i gained

Yep, I gained. 1.8 lbs. to be exact. It's not a huge deal, I mean I was on vacation last week, and ate a good amount of food, but I can't help the thoughts running through my mind:

- I walked tons every day.
- I only ate when I was hungry.
- I only had 1 big meal a day, and it was nowhere near what I would have eaten 1 year ago.

I need to cross these negative thoughts out of my mind! One week of gaining isn't going to kill my weight loss journey. It was a vacation, my jeans still fit and it could have been a lot worse.

Back to happy things: Disney World was wonderful! I had such a blast with my momma, we talked the whole time and we took our time, walking a lot, looking a lot and I enjoyed every minute of it. I got 6 free birthday desserts (thank you birthday pin!), wished "Happy Birthday" in no less than 6 different languages, was sung "Happy Birthday" in Italian, got to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and my mom paid for all the vacation, and most of my souveniers! I have nothing to complain about. It was an excellent vacation, and I can't thank my momma enough for taking me. I told her thank you at least 5 times each day and would tell her thank you every night when she was tucking me in. Yes, I just turned 22 and my mom tucked me in when we were on vacation, there ain't nothing wrong with that.

It was relaxing and just what I needed since I was so stressed out. I also got a lot of research done on my huge senior seminar paper I need to write. I'm confident I should be able to successfully do this paper now. My dad is uber excited for me to write this, and I'm pretty pumped, too.

One last thing, since this post isn't all over the place enough; I'm changing my monthly goals to weekly goals (for now). I don't think monthly goals are working very well for me, I start out really motivated at the beginning of the month, and then the month flies by and it's already the end of the month and I have a list of goals that I've failed. I'm going to focus on the smaller things, like tracking and working out rather than big goals like loosing x lbs. and being at x weight by y date. That's not working for me. I was doing really well in January - February until Pop Pop died, then it went wonky. I need a kick in the butt, and by focusing on each day and week instead of month and year.

Sigh. I feel better just writing that. Stayed tuned for some pictures from my trip - I'm at work now and don't have them with me - and my goals for the week of March 23 - 29!