The Scale is NOT My Friend....

I say that while I know completely well exactly WHY it isn't my friend. While my plan to eat as I chose on Thanksgiving Day without thought to calories was wonderful, the plan also included getting right back ON PLAN the following day. This is where I not only fell off the wagon, but the darn thing backed right up over the top of me. I did not eat myself into some sort of sugar coma on Thanksgiving, not even to the point of feeling horribly miserable. That was a success. We even went to see a movie that night and I avoided all candy and popcorn at the theater. Second success. I ate pretty well all day Friday, until we went to dinner with my parents that night and had a semi-healthy supper, but followed it with dessert AND then my dad, bless his sabotaging heart, bought us all a big milkshake afterwards. Saturday we ate out for breakfast and then had a huge lunch, followed by leftovers for supper (which included more of the desserts). Thankfully they were mostly gone by the time Sat. ended. Sunday I had a banana for breakfast and planned to be on task all day....then hubby stopped and got us doughnuts to have before decorating the tree. To add to the problem, he and I normally share a blueberry cake donut, but he bought us each our own this time. Need to beat him with my stick more often. (just kidding lol) He made burgers for lunch which wasn't too horribly bad, but then my parents took us out for Chinese for supper. I ate my normally healthy choices,,,but then the wagon knocked me down again and I had cherry cobbler with ice cream for dessert. And more dessert at home. Not good! Yesterday I decided I would be 100% on plan until Christmas so I could splurge that day and also enjoy vacation since we are leaving that afternoon to go north for 10 days. Did well all thru supper, then hubby came home from work early, put in a family movie for us to watch with the girls and then made way too much popcorn. After the popcorn, he cut some of my homemade pumpkin bread and I had some of that. Enough is enough! I have way more willpower than I have shown in the last week and its time I pull it out of my closet and dust it out and put it to use. I know its there, hiding, and just waiting to be used again. After all, I did NOT lose 150 pounds in 18 months without the ability to say no to those sweets that keep calling out to me! Time to own up to the evil truth...Thanksgiving set me back about 6 pounds! Ugh! But thats okay, I know it isn't all "real" weight. I say this because in spite of the popcorn and pumpkin bread last nght, I was still down 0.6 pounds this morning. Made me happy but then I wanted to kick myself because I thought "guess how much you'd have been down this morning if you hadn't had that crap last night....or at least had only had a small serving". Today I've been good all day and plan to stay away from sweets (which is my weakness) as much as possible. I went to the gym during lunch and burned 400 calories on the treadmill with some horribly steep inclines that nearly kicked my butt several times. My daughter finished the last piece of Mississippi Mud Cake yesterday which is good. Now to just keep away from the pumpkin bread and I'll be fine. I have weigh-in at Curves late this week or early next week and I already know I'm going to have my first gain since I started Curves 2 years ago. But thats okay...while I don't want to have that gain, I know its all part of a normal lifestyle which is going to be full of ups and downs. The key is to make sure I do what is necessary to go back DOWN which is what I always do. Hope you all are doing what you need to do as well to continue on this journey....