Weigh in Wednesday

Well, today is May 23, 2012. I have bad news, but not too bad. The bad news is, I gained a couple of pounds. I am now at 299.8. I'm still in the twos, but that's pretty scary since I'm so close to 300 again. There are no excuses for why I gained weight, and I take responsibility and will use this as a learning tool.

First, my 17 year old daughter, had her senior prom on May 12th. I was doing fine that week until my friend from Los Angeles came to help with my daughter, as I had to work, and couldn't take her around to get a few last minute things she needed.
My friend also brought her mom with her. We went out to eat one day, and, gee, for some reason, I magically forgot I was supposed to be tracking. Well, I didn't. The next day, I somehow "forgot" again, and had pizza. And a lot of it throughout the day. Then, this last weekend, my family and I went on vacation for 2 days to California, and again, like the previous week, tracking was not on my mind.

During those two weeks, I did do my exercises, and walked a lot. I walked more than I had in years! We visited and stayed in Long Beach on the Queen Mary ship. It was awesome. We explored the whole ship for about two hours, walking up and down stairs, going back and forth. You wouldn't think that you can get a lot of walking  on a boat, but I was getting in a good sweat, and it felt good. We also walked around in downtown L.A. This was a huge NSV for me. I might have blogged about our trip last year, where I couldn't walk and had to sit down. Well, this year 50+ pounds lighter, I just had to go to the same place as last year, and see how far I've come. We parked in the same exact space, and walked the same route I couldn't 12 months earlier. It was so easy! I walked that, and so much more! It felt really good, and I was really proud. My daughter was especially happy, and said how bad she felt for me last year. She was so proud, and happy that we were able to browse all the little vendor carts without me being winded and needing to sit down.

All that walking I did, I also did a lot of eating :(. We ate out the whole time, obviously. I made a few good choices, and a few bad ones, like having fish and chips. I just "had" to have them since after all, I was on a British ship. This kind of thinking is what makes me gain weight! Well, I'm glad I didn't gain too much. The walking and my exercising helped. But, now I know when I have friends or family in town, or for special events, I can't just forget about tracking. This is something I have to do everyday for life. Pretty crappy! I also wanted to note that I had so much bread when we were in Anaheim, Ca. the night before we were in Long Beach. My 15 year old son and I walked a lot at Downtown Disney, while my daughter was with her class in the Disneyland park for her Grad Night, and my husband was at a concert a few blocks down the road. My son and I walked for about an hour, we took the bus to and from our hotel. We decided to eat at one of the restaurants in the Hilton hotel we stayed at. I ordered  the chicken as you can see in the picture. It had mashed potatoes, and some yummy sauce. It was delicious. You can see a basket in the middle of our table filled with some of the best dinner rolls I have ever had. Sad. I had about 3 or 4 of them with butter. What is my problem! I also took half of my food back to our room, and the minute we got in, I tore through it. That's pretty sad and pathetic.