Happy Birthday Keith!!

I love you honey and I am so thankful to have you as my husband. Happy Birthday Baby!

Weigh In Results (Week 2)

Well, the results from today's weigh in were not what I expected, but I did have a loss!! I lost .6 pounds. Not even a pound......but it's a loss. I have to look at it positively or I will get discouraged. I had a couple of minor set backs this week. I got sick to my stomach Wednesday night and couldn't finish my foods for the day and I ended up vomiting that night.......so.......I didn't feel like eating anything but starches the next day. The good thing about the starches is that I did eat starches according to my plan. The only thing that I ate that wasn't permitted was Chicken Noodle Soup and that isn't bad for me at all except the sodium content. The key to being successful on this plan is to eat the right foods at the right times. It's about a balanced diet. Certain foods counteract other foods which causes your metabolism to start burning fat. If you start eating too much of one type of food, then your body starts storing everything as fat instead of burning. So my weightloss counselor said that eating a bunch of starches could have thrown my body into "fat storing" mode that day.

Another obstacle that I encountered was that we ate at Keith's Mom's house for his birthday yesterday (Keith's Birthday is actually today). She cooked him a fabulous home cooked dinner which included, greens, pinto beans, candied yams, and barbeque riblets. I only ate a spoonful of each thing and only 1/2 of a riblet. I know I said I was not going to eat that kind of food until I finshed my weightloss, but I talked myself into eating just a little bit. LOL! It's so easy to talk youself into things you shouldn't do.

THEN.......we had a couples dinner and a movie at my church that same evening. They served spaghetti and garlic bread for the dinner. They put a huge portion on our plate and one small piece of garlic bread. I only ate 1/4 of the spaghetti and 1/2 of the bread. I did really good controlling my portions at both dinners but my weightloss counselor said that I was probably retaining alot of water from all the sodium I had yesterday. Why did this all have to hit hours before weigh in??? Oh well. I am not letting the small weightloss this week get me down. I lost a total of .6 this week which puts me at a grand total weightloss of 5.2 pounds. That's better than gaining 5.2 pounds, which is very easy for me to do.

I have another hurdle tonight. My dad is taking the whole family out for Keith's birthday tonight. I am going to have to stay focused and make the best choices possible.....but anytime you eat out, you are gambling with weightloss because there are so many hidden fats that you don't account for. I am being challenged so much. It's sad that we are challenged so strongly with food. I wish that eating healthy was just a way of life for me and not such a challenge. Maybe one day I will get to that point. Until then........I am still on my journey. I hope to give you better news next Saturday after weigh in!!!!

Silly Boys!

My boys being silly. They are so much fun!

God's Been Good To Me

I have loved the song that is playing right now for many years. It's called "God's Been Good To Me". It is just so true for me. God has truly been so good to me and my family. I wanted to share the words of this song with all of you. I pray that God would bless each one of you and your families just as He has ours.


God's been good to me....oh God's always been good

God's been good to me....oh God's always been good

I don't always say the right things, but I try

I don't always live my life the right way

But God is faithful to forgive me when I fail or fall

I am unworthy of your.........

Still He keeps on givin'

Chorus

My God has given me more than I ever dreamed

A precious family and friends who care for me

Why should He love me so?

Oh that I'll never know

I am unworthy of your.....

Still He keeps on givin' to me

Chorus

It would take hours and days at a time

For me to sit down and write down all the things He's done

Let me say this that it's nothing I've done but it's the grace He gives freely to everyone

Weigh In Results (Week 1)

I have good news!! I weighed in today and I have lost 3.2 pounds since Monday!! This makes for a total weightloss of 4.6 pounds! Now I have only 20.4 more pounds to go! Yippee!! I worked hard this week and it paid off. Now I am geared up for another good week! Can't wait to let you know how I do next weigh in!

My Big Helpers

After breakfast this morning, I started to clean up the house. My darling children decided that the family room needed "weedeating" .......so........Jacob got the stick horse and Benjamin got the broom and they went to it (see first picture). They weedeated everything! I wish you could have heard the weedeater sounds they were making. It was adorable. I couldn't resist running to get my camera. They were so serious about the work they were doing too. After Benjamin finished weedeating, he decided he wanted to vacuum. I gave him the vacuum and Jacob followed behind him still weedeating. After Benjamin saw me with the camera, it was over for him and he wanted to take pictures. I let him take a few of the ceiling and floor. He did manage to get my torso in one of the pictures. These are precious times that I will cherish forever.

My Babies

Here are my babies this morning watching Tom & Jerry. They were being so good. Mi-mi bought them two new Tom & Jerry DVD's and they love them! Thank you Mi-mi!!! Of course Benji has a book too. He can do two things at once! LOL! And yes, those are snow boots that Benji has on. He wears them ALL the time.