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By kilax, January 12, 2010 5:31 am

Thank you for all of your feedback and questions yesterday – I really appreciate it. I am taking many notes to review. Keep the suggestions/questions coming!

I have to share a little secret – I have been weighing myself every single day since October 17th.

And to make it worse? I have been tracking every weigh-in in excel. Oh yes, so I can make fun charts like this:

What does this all mean?

That I am about to get chewed out for weighing myself 7 times a week?

Actually, it means that I have been using the home scale since October 17th and have not stayed overnight anywhere since then.

Well, that is about to change! We’re going to Barbados!

Ha! Not! I wish. No, we are leaving for Iowa soon and will be there 5 nights and 4 whole days.

That is a lot of time away from the scale.

Dun dun dun… what is going to happen?

What usually happens when I visit family (or they visit) is that I lose all abandon and stuff my face silly. But these past few months we’ve had family over a few times, and I have been fine. In fact, in the past few months I have only had four incidences where I felt like I was binge-eating, and they were all at work.

So, I am feeling pretty optimistic that I can forget about that scale for (gasp!) 5 days and see what happens. I think I can have fun and eat reasonably. And I know I can fit exercise in.

But just in case, what are your tips for eating healthy when you are in a situation that normally triggers the opposite?

My tips are to focus on the company, not the food, and to drink lots of water.

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By kilax, October 4, 2009 11:26 am

My parents stayed* in this hotel suite at the local casino last night for their 30th anniversary.

I wish we would have taken photos of the suite before we all (12 of us) got there and spread our crap out all over the place. The room was really nice – it had a bar, dining room, living room, desk area, entry foyer, powder room, huge bedroom, and a sweet bathroom. Basically, I wanted to live there.

When we got done swimming, we went back up to the room, where my mom had just given my nephew a bath. I walked into the bathroom and she said, “Guess where the water comes out of this bathtub.” It was one of those fancy infinity bathtubs, so I guessed that the water did something silly like fill up the sides then fill into the tub.

Nope, I was wrong. It did something even sillier:

It poured down from the ceiling.

I found this very humorous. Just thought I’d share!

We came into town specifically for my parent’s anniversary. We took family photos yesterday, then hung out at the hotel, eating food, swimming a bit, gambling, then… staying up until 3:00 am talking to my mother. Oops.

Today we are hanging out with family more. I usually have to leave right away on Sunday, but I moved my Friday off to this Monday, so I get to stay an extra day. Yay!

*For free!