This weekend we are going camping with a group of 6 friends. We have camped with them the last two years and every year it is a ton of fun! We are trying a new campground this year. It is a shorter drive for all of us, which will be nice. It is actually only about 15 minutes north of my parents' house! We are going Thursday-Sunday which gives us two full days. Last year and the year before, we had rustic sites which meant we set up tents and didn't have any electricity or running water. This year at this new (to us) campground, they didn't have enough rustic sites left so we have electricity and running water at our sites. We are still using tents, and airbeds. There is no way I could sleep on the ground without my Aerobed :) Every year we tube down a local river for a few hours, which of course involves drinking. We're young adults, this is what we do! Although can we still call ourselves young adults? Three of the eight are 30/31 and the rest of us are 27-29. I guess that makes us real adults now :-\
Drinking involves calories, of course, which means this weekend will be tough. I've been saving calories the last couple days so that if I go over Thursday-Sunday, it hopefully won't affect me that much. I am planning on snacking minimally or not at all. The way our group does meals is that everyone signs up for one meal and then brings enough food to feed the group. This means we eat good meals instead of hot dogs over the campfire at every meal :) We are bringing pulled pork for one meal and bratwursts from 20th Century Market for the other meal. We are also bringing Jello shots for tubing ;) So this weekend will be a struggle since I don't normally drink my calories, but hopefully I can stay at or under my daily calories, or at the very least keep my weekly calories at or under the total weekly amount.
On our way back home on Sunday, we are going to stop at my parents' house. My sister who lives in Charleston, SC will be home for a whole week and I haven't seen her in 6 months! Since I don't have anything to do in town next week, I will be spending the whole week at my parents' house, which will be great. As I mentioned before, they live on an inland lake so I plan on spending a lot of time on the dock relaxing and spending time with my sister. My other sister who lives in Chicago, IL will be there Wednesday-Sunday next week, so I will get to spend a lot of time with her as well. My eating should be fine since my mom always cooks healthy, well-balanced meals. She also has been really supportive of our weight loss efforts and every time we visit, she keeps wrappers of food she cooks with so we can see the nutrition facts and scan them into our MFP food diaries. The biggest obstacle will be drinking (it's a holiday!) and desserts, which will most likely be infrequent but still available at least a few times. However, I am feeling pretty confident I can have small amounts of dessert and keep things in moderation.
Since I will not be home from tomorrow afternoon until Sunday evening, July 8th, I will not be able to do a Monday weigh-in next week. Tony will be home with the scale, so he might do it. He is not sure. I think he should, but it's up to him. If he does, I will do a Monday post with his progress. My parents have a scale of course, but scales are not identical so my results will not be 100% accurate. I will probably weigh myself on their scale on Monday morning and again the following Sunday morning to see how I'm doing on their scale, but I won't be publishing the results until I'm back on our scale on Monday, July 9th.
At the very least, I will try to do some kind of post next week! Thanks for following our progress and keeping us accountable.
Katie's Food and Exercise Diary can be found here.
Tony's Food and Exercise Diary can be found here.
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