Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Thursday, December 26

Yeah, since my back surgery I just have been holding on by a thread so being on the forum has been pretty far down my list of priorities, if I'm being honest. Life is just in the way right now. Plus, I'm feeling sorry for myself since I'm STILL dealing with pain.

I'm FULL of excuses, see? :)

Damn - you are awesome. 

your husband = good man.  D

Aw Candy - I feel your pain. It's crazy the **** we'll talk ourselves into. Hug your hubby (when you don't think you'll punch him) and tell him that he was ri...riii...not wrong. 

146.0  - weird how quickly those "games" can show up- like- " crap, I wonder if I get on the scales again, if that .4 # might drop off, thus making it ok that I mindlessly indulged in the peppermint bark yesterday".  Well, it didn't-and I logged it, and first thing this morning I gathered up all the dishes of sweets and nuts sitting too conveniently around the house- Into the deep freeze with them to be pieced out conservatively at occasions throughout the year.  I'm wryly smiling- wondering now, at this time next year, just how much will still be left in the freezer....hmmmmm.  

Tom--I vote Egypt next year!

A whopping 104.2 lbs today!  I was like a drunk person last night, unable to stop eating after one bite of chocolate cake.  I rationalized that I had blown my food plan anyway, might as well eat everything in sight.  I couldn't dispute this thought in my head - I didn't even want to.  I told myself that I'd been so good about food lately, I "deserved" this.  

This morning, I honestly don't know that I regret it.  That was my first big binge since my VSG two years ago, and I have to say it was kind of stress relieving.   I'm happy to be back on plan today, not feeling resentful or sad or in a panic.  I'm a little worried that I'm traveling to the Keys (in Fla) in four  days where there'll be nothing to do but eat (and swim in the ocean, which makes me hungry, unfortunately :-), but I have a plan in place for de-carbing and dropping any extra weight when I get back.

I hope I still feel this calm and rational about things tomorrow :-)!

Have a good one, all!

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123 today. NOt surprising due to yesterday's christmas. I did eat a sliver of cake and small protions of bad stuff and lots of wine. gotta get back to reality.

I feel really lucky that we have a fun and wonderful group of friends to spend holidays with.  In other words, no family. chistmas with relatives drives me nuts and fortunately they are all scattered and we don't get together on holidays. am I a biotch? yeah but still glad to avoid the fam damily on holidays.   so all is good and me and the shinking nerd are doing well.   diane

116.6 today. Was sick as a dog for Christmas Day so missed the roast duck. Some sort of strange bug that resulted in headache, nausea and severe gut pain. Pulling out of it today. No appetite but getting some fluids in.

Jub, good to hear you're pretty much back on track. Candy, husbands are overrated ;)