Well today is busy. Lots of cleaning to do around the house. So this will be short and sweet today.

Why do children cause so much frustration? Yesterday  I had 5 children here with me including my own and I was so frustrated by the end of the day. I went grocery shopping after the extra kids went home and I ended up buying a King sized candy bar to calm myself down. I also made the mistake of going shopping with my kids - so I added to my frustration. But of course not even thinking about it - that one King sized bar was worth 460 calories as I found out his morning after reading the wrapper. OUCH! Which means that I overate my calories yesterday and it explains my weight this morning on the scale. So by trying to calm my frustrations over the kids with food I added to my weight loss frustrations. DOH! I just can't win this week. :I

Anybody out there have any suggestions on a non-food way to deal with frustrations? I can't sell/give away my kids as much as I'd want to some days - so I have to live with them and try not to kill them. lol Drop a comment if you have any suggestions please.

So my weight this morning on the scale was 237.0 lb. :(

small glories and frustrations

Well morning all. Just sitting here typing and eating my breakfast shake bar with my tea. It is more of a rice krispy treat than anything really. I know you read that and warning signals go off - "if she is eating that how is she losing weight?" It is because it's a special recipie for my Herbalife shake mix. My current batch is a cookies-n-cream and vanilla chip one that is 413.5 calories per bar. For lunch I get to eat pie...there go those warnign signals again. It is of course another Herbalife shake recipie and only 115 calories. My current pie is sugar free chocolate pudding with cookies-n-cream shake mix in a low-fat graham cracker pie shell. They help break up the sameness of a shake twice a day everyday. I have to do something different or else I will lose track, get bored and be off my program yet AGAIN. I have done the yo-yo thing now at least three times over the past two years since starting to diet with this program. It really sucks because the weight just comes right back and then some.

But I am finally learning to count my calories as well to make sure I am not overdoing it on what I eat during the day. And it seems to be paying off - but it is hard to get used to doing.

Well off to a fun filled day of bill paying and shoping!

Man that song says it all. Totally how I am feeling this morning. "Save me from this road I'm on. Jesus take the wheel." Any of you ever feel like your life is totally out of control? That is how I have been feeling lately especially where my weight is concerned. But I continue to pray about it and remember it is up to Him what happens and I control what goes into my mouth.

This mormings weight is 236.0 lb. Yippee!! Gone done 6 lb now in a little over two weeks. I can't wait to see what it is tomorrow.

If anyone has any questions about what I am doing or what Herbalife is you can email me at jblackb566@aol.com Please use my site name as the email title so I don't think it is junk or spam.

Morning to those who are looking. Can't seem to make my eyes focus but I have to be awake. Have you ever had one of those days where all you wnated to do was crawl back into bed and sleep the hole day away? That's what I WANT to do but its not what I will be able to do. Darn kids gotta get to the bus...... Why is it we send them to school again? lol

Well as you might be able to tell I am not really a morning person. I am totatlly a night owl. Problem is that I don't end up getting enough sleep this way. I was reading on the AOL america Takes It Off page yesterday for Day 29 that not getting enough sleep causes you to not lose as much weight as you would if you were getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Something that is totally news to me and makes sense. Which of course explains my snails pace to weight loss - but I am getting there.

I also read that those of us that weigh ourselves on a daily basis see the weight loss sooner than those who weigh weekly. This also makes sense in that you see the small progress - but it can be frustrating as some days there is no movement in the weight department. But either way we can get very frustrated in our persuit to a healthier you and give up - don't let this be you. Just remember to take it one day at a time and that every body is different as to how it loses weight.

Well anyways long lecture to get to the fact that my weight this morning is the same as yesterday - 236.4 lb. But I will not get frustrated as tomorrow is another day. :) lol as I read this I know some of you out there who will read it are going...."And she said she wan't a morning person?!?" hehehe Just trying to always look on the bright side of life.

The beginning...

Here goes. That is me at Christmas 2005. Great candid shot right? lol

I started my journey Jan. 6 at 242 lb. I started later than I had hoped to because my Herbalife shipment was delayed due to the holidays. For those of you out there wondering what Herbalife is - I'll tell ya! Herbalife is a nutrition program that I do. I eat two shakes in the form of shakes, pies, and meal bars and then I have one sensible meal a day - for me it is lunch. I take my supplements three times a day as well.

Since starting I weighed and measured myself on Jan. 8 and I was at 238.8 lb. I lost 3.2 lb and 6.5 inches. I weighed and measured myself again on Jan. 22 and I was at 236.6 lb. I lost 1.8 lb and gained 1/4 inches.

Weighed myself today at 236.4 lb.

Total overall since Jan.1 lost is 8.2 lb and 5 3/4 inches.