Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, Start All Over Again...

Did you see it coming? I just read my last post from a week ago and the statement that the difference between winners and losers in the game of losing weight is that the winners make a mistake and then get right back on it.
Let me explain...
I spent the last week with all of the people in my department at a nice hotel in downtown San Diego. This is seriously the best group of co-workers one could ask for. I don't know who or what created such an awesome sense of fun and cohesion but it's there! At meetings like this there is laughing and joking, pranks and kidding, drinking and eating. I exercised several times (more about that in a second) but I know it wasn't enough to balance the amounts that I ate. I managed to avoid the pressure to have drinks except on Thursday night when the girl across from me ordered a pomegranite martini and didn't want it...and then there was Tawny Port on the menu. I can't pass up a good tawny port. I haven't gotten on the scale yet and I seriously do not want to. I can feel that my tummy is bigger. I need to drink a bunch to help wash out bloating.
On the up side, I exercised several times and even ran some!!! I walked Monday night with SBF Donna, got up Tuesday morning and did a combination walk & jog at the harbor (probably jogged a total of 10 minutes on a 45 minute outing. Tuesday night I got on the awesome treadmill in the hotel gym. I did three minute intervals of walking and jogging--ending with a 3 minute walk. I did that again Wednesday. My ankle hurt so much though from a slight twist/sprain that I didn't do that Thursday or Friday thought. I was so excited that I was running as much as I did. I was walking at 3.4 mph and running at 5.0-5.5 mph on Wednesday. That is so cool! I was amazed with myself!
But now it's time to pick myself up, dust myself off and start again because I am a winner and fully expect that when I eat 1500 calories/day and get 4+ hours of sweaty exercise that it does work. The rest of that song puts it perfectly...
Nothing's impossible I have found, When my chin is on the ground,
I pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again.
Don't lose your confidence if you slip, be grateful for a pleasant trip, (I am!)
And pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
Work like a soul inspired, till the battle of the day is won
You may be sick and tired, but to be a [wo]man, [dear one].
Will you remember the famous [wo]men, who had to fall to rise again
So Take a Deep Breath, Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, Start All Over Again...

P.S. Got a new haircut!