Who Doesn't Love Soup in July?

Thank goodness I'm visiting a ski town, and most of the restaurants here still have some kind of soup on the menu. Because, friends, it's been a mostly liquids kind of vacation so far. I really wasn't too tight before but I think the combination of flying and now staying at a higher altitude (about 7500 feet) has my band clamped shut. Last week my start weight for the challenge was 210.8; this morning it's 209.

I actually drank a SlimFast for breakfast, and I haven't had a SlimFast in ages. But I got sick after dinner last night and I just needed some quick protein this morning that I knew wouldn't give me any trouble. The smoothie I got yesterday from Starbucks was a little too thick, but the SlimFast was fine. So I sucked it up and took in my 10 grams of protein. Which went a long way in keeping me from feeling pouty and cranky.

We're having beautiful weather here, and we went to a street festival this morning. The kids loved it - face painting, bounce house, lunch at a diner on Main Street, wandering and exploring. My little one had a tantrum royale, but that's the prerogative of a two-year-old, I suppose. Better at a street fair than at the symphony (as if...).

The Hubs leaves tomorrow to go back to work, and then we won't see him till we go home on the 20th. So we hired a babysitter and we have a romantic dinner planned for tonight. I'm looking forward to it. (There's soup on the menu. I checked.)

My parents arrive Tuesday with my nephew, and we have some hiking and biking adventures in the works. Mostly we're just enjoying the change of pace and scenery. Maybe I'll come home having lost a few more pounds.