11/1 -- 160.2
11/10 -- 158.6 ===1st official weigh in of Nov.
11/18 -- 157.4 ===2nd official weigh in of Nov.
11/24 -- 158.0 ===3rd official weigh in of Nov.
11/30 -- 160.2 WOW…I maintained this month. That is an accomplishment.

After 4 days in Austin with hubby, son and daughter, I came back and got on the scale in the middle of the day yesterday and it was AWFUL. I feel better today that it is at least down to what I weighed the beginning of the month. Tomorrow will probably be much better of the true indication of where it all shakes out, I ate too much and drank 4 alcoholic beverages in 4 days. It takes alcohol 3-4 days to get out of my system--it should all be gone by Tuesday.

I went back and read all of my own posts for this month on the November 30 Day Weight Loss Challenge…interesting how easy it is to be really positive when the scale is going down. I am just not happy with myself or anything else when I have a gain…I know, it is maintaining, but feels like a gain of 3 lbs. --since I was down to 157.2 at one point this month.

Enough of the negative.

We had a GREAT time. Probably the best time the 4 of us have had together in a very long time. It was pleasant and no melt downs! This is a real accomplishment, clearly family therapy is working. Daughter also did not have issues with her eating...this is very good as well.

It was the most “different” Thanksgiving Dinner we have ever had…actually ate the buffet at the Doubletree Hotel. It was good, but I so prefer my hubby’s smoked turkey to roasted turkey. Daughter doesn’t care much for turkey dinner so we picked something up for her at McDonald’s…the 3 of us ate the buffet…this was not where I really over-indulged. I did taste quite a few items, but nothing appealed to me…I so love home cooking on holidays and this was store bought deserts, etc.---not worth wasting the calories on.

Now, the mexican food the rest of the week is a totally different story and is the steak house hubby took us to on Friday night. I had Crab Stuffed Shrimp…the sauce alone could have put on the weight, but the 2 Cosmopolitan’s didn’t help either. It was a really nice dinner and we all had a great time.

The football game on Thanksgiving evening was the reason for the trip. Son, Jake is a senior at Texas A&M and this game was the BIG rivalry between A&M and the Texas Longhorns. Obviously the Longhorns won, if you follow football at all you would know they are ranked 3rd in the Southwest Conference…I hope I got that right--I don’t follow football so this may not be right. LOL! We left at the 3rd quarter…I didn’t eat any game food and was very proud of myself.

I did log everything I ate the 4 days so knew it would be ugly when I got home on the scale. I also worked out on the treadmill 2 out of the 4 days for an hour each time…at home I usually only work out for 30 minutes 3-4 days a week…so the extra workout time had to help and may have me retaining water along with the nasty alcohol.

I am very glad to be back home and in total control of what goes into my mouth…yes, I feel out of control when I am away from home and know this is something I need to work on. Today seemed so much easier. I am even a few calories under for the day…which is OK, because I did work out and I know lotz of folks on CK don’t eat back all their exercise calories, so I am still in range.

It is late 11:40 pm on Sunday night, need to get my 7-8 hours of weight loss sleep and it is slowly disappearing. Alarm goes off at 6:15, so there is no way to get 7 hours at this point. I will work to make it to bed tomorrow night by 10:45...this would get the 7 hours I need.

Thanks to all of you for being there for support! You mean so much to me. I feel very blessed to be part of this amazing cyber world.

Blessings, joy (this is so important) and peace to all of you!