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It’s always a little disappointing when you have a great week with a stellar loss and then the following week you have a gain. And while I did not make the best food choices this week 100% of the time, and I do own that, I feel like I made up for it on other meals. It was clear that my body had other ideas when I stepped on the scale at this morning’s meeting.

I never like seeing the scale go up. Maintaining would have been so much better than gaining….

Things I did right this week are:

• Went to hot yoga twice. I wanted to go a third time but my arms were SORE. Still loving hot yoga!
• Hubby and I walked 3 miles on Thursday evening since I did not go to yoga. We had not walked in a bit, so that was nice.
• Still drinking water like it’s going out of style.
• One the two days that we ate out, I ate better on other meals. I am not opposed to saving my daily points for going out if I can make up for it on another meal. I certainly didn’t go around hungry.
• My stress level was SKY HIGH this week. I caved a time or two but bounced back on the next meal. Not throwing in the towel completely is a win for me.

What I will focus on this week:

• Planning meals (also our meeting topic so a good reminder!). I have a freezer full of chicken and vegetables that will be well-used this week.
• Make a new recipe I saw on Skinnytaste earlier this week – Cheeseburger Casserole.
• I will go to hot yoga twice, and I hope to make one of the classes the 90 minute one.
• I would love to get out and walk or run a couple time this week. I keep falling short on this goal, so I will keep adding it back in. I have the Sarasota Half Marathon next week, so it would be nice to get a little something in before that.
• Try my best to not let my stress get to me and if so, focus that stress elsewhere not on food. I will go back and read the post I wrote just the other day on what is your stress relief as a reminder.

One thing I want to make clear… I am not saying it’s wrong to go out to lunch or dinner and enjoy something high in points. It’s not wrong at all. I enjoyed everything I ate and I would not change it if I could go back. It’s all about choices. We had dinner out on Wednesday and I enjoyed a beer, chips and salsa, and had grilled tilapia and shrimp over rice with veggies for dinner. On Thursday, we had lunch out on Thursday and I had a burger, minus the bun, with pico de gallo, and a side of sweet potato fries, and a coke. Eating out is about making choices. I feel like I made good choices AND enjoyed the meals. The frustrating part is when those were just 2 meals out of the entire week and the other days were mostly filled with healthy snacks, water, veggies, fruits, and lean proteins. Sometimes our bodies just don’t want to cooperate and this was one of those weeks.

Here is my week on ActiveLink… 12 points for the week. 7 of these points alone was Thursday when we went for our walk. If I could just get out there more, I could really earn those activity points! I love looking back over my week and seeing how each day was based on how I did.

So now we are on to a new week! A whole new set of weekly points and the opportunity to earn activity points. Today hubby and I are going to do some yard work at my mom’s, I’ll be curious to see how many points that earns me! This evening we’re going out to eat – more choices! – and tomorrow will be dinner at my brother and sister-in-law’s house where there will be fantastic Italian food. I will enjoy all of it and move more to make up for it!

What do you do on a week when you feel like you should have lost or at least maintained? What do you do to bounce back from that week?