Weight Check Wednesday ... Parties, Vacation, Oh My!

So, does the title give you a hint as to what happened the last couple of weeks?

Birthday party, "vacation" and a graduation party. Lots of food, lots of eating out ... a few too many beers. Um, not good!

I know I've missed 2 weeks of checking in. The first week I was rapidly trying to finish orders before vacay and gearing up for Gabriel's birthday party. I simply forgot and I'm sure nobody can blame me. The second week (last week) was vacation ... I thought about my weight check for about a second before running out of the house for G's 2 year old physical and a day at Disneyland which turned into an afternoon at the zoo :P

Last week I did great with the exercising (but not with the eating). I did 2.5 hours walking up an down hills all around the zoo. One may not consider that exercise, but my kids have been there enough times to not want to stop and look so we just cruise by and keep walking at a good pace. I only got in a mile on Friday, but then Sunday was a full day at Disneyland. Lots of walking and bonus is we NEVER take the tram, we always walk the long walk from the parking structure to the park (LONG, believe me). Monday followed with a 2 mile walk away the pounds video that includes arm work. Yay! 4 great workouts!

There was one other problem with last week ... otherwise Friday would have been more. Early in the week, Aitana was playing around and slipped and fell on my lower back. Some of you may know that I have a back issue and my sciatica flares up any time it wants ... this time it was extremely painful thanks to the fall! I did my best to complete the one mile walk as I cried through most of it because of what I realized when I got on the scale that morning.

So, 3 weeks ago I was at 182.4 (not loss, no gain)
Friday, I was at 186.4 ... gained 4 lbs thanks to all the party food, sweets and eating out. Super depressing.
However, today I was 185.7 ... I lost .7 lbs of the vacation gain! I'm on the right track!

Still, I'm back up into my size 14's. I don't want to be there ... put most of them in the attic because they were too big, so I have very few things to wear. I just don't want them around.

I had a great workout week last week and I started this week off right with a great morning workout ... I'm hoping to keep it up so I can finally make it habit again! I'm shooting for exercising 5 days this week instead of just 4! Plus since vacation has ended, I've really upped my water intake once again and that seems to be really helping a lot as well.

I'm hoping for another loss next week and being back on track.

How have things been going for you?