter how much your jaw hurts from the fake smile frozen on your face.