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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~