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@HodgeNNicole, we are booked with Daniel Johnson for October. Our beach stop is at Brady's Cay. I made our booking back in January and had excellent communication with them. Just 5 minutes ago, I did send an email with a question to them. Hopefully they will reply, and if so I'll come back here and let you know. I agree that not hearing from them for a week is concerning. We did a tour with DJ when we were in Roatan last time, and communication was excellent then too. We only did transportation and The Hangout, so I don't have previous experience with the beach break/snorkeling.

Hi Izena, thank you for starting this week's thread. It sounds like you are doing better and have a plan! I worked in our church camp kitchen last week with some ladies from Texas. There were many phone calls back and forth as they dealt with weather-related issues back home. Most had generators, but elderly parents, storm damages, etc kept them on their toes. I'm glad you have a generator and no damage. I am up 1# from the last time I posted (2 weeks ago). Camps and VBS (I volunteer in the kitchen for these events...so much yummy food is available) are over - now it's time to get serious about dropping that 2-3 lbs that have crept back on. It scares me, to be honest. It comes back on so fast for me. But I can do this - school begins on 8/7 and it's much easier to be on a healthier routine. 🙏💪 Hopefully others are doing well and will check in this week!

Hi Izena, thank you for starting this week's thread. Happy 4th to you as well! I'm glad you found a solution for keeping your dog calm during fireworks. We've had very few fireworks here so far, and we live within 3 blocks of a fireworks store. Kind of unusual - usually they are going off several days ahead, trying to draw in business. I am up 1 pound. It's been a real struggle these past few weeks. I have a number on my scales that I do not want to go over! So I need to be more diligent about what I eat. Hope everyone has a good holiday and rest of your week!

We enjoyed our PV cabins and currently have 2 cruises booked with deck 7 PV cabins. We've never stayed on deck 6, and I pick my cabin so I avoid the ones that seem like they could be noisy. I would have never thought above a gift shop would be noisy though! Good to know, for on this ship at least.

Hello all, I stayed about the same again...well, down a few ounces but I don't count those! LOL It's so weird, but when I weigh on Wednesday mornings, I am usually down a pound or so, but then Thursday it's right back on! I did have a thought last night though. We usually eat at a fast food restaurant on Wednesdays before Bible Study. So like yesterday, even though I did fine on WW points with my meal, I'm wondering if the extra sodium could be the culprit? It is hot here! I'll be helping with meals at our kids' summer camp next week...hoping this heat wave breaks by then! Have a good week, everyone!

So much Royal IT shenanigans 🙄

Thanks for the heads up! I booked Jamie's Italian lunch for our October Mariner sailing. 😊 Question: We will be boarding Harmony the day after we disembark Mariner. Does anyone happen to know how to book for lunch at Sabor on Harmony? We prefer to eat our main meal at lunch, but on the Cruise Planner only dinner hours are available to reserve. I thought about reserving dinner, then trying to change it to lunch once we are on the ship. @OCSC Mike, maybe you have suggestions since it's Sabor 🌮 🥑, assuming it's the same reservation/change process on all ships?

We are doing this in Galveston later this year. 5 nights on Mariner, meet our kids and granddaughters at an airbnb for one night, then 7 nights on Harmony. I think it will work well for us. Both are new ships for my husband and I, we have the flight expenses anyway, and the deciding factor for adding the 5 night cruise was we only needed 4 nights to reach the next loyalty tier prior to our 2025 50th anniversary cruise LOL.

I stayed the same this week. I've been doing my morning walks and *mostly* eating well. I'll just keep on keeping on! Hopeful, prayers for your dad to make a quick recovery. All that ice cream, yum! Izena, it's good that some stressors will be resolved. Hang in there! Jan, sounds like a lovely day - hope next week's results are better for you! Solo, wow that's a great loss! It will be a cause for celebration when you reach ONE-derland! Have a great week, everyone! Terri

@OCSC Mike - never mind, I found the post 🙃

I thought I read a post from you where they did send you a pic for #22, but I cannot find that post again to see the view. #14 and #22 are both available for our date, as well as #16. Decisions, decisions!

