Hmmmmm

Well and ineresting week it has been. The hubby had the whoel week off which meant a lot of time spent online playing Eve.com and me being forced to help him with my account. That I only have because he wanted us to play something together. lol So I skipped my exercise at the end of the week with the exception of praise practice - yes this is exerise because we have dance oves to get the kids moving too. :) But my weight lss coach Angela sent me a text Thursday afternoon before practice asking me if I'd be there. She would because over the summer her section joins ours. So I get there and she hands me an envelope that has the big pot in it from the challenge. She'd talked to her upline and bcause I gained but lost it all again and would have been there on Wednesday if we had met I got the big pot. Wahoo!!!! I already spent some of it because I had reached my 10% goal and wanted to celebrate that so I bought yarn and needles (yes I knit). Then I put the other half of it away to go towards my bridesmaids dress for my friend Amy's wedding in November. So I'm setting aside money for that, my shoes and travel expenses because I'll be gone roughly 3 days total - all that I'm allowed by the hubby. lol

With the challenge being over does this mean I am quitting - NOPE. I want to be down 2 dress sizes for the wedding. That's 20 lbs per dress size accourding to the ladies at David's Bridal and 40 lbs total to lose. A good goal and hey it's actually my half-way weight loss wise. Besides the dresses I tried on would look much better on my in a smaller size. hehe Plus maybe I'll need less alterations.....HAHAHAHA can you lose you hips????? I used to have this really great hourglass figure....well I still have it but it's not as great any more. My hips are bigger than my boobs and the boobs are bigger than my waist so I have to go with the biggest size in dresses to fit over my hip and then major alterations to get the rest to fit. Luckily the one she wants me to wear isone of those empire waist ones - mor fitted at the boobs and then loose the rest of the way down. Now to actually find a strapless bra that fits.....the one I wore in the dress to the side for my brother's wedding - so not the right size which is why there are the plastic straps in the pic. lol

Off to do the shopping we haveno food in the house and the kids are hungry. I keep asking why I have to feed them and they tell me cuz I'm supposed to. Ok fine. lol Later Jland. ~Hugs~Jen~

Huh....

Well weigh-in did not happen last night because the challenge was rescheduled for next week. Hmmm more time to lose 2 lbs to be down more - yay! :) But then I managed to not get on my sale at all yesterday evening to see where I really was. Then I ate a really fattening dinner - because it was my oldest daughter's request for FINALLY getting over her fear of her bike. We got her riding in te field yesterday. Not that she was really making it far....at all really but she was on it and not crying that is the BIG improvement on her part. But I had to bribe her with her choice of dinner and dessert to get her to do it. So cheesy enchiladas and ice cream was her choice. It was good but I should have only had one and not the two I did eat. Weight this morning was 249.8 lbs. Up about 0.4 lbs. from the last weigh in weight. But I'm ok with that because it could have been all 4 lbs plus that 0.4. LOL

I'm doing better and getting on my Wii and making it to the 30 minute mark in aerobic activities. Still haven't quite figured out how to do some of the strength training on there. I am pathetic when it comes to upper arm strength I have learned. I couldn't even do one push-up. Time to break out the dumbbells and start using them. Lunch time! Later Jland. ~Hugs~Jen~

Why?

So 4th of July was spent out of town celebrating by Nana's 90th b-day (which was in March). We of course confused her when we set the cake in front of her and she asked what day it was......hehe She's a good sport. :) So we got together and had LOTS of really good food. Lasagna, spaghetti salad, cheesy broccoli & rice, hamburgers, fluff salad, banana bread, rotisserie chicken, eggplant parmesan.......did I mention that we are Italian? Anyway there was more than that but it's all I can remember and well........I at two plates of food and two helpings of the cheesy broccoli & rice cuz I love it and my mom made it. :) And then the next day I weighed and had gained about 4 lbs back - EEEK! It's all gone now but weigh in is tomorrow and I am only a little bit down from where I was. Frustrated with myself to say the least but it was good food and I enjoyed it. Even if this was the first time in a long time that I ate so much that my tummy actually hurt. And I wasn't the only one. On the car ride home that was all we heard from the kids. LOL Well the hubby is on vacation this week so I'm off to play video games and then knit night later. Later Jland! ~Hugs~Jen~

I'm alive......

Good morning Jland! Sorry in a slightly silly and loopy mood this morning. :-D Weight Loss Challenge last week was postponed due to our coach being sick. But since we weigh in on my scale I weighed in just the same. I was down 0.8 lbs to 250.8 lbs from the week before. Not too bad seeing as how the last time TOM was here I went up about 2 lbs. We weighed in yesterday at out second to last meeting - 249.4 lbs. I'm out of the 250's WOOT! Not only that but I have also lost 10% of my goal weight loss and have lost 9.2 lbs total now since starting back on Herbalife.

For the challenge our coach totaled up our weight loss so far - I'm at 3.6 lbs lost during this challenge and my competition is at 3.4 lbs lost. What a way to head into a holiday weekend. Which ever one of us either continues to lose, maintains our loss, or gains less than the other gets the big pot of money. My dh said to me "so I get my steak dinner for father's day with that right?" I said nope sorry it's going into the dress/travel fund for my friend Amy's wedding in November. I am maid of honor as one of her oldest friends still around. Plus kinda gave her the advice to go for it with the guy she is marring and he asked me on how to propose to her. :)

Yesterday was also good because my Dr.'s office called me with the last results. I was told "it's not as severe as previously seen." So what's that mean - no colposcopy that my Dr. had talked about doing if it came back abnormal because it's finally not as bad and I go back again in 3 months. I know I know that was the last of my required 3 rechecks after the surgery. But we want to make sure it continues to be "not as severe" and not get bad again. So another appointment in September it is for me then.

Well off to eat breakfast and get some Wii Fit time in before lunch time. Later Jland friends. ~Hugs~Jen~

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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ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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~