Just a short hello…I’ve got a bad sore throat, and I’m not really up to being sociable. Why can’t oatmeal (the long cooking kind) and cream of wheat be on Medifast? I’d love some. I’ll post again soon…

Not bad! I lost 2.5 more pounds. I can handle that! It gets easier as time goes by. I know now, that if I do any future off plan meals, that I need to be choosy about how off plan I’m going to go! I’ve not been at this so long that it’s a way of life yet, so I’ve apparently not developed all of those ingrained habits I read about. Boy, it can’t happen soon enough.

We cancelled our vacation. Not enough time to plan and get somewhere that we really wanted to go on such short notice. It’s just as well, I’m not sure how I would have held up to dieting on a vacation!

I’m back to baking cookies with the muffin mix, and I eat those at work while they are still fresh. I read that they mold if you make a few days at once, so I make them daily. It’s easy to do while I’m getting ready for work. I just have to wipe the pan down and use again the next day, so it doesn’t even make a mess. Work-girls are starting to get used to this. I am still amazed that I lost all of this weight. 36 pounds in 2 months! And that was with a couple of slides. I always dread taking the kids to the fair every year, but this year I’ll feel a lot better. I won’t get as sweaty and sticky, I’ll be able to fit in some rides - not that I want to, those fair rides are crickety! But maybe something will look stable. I’ll at least be able to fit in the turnstile without angling and wedging myself in. I’ve always had a fear of getting stuck in one of those things! The hard part will be saying no to the Fair Food. Brats and funnel cake. Yes, I will miss you, but not so bad that I want to replay the last two weeks again!

We’ve decided to take the kids for a vacation before school starts again. Right now it’s a tossup between Disney World and Busch Gardens. Joe’s having fun on the internet reading about the rides - he’s worse than the kids sometimes! But all I can think about is what will I eat and will I gain weight. I feel so selfish! I should be thinking about what the kids want, and how much fun this will be for them. But I’ve worked so hard to lose weight, and I’m doing so well so far. I just don’t want to blow it. Does anyone have any tips for vacationing on Medifast?

Adding some veggie snacks has really done the trick for me!  I was worried and feeling kind of down, but I need to relax and not be so hard on myself.  Everything was so great for a long time, and it’s normal to have a little snafu, right?  I’ve stayed back on the Medifast plan since adding a few extra veggies. It was that simple!

One word of caution - if you decide to add a little something extra to your Medifast diet plan, make sure to read the labels!  I doused my cucumber slices with seasoned rice vinegar.  It was tasty and seemed harmless, until I read the ingredient label. It had high fructose corn syrup!  So I was basically splashing sugar on my cucumber.   Live and learn!

Well, it’s really been harder since I fell off the wagon. I’ve been sticking with it this week, but it has been a little bit modified. I’m eating a lean and green, plus I’m eating another snack in the day of fresh cucumber slices, or sometimes baby zucchini. I feel like I need more fiber in my diet (yeah, you know!) than I have been eating, and I’ll admit that I seem to be hungrier than I did when I started. I’m a little more active than I was, so maybe that is why. It isn’t adding too many more calories by snacking on the , but it is probably more of a problem to have more carbs than anything. Whoa! My dog just got sick. Now that’s an appetite suppresant!

Anyway - I’ll weigh again on Monday. So we’ll see how the extra veggies stack up to the scale.

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