WEEK 3 -- DAY 21 -- THIRD WEIGH IN

1.5 lbs. lost this week

7 lbs. lost this month

There's nothing better than weigh-in day and seeing that I've, once again, lost weight. This week I'm actually doing it one day sooner than usual (Sunday as opposed to Monday) so this weigh loss represents six days instead of the usual seven days.

This is the first day I haven't been home while on the "plan" as I'm in Atlantic City for the next three days. First up.....eating out for breakfast. This one was actually easy. I ate at the Metropolitan Cafe at The Borgata and ordered scrambled eggs and white toast. What I didn't know when I ordered was that there would be nice, beautiful potatoes on the plate with the scrambled eggs. You should have seen my eyes light up when I saw those potatoes. But I didn't go crazy.....I probably ate 1/3 of the potatoes and probably 2/3 of the scrambled eggs. I usually would order bacon with this meal but decided that would not be a good decision. (This picture does not have the potatoes in it but it serves the purpose of giving you an idea of what my meal looked like).

I'm not a big lunch eater and usually don't eat lunch at all. Any diet expert will tell you that's crazy but I've been doing this for so long, it's hard to change. I headed back to the Metropolitan Cafe for dinner where I had a tuna salad on white toast with some french fries. I probably ate less than 1/3 of the fries they gave me. I've loved tuna salad since I was a young girl coming home for lunch from school on Fridays when we couldn't eat meat -- Catholic training here.

I think my weigh in next Monday will be crucial to showing me if I can still do well on my plan even if I go away for a few days.