I am an unhappy camper. A very unhappy camper. Let me start from the beginning and give you the lowdown. I left on Wednesday to go to a conference/training for work. I was fully prepared with my points calculator, my Dining Out Guide, my Complete Food Companion, and a dining out guide with some nutritional information that I printed out for some restaurants in Columbus. My parents went with me. We were supposed to get a huge snow storm on Friday and my mom was afraid to drive in it (I don't drive), so my dad came along too. Now, back to the story.

The good: We stopped at the Jeffersonville Outlet Mall on the way to Columbus and I had a Turkey Philadelphia from Great Steak. I haven't had one in many, many years, and it was darn worth it!

The bad: It used up my whole days worth of points (35). Whoops! But I carried some of the points and put them on Sunday since I usually eat less on Sundays before weigh-in anyways. No biggie. I can deal with that.

The good: We stop at the Lane Bryant Outlet store and I was able to find yoga/weigh-in pants in size 14/16, 18/20, and 22/24, so I have my bases covered. I also got several shirts in a variety of sizes from 18/20 to 22/24.

The bad:I had a small breakdown in the dressing room when I tried on one shirt in size 22/24 because it was tight in the belly. And I felt like despite losing almost 70 pounds, I hadn't made any progress. Shoot. I was wearing some size 22/24 shirts when I was at 361 pounds. Granted, I was squuuuuueeeezing into them. But I was still wearing them. But I got over the breakdown.

The good: When we got to the hotel, I went down to the gym.

The bad: Some dude running 400 miles an hour was on one of the treadmills (okay..so maybe he wasn't running that fast, but it was still faster than my butt can go) and I wasn't about to hop on the other one (which was about 4 inches from the one he was on). So I got on the exercise bike. Good, right? Nope! The bike was taunting me! I did a mile on it and the entire time it was saying (literally, it was telling me out loud) to pedal faster. WTH? I'm going as fast as my little legs can carry me. And to top it off, I only burned 4 calories. 4 calories? I can burn over a hundred using the treadmill for the same amount of time. So boo to that bike!

The good: I took the steps up to my room every time I got the chance. And I didn't get winded once while climbing the four flights of stairs!

The bad: Okay, so there is no bad to that.

The good: I got to eat my sundae from Friendlys.

The bad: They were OUT of Reese's Cups **gasp** so I had to eat a Reese's Pieces sundae which I did not have nutritional information for. Not fair. Not fair at all. And the dang sundae wasn't even that good.

The good: I did really well eating on program and watching what I ate and counting points.....

The bad: Until my dad decided to be mean and drive right back to the hotel after I got done with my training on Thursday. He then decided that once we got in the hallway to head up to the room that he wasn't going back outside and I could order room service if I was hungry. I was pissed. And had I had a room by myself, I probably would have started crying. But I pulled out my Dining Out guide and got a blackened chicken wrap and potato skins. So maybe the potato skins weren't that fantastic, but I had an official points value for them and thought hey! I know these are in my book, so I can't go wrong getting them. Except that they were like potato skins on steroids. They were literally halves of potatoes, so instead of counting them as potato skins, I counted them as full loaded baked potatoes. No biggie.

The good: The conference was informative. I discovered there were lots of things that we (or should I say I?) should be doing that we're not.

The bad: The snow wasn't supposed to start until noon and we started the conference early that day so that we could be out and headed home by the time it started. However, someone forgot to tell the snow that it wasn't supposed to start until noon because it decided to start at 9. So by the time we got out of the conference at 11, the streets were covered. And instead of heading home, we had to pull over and stay in a different hotel for two nights. Two nights of pure hell. I got my own room this time because I needed to be alone. I was upset. Things hadn't gone according to plan. I like being in control. I was out of control with my health and my eating for so long, and just when I know that I really have a grasp on everything, something happens and I wasn't in control. And I couldn't take it. I cried for about three hours straight. And then I got hungry. So I peeked outside and saw a Burger King about a mile across the parking lot. And a Mexican restaurant about half a mile across the parking lot. Hmm. Let's see..it's snowing. Am I really going to trudge through the snow to get to Burger King which is "safe" or am I going to go with something that's not so safe that's closer? Yeah. I went with the Mexican restaurant. I got a kid's meal instead of a regular portion. And since that was our only real choice for food (unless we wanted to trek through 20 inches of snow) I ate there for lunch the next day too. The second time, I decided to get a side portion of rice. A side portion of beans. And a quesadilla. Never, ever again. The side portions were huge!!! I ate it for lunch and dinner and was stuffed until well into the following day. But, they were good!

Anyway, I am home in one piece. I hate snow. I especially hate 20 inches of snow and being stuck in a hotel room. I barely slept most of the time I was gone because I have terrible allergies and I forgot my pillow. **Cries** So needless to say, I was pooped when I got home yesterday. And I slept clear from 10pm last night to 10am this morning. And missed my weigh-in. But I did catch up on sleep! So no weigh-in for me today. I may try to make it in tomorrow depending on how much sleep I get tonight. I hope I'm not getting sick though. I have absolutely no appetite today and my chest is starting to feel congested. Bleck. **Goes to chug her vitamins**

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I almost forgot!! How could I possibly forget to tell everybody?! I talked to my doctor on Thursday morning. My liver and kidneys are functioning great. I was previously diagnosed with fatty liver disease, but since losing weight, my liver is in tip top shape. At least according to the blood tests. Other tests would need to be done to actually look at the liver, but I'll settle for the tip top shape thing for now. My thyroid is back to normal!!! **Squee** On its own without medicine. (Not that I was actually taking the medicine when I was supposed to be taking it, but still!) My cholesterol was great. I am still pre-diabetic (boo!!!) And my doctor ordered me back on Metformin/Glucophage. Thanks, but no thanks! I will NEVER take that medicine again. I don't have enough time to sit in the bathroom for hours getting sick. I just can't do it. But I just had to come share all my news with everybody!