Hello all! I was about .5 lb up on the scales this morning 😒. I'll just keep on doing what I know to do - plus increasing my water intake because I realized how much less water I've been drinking. It's been perfect weather for morning walks too. I'm looking forward to the day when the scales moves in a downward direction, for sure! Have a great weekend, everyone. Terri

Good morning everyone! Awww, Belle, I'm sorry you had to cancel a cruise. But 2 lb loss is great! Jan, I'm glad you continue to get good reports! And 2 lb loss while on vacation - that's great! Yes, staying the same is definitely better than gaining. Hopeful, it's good that your body recovered from last week's workout, and congrats on staying the same. You ladies are encouraging me...I am so struggling with maintaining. My daughter and husband are on their anniversary trip/cruise this week, so I've been staying with the (pre-teen and teen) granddaughters. My meals were good, but then there were too many salty/crunchy snacks and ice cream treats...and sadly the scales reflected that. Yesterday I was up 2 lbs from last week. Today I leave for the weekend with my other daughter. I think I will do better though, as we won't be sitting around in the evenings watching movies and snacking, like the granddaughters and I did 😊 This daughter has been on her own weight loss journey and has lost 50 lbs so far! I am so proud of her doing this, for her health's sake. So I hope to have a better report next week! Have a lovely weekend, everyone! Terri

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been MIA, I just checked and it's been almost a month since I've posted here 🤪 This past month has been unbelievably busy, and I worked a lot more than usual. Still have a couple of graduation celebrations and a wedding to attend. Sadly, a couple of weeks ago I lost all of my weight loss history in the tracking app I use. Ugh, it was my record of all the way back to February 2023 and I was so disappointed to lose it. Nothing to be done about it though, it just makes me annoyed because it was so motivating to me to be able to look back to like a year ago and see how far I've come in my weight loss journey. So anyway, I have been up and down all of May by anywhere from 1-3 lbs. I was really beginning to get concerned because my tendency in the past was to just slowly stop weighing when I saw consistent ups on the scales, and then continue to gain even more. I made myself weigh daily though, even when what I saw on the scales made me cringe! However, I do feel my motivation kicking back in this past week. This morning I weighed 1.5# less than I did on May 2nd (that's the first Thursday weigh in record on my "new" app installation). I'm very happy about that, as it is within a pound of my goal weight! I'm also happy to report that my early May nurse practioner appointment was excellent - my A1C was the same as 3 months earlier (low 5's), which is a real positive for me personally in 2 respects: 1.) It reflects some consistency/lifestyle changes in my food and movement habits. 2.) Low 5's compared to the high 7's that it consistently was prior to February 2023. My weight was also about the same as the previous visit 3 months ago. She said she had nothing to get onto me about haha! Now that my health is better, I look forward to my NP visits - she is an avid cruiser as well, and around my age, so we have lots in common! I've been walking a mile most days again, which I know is good for me. I'm going to try the squats method using a chair that someone posted about (sorry, I don't remember for sure which of you it was - I just read all of the past 2-3 weeks' posts at one time! Maybe Hopeful??). That sounds like something I can easily work into my summertime routine. And my friend, who loves to have a huge garden, will soon be bringing lots of delicious fresh tomatoes for me to enjoy! Summertime eating is so much easier for me with all the local/fresh options. Well, there is also that local ice cream place....😉 I hope this weekend finds you all feeling better if you've been struggling with your health. That is no fun. Talk to you soon! Terri

We did this when we sailed out of Seattle in 2015. Loved visiting Pike Place Market and the flowers were so gorgeous! We had no problem carrying them onboard, and they had a vase we used in our cabin.

Hello all! I stayed the same this week. 🫠 Welcome home, Belle! Jan, I'm glad the BP is improving...hoping you feel better soon! Hopeful, yay for losing that pound! I agree 100% - the weight doesn't come off nearly as easy anymore! Have a great weekend, everyone!

Belle, enjoy the remainder of your cruise. How fun to do extended cruising! Jan, I'm glad to read that the BP is improving. 3 months, sounds like an exciting trip and you can lose that 10 lbs! I lost .5 lb this week. 🫠 Terri

Belle, enjoy the remainder of your cruise! And to answer your question, apparently my answer this week is NO, because I gained about 2 lbs. I ate out at Mexican restaurants 3 days in a row...I ordered salads with grilled chicken, but those darn chips n salsa get me every time. 😐 So my plan, which I have done better with the past 3 days, is to not eat out as much (although I do have a lunch date tomorrow with a friend who I only see about twice a year now...yep, at a Mexican restaurant which was her choice!), and to not keep any kind of chips in the house. We grilled up chicken, marinated turkey breast, and salmon this week, which has made for healthier meals. So hopefully the scales will move the other way next week. Good for you Jan, that's a nice loss! I hope the BP improves soon 🙏. And how exciting to get to visit with your new puppy! Have you chosen a name for her yet? Teri, wow your schedule and workload sounds so stressful! I am sure it will be worth it all in the end. I do intermittent fasting too, and it usually works well for me...as you said, when I follow it religiously. Have a great weekend, everyone! Terri

Belle, good for you, portioning out your chocolate! Sounds like you are doing well during your cruse. And congrats being 3rd most traveled - that's impressive! Jan, I read your post about dealing with bells palsy - that's awful. I hope you get better soon. Like Belle, I know a couple of people that had this happened to also. They recovered well and never had another episode. Take care! I lost about a pound this week. I'm happy with that! Have a great weekend, everyone.

