Good Morning Everyone. My sacle this morning said I was at 222.0 lbs. Down 1.6 lbs since yesterday. :) 2 lbs left to go to hit post-Becca weight! Can you tell how excited I am!!! Its only taken me 5 years to get here but darn it I am getting this off now. I guess upping my Herbalife green tea intake does increase the amount that I lose. I had three cups of it yesterday.

Talked to my dad yesterday. He said the iv was gone, at 7 am was the last time he had pain meds, and he had been up and walking around about 6 times already. He also said he might be going home as he felt so much better and didn't think he was going to need another day in the hospital. They told him 1-3 days in recovery so he figured on being home by today. He is doing great. :)

Well I'm just trying to wake up here. Up too late last night. But my kids went and spent the night somewhere else so I'm allowed right? Now i have to wake up because they are coming home soon, but my brain says not gonna. lol ~Hugs~Jen

Scale still loves me & Dad is recovering

Ok so I was a little distracted yesterday and forgot to get back on here and update about my dad. He was in recovery at 10:30 am and finally into a room at 3:30 pm. I found out he has MRSA and they roomed him with another MRSA patient - might be why it took so long for them to put him in a room. But he said when they went to move him to his room he got off the bed to get on the gurney without any problems. Something he hasn't been able to do for a long time he said. Thank you for your prayers and continue to pray as he recovers. :)

As you can see my weight went down again. Weighed in at 223.6 lbs this morning. :) That is down 0.8 lbs since yesterday. I am really liking this as I get closer to my post-Becca (last kid) weight which is 220 lbs. I really didn't gain much weight after Julia and Lily (1st and 2nd kids) I was at 210 lbs after each of them. So once I hit 220 lbs I'll have 50 lbs of baby weight to lose. I can't wait to get there!

Thanks for being there along the way. :) ~Hugs~Jen

My dad is having surgery today....

Wll in one minute my dad will be going into surgery at 8 am here in Michigan. He is having back surgery for spinal stenosis. The doctor told him his case was so bad without the surgery he would most likely end up in a wheelchair. But I am worried as it is still surgery on his spine. So please keep him in your prayers and thought as the day progresses and I will come back to post an update aftering hearing from him or my stepmom. Thanks all!

On a less serious note, my weight this morning was at 224.4 lbs. Thats down 1.4 lbs from two days ago. Not exactly sure what happened to my body yesterday that it went up that much - who knows. But I'm not counting it. lol. We'll see if it stays this way.

~Hugs~Jen

Well this morning it was at 227.0 lbs. Still below 230 lbs. But it is TOM so i know way it is up a little. As long as it stays down after I'll be happy. :) Just made this really great strawberry cheesecake with one of my Herbalife recipes. It was yummy!

Real brief today. No extra kids - mom was sick. So it has been quiet other than when the kids tried to crash a dresser in their room. My oldest daughter was lucky it caught on the other dresser or she would be squished.

~Hugs~Jen

I'm starting to fall in love with me scale........ :)

Well I just seem to be on a roll here. This morning's weigh in was 225.8 lbs. Down, what about 0.6 lbs since yesterday? I can't remember exactly what I weighed yesterday morning. :) Starting to think if I drink more than one cup of my green tea a day it might be more of a loss. I'll have to try that and see.

Well yesterday was fun. The add boy was here and they cut his meds due to his lack of appetite and not sleeping. But now he is back to acting like he isn't on anything at all. And I am soooooo not going to put up with it much longer if we can't get something figured out as far as dosage goes. Then to top it all off his sister was being just as obnoxious yesterday. I was greatful for when they left for VBS, even if it was late due to car troubles - I got a little break.

I just keep thinking we have one more month until school starts and that seems to pacify me for the time being. Until I think "But Becca starts kindergarten this year." My baby is going into school and I'll be home alone on two and a half days. Not sure of what to do with myself other than try to run my business. :)

It's lunch time now so have a great day out there is journal land and keep up the battle and the good work. :) ~Hugs~Jen

Good Morning. Weigh in this morning at 226.4 lbs. Down another 0.2 lbs! :) Not much but it keeps adding up. Yesterday was good foodwise. I made a nice chicken caesar salad for lunch. Broiled a peice of chicken with some onion powder and garlic salt on it. Put it on a bed of lettuce with bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, croutons, caesar salad dressing and topped it off with parmasean cheese. Yumm! For dinner we had steaks grilled outside (it was a nice cool 78 degrees yesterday) with some cheesy broccolli for me as a vegetable. And breakfast was as simple as a meal shake from Herbalife.

Well today is an extra kid day. But they are leaving halfway through to go to Vacation bible school for a few hours. That should help lessen the aggrivation - so I hope.. :)

Have a good one and try to stay cool for those of you out West! ~Hugs~Jen

Comment note: Thanks Julie! That dress is the one from my brother's wedding. The same darn one we had to alter to make it stay up! Its the dress that started it all. I actually wantedto lose weight before his wedding a year ago. That was when I joined Curves. I ended up losing inches up going up in weight in a month.  Not sure what to think of that.

But anyways. :) Good morning fellow weight loss bloggers. I am currently holding at 227.0 lbs this morning. This is a good thing since we went to a birthday party yesterday. I had 3 beers, lots of good food - mostly healthy, and of course a peice of homemade (from scratch) cake - frosting and all. But I was really good with the cake. I was given a big peice and I ate about a third of it before giving it to my hubby. :) Enough to say I had a peice but not eat the whole big one I was given. So I figured I'd be up a lot more than 0.4 lbs from yesterday but I'm not. Of course I then think "well if I hadn't had all the stuff I did yesterday how much would I be down?" But I am not gonna dwell on that fact. You have to treat yourself sometimes as long as it is done in moderation. :) Which is what I am doing. That and remembering to drink my water during the day and I am all set.

