We have all heard of Paradise Lost. Well, this is Paradise Gained, a beautiful place with sand and sea where mojitos and champagne flow while we are just chillin' and relaxing and partying. This has been my last 5 days in Florida. We stayed in a hotel for 4 of the 5 days and 1 day in the apartment. I have not so much as made a coffee for myself and have been served and waited on everywhere I have been.
It is hard to take out the crying towel for me, I understand that! But under Gina's Weighty Matters, my first realization was putting on the navy fitted cocktail dress last night and noticing some old bulges reappear. My first thought, was I hadn't tried it on since I purchased it on my last trip and maybe it wasn't fitting as well as I had thought. So I partied in it last night in the darkened rooms elaborately decorated like the Hollywood Glamour of the flapper era. After a few champagnes during the long cocktail hour, I helped myself to two trips to the buffet amounting to 4 lamb chops instead of 2 and double the amount of wild rice as well. I tasted each of 3 desserts as well.
I am used to weighing myself every day so I don't get into too much trouble. During the 4 days at the hotel, the scale looked like something that came out of the 50's. It was white, textured plastic that bowed in the middle. I weighed myself the first day and when the numbers came up 95 pounds I laughed and said to myself, oh well, I won't be weighing myself on this scale. I must have been a kid when I weighed that.
Today, back in my apartment in Sunny Isles Beach was the first reality check. Up 3.7 pounds. My son, Rob left yesterday and he said he was back to "Clean Eating". I totally understand and that now goes for me too.
We leave Paradise Lost today and for me it means, waking up earlier, exercising and watching my P's and Q's. I am leaving my navy cocktail dress here and hopefully when I return next week, it will fit a little better.
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