Enjoy your trip. Have fun. Keep up the walking. Hey you could always do more walking on your trip to make up for the extra cals you may take in. I'm curious if you don't mind me asking where are you going? When I hear someone is going on a trip I get a little jealous inside. I haven't been anywhere in about 2 years. You will have to let us know how your trip was. Have fun.

Have a good time on your trip and hope its reviving to you!! keep up your spirits and youre hard work

Hope you are having a marvelous vacation. What a treat to have a loss right before you leave. Great job!!!!

Well, it's back from a fun vacation and time to get with it again. I'm sure I wasn't as good as I could have been, but after not having a vacation for a year and a half, I just had to enjoy myself and not worry too much about what I ate. Spent a few days around St. Louis and did quite a bit of walking ... shopping, siteseeing, shopping, ballgame, shopping ... did I mention shopping? I had been wanting to eat at JBuck's Restaurant, so got to do that and even had a chef salad there!! However ... spent a day at historic St. Charles, Missouri, and just had to sample the wonderful ice cream parlor there and the candy shop too. And although I drank water, I still drank more regular Pepsi than I should have had. Since I'm the type of person who would never step on a scale if I didn't have to, I think I'm going to give myself this week of eating better and exercising before I weight again. I'm just scared enough that I regained that 2.5 pounds that I lost the week before, and I don't want to start feeling negative right after such a fun week. I'm not planning much for tomorrow (the 4th of July in the U.S.), so I'll be able to stay on track then too.

Positive things on vacation:
Did NOT eat nachos at the ballpark!
Did some swimming and water exercises at the motel pool.
Did lots of walking and some stair climbing while siteseeing and shopping.

Not-so-positive things on vacation:
Enjoyed some ice cream and candy.
Drank too much regular Pepsi.

It's amazing how positive I still feel about losing weight, even after vacation. I used to get very depressed after coming back from a trip because I knew that I wasn't good and gained weight. But knowing that I could come back on the forum for support and encouragement made all the difference in my attitude. Thanks everyone! You're all the BEST!

Sounds like you had a great time, and I doubt that some ice cream and candy over the course of a weekend is going to set you back all that much. And good for you that upon your return you are right back in a positive mode. Congratulations!!!

Glad you had fun on your trip! Welcome back. <Gets out poking stick.> Now, about that walking routine...

Sounds like you did really well to me. Welcome back!

My mood is not the greatest today. Don't know why except that I ate some ice cream last night. Don't know why I did it except that it was there. And I didn't stop with just a little either. Why oh why do I have such a problem with portion control????? I absolutely hate being a slave to food! Just when I think I'm getting control, it comes back to bite me in the butt. Urggggggggggg!

One good thing about yesterday: I got my walking in (so twinmom won't poke me with that stick! )

It isn't your fault Darcy, sugar is addictive. The ice cream and Pepsi you had on holiday will have set you up to crave it when you got home. Then when you started eating that ice cream, your blood sugar shot up, then crashed down, making you want to eat more and more of it. It is science (and a problem that I suffer with myself). Don't worry too much about it, just get back on the no sugar band wagon, and every day it will get easier to resist the temptations.

Thanks, Mrs Bear! You are absolutely right, and your encouragement has stopped me from going to the vending machines here at work this afternoon. Thank you SOOOO much!

I'm hoping it will get easier too!!

You got you're walk in and when you feel good about exercising it makes it easier to say no to the bad foods.

Keep on walking, chickie!
Left. Left. Left, right, left.
Left. Left. Left, right, left.

So far, so good today. I had a bowl of Cheerios, skim milk, and 6 oz. of orange juice for breakfast. I have some errands to run at lunch, so maybe I'll stop by Subway on the way back to the office. I did some walking last night and plan to again tonight - probably about 2 miles. Thankfully my mood is alot better today than yesterday. I'm trying very hard to be faithful to weighing and measuring my food so that I can keep portion size under control.

Thanks, everyone, for all of the encouraging words!

You're doing good, dgillygal...don't beat yourself up too much about the ice cream. The important thing is that you are back on track this morning and you've made some major healthy choices. How about if you try keeping something like yogurt on hand for when you need that sweet tasting, creamy texture fix? Just find alternatives to the foods you used to eat and you will be fine. Hugs to you!!!!

Dgillygal I understand the measuring your food. I do most of the time and I do it so I have an understanding of what a cup looks like on my plate. I too need to control portion. I'm glad to hear you are feeling better today.

Hope you have a great weekend.