Last week went real well until I went to our church's 125th celebration and then I went wild!

Yup, I did wonderfully all week long and was feeling great until Sunday. We had a reception at our church followed by a dinner. I started out the day with my usual breakfast and decaf coffee. Then I caved and ate EVERYTHING. I just kept piling it on and at the end of the day I came home and just had to brush my teeth because they felt nasty.

Monday I got back up on the wagon, did my weigh in and confessed all my sins for Sunday. I lost 9oz and now I am at a total of 20 pounds lost.

I did learn a few thing this past week. I am a big fan of Dunkin Donuts ( a coffee chain). I looked at their menu to see the calories. I would always order a pumpkin coffee with cream and a veggie whit on flatbread. The coffee was 250 calories and the sandwich was 280 calories, so I decided to make some changes. I switched to a coffee with just cream and now it's 60 calories. The sandwich I switched to a wake up wrap and reduced that to 150 calories.

I realized that all the hard work I did during the past week was wasted in 4.5 hours of binging. Did I have a good time…yes. But in hind sight, I was into instant gratification instead of keeping focused on what I truly wanted.

With the upcoming holidays I hope to take that experience to remind me how I feel today.

The Dr. said next week should be a bigger weight loss because of all the water retention I have from the salt plus the work I put into losing weight this week. I hope he's right.