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Originally Posted by CenTXChk
Oneuh2 – Yikes! Sorry about your flood. Hope everything is okay. Nothing like a little stress after a nice relaxing mani!
JJTx – Another great loss. So exciting that your coach is taking progress photos. Can’t wait to see the before, during and after. My coach took photos when I hit 70lbs lost (although she hasn’t shown me the before or during yet).
Had a good 4.2lb loss this week, which is nice since I only lost .2 last week.
Question for you ladies, I have gone off plan for a scheduled vacation last summer (had just started the plan and had lost 20lbs at that point) as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas day. I have been invited to my company’s executive retreat at the end of this month which is a really big deal. I’ve never been invited before so I’m not totally sure what to expect. I work in the restaurant industry so food and drinks are always in excess at any company event. I’ve been to a couple dinners and been able to stay OP but I am starting to hear about agenda for this trip and am thinking there is NO WAY I am going to be able to be 100% OP. BBQ, drinking, fancy awards dinners. Breakfast and lunch are buffet style. Initially I thought about making it work but now I am leaning towards taking a couple days off.  I’ve been dealing with some diet fatigue so it is enticing. I haven’t had any problems getting right back OP to date but hate to extend P1 any longer than possible. I am really on the fence…. 
I also have friend who’s DH is planning a surprise 40th birthday party with a daylong winery tour around the hill county for a group of us in April. It crossed my mind of taking that day off too.
Is my resolve weakening or are these realistic exceptions after being OP 8 months?
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Thanks to
all of you for the kind words regarding my weekend of parlor tricks -- I drop off the car tomorrow for wheel replacement, and the repair guy comes tomorrow to look at the cooktop that continues to try to ignite when all burners are turned off... it's constantly snapping as that little ignition spark appears every 2 or 3 seconds.....
I cannot tell you how much I look forward to a return to normal when I wake up Thursday morning --
JJTx you are a losin' machine! Losses at or above 2lbs pretty consistently at each weigh in -- that's all the result I am looking for!
Sgrealtor -- I hope your delayed weigh in is a nice number that turns out to be well worth waiting for - I know you are looking for a payback after that rude experience of a one lb gain.
Briael-- nice to have you share with our July group!!! After you shared your food log info etc., I became somewhat inspired...
I just finished posting monthly weight and measurements, from IP start to this month, on my Fitbit dashboard -- pretty cool to let it create the nice downward sloped lines on the graph... My hips and waist have reduced the most, and I am on the verge of dropping into 'overweight' neighborhood when it comes to BMI. I also logged food in my Fitbit food diary -- created some stuff not in their database (like the Packet Muffins I made this week).
I was surprised to see that with all my intake following IP 100 percent, my intake was just at 1200 calories... this is not as low calorie as I was expecting to see... but I am glad to be taking steps to actually log specifics. This is a good habit to build in anticipation of maintenance.
CenTxChk -- first off..... over 4lbs loss!!! Fan-tas-tick!!! You must be young... or you are doing something I am not doing that's really working great!!! No slumps on losses happening with you!!!
I don't know what to say regarding your upcoming 'real food events'... on one hand, I know you are feeling diet fatigue and I bet you would really enjoy abandoning the IP protocol at your work thing. On the other hand, it's a slippery slope - definitely risky.
I'd say take JJTx's advice and go to P2 for a few days before the event - do your body that favor of preparing it for increased carb intake. I would also try to stay with the P2 protocol (sh/be pretty easy at the buffets) but pick one special meal to enjoy as a 'Fun' meal - maybe the fancy award dinner thing, for example. Savor and enjoy every morsel of that meal... and then the following day get right back on P1!
For the April winery thing -- you ought to be down another 20 lbs or more by then, and only 20 lbs more to go to get to goal. If you want to enjoy wine and munchies etc. that day, I would definitely do the phase off, have your Fun Day, and again -- get right back on P1 the following morning. Give your body that help (the prep with P2) to deal with the change so you minimize long term effects and make it easier for your body to get back into ketosis to finish your journey.
Whatever you decide to do -- let's all have a discussion like this after each event - we can all learn from your experience, ya know...
Actually, it would be really good for you to pause and take inventory of how you felt in the gut, and how it affected your sleep quality, level of energy, etc., after each 'fun' experience. It may be that those results after the work thing might influence what you decide to do about the winery trip... it will be interesting to see how all that turns out. ( I must be reading too many of Avery's posts... I am looking at this like a science experiment....
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final thoughts from my soapbox...
When I read thru the threads that have been created by IP re-booters, I am reminded of how hard I have found it to be to get back on the horse after leaving the saddle... I spent a year and a half getting my head together to begin IP for the first time last July. During that year I had done HCG homeopathic drops 3 times, dropping 20 lbs each time, and regaining it all, plus some, each time. It's spoooo easy to fall into that yo yo cycle and then it's so frustrating that I felt 'to heck with it' and just fell off altogether and slipped back into the dreaded continuous gaining cycle. My all time high weight rose from 210 to 240 during the year before I began IP, a 15 percent increase.... unbelievably grim.
As depressing as diet fatigue can feel, in my experience, the misery that comes with slipping into a U-turn on a successful weight loss journey is particularly excruciating. I would feel terrible for that to happen to you, when you have made such great strides so far.
Lisa's signature line quote is so apropos when tackling these kind of decisions:
Losing weight is hard. Maintenance is hard. Being fat is hard. Pick your hard. -- Ishbel
It IS such a slippery slope. One that I haven't struggled with much to date but as I get closer and miss certain foods more, I find myself saying "Oh, when I'm in maintenance I can have that." The reality is this with that attitude I will gain the weight back in no time. I guess that's why maintenance scares the heck out of me so much. 
