Weigh In...

We had weight loss challenge yesterday and my partner in the challenge and competition was down 4 lbs since the last time she weighed in about 2 weeks ago. I am so proud of her. She said she had dropped all animal products from her diet with the exception of cheese. She is eating Boca burgers and Morning Fresh products instead for a week and says she feels much healthier because of it.

I know, I know you are wondering how I did. Well.....I maintained 251.6 lbs. Exactly to the .6 lbs. LOL I don't feel bad because it could have been a gain and wasn't and now that I think about it it is almost TOM time again. Oh Joy!

Well today is the last of my three rechecks after the last abnormal pap. I can't remember if i'd posted on the last two results or not - so nutshell version here! They have all come back abnormal since my LEEP but when the samples were sent back to the lab to be compaired to biopsies taken from the LEEP they were not as bad as the biopsy. So My doc said 'we'll give it 3 months and see you again' and same thing happened. Same results. So here we are at the last of the 3 required  appointments adn we'll see how it goes. I should hopefully know at the latest my mid-July. Why the big window? Because I have learned that rushing them is not something you do when the lab has to compaire cultures. ;-D On a similiar note I have an online friend from my gaming world (yup I am a girl game geek) that was notified that she had a severe anbormality. So she is totally worried about what might happen and I was greatful that I had this experience to be able to help her better understand some of what will happen. I am hoping and praying that even though it is severe that it is not invasive yet and can be taken care of with a simple surgery like the LEEP. I'm totally praying that it isn't yet Cancer. She has a 8 month old little girl and was trying to figure out how they didn't catch this when she had her. Plus she is a little ticked about the way she was notified. She had gone in for a never ending period (sound familiar? sure did to me!) and they sent her a letter saying it was severely abnormal and to head to the hospital for a colposcomy. The doc never once contacte her about it outside the letter(s) she received. Mind you she lives in England but even here I've seen postcards saying "you had an abnormal pap please schedule an appt as soon as possible" sent to friends and family. Somehow I got a doc that decided calling me and letting me know was a better option. Go figure.

Well I should finish breakfast before I forget to do it at all. Later Jland. ~Hugs~Jen~

More details.....

Well what I ate at the first party was this: Salad with croutons and Italian dressing, mashed potatoes with beef gravy, green bean casserole (I LOVE this stuff....), a roll, and some roast beef. My first plate was full. Yup first plate I went back for seconds. These plates were pretty big too. I use the smaller of the ones we have at home to limit how much I take and eat but I'm not quite down to kids plate sizes or anything like that yet. But ok so I ate everything on my plate and went back for a second bigger helping of the mashed potatoes and beef gravy and more green bean casserole. Then came dessert. I tried to have my hubby share a piece with me. I wanted cherry chip and he said ok. The man needs to lose weight with me too mind you. So what does he do? Brings back 2 pieces of chocolate cake. He said it all looked like vanilla to him except the chocolate. Who would have known him being color-blind would make him mistake cherry chip for vanilla. LOL So I went and got the cake I wanted, middle kiddo got the other chocolate after dad ate the frosting because she didn't want it. I ate the whole piece by myself because it was SOOOOOOOOO good. My fave outside of chocolate chocolate cake. Yum! I drank two cups of iced tea with splenda and one cup of punch to swallow my vitamins/supplements.

Then the next day was Father's day cookout at my in-laws. Western ribs, veggie tray with dip, humus and pitas. Same thing - full plate, but a smaller one this time. And seconds on ribs. Then our uncle broke out the rest of the cake. Again a cherry chip cake. Then my middle kiddo - same as day before - says 'Here mommy I don't want this I'm full' whole piece of cherry chip to me again. >.< DOH! I ate the whole thing again.

But this morning the scale says 248.8 lbs. mind you we weigh in after breakfast and lunch has passed at 4:45 PM EST. So I have until then to stay at or under 251 lbs. That is my goal. I know not eating will do it. However that is not good for me. And if I happen to go up to 252 lbs. It's just $1 to put in the pot and so far it looked like I was winning. Not to brag but it is hard when you are just doing something because you can get it easy. The other lady has lost weight and kept it off for years. Then had some problems and gained it back plus some. i won't go into details because it's not my story. But we are here to support each other and it helps that Angela - our weight loss coach is not only a Herbalife distributor like me but was also a nutritional consultant. So she knows what she is talking about when she says I need to be eating 1800 - 2000 calories a day. And i feel the difference when I don't. I also realized that by losing 1 more lb I will be at my 10% goal. Yeah I actually sat and figured those out this time. So I know when each goal is reached.

