b: oatmeal
s: too many crackers
l: 2 tortillas and beans
d: pasta with spinach, salad

Well I’m back from DC and Asilomar. Not being able to post made it easy to go off the program. Asilomar was buffet for all of our meals and everything was top quality. I’m normally not much of a dessert person, but these desserts were incredible. Too good to pass up. I was quite aware of what I was doing and didn’t let myself totally binge (except on the lobster raviolis :-) so I gained about 5 pounds from my pre trip weight. Not that bad except I was still needing to lose 1o pounds. Okay no big deal, now I need to lose 15 pounds. I’m going to post every day like I had been before my trips because it’s the only way I’m forced to look at the reality of what I’m eating. I don’t expect you to cheer or even read this boring drivel, but it helps me to put it out there. If I don’t get back to losing I’ll start gaining again and that will make me sad. So here I am.

This is my motivator. It’s sort of sad, but the very morning that I left for my first trip I looked in the mirror, sans clothes, and I looked better than I have in like 30 years. So I will get back to that and even better.

By the way, I exercise almost every day and I don’t need motivation in that area. That’s why I tend to not include anything about my physical regimen, but I’m going to increase my workouts, just to bump it up a bit.