So, my husband and I just spent the weekend in Paducah, KY for his family's yearly weekend Christmas.  It was challenging, but I did good and feel confident.  I even lost one pound while I was there.  Friday night was the hardest.  They do not do dinner on Friday night, but they do appetizers.  I'm talking a load of appetizers!  From dips to mini sandwhiches.  So, before we went there on Friday evening, we stopped at O'Charley's and I got a small steak so that I would not be hungry all night.  I did have a couple of Tostito Chips with salsa, a couple of crackers with some crab dip (mostly crab trying to avoid the cream cheese) and luckily they had some veggies and fruit.  Saturday I woke up early and went and worked out in the hotel's gym, then went out to lunch with the family.  I ordered grilled shrimp w/ no butter and a side of steamed veggies.  Well, they brought out the shrimp in a BOWL of Butter!  I told them that I said no butter and they took my shrimp back.  Just one minute later the brought me the shrimp out in a bowl without butter, but the shrimp was still dripping with butter.  Uuugghh!  So, I took my napkin and tried to soak up all of the butter to be able to eat the shrimp.  My goodness!  This is why we do not eat out!  You have no control what goes in or on your food.  The rest of the day was pretty good, Mike's aunt made dinner and I had some ham, lima beans and corn.  The next morning was so hard!  I made my protein drink before we went back to his aunt's house to say goodbye to everyone and they were all having Kringle.  For those of you who don't know Kringle is a dutch pastry from a dutch pastry shop in Racine, WI and it's phenominal!  I absolutely could not resist.  I cut the tiniest sliver I could and it was delectable.  The bad thing is that my father-in-law drives to Racine every year to pick up Kringle for everyone, so needless to say we have two full rings of Kringle in our freezer.  It's taunting me!  So, my first Christmas holiday went pretty good.  I had a few bites of items I probably wasn't supposed to have, but I think all in all it went pretty well.  I look forward to our holiday party on 12/15!