Maintaining and Loving Summer

Key Largo, FL
August 2010
Outside on the deck at Snapper's Tiki Bar before dinner.

I don't know if anyone is following this blog any more. I haven't posted in so long. I have been maintaining and even survived vacation. It was finally nice to be on vacation and not feel like a blimp. I had so many new cute clothes to pack and wear on the trip. I felt so good despite the wickedly hot weather. I ate a lot of broiled fish, peel n' eat shrimp, fruit, and veggies. I tried hogfish and yellow tail snapper (both wonderfully mild white fish) and one night had 1/2 pound broiled lobster. I also ate a Medi Weight-Loss bar every morning for breakfast with coffee as the lodge we stayed at had a continental breakfast and since I am staying away from wheat products, I could not partake in the danish, cakes, and bagels and I'm also keeping things low carb so I did not eat the yogurt and a lot of fruit either so bringing my bars was a very good thing for me to do and I always started out my day right. I did save my carbs for the wine and I did partake in some Key Lime pie (no crust) that Stan and I shared a couple of nights for desert (we were in the "Keys". How could I not). French fries snuck in there to up the carb count one day (hey it was hot and I sweated a lot, I must have needed the salt). Being able to pick and choose what carbs I have is so nice and helping me maintain when I feel I want to splurge. I try not to do everything at once and if I am bad one meal, I watch the next 2 meals and if I have a bad day, I watch it the next 2 days. So that is what I did and when we got back, I immediately went back to my "new" way of eating. I weigh in again next Wednesday and I definitely to not want to show a gain. So I will be behaving myself from now until then.

Key Largo, FL
August 2010
Outside Jimmy Johnson's Big Chill where we had dinner inside and
watched a beautiful sunset.