Good morning... first things first - my apologies for being MIA last week and thanks to AnnieBrooke for stepping in and posting a thread in my absence. :-)
As most of you know by now, I was up north and Sunday morning, I was helping clean up the aftermath of a wedding on Saturday; in fact, at the time I should have been posting the weigh-in thread, I was in the process of helping my 2 of my sisters make breakfast for about 35-40 people before they got on the road to travel home from the wedding... We were in small-town South Dakota and the nearest restaurant in any direction in which anyone could get breakfast was about 2 hrs away. Being die-hard farm girls, we don't have it in us to send people off with empty tummies... It really wouldn't have mattered what I was doing, though... being that remote, I didn't have a signal for my internet connection most of the time anyway, though I did find out, too late, that the hotel had free Wi-fi if I'd had time to sit down and write the post... :-)
I made a pretty mean sausage gravy at my sister's before we went from one side of the state to the other and we had biscuits, eggs to scramble, and fresh fruit that we also took with us, so people didn't have to get on the road hungry, wondering where they'd find breakfast... Of course, I had to "sample" my gravy to make sure it and the biscuits we got were fit to eat... :-)
Anyway, I was away from home for 11 days, mostly at my sister's, except for the time we were at the wedding location, and we ate out most of that time... kind of too bad because my sister and I are both pretty good cooks; but then when I consider that, maybe it's a good thing we ate out so much... lol We do tend to like to eat the things we shouldn't, like mashed potatoes and gravy, sandwiches, chips, etc. My sister also tends to use salt on things, which I don't use at all because it makes me retain fluid so much.
Anyway, over the 11 days I was gone, I gained 4.6 lbs, a good share of which was fluid, as my fingers and toes looked like little sausages and my ankles were almost non-existent when I got home. I've lost 2.0 lbs of that in the 2 days I've been home and I expect to lose a bit more of it as the swelling continues to go down. My feet aren't too bad now, but my fingers are still swollen, as my rings are quite tight and it still hurts to bend my fingers.
At this point, I'll claim a 2 lb gain, since I know I ate a lot of things I shouldn't have eaten (like Rueben sandwiches prepared by a friend who invited us to lunch...) and I certainly didn't get the exercise I should have gotten while I was gone...
Enough about me; it's your turn... how is everyone else doing? Up, down, the same? Let us know how you are...
~~Wishing everyone a successful week~~