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Okay so yesterday I was really bad. We went to my oldest son’s for dinner. They always make spaggetti when we go for dinner. I can be good at home, but last night forget it! My son made the spaggetti and it was awesome! My daughter-in-law made the most awesome mozzarella cheese garlic bread, need I say more…… If that wasn’t bad enough after dinner hubby decided we needed dessert! He ran over to Wal-Mart and bought Fried Ice Cream!!! Okay I kicked myself in the but I am back on track today! I know that this s^*t will happen, but I just need to get back on track!

This week I took my jeans I use to wear and hung them in my room on the back of the door so I have to see them every day as a reminder of never wanting to go there again. Hubby kind of laughed at me at first, but he told me whatever works go for it!! He drives me nuts sometimes, with trying to be supportive at times, then the next thing you know he out buying icecream for dessert! I know it is ultimitely up to me, but sometimes the temptation is too great!!

Hope everyone is having an awesome day!

My weight ticker has finally moved after a couple weeks of staying in one spot. I had a .5 loss then a .25 loss then last week I maintained. Wheeew I did it I lost 4.5 lbs. this week, of course you can only put in whole lbs. but that’s okay. I did it and I have now lost 76 lbs. ! 4 more lbs. until my next mini goal and that will put me at my half way point. I will then have lost half of what I want to lose.

Today I have another family reunion, I am so excited about what I accomplished this week it should help me get through the day and stick to my plan. It is my hubby’s family reunion and it is not as good as my mom’s that will probably help too! Hubby has to work today so he will only be there about an hour, I would rather stay home, but I will go for my kids and grandkids.

I hope everyone has a super day! I know I will be even spending the day with hubby’s family. I will be on cloud nine all day!

Hugs

I couldn’t do this without all of my wonderful buddies!

I was in a hurry to go on break, now that I have been off for a week, I am in hurry to go back. I need to be at work, it is harder staying on track at home than being at work. Oh, my I guess I just don’t know what I want. I have stayed on track this week, both with diet and excercise, but boy has it been hard.

I don’t go back until September 5th. I have been told I will have the same driver, that is good, my driver and I get along great. I have had some humm dingers. I have a few who talk your head off but anything and everything and I have had some who hardly talk at all. Like the driver who left me behind. Yes, I had a driver leave me behind. We were getting fuel and I got out to use the restroom (like I did every day)! I came out and he was pulling away, good thing I had a cell phone, I had to call our base and they tried to get ahold of the driver, but couldn’t! They had to have another driver pick me up after her run and bring me into base which is over an hour away. The other driver realized when he was almost back to my house that I was not on the bus, (I live almost an hour away)! Now every time they give me a new driver I ask them to please not leave me behind. Well any ways my driver is great, he talks about a lot of interesting things and we had a great time with our free time during the summer when we had to stick around for 3 hours everyday waiting for the kids to get out of summer school. We did a lot of yard sales, thrift shops, farmers markets and we found a nice antique shop. I can’t afford the things there, but it was interesting since he knows a lot about antiques he told me the history of some of the things there. You know the saying you learn something new every day, well that sure was true this past summer. I was afraid they would give me a new driver since they knew that we enjoyed working together.

I hope all of you are havng a great day!

Today I have been with Buddy Slim for ONE year! I have made a lot of changes in my life. What started out as a weight loss journey has turned into so much more!

I am glad of that except it makes me think about fall coming, and after fall comes winter. I am not much of a cold weather person!

I have been working on weeding out my clothes! I have so much that no longer fits me, so I am hauling it out to give to my sister-in-law.

This week was a maintain, although that stinks, at least it was not a gain!

I am trying to be faithful about logging into my food and excercise journal. It will hold me more accountable. I know I do better if I log my food and I think it will help me more to log my excercise and see how many calories I have burned for what excercises I have done. Today was only 15 minutes of a dance workout tape, but I am happy with that, I know eventually I will do the whole tape. What I can do is better than not doing it at all!

I hope everyone is having a super weekend!

Let’s see yesterday, I did not do much of anything, but enjoy a day to myself. Then last night about 6 the power went out and did not come back on until sometime during the night!

Today after getting hubby off to work I went online for a bit and then I did a work out video. I did my Richard Simmons “Love to Stretch”! For the first time in my life I did a whole video! It was a short one, but I did it! I am so psyched!!!

So much for my othe accomplishments! I have started cleaning the kitchen, but I swear the whole world knows I am on break! The phone has been ringing non-stop! My hubby wanted me to get him a couple sports schedules, and get his trip sheet for his job for tomorrow and go get his directions for his pick up (he drives limo and limo busses on the weekends, he has a wine tour tomorrow)!  Men, I love doing things for my husband, but somedays…….grrrrrr!

