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It's Thanksgiving week here in the US. This is an incredibly hard week for me, but I am focused on my goal of trying to lose weight this week. I had a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday that didn't go so well (too much desert). I have another get together tomorrow night, another on Thursday and then again on Friday. I missed my Weight Watchers meeting this yesterday due to a family outing to go and see the Festival of Trees in Ashland, KY.I have switched my workout routine to night workouts this week. I had been getting up so early that I would often fall asleep before 9PM at night. Now I am going out for about an hour around 10PM to get my workout in. I can sleep in

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The past two days have been incredibly busy. The business cycle for my job has three really peak times, the longest of which being from mid-November until the end of January. Most of my time has been focused on work. However, that was interrupted yesterday when a fire broke out across the street from my store. The building that burned housed a commercial space on the bottom that was being prepped for a youth center while the upstairs was apartments that housed students from the university. The fire shutdown Main Street in front of my store and business ground to a halt as everyone watched the events unfold.Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire,

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I had gained another two pounds this past week. It stops here. I can't keep just letting it slide. These incremental gains add up and snowball if you let them. I've been letting them. It stops here. I am wearing my Old Navy jeans today, and they are tight. In the past, I wouldn't wear clothes that were tight like this. Now I want to make myself uncomfortable to the point that each bite I take makes me more uncomfortable. I am going to wear these jeans to each Thanksgiving dinner that I go to (so far there are four). I want to put some pressure on myself to stay on track. I am not going to gain anymore weight. It stops here.Yesterday's Steps: 8,166

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I am not going to gain the weight back.Saturday's Steps: 10,407Sunday's Steps: 6,569Yesterday's Steps: 11,790

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I've been busy the past few days. We added to our family this week by adopting a puppy from a local rescue. We got the dog on Wednesday evening. She had just come from being spayed. Her name was Peaches, but August decided to call her Littles which stuck. She is young enough that a name change shouldn't be too dif