Hi all,

I realized this morning as I was weighing myself that I hadn't posted an update since before leaving for SoCal last weekend.

Last weekend, dh and I went to a friends wedding in Laguna Beach, while we were in SoCal without kids we decided to hit Disneyland (and got a great deal on our tickets). So we left a zero dark thirty on Saturday morning (last weekend, the 4th) and drove to our hotel in Anaheim...checked in (they didn't have a room available for us yet, but they let us do the paperwork and park our car). We walked across the street to Disneyland and spent 3 hours in Disneyland....went to wedding, returned to park and spent another 7 hours there. The eating was anything but healthy (our goal was to conquer the park, AND we were with another couple), but I figure I walked for 8 hours that day, so I figured it all balanced out. Sunday we got up, had the hotel continental breakfast, went to Disney's California Adventure Park, and spent 3 hours there and then drove home. Again, the eating was anything but healthy, but it WAS lighter than Saturday Anyhow, all of that to explain that when I weighed myself Monday morning, I was up 3 pounds. I KNEW that it was all water retention and wasn't worried about it. By Wednesday I was back to the previous week's weight (had lost most of the water ) and then on Thursday, I was down another 1.5 pounds! So, in the past 3 weeks (since 2/27) I have lost a total of 5 pounds. I am happy with that. But the best part is, I am settling well into the exercise/food routine. I did discover this weekend that I need to retrain my husband on serving sizes of high calorie treats like ice cream. I did pretty well, in not eating all of what he served me, but it is expensive to waste that food, so I just need to work on retraining him

I'm keeping my calorie count to an average of 1400-1500 per day with one day per week in the higher 1700-1800 range (I found in the past that this, as well as LOTS of water) is the key to my weight loss success. I am averaging 4 days of planned exercise per week, would like to work on increasing that this week to 5 days. last week, I also increased the intensity of my exercise for one day. It was doable and felt good, so this week, I'll increase 2 days

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Originally posted by GoingSkiing:
Did you lie to your kids about Disneyland and say that you were at the wedding all day and it was very boring???

No, we didn't lie to them....just didn't tell them that the wedding was going to last for 20 minutes.....they never really asked either They never once asked what we were going to do down there, or anything. When we got home on Sunday evening, after we were all home and settled in for the evening, we told them with the promise to take them in the semi-near future So we are.... We are working on saving the money And they have decided to start saving their money as well.

Did you lie to your kids about Disneyland and say that you were at the wedding all day and it was very boring???

We go out to eat when Jamie is at band practice sometimes. We usually get food that he doesn't like... although we have THOUGHT about getting pizza and telling him we had Indian food... but haven't actually done it.

Congrats on getting back on track!!

Glad you had a great weekend and congrats on the weight loss.
When you mentioned increasing your calories one day a week it made me remember having heard that recommendation somewhere in the past. I don't remember where or when.