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