Whew!

Today's weigh-in: 157.4 - stayed the same! I was afraid I'd gain after this week. Apparently vacations and diets don't work well together for me because by the end of it I had no self control again.

We went to Ft. Worth Tues night to try and get in the Chick-fil-a First 100 contest for their new store opening there on Thurs. Well, Matthew won which meant we camped in their parking lot for 24 hours and ate Chick-fil-a all day! Once the get everyone registered and camp set up, they serve breakfast (my favorite: chicken biscuit), then lunch (chicken strips in this case with chips), dinner (chicken sandwich or nuggets - I got the sandwich- meal: includes drink and fries), but then we were surprised with an evening snack (8 chicken nuggets) and we ended the night with an ice cream party. We were so full of chicken by the time it was over!!

There's a really great restaurant/shop called Braum's that is based in OK but Hillsboro, TX has the farthest south shop. They make their own ice cream so we *had* to stop and get some before we came on home. Ice cream for breakfast. yummmmmm. It was such a long drive home that when we stopped in South Austin at a gas station with a McDonald's I decided to treat myself (though I shared) to a shamrock shake b/c I'd heard they were yummy and wanted to try it. I think those indulgences are really what opened the flood gate and let the self-control go downhill, though I did try a little bit to exercise some discretion the rest of the week, but not as much as I should.

Anyway, long story short - I was afraid that my body hadn't picked up momentum from the work I'd done the weeks before, but apparently it had some and I didn't gain or lose. I'm satisfied with that.

A Chick-fil-a opening has the potential for great exercise though. The big game throughout the day on Wed is four-square. The first time I did the contest, I played four-square for HOURS and was sore for days afterward. I didn't play quite as much this time, but we spent time as a family playing variations of keep-a-away and four square. At the end of the day Aaron was literally running circles around the entire campground, so I was following behind. I definitely got my exercise that day.