17 & 18

The weekend. Always a more difficult time for me as food is easy access at home whereas at work there is only what I bring.

This weekend was hot, humid and a big festival was going on, just a short block away.

I love funnel cakes. And what do festivals have? Yep, funnel cakes. SO, I looked up the points and about died.  33 points for 1 funnel cake!! That's like all my points for a day and then some.

I struggled for a bit, then I hopped on my scale. Down 8 pounds!! In just three weeks and after eating a whole pizza!  It got really easy to say NO to the funnel cake!  A HUGE win for me.

We did head over to the festival for a while. To keep from buying ANYTHING I left my wallet at home. I did have a few samples of specialty dipping oils and balsamic vinegar, but not even a half teaspoon or a quarter slice of bread but I counted it as a 1, just to be safe.

The next "official" weigh in day is in two days.  I am so hoping that I can be down 10 pounds total by then. It would be a wonderful start and leaves me with only 90 more to go!

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