Hey Everyone! Not sure how I missed checking in yesterday. I did have to go "in" to work so my regular routine was upset a bit. I didn't put in a hard day's work at all. That doesn't happen very often especially when working from home. I will need to play catch up today and tomorrow. The weather isn't looking great, so that means wanting to be outside won't be a distraction.

I have been tracking my food intake and had been doing good. I ate dinner out last night and I am certain I am up in weight. I didn't want to weigh in and will wait until Sunday. See if I can undo what I did. Once I tracked what I ate and saw the sodium levels- twice of what I should have, I know I will be retaining water. Plus my calorie count was over. It's sad that one meal can derail weeks of progress. Back on track this morning.

Congrats on your weigh-in Paula!! It is so encouraging and motivating when the scale gives us good news. I hope you (and all of us) can keep our momentum going despite slip ups from time to time.

I didn't eat dinner last night which I know is not good. I was upset and lost my appetite. I feel stress and anxiety in my stomach. I am not a stress eater, but a stress starver. I have had breakfast which is good. I have requested to make an appointment with a counsellor. I am not coping well with DH's parents showing up daily and sometimes twice a day. Even though I don't talk to them since they stay outside, I find that I am getting upset and don't know what to do about it. I can't carry on like this much longer. I just wanted a pleasant summer, and to do that I guess I need the help... sigh.

Thanks for all of your support and encouragement. I have a counsellor, I haven't had a session since 2013! I was able to book an appointment for Monday and it's online! I am thankful for that. She has been effective to help me in the past so I am hoping she will be in this situation too.

I agree that some meetings are so much more convenient online. They seem to be shorter and like you all said, you save so much on driving time.

If anyone is interested I found a show on YouTube called Secret Eaters. It's a bit older, but I enjoyed it. I learned a lot and it gave me a glimpse into why I wasn't losing weight. I was a secret eater! I may watch it through again after summer for a refresher. I saw a drop on the scale, but most likely due to not eating. I will eat today, but I hope I can keep of the gains I made!

I did some gardening yesterday morning, but then I got very fatigued. A side effect from the vaccine. I ended up sitting in my easy chair the rest of the day before heading to bed early. I feel much better this morning. Not fun to lose a day, but I kept telling myself that it is a small price to pay for getting protection against Covid. In two weeks I should be good to get out and about with much less chance of getting sick.

My parents and one son will be coming over later today for a BBQ. We will be celebrating Father's Day and my parent's anniversary. Steak is on the menu. It should be a fairly healthy meal as long as I can control my portion sizes.

I am missing some of the features on SP too DW. Tracking the smaller goals, getting points and some of the food tracking options. I don't find MFP keeps my most recent foods list as well as SP did either. I am adjusting.

There seems to be more and more vaccine mixing in Canada. First it was just the people that had AstraZeneca for the first does. Now we are short on Pfizer so the government is saying people can choose Moderna for their second dose. It seems like our vaccine rules are changing on the fly.

I had my counselling session yesterday afternoon. I have a second one to go to now in a couple of weeks. I am to come up with a "theme" of the main feeling I get when my in-laws show up. Since they trigger stress when they show up, she wants to me settle on the why. We talked about that theme being the loss of power. That fits, along with some other feelings. So if I settle on then I can bring her an example of an experience where I have felt that I had no power. That shouldn't be too hard. Then she will help me to turn that around into something that won't make me stressed when they show up. I will give it a try.

The dieting is going okay. I know I can tighten up a few more areas where I slip up. There is still room for progress and I am enjoying seeing smaller numbers on the scale. Hope to keep it going.

I am still working hard at eating well. I had a work dinner last night and I looked up the nutritional info before I attended the meeting. I chose the best I could, lowest I could with calories, but the sodium level was high. I thought that would be better than choosing higher calories and lower sodium. So I will make sure to drink lots of water the next few days and then weigh in. Hoping to lose another pound in a week's time. This is a very slow process for me, but I won't give up.

I hope you did well at the homeowners party Diane. I would find it hard to pass up a glass of wine!

My eating was way off yesterday. Oh dear! I met my friend who has been having an affair as she called it off and broke up with the married man. I hope he will respect her decision and NOT contact her, but he is such a terrible human, he will try and win her back. She needs to be strong. Anyway we met up at a patio and had some wine- no problem, but I wanted to eat as I hadn't had a big meal and needed food with my drink. I ate chicken wings and I had a tuna stack (raw tuna with guacamole) along with some kind of fried chips. The food was soooo good. But I tracked the best I could and I was way over in calories. I hope I didn't undo all of my hard work these last two days. I am back on track today. I believe I need to follow a food plan to do it, so today may be the day I start C1D1. Right now it's a cup of hot lemon water, then I will wait to see when I get hungry for breakfast and reach for an egg with fruit. I have a grapefruit on hand, so that's helpful.

And more drama with the in-laws. DH asked his parents to not plan to be here after 3:30pm as I have a work meeting that we are holding outside, and he asked them not to come out tomorrow. I was to have different work people over, but not that's cancelled. But- when he asked his mom if she got his text about it, she said she did but was not happy and that we don't understand. He didn't inquire about why she wasn't happy or what we didn't understand. He may do that in person today. They are coming out this morning. They would be here everyday if we didn't ask them to skip specific days, and that seems so backwards to me. That we have to provide a schedule of dates and times that we would like some privacy outdoors and somehow she doesn't like that. I am thankful I have more counselling coming up. But it's July 7, so until then I suck it up.