Well I hope everyone is having a good weekend. :)

~Hugs~Jen

Morning. Weigh in this morning was 226.6 lbs. Down another 0.2 lbs. :) Still doing a happy dance in my chair even if it is a small loss. If I keep this up I just may hit bathing suit season next year no problem. My goal: to be able to fit into that darn two peice that I got a few months before I found out I was pregnant. This means I have to lose a lot of my butt and thighs. That's where most of my weight is right now. My body right now is literally three different sizes. I found this out last year when I got measured for the bridesmaids dress for my brother's wedding. Starting from the top it goes: 16 chest, 18 waist, and 20 hips. That was fun trying to alter that dress. :) But the lower half has always been bigger on my body.......darn Italian child breeding hips! I was always a size 16 in pants until I started working and walking everywhere, then I got down to a 14 and 12 somtimes. But being 5'10.5" I never considered myself to be in plus sizes. So if I can get back to that size I'd be happy. :)

~Hugs~Jen

Feeling good

It is a Good Morning indeed. Weigh in this morning is at......drumroll please......... 226.8 lbs! :) Doing a Happy Dance in my chair as I type. I am at or around the weight I was before I got pregnant the last tme if I remember right. So one kids weight down, two to go!

Overall since I started dieting I have lost 22.2 lbs. The highest weight I ever got was 249 lbs and I so did not want to hit 250 lbs. So I started eating better and dieting. And it is working! I have some other news too. Yesterday I was interviewed regarding my online blog about my weight loss for an article. When it is published I will get a pdf copy of it and I can link it on here. :) So I just want to say Thank you to all of you who have made comments to me in the past and continue to keep me going. :) You really help me to keep on track and know that I am not alone, someone else has been there before me and that we are going through this together even if we have never met. You ladies are great!

~Hugs~Jen

Holding on

Weighed in again at 229.8 lbs this morning. Which is good - still below 230 lbs. :) But I have been snacking like there is no tomorrow the past few days. Not sure what is wrong with me other than I fell off the wagon over the weekend. I am starting to think I have to stick with it even over the weekend and when we go away somewhere. It makes sense but I am too stubborn to do it most days. Granted my snacks have been healthy - I try to avoid buying the junk food as much as possible. Not to say I don't have it in my house. I did have ice cream yesterday. But I was good and took two scoops and put them in a cup instead of sitting with the entire carton of ice cream like I wanted to do. And its not fat free ice cream either. Its the good stuff with carmel and heath bits in it. yumm! :)

But I better get off that subject before I go for some ice cream today too. On an off subject - why do kids have to fight all the time? Its not even my kids that are fighting with each other. My oldest is fighting with the oldest of the kids I watch. I am going bonkers today and the more they fight the more stressed I get and the more I snack. Never mind I figured out why I am snacking so much the past few days. Thank God they are not going to be here anymore this week. I'll get a break from the extras.

Well back to the daily grind of trying not to pull my hair out or strangel the kids.

~Hugs~Jen

Broke the cycle?

Good morning bloggers! Well at least it is early morning as I am writing this entry. ;P I think I have broke the cycle of going back over 230 lbs! This weekend we went to visit my brother. Needless to say my diet food went with me......................and then sat on the counter the whole weekend. I ate pizza twice - carbs are something I have been staying away from and it seems to be helping when I do. I have them in moderation - meaning not a lot of bread in one day or pasta for every dinner. Coming from an Italian family this has been hard. Coming from a line of people who always have a BIG spread at every holiday or any get together it has been really hard. I even managed to try a new vegetable this weekend - asparagus (I have no clue if that is spelled right). It wasn't bad - different but not bad. 

But somehow this weekend I managed to be good (alright I did have 4 slices the one night but it had lots of meat on it too). I drank lots of water and tried not to drink lots of pop. I even got in some exercise too. We went swimming at a friends and I made sure to do at least 10 laps in the pool. I stayed moving the whole time in the pool only floating for a few minutesto rest in between. And my reward this morning was to get on the scale and weigh in at.............229.8 lbs. I am thinking this is my new 231 lbs or place to be stuck when I fall off for a day or too. :) But I am back to the diet food this morning and we are off to a good start for the week. And I am even happy about the weight I am at right now.

Have a great day! ~Hugs~Jen

Going down...........

Down to 228.6 lbs this morning! Dropped 3.2 lbs since I got back on the wagon. So nice to be on this side of 231 lbs for a change. It feels good and I want to keep it up. I have set a goal of getting to 200 lbs by or before Christmas. Simple enough to do if I lose 5 lbs a month I will even hit my goal of losing 50 lbs this year. And if I do that I will be half way to my goal. I want to end up in my ideal weight range for my height. Which is between 149 and 179 depending on if I fix my posture or not. So I'd have between 30 - 50 lbs to go after this year. And I am GOING to get it done. Not waiting any longer to be back into my happy place again. :)

Gotta go break up the kids. Hugs ~ Jen

Well over the strep now and back to 231 lbs. My kids were kidnapped by my in-laws last Wednesday to go to their cabin up north. Starting to miss them since I have no way to talk to them unless they go into town and visit the grandparents who live there. No cell phone reception there. My youngest two were crying the night before and saying they didn't want to be away from me. Well I take that back my middle one said that. The youngest said she wanted to stay and ride her bike............feel the love! LOL

Getting back on track and so is my Hubby. So I now have someone to help keep me accountable. We have an agreement He hits 220 lbs and I hit 200 lbs by Christmas. Roughly 30 lbs for both of us so it should be doable. We start later this week after the supplies get in.

Well hope everyone has safe travels for whatever you may be doing over the 4th. Enjoy the day and spend it with family and friends. And of course don't over do it too much. :)

~Hugs~Jen