WTF?????

First I want to say that I am not freaking out about this.
Yesterday I was up FOUR POUNDS at weigh in. I swear I checked behind me to see if the girl behind me had stuck her foot on the scale(no such luck)as a prank.

I have no idea if I am retaining something or what but I know that four pounds doesn't belong to me or is because of anything I have done wrong.
I had a great week. I used about 25 of my flex points but was under my points on other days of the week.

So, this sucks to have such a bounce up, but I don't blame myself.

Great Week

Last week I was down 1.8 pounds. I am in such a great place. Haven't been doing much exercising. Every night this week I had something to do and just haven't made time. I won't walk dogs outside right now because of deer season.
Today mom and I are doing a day of shopping after I weigh in.

Tea please

I am a new convert to drinking hot tea. It's been suggested numerous times by friends, but only recently did I buy my first box of Organic pomengrate white tea. I am such a fan. Each time I think of grabbing something to snack on at home or at work, I am making a cup of tea instead. I find it takes that snacky edge off.

I hate the water cooler at work (I just don't like the taste) so I had reverted to drinking way too much diet coke every day. This way I don't have to drink plain water. (Is it weird that it makes me feel grown up drinking it too?)

Eating has been great this week and I've made it to yoga a couple of times after work too. In Michigan after the time change, it is dark here at 5:30 pm so it's difficult to make myself do anything after work except snuggle with a poodle on the couch.

Paid Holidays

Now that I work for the County, I have more paid Holiday's than you can shake a stick at. Yesterday (Veteran's Day) was one of them. It was so nice to wake up and not have to go to work although I do feel guilty I didn't do anything to honor Veteran's.

I am having another great week. I've made it to yoga twice so far this week, and eating (with the exception of lunch with my stylist yesterday) has been right according to plan.

Weigh in Report for Saturday

Down 2 more pounds today. That puts me back at 72 pounds lost. Still a bit to go until I get all the gain off, but making progress.
I feel so clear headed. I don't have that manic eating feeling I had.

Election Results

Whew! Made it through that one by the skin of our teeth. My boss received 52.83% of the vote and her opponent got 46.91% of the vote. It was a very tight race all night. What an exciting night. The room was filled with local media, journalism students, and the candidates. The polls closed at 7pm and the precincts began bringing in their results about 10. At 1:30 am we were still waiting for 3 of our precincts to report however she had spoken to the clerks and they had told her that she won those precincts. At that point I had been working since 7am that morning and boss sent me home.

At about 11:30 when the news organizations were calling Obama the President Elect, I snuck off into another little room and did a happy dance. I know he isn't perfect, but I think Obama deserves a chance and our help to make the changes he talked about on the campaign trail.

D-Day

Well, today is election day. It will be a long one. I'm told we will be here until 2 or 3 am and then have to be back to work a normal day at 8am on Wednesday! It should ebe very exciting tonight being on the "ground floor" of all of this. I do hope that you research all of the candidates and proposals and get out there and vote!

Chicago was unbelievably fun. My friend got her wedding dress and she looks stunning in it. I was amazed at how clean Chicago is and am already planning my return trip for December. It only took a little over 5 hours to drive.
I didn't have any problems with eating. We were so busy and walked so much, I'm sure I worked off the two slices of Chicago Deep Dish pizza I ate (which was delish BTW!).