I did weigh on Thursday and recorded it in my WW app...I do that first thing in the morning, but I don't usually log into CC until afternoon so I forget to come here and report. 🙃 I did stay the same again last week. I'm busy preparing for our family Easter dinner on Sunday. We still do an egg hunt for our 2 youngest grandchildren and our great-grandchild. It will be a fun day, but I have a specific weight-related memory attached to Easter. In 1991, I had lost about 60 lbs and was doing so well. Then at Easter, I ate a few of those delicious little malted candy eggs, then ate some more, and then ate the rest of them. That began a downward spiral for me, I quit weighing, and slowly I regained all I had lost. That always sticks in the back of my head and I know I need to just leave the candy alone. I'm not nearly so "addicted" to sweets as I was back then and that helps. Now it's more the salty crunch I like LOL. I'd like to think I'm managing myself much better than I was back then. Time will tell! We are in ONEderland now for our fall cruise countdown, less than 200 days LOL. My goal is to maintain and hopefully lose about 3 lbs or so right before we cruise so I have a little cushion. Have a blessed Easter weekend, everyone! Terri

Hopeful, I hope your calmer work week plan comes to fruition! Meal planning is important to me, otherwise I find it too easy to revert back to old habits. Sounds like you just about have your personal trainer fully trained! Have a good week. Terri

We had a few nice days here, but it's mostly been on the cool side. Our trees are blooming and the birds are looking for nesting spots lol. All are sure signs that spring is on its way. I stayed the same again, and I'm happy with that! We are going to an Amish buffet restaurant on Saturday for our family "birthdays" dinner - several have birthdays in the spring, and our daughters were both born in March, so we have an annual tradition of taking the whole family out for dinner in March. This is the 20th year we have done this, which is hard to believe! My plan is to enjoy as many salads and veggies as I want, but limit myself to 1 piece of their delicious fried chicken. And maybe a bite or 2 of pie 🫢 Enjoy your cruising Belle, and good job on eating well. I hope you succeed in dropping the small gain, Jan! Spring is a good time for new beginnings. Have a great weekend, everyone! Terri

I usually weigh every morning, but for some reason I forget to come in and post on Thursdays! 🙄 Anyway, I stayed the same again - which I'm very happy about. Izena, I hope your week has gotten better...what a rough start! Hopeful - yay for holding steady! Jan - I hope you have a good weigh-in this week! Have a great week, everyone! Terri

I gained a pound this week - but I am still within my "goal range" so it's good. I am working hard at learning to continue eating well along with having the occasional indulgence, but then resume those healthy eating habits that will sustain my weight loss. So far, so good! A personal *win* for me is that I still have a small bowl of chocolate bite-size candy bars left from Christmas sitting on the counter - and I have not eaten one single piece! I know what my trigger foods are, and I know it is best for me to not have any of those. I did make some low-point (WW) "chips" to have with salsa as a snack this evening, pretty tasty! As far as walking, I have been walking about 15 minutes in our school's gym before work in the mornings. I'm on my feet all morning in the classroom. My 11 year old granddaughter and I have also been taking some short afternoon walks too. It's fun spending time with her! The walks are such short durations that I don't think it really impacts my weight, but I know it's good for me - my A1C was great at last month's appointment. I hope to build back up to where I was last fall, when whatever it was happened right after our cruise. I walked a lot before and during the cruise, took the steps, etc, and felt really great. We had a long drive home after our vacation, and my legs/hips/knees began really hurting. So weird. But it's slowly getting better, and I seem to be tolerating the shorter walks. Little by little, I'll add a few more minutes and hope for the best! Have a great weekend, everyone!

I'm happy to say that I "maintained" all month. 😁 Belle, that's great - only 1 ice cream in 6 days! Good for you. Hope you are enjoying your cruise. Izena, enjoy your cruise! Staying away from concentrated sweets is a good goal. Hopeful, good choices at the Mexican restaurant...those darn chips and salsa get me though! 😆 Have great cruises for those of you so lucky to be cruising, and a good weekend to those of us who continue counting down to the next one!