Morning all,
Stayed POP eating at a restaurant for book club last night. Delicious salad w shrimp on top. I'm once again facing a food and drink filled weekend ahead but will just deal with it when I get to it.

Clarabr, great job moving on and getting to the gym. Keep up the good work!

Bargoo, living in the south I've come to appreciate good bbq. Well prepared it is worth the cals for an occasional treat. The cookoff I'm supposed to attend this weekend is a rib cookoff and I will probably have 1 or 2 little ribs. My friends who are entering are excellent caterers.

I'm still dragging a little bit today. I had a fairly normal sleep last night but didn't get to "make up" anything from the DST change the night before. Hopefully we can all drag ourselves out of these cobwebs and keep going! :carrot:

I hadn't slept well all weekend, so I took some Advil PM last night and slept quite well.

My 1 pound weekend weight is half off this morning.

I walked the dog after work yesterday--so nice having a little extra light a little extra long!

I am still trying to get adjusted to the time change, slept pretty good last night , and was up at a reasonable time. Reasonable for me, that is.
Allison good work on the weight coming down..
It is pretty annoying how men can seem to lose weight just by walking to the refrigerator.
Megan, BBQ is pretty common in California , too. It was a little cool Sunday but the hosts have a great partially enclosed patio area and comfortable furniture. Many of the guest are bowlers and the hosts have a table made out of an old bowling lane in their patio. Pretty neat.
I didn't realize that someione had taken a picture of me and Misha "making out", Misha is the hosts Shu Tzu, he had hopped up on my lap and gave me a kiss.It is now preserved for history.

I'm taking a couple days of maintenance mode. There's something about the weight-loss mindset that's more rigid than I can field for more than 4-5 weeks straight; I ran into this a few years back as well. My inner 5 year-old is screaming "I don't WANT to log it! I KNOW what I can and can't eat!!!" I was at 152.5 this morning; I made a deal with myself that I will stop logging until Friday unless that number goes up.

On the positive side, DH stepped up and volunteered to cover DS's basketball game tonight. It's an away game that's over an hour from our house. I can't quite figure out if he's doing it because he realized I do the vast majority of the kid duties; or because he knows that I realllllly want to go to water aerobics tonight, or because he needs a good excuse not to go with me. :lol: Like food logs, at the moment I simply don't want to work that hard and analyze it. :D Go with the flow, baby!

Becky, re : your husband's offer to cover DS basketball game, just accept it, do not over analyze it.
Re: Dieting, do whatever works for you.

bargoo, I think I'm in an "I don't wanna think" mood. :p It's the amoeba mentality of reactive existence: hungry? Get food. Poked? Move away. Danger? Flight. The opposite of planning, tempered by the long list of educational experiences. If it works, great - but if that scale needle moves the wrong way, the deal is off! ;)

I'm 152.5 this morning as well. Was 152 on Sunday. I hope to be back to 152 tomorrow. Then to work on 151.5 for Friday and hoping for 151 on Saturday, which is my birthday. When I started doing Nutrisystem on 1/2/12, I was hoping to be at goal by my birthday (could have been done had I given up wine...). Instead I'm halfway there now. I should be able to meet goal by the end of May, dontcha think?

allison, I'll walk that last 12 with ya! My birthday is May 17, and that is my target date. We've had a lot of success in the past with cutting back on the wine - seems to be a snag for both of us. :D I won't declare total abstinence, because I don't want to ... but I might sign up to a maximum number of ounces per week? :chin:

I'm with you!!!

I managed to get by on half of my usual last night. I have an open bottle for tonight and will not open a new one. That should be easy...I have a new case that I have not yet unpacked, so perhaps if I leave it unpacked for a while longer, it should help.

Also, I managed the whole weekend with no beer. I usually have one each day with lunch. Pat on my back for that one!

Here we go toward 5/17 (or perhaps 5/14 for me as that's my anniversary).

Allison and Becky, thinking good thoughts for May for both of you. I think you can do it !!

Allison, I reviewed my last five weeks of food logs. (takes deep breath) I have been averaging 10 servings of alcohol per week - based on the typical 12 oz beer, 4 oz wine, 1 oz hard spirits. I am (gulp) going to cut it by 60%, and give myself a weekly budget of 4 servings. I used up 2 of them last night.

Um, gulp, I've beat you! I average 3 glasses of wine per night. I'm going to cut that to two this week and try for one next week (except Tuesday when we go out to celebrate my birthday--belated as we're also going to see a show).

Allison, sounds like a good plan! I only averaged the last 5 weeks - which were "weight loss" mode. I have no doubts at all that I was right with you when I was holding steady over the last few years! It's hard to beat a good glass of wine ... I guess if I'm going to cut back that far, I'm going to have to get into the truly premium stuff to make it worthwhile .... :D

ETA: I just informed my GFs and DH about the new "budget". They're thrilled about having a new designated driver. :lol:

Wine and beer are my downfalls, too. Yesterday was a decent day of eating as a maintainer again but I still had 2 beers with dinner.

Allison and ICUwishing, I'm usually around 2 or 3 drinks per night. Honestly I can't imagine cutting back to 4 servings per week though I'm sure it would help with the weight! Maybe I should try a more modest reduction to 8 a week or something like that.

LOL. I'm actually the DD in our house (unless we make DS drive). DH got a DUI several years ago and the state has a zero tolerance for like 10 years after that. He was dumb enough to get one once and does not want to go through it again.

I think my problem is once I start, I don't stop. The later I start, the less I drink. For example, last night I didn't pour any wine until we sat down for dinner and therefore I only had 2 glasses--one with dinner and one afterward. If I could cut out the afterward, things would be better. But what's worse is when I get home from work, it's too cold/windy/etc. to take the dog for a walk, I sit down with my Kindle and a glass of wine (although I HAVE been making strides in this--both in not making excuses to walk the dog OR having a sparkling water in lieu of the wine while reading).