Thanks for the comments Christina and Sherry. I know I feel like I was over eating but I'm pretty sure it was close to total calories for the day. Just my choices were not the best - like 2 pieces of cake on Sunday. lol Well off to clean - house is a mess for people coming over this afternoon. Later Jland! ~Hugs~Jen~

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So I'd typed up this whole entry that AOL just ate So nutshell - 2 parties this past weekend - good food, ate more than I should, I think but didn't feel over stuffed. Just ate until satisfied. Both days. Will see how the scale likes me tomorrow on weigh in day.

Gotta feed monsters now. Later Jland. ~Hugs~Jen~

 

Weigh in day was today. I got burned badly from being at the school so no measurements. Plus the other lady in our weight loss challenge had to be somewhere else for something and it was jsut me. So I got on the scale and it read 251.6 lbs. I'm down 1.5 lbs for a total of 7 lbs lost since the end of April. WOOT! And we got to chatting about my goals for the week. With the kdis being out of school no more lunch lady workouts so I'm going to work out on Wii Fit for 30 minutes daily. OMG my legs are killing me from being on there last night! But it was worth it because I sweat like a pig and lost weight this week. Then I asked how to figure out what my caloric intake should be. Because I am fealing so stinking hungry lately and then I snack and feel bad thinking I'm going over what I should be eating. LOL eveidently I have yet to touch what I should be eating. There is one night where I might have some close for my daily total of between 1800 - 2000 calories. So now I don't feel so bad and about how much I have been eating and now have to try and figure out what to do to eat more. Off to raid the fridge because I am hungry and it's dinner time. ~Hugs~Jen~

Yes, I'm still alive.....

It has been forever I know. Update on weight - up two during TOM, back down 2 the week after that. Next weigh in is tomorrow. We kept the Wednesday date but moved the weight loss challenge to an earlier time. If my measurement were correct I ahve lost 11 inches overall since I started this weight loss challange.

I've been having one of those weeks where I want to strangle people. Could be that it is too hot and we lost power the other afternoon through night (ugh!). Could be that it is too close to summer and no extra income in for the next 3 months - nah I'm ok with that. Could be that it is too close to summer and the girls are already driving me batty and they aren't even out of school yet......DING DING DING we have a winner. I think it is this plus the 'I don't think I am eating enough during the day' headaches I have been getting. I've been keeping track of my foods this past week and I figured that even with my snacks I am sometimes only eating about 1200 to 1400 calories a day. I'm pretty sure that is less than it should be which would explain why I feel crappy some days. So I'm trying to figure out how to get that up higher without eating a bunch of crap that isn't good for me. I've been knitting a lot lately to get rid of stress. Hubby has been complaining that I don't spend time with him anymore and all I am doing is reading journals, reading books or knitting. Yup, I tried but the games he wants to play on the comp are ones we have to pay a monthly fee for and we don't have the money to spend for 2 of us to get on there like he wants at the moment. I give up........can I resign as mom/wife??????

So I've reverted to listening to music from the 80's/early 90's - yes the New kids on the block. *Sigh* I loved them and now they are back together. I know I am pathetic but I can't help it. I even have been looking into going to a concert when they hit the Detroit area. And dragging my friends that I went to a concert back in '92 at the Breslin Center in East Lansing with. Gotta love BFF's! Well I need to eat something and get ready for work - my last day until next school year. Tomorrow is my younger 2 girls parties in the afternoon. Both of which I am room mom for their classes and they are both at the same time. Do you see why my stress level is so high right now?? Too much stuff and notenough hands or time for me to think. Which is why I have been doing mindless things like knitting and reading - duh! 2.5 days left of school THANK GOD! Later my Jland friends. :) ~Hugs~Jen~