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it’s been forever since I have been on, and I am starting to notice a pattern every time I go back to my old eating habits I stop coming on here, I basically stop holding myself accountable and that is not good! I don’t know why we completely fell off the wagon of healthy eating, maybe it’s because we have never tried this in the winter, or maybe it’s because around the holidays there is soo much more pressure to eat so much crap! Or maybe I am just making excuses but seriously I am having a hard time transitioning salads to soups or cold to hot, if anyone has any hot healthy snack, breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes or ideas I would really love to hear them and I would appreciate it! Well I am going to make a solid effort to back on this like jeff said we can’t just throw all of our work away just for some treats! talk to you all later bye!

ok, so there’s no denying it or getting away from it the holidays are coming upon us fast, which makes me think of all the wonerful (but not so good for the waistline) food. Well I have been a little bummed when I think about thanksgiving because my favorite pie is worst pie for you pecan, but this last weekend I found a silver lining which I am so happy for, I bought the latest issue of weight watchers magazine the holiday issue, and I have to say I love this mag becuase it has great tips and awesome recipes, I am not on the weight watchers diet but the mag still helps a great deal. Well they have a low cal, low fat version of pecan pie! I can’t wait to try it out, I hope it as just as good as regular pecan pie, of course I am going to test it out before thanksgiving, just to make sure it’s good, and they also have some holiday treats that low cal and low fat which makes feel good about abking during the holidays! So I think this holiday season will be a really great one and hopefully with these recipes we will be able to keep at least most of the holiday pounds away!!

I can’t believe it! It feels so great to get a green star, this time I am going to make my mini-goal in no time! This is just so awesome I just keep getting ever closer to my ultimate goal weight. This Christmas is gonna be soo great I will be so much healthier and smaller in size I will actually feel good about dressing up again. I feel my confidence coming back with every pound I lose too. I just can’t believe how much we have been sticking to this change, and we are just gonna keep going! well I hope everyone has a great weekend!

today jeff and I went to wendy’s for lunch and of course we went with the better choices, well being ther got me to thinking as all these people were overloading there plates with big burgers and fries, I realized I haven’t had fries in at least 2 months or longer and to me not only is it a huge accomplishment but I don’t even miss them! I am sure there countless other things that I have gone with out since I started my weight loss journey but I used to LOVE fries I couldn’t get enough. But like I keep telling jeff you end up finding new favorites that you never thought you would ever love, like red leaf lettuce I LOVE it can’t get enough of it! well anyway just something I thought I would share with you guys. What have you gone with out in over 2 months that you used to LOVE? have a great night.

when jeff and I went grocery shopping we really stocked up, and whats even better about it is that we really didn’t spend a ton of money, of course we went to 4 grocery stores but hey if it helps our wallet then it’s worth it. Anyway we went to aldi (discount grocery store) and we got these rice cakes and they are so good. I am very proud of us for getting better at looking at labels and getting healthier food from the store. It’s really like becoming second nature to us it’s awesome! I am starting to have new favorites too like kashi’s dark chocolate oatmeal cookies they are only 130 cals. per cookie with all natural ingredients and they are quite big (at least I think.) anyway I hope everyone is having a great day!

so I weighed myself again this morning and it showed that I lost more than what it showed me yesterday afternoon, now I am wondering if that is possible? I guess it could be seeing as how I let my body rest for a long time and let it digest all of my food and what not while I was sleeping, and yesterday when I weighed myself was after work and after I ate something  too. So I guess it is possible, so the weight that I got this morning is gonna be new weight and since I am accepting that, that means I MADE AND SURPASSED MY MINI- GOAL!!!! WOO HOO!!! doing the happy dance with my dog lol. I can’t believe I made it, it certainly took a long time but I am finally there and I am also in the 180’s! It’s been over 5 years since I have been in the 180’s and it feels great!! I hope I am not in them for long though, like I was in the 90’s, but hey at least I wasn’t back in the 200’s and I will never go back there again! So I have officially lost 26lbs (even though on here it will 22, I had lost the other 4lbs previously from joining bs) so that also means I surpassed my last total weight loss of 25, and I am gonna keep goin!!! hope everyone is having a great day!!

I am so happy!! I weighed in a lost another pound one more and I will have hit my mini goal I can’t wait when that happens!! I feel so much more in control now I really think jeff and I are getting the hang of this. I hope we can keep this momentum up too, we are exercising more too so that definutely helps! I mean I know it has taken me a long time to get here but I am soo proud of myself and so is Jeff, he really has helped me when I just wanted to get a pizza or something like that. I can’t wait until I get to the 180’s it’s gonna feel great! well I hope I am not tooo cheery for you guys. anyway I hope everyone is having a great day!!!

this week has been up and down I think, we have been doing really great on our diet! I lost 2lbs. and found out I can fit quite nicely into a large shirt, still size 16 pants which is great! He lost 5lbs. which is great, and he keeps being able to fit into smaller sizes (which I don’t want to divulge because I don’t know if jeff wants to reveal them) found out that my father in law is getting out of rehab (for his foot, he had gotten a toe removed because of an infection in his leg stemming from his diabetes) the first of oct. which is also awesome! But the bad news, just found out today that my mother in law has diabetes as well, which of course she’s upset, and I feel bad for her. But then I think maybe this is a really big wakeup call for her as well with the rest of us, a mixed blessing if you will that is telling her and him to get healthier and for us to help them by being the examples and to stay on track. I mean I am not saying that having diabetes is great or even good news I’m just saying maybe God is trying to help her and us. I hope I am making sense.

jeff is right who cares about weigh in days, so I weighed in on here, I am officially 193lbs and that is soo freaking awesome, I am still going to weigh in on wed. to see if I lost a little more, but even if I don’t that’s still pretty awesome finally the scale is once again moving and moving in the right direction!!

well like the title says it has been forever, well are job had us going overnight for a moth and half (which sucked!) which threw our eating habits out of whack, I’m not making excuses I could have tried harder to keep going to stay on track but I got lazy, and in doing so I ended up gaining a little weight back, and not being on here so much. But now that things are back to normal we are back on track for the millionth time, which is actually great because I never tried this hard to be healthier and lose the wieght, I mean in the past I would be on a diet for while and the first speed bump to hit me I would just go back to the way I wa, but not anymore! So I ended up losing the weight I gained from that month, I weighed myself this morning and the results were great! But I don’t think I’m gonna post it until wed. that’s my husbands and my usaul wiegh in day so we will see on wed. if I have lost anymore.