Hey friends, I had been on a vacation for the past two weeks and thus MIA. I am happy to be back home to everything especially DH and my workouts. During the period of my vacation, I had a workout buddy [a beginner though] who pressed me for a sweaty session for every single day I was in her house. It was truly not convenient because I wanted to just rest, eat and sight-see, I became an instructor instead and sweated on a daily basis. I am eventually grateful for the "push" because my weight was much lower to my surprise and excitement. Well, back to business. I was out to church for a retreat today and on my way back, I bought a slice of watermelon [deciding to eat my water]. As I moved up I saw a cart with carrots and I was thinking I should have bought those instead, but right in my head, I thought "who said losing weight is easy" and the best gift you can give yourself as you lose weight is to tell yourself that 'it is not easy' [just worth ...