Day 29

Wow, I can't believe that it's been over a week since I've blogged. I did weigh in 2 times last week but won't weigh in again until tomorrow because I'm in Pierre right now spending time with our daughter Danielle, her fiance Ross and our precious granddaughter Mackennzie since Saturday. It's been a wonderful time and is totally amazing at how much support I have with every family member.

I weighed in last Monday and had lost a 1/2 lb. since the previous Thursday. I figured I was back in a plateau, but the consultant who weighed me said, you've had some great weight loss, you are doing just fine. So it was an ok weigh in.

Wednesday was Christmas Eve and the struggle that night was Jerry's homemade baked potato soup. It smelled so good! Both Jessica and Jerry stood in front of the soup that night and said you aren't going to taste this soup! You are doing too good to give up 3 days of weight loss just for this soup. It's great to see that my family is so good at helping me stay on track when the struggles come. Christmas day wasn't as hard. We had my sister's Sarah and Angie out for Christmas Eve and they spent the night with their children for Christmas morning! It was so much fun to have Santa visiting the house for a 3 and 6 year old. Their eyes are so full of wonder and amazement as they got up and saw the tree. Christmas day we just stayed home and didn't make anything special.

The day after Christmas I went in to weigh in before going to the Pinkman family Christmas celebration. This is where I was hoping the scale would say that I've dropped another 6 lbs because I wanted to be at 20 lbs. of weight loss by Christmas. No such luck, I only had another 1/2 lb. of loss, but hey that's better than a 1/2 lb. gained. So then we went to Jerry's brother's house and had Christmas with his family. The support there was wonderful also. My sister-in-laws were asking questions about what I could and couldn't eat, how my diet worked and how much loss I've had so far. They were wonderful when I said I had only lost a 1/2 lb. since Monday reminding me that the slow loss, stays off better than the quick loss.

After our Christmas celebration we had to go home and pack for Pierre. We got a motel room that had a microwave and fridge in the room so that I could bring all of my food already pre-cut and bagged so that I can just put my meals together. The bad thing about it is that to make it easy I just made a bunch of the same thing, so I'm basically eating the same meal for lunch and supper for 3 days. I'm getting a bit tired of it at this point, but it's only another day and then we'll be going home. We are planning on stopping in Sioux Falls on our way home at a restaurant that is on my list of places I can eat and I'll get something different then.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in to see what I've dropped. I'm hoping that there will be a few pounds dropped. I'm also going to be at a month of this change, so I'll get measured and it'll be interesting to see where this weight loss is coming from.

I hope that all of you had a very wonderful Christmas and that your New Year celebrations will be fun and safe! I'll probably blog again before then though!!