I am totally back on track with my eating plan, food journal and I have decided to use the excercise journal on here too! I do so much better when I journal my food, I am hoping I will do much better with my excercise if I journal that too!

I hope everyone is having a great day!

I am going to be able to blog today after almost a week of not being able too.

It is so annoying when I cannot blog. I have been able to do everything else this week, but blog! It is theraputic to me to blog. I always have a better weight loss when I have been blogging.

This week was not exception! I lost a total of .25 of a lb. While I am dissapointed I know that next weeks weigh in will probably be a good one as that is usually what happens.

Tomorrow I have a big family reunion and I am being realistic with myself. I know what usually happens, I go with all intentions of eating right and then WHAM, I mess up! I know I will probably not stick to plan, but if I don’t I am not going to beat myself up! I will just hop right back on track and continue my journey of weight loss and better health.

This week I recieved my 5 Richard Simmons excercise videos I purchased on ebay. I needed the resistance cord for the stretching videos and found a set at the thrift store for 99 cents (my son said he saw the same set at Wal-Mart for $20)! I purchased 8 more videos on ebay, a couple are Walk away the pounds (one being the beginer, that is what I need)! Now to motivate myself to actually use them every day! I don’t know what it is going to take to motivate myself! Anybody got any ideas?

Boy was last night a bad one! I had my grandson and his 4 year old sister for the weekend. Boy is my grandson having a hard time handling all the issues he has going on. His behaviour last night was unbelievable. He was meaner than I have ever seen he was kicking his sister and when I tried to get him to come sit with me he kicked me and told me he hated me and he didn’t have to listen to me! I was so shocked at this behaviour I have never seen from him. He has some behaviour issues at home and in school, but I have never seen this. I know he is having a hard time with his disabilities and all the things he has undergone this week, that is why they have reccomended the pschy counseling. I called my daughter in law when the kids went to bed last night to let her know what happened and to make sure she was going to do something about his counseling as soon as possible. I did something I am not proud of! I ate 2 little Debbie cakes and some cheesies and had a big glass of milk, as soon as I had done it I felt like crap! I still felt like crap this morning!! I am back on track and hopefully the next time I think I am going to do this, I can talk myself out of it!!

The kids are back home and I have a ton of things to do that didn’t get done when they were here, but I needed to come on and check in on some of my buddies first.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

A little update on my grandson.

 It is not what they thought. It was Transverse Myelitis, what his original diagnosis was. He has irreversible spine damage. There will be more tests to come and he will be having alot more therapy than he allready has, plus pschycological counseling to learn to deal with his disabilities.

We went to the water park last night and the grandkids wore me out, but I ended up bringing two home with me for the weekend. I brought home Cody and his 4 year old sister Natasha. I will be busy so I probably wont’ be on much.

I want to thank everyone who has shown me so much concern with all of my issues this week.

I don’t know how I did it, but I lost 2.5 lbs. this week! I knew I would stress eat so packing food for work I packed lots of fruit so if I wanted to eat so bad at least it would be good for me! In the past I would never have planned ahead and I would have screwed up!

I hope everyone has a good weekend!

Cody had his MRI today, we won’t know the results until Friday. Papa was there with him as I could not be! Papa called me Cody was screaming and carrying on and he thought maybe I could calm him over the phone, but he was so upset he wouldn’t even get on the phone with me. He over heard the doctors and nurses talking about putting a tube down his throat and it really set him off as he remembers the tubes from his month long hospital stay. There I was standing in the thrift store (where we go on Wed. to kill time while our kids are in school) tears streaming down my face as my grandson is crying because he doesn’t want tubes and he won’t talk to me because NaNa can’t do nothing about it, NaNa isn’t even here with me! My heart was breaking so bad! His mom had to hold him while they put him to sleep for the MRI.

I knew I would stress eat big time today if I was not carefull so I packed my little cooler full of lots of fruit. I ate lot a hog today, but it was mostly fruit, and I had cottage cheese and a cereal bar! I knew I had better plan ahead! PaPa promised him McDonalds so we are going in town tonight and get him and his sisters McDonalds and we are going to cook out on the grill, I am taking in some chicken and turkey burgers. My daughter in law is making something to go with them and I think I better take a salad too!

Well I better get a move on, hubby will be home soon, and I want to go in a little eary to see my grandson!

Thank you buddies for all of your concern~

Have a good one!