WE got this cactusflower! Again!

I had a tough weekend, and can't pretend I was 100% on plan. My oldest has autism and we had a very hard meeting with the school on Thursday that I still haven't gotten over - drowning my sorrows in wine is not the most constructive way to handle my sorrow, stress, and disappointment. I didn't even "plan" my food on the menu thread - I really need to handle my weekends and stress better. I am in this for the long haul - and targeting my blood pressure is my big goal with this - and fitting in to all my old clothes in my closet!

I missed my WI#4 - my 3yo DDs daycare called and I had to pick up - official WI on Sat. I need to get my mojo back and shake off my son's school meeting blues. Worried it's going to give me more excuses to backslide and I really want to make it to goal!

Hey IPEEPS! I actually missed my last week's Tuesday WI#4 (daycare called last minute and had to pick up my 3yo) - but had my make-up WI on Saturday and lost 6lb! What's funny is that I usually WI on Tue @ 4:45pm in work clothes and I had my Sat WI @ 10am & was wearing workout clothes - so my measurements were all WAY down too (mostly because I was wearing sports bra/leggings vs. jeans/underwire bra - apparently I lost 7" in my bust in 1 week - LOL). I'm getting back on schedule with my WI #5 tomorrow - so I'm expecting to go up in measurements and probably not have an official loss - but at least I will know why. I'm officially down 20lb.
I have my weightlifting class today and starting to feel a little bloaty - I think TOM is quickly approaching.
We are heading to the beach in Galveston for the long Memorial Day weekend Fri-Mon, so preparing to bring my packets and stock up on my veggies.

UGH - I've started having a "little snack" of mixed nuts in the lab - I think TOM is approaching as I am usually not so hungry by now (and I just had my IP lunch & cukes). At least they weren't carbs (silver lining?). Going to drink more water and have my snack early to head off a full on pig-out. I hope everyone is heading up into the long holiday weekend with a plan - I need to come up with mine!

Oh my iPeeps...I really had a vacation over Memorial Day. We rented a beach house in Galveston with my family and had several friends come visit all weekend. I veered off plan - I still kept it "low carb" (eg, I made a cake with chocolate covered strawberries and had none, but snacked on pecans several times, kept meals meat & IP veggies). It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't have had drinks (beer & wine)!!! My weekdays I am So Good, then weekends (especially this one) and it's 2 steps back. My first IP round I had 0 cheats, it's a struggle this time around.

My WI #6 yesterday was 0.0, I also started TOM then, so I guess it could have been worse. I'm kicking it in with "IP Boot camp", doing 4 IP packs + select veggies, upping my "free veggies" (greens & cukes). I'm feeling sufficiently guilty to kick back 100%.

I'm closing down last month's thread and opening up a new one for the summer - let's get this party started IPeeps!

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