Vacationing In My Hometown

I'm staying in San Diego for seven days, in the  house I moved out of when I was 19 years old.  My bedroom is still warm and cozy, and I found a few familiar things still left in the dresser drawers.  My Mom wants to know what I want to do with these things.  She's had them over 36 years stored away in about the same condition as I had left them.  A few ribbons from my gymnastic and swimming days, a pink and blue dinosaur from a high school boyfriend, and of course pictures from all the fun days we had in our youth.  I'm not much for keeping things, and I think I may just clear some of the things out, but I'll keep the pictures for sure, and not look back at the rest.   My home has our son's things packed away in Rubbermaid containers piled sky high in his closet.  He moved out and onto college over five years ago.  It's great to be back in my childhood home, and I love visiting with my Mom and Dad.  My son flew down for his two days off from San Francisco, and has already gone home.  My brother took me to the old lake near our home, and we fed the ducks and geese some bread today.  It's still nice to have my memories of jogging around the lake with our family dog, Rusty. He would run ahead (no leash laws back then) and he would flush out the rabbits, and then he would circle back to check up on me, and then off he would run.  Those days seemed a lot less complicated.

My Mom thinks I eat too much, but she and my Dad don't eat much anymore.  They get full fast.  They can go hours without eating anything, and I'm having a hard time with that.  We have lots of yogurt in the house, but I looked at it, and it has 11 grams of sugar.  Staying at 15 grams or below of sugar is hard when it's not planned ahead of time!  We usually grab something while we are out, and I am trying to make the best choices I can.  Tonight we ate dinner over at the Soup Plantation.  My favorite place ever!  I ate fresh veges, great salads, french onion soup, and some chili.  I  had to get a very small bowl of frozen yogurt that probably  wasn't the best thing but I am not perfect,  and also on vacation!  Yesterday we drove to La Jolla to see the seals, and we found the Burger Lounge that Jorge Cruise recommended.  My Mom and I split the Grass fed beef burger, and a great tasting salad.    The hardest thing I've found so far was eating good on the flight over on Sunday.  I signed up for the vegetarian meal, and was offered a Turkey Sandwich or Pasta with Chicken.  I ate a turkey sandwich from Starbucks at the airport so I got the pasta (1/2 cup), and  threw my chocolate cake away.  By the time I flew in and weighed myself the next day I had gained 3 lbs.  Now I have at least gone back to my weight of 171lb.  Flying home this coming Sunday. I've been reading all your blogs and happy to hear about your weight loss!   Take Care...