Well, I went to the wedding in California (Vegas, actually, but I drove there from California to spend more time with my family on each side of the event) and it was just a stressful, crazy, and busy as I thought it would be! Lot of fast food, salt galore, and a weird schedule that changed every day. I'm not a giant fan of traveling anyway, let alone with an almost-crawling baby, but I survived and looked great doing it.

I will see if I can get a photo from the wedding so you all can see you cute I looked in my dress ;)

I did not make my goal of 189 for the wedding, I was just shy in the 190-191 range. That's okay, though! I tried hard and still lost weight, just not as much as I was hoping. I'm not picky enough to declare that less than a victory, even if I didn't win first place. I had a heck of a time once I got back, with the exhaustion of the whole thing, and then my husband having back to back trips out of town for almost the entire rest of the week, I succumbed to emotional eating and struggled mightily with not bingeing over the weekend. I was waiting for sodium and water retention to subside from traveling and didn't hop on the scale all week - I think that was a mistake, because it made it easier to ignore the overeating in the evenings my husband was away, but yesterday I got it back under my thumb and am back on track now. Tomorrow will be my official weigh in and, whatever the number, I'll move down the scale from there.

As of today I am up a good 4 pounds or so, probably helped by the salty soup I had for dinner last night, but my calories were on target and will continue to be, that four pounds and hopefully another 40 more will be gone soon enough.

I just need to go back to taking it one choice at a time, I WILL break through the 190's, it is a matter of when, not if.

It's good to be back here :). I hope the rest of the summer finds you as well as it finds me.