SV - maintained during unexpected 3 week diet break

I recently took a trip to visit home that got semi-unexpectedly extended due to some health stuff for my mother. I knew I wouldn't be able to maintain calorie counting while I was gone--too much eating out & takeout, plus I was already stressed about my mom's health and didn't want to worry about counting calories while dealing with all that (luckily, she is doing fine now!) I also didn't have regular access to a scale while I was gone. I basically decided I would do my best not to overeat, but I wouldn't track or try to log at all while away.

Got back last week to find that even without counting any of my calories or logging my meals, I didn't gain ANY weight. In fact, the day I got back I weighed myself out of curiosity and saw the lowest number I've seen on the scale since I started this (I've since bounced back up to about what my baseline was before I left--probably because I'm about to start my period). I'm really shocked and pleasantly surprised by this because while I did try not to overeat for the most part, I also indulged a fair amount (KBBQ, several trips to get ice cream, drinking sugary starbucks drinks, a very lavish sushi dinner to celebrate mother's day, etc.)

This gives me a lot of hope that once I'm at my goal weight I'll be able to maintain this lifestyle without fastidiously tracking my calories, which was my biggest fear--I don't want to have to log everything I eat forever just to maintain my weight.

Feeling pretty good and excited to get back to my regular diet and routine.

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