Wow, what a week it's been again this week! We started out the week with our 2 foster children. Monday and Tuesday were pretty trying on the entire family, but mostly Jerry. Monday while I went to work and the temperatures were very cold, Jerry got stuck staying home and not being able to take the little ones anywhere. By Tuesday, he was ready to pull his hair out because the huffing, whining and "no's" were getting the best of him. As I told Jessica on Wednesday evening, I couldn't breathe right for him. LOL!
So Tuesday all day was rough for Jerry and that is the day I have my weigh in and group at Metabolic. I go in and my weigh in shows I've dropped another 2 lbs. Yippee! Although, my scale was saying 4 lbs. Oh well, 2 lbs. is still good. Then the group was really good. I love all the discussion we have about things with our eating. Before I got to Metabolic I had gotten a voice mail from the caseworker, whom I haven't talked to yet and at this point I'm getting a bit upset about not hearing anything from anyone. Her message was that mom was going to court the following morning and that dad has turned up so the kids may be going home with him Wednesday after court. OK, so now we are in limbo for the upcoming 24 hours not knowing if they are going or staying. So I get through with my group and had to run over to Russ's to get eggs and water. I had called home and asked Jessica to ask Jerry nicely to start my dinner so I could eat when I got home because of the time frames that I have with eating. At this point, I think Jerry is starting to melt down and he's telling me how he can't do this anymore. It was a very hard day and he doesn't think he can keep doing foster care. I get home help the little ones clean up their room and eat dinner with Jerry. It's very obvious that he's upset with me, and I'm not really sure why, but I just steered clear of trying to say anything to upset him and thought as long as I focused on taking care of the kids that should help him calm down.
Then Jimmy starts in on how he doesn't like this and hopes they are going home Wednesday. So I spent some more time with him that night. We read and snuggled because he is really having a hard time sharing his mom with others. The following morning by 9:30 I've gotten the phone call, the kids are going home with their dad. I let the caseworker know that I was very unhappy about how this placement went because we didn't know anything that was going on, they dropped the kids off on Friday and now the call that they are going home. She apologized for how it went and asked that we not give up. That foster parents are needed too badly in the system. I said, I'm sure we won't but something needs to change in this process.
So Jerry sends them home with a transportation worker and on with life we go. I come home that night and it's so quiet in my house. Jimmy fell asleep reading his book, Jessica is hanging in her room and Jerry had taken a nap for the afternoon because his back had really been bothering him and he hadn't been getting enough sleep. We had family game night that night and enjoyed reconnecting as a family, just the four of us. We also let Jimmy know that we are still going to keep doing this, and not all little ones are going to require as much work as these did, but some will.
So we finish up the week, and Friday comes for another weigh in. It showed a 1/2 lb. and I was happy with it. I've been able to start working out again, as I was too tired to workout after last Sunday until Thursday night. Friday night after my weigh in we went and did some shopping for Danielle's wedding and got supper at Applebee's while the kids were at youth group. I had started to eat the garlic mashed potatoes that were on my plate while I was talking to Danielle on the phone and Jerry noticed, so he picked my plate up, moved it in front of him and then had the waiter take it. I'm so glad he did. He figured I was eating w/o thinking since I was talking to Danielle. I was. Then that night I felt nauseated and had a headache so bad until Saturday morning. I think it was from whatever was in the potatoes. So I don't think I'll be craving those again.
So the rest of the weekend has gone well. It's been quiet, and now Jessica might be getting a stomach bug. I hope not. We've had a round or two of it already and I don't want any more. I'll be back on to blog more later in the week. I hope you all have a wonderfully, warm week.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Day 42
I can't believe that it's been so long since I blogged last. There has been a whirlwind going through my house since the last time I was on here. Last Tuesday I weighed in right before I started a new group through MRC. It's the class/group that is led by a psychotherapist. I'm already loving it after one class.
Anyway, I had started weighing myself at home like Patty had recommended that I do, so I don't have too big of a shocker if there is a minor gain or loss or no change because I'm in a plateau. So I had weighed myself that morning and Patty and I had been emailing before we went for our weigh in and the class. We both were excited that we should both be hitting our next 10 lb. mark. It was great because when I got into the center Patty did weigh in at the next 10 lb. board, and Robin the center manager did her weigh in, then took me. We went over my food diary, talked about some times that I'm feeling hungry and what I can do about it since on the mornings that I work out I'm feeling hungry in between breakfast and lunch. Plus, I'm feeling hungry sometimes in the late afternoons. She helped me to know that I could add in some other drinks with fiber in them to help with the hunger pains. Then on to the scale. This was the most hilarious weigh in I've had. I get on the scale and it shows a loss, but instead of 20 lbs. I still had a 1/2 lb. to go to get to the 20 lb. board. Robin said, hold on get back on there, blow all the air out of your body. Then she whispers, "Do you have to go poop?" LOL!! OMG, I laughed and said, no I already went to the bathroom before I came in. I said, it's ok, I'm not at the 20 lb. board now, but I will be on Friday when I come back for my weigh in. It's going to be ok.
Then I went in to the group room, I shared with Patty, who felt bad, but I was really ok. So we had our group and then Patty and I couldn't wait to leave because we were starving and ready to get home to eat.
So then as the week has progressed, not only am I getting back into the work routine after being off for almost 2 weeks, but I'm helping my step-daughter Danielle plan her wedding. We have to start paying for different things, like her wedding dress, and the reception hall deposit. Making sure that we have a D.J. lined up for the day, and all the other things that go along with a wedding. This I'm having a lot of fun planning with her and feel extremely blessed that Danielle would allow me to help take part in this most precious day that she & Ross are getting ready for.
So I get through the rest of the week, and then on Friday I know I'm going to weigh in again. I had a meeting for work first thing in the morning at the Pine Lake branch. So I get through that and check my phone as I'm getting ready to leave to go back to my branch and see that I have a voicemail and a text message. The voicemail is from our caseworker for foster care and the text message is from Jerry stating that it's important for me to call him because it's about a placement. So I listen to the VM, and the caseworker said that she has a placement for us, emergency care at this point and they are 3 and 4 years old. Don't know the sexes of the children at this point because it's a result of a drug bust. So I start driving and call Jerry. I'm no more than out of the parking lot and he's telling me that he's accepted the placement and the children should be at our house any moment now. So I said, Ok, I'm on my way home. I just need to call and let Denise know that I won't be coming right back now and call Lynette to clock me out. Not knowing how the day would go, I told Jerry I was going to stop at MRC on my way so that I could get my weigh in out of the way for the day. I stopped and this was the fastest weigh in I've ever done. I let them know we were getting a placement and I just needed to get my weigh in done quickly. The scale said that I was down another pound, so now I'm at 20.5 lbs. Yippee!! The 20 lb. board was made.
So on to getting home. I call Jerry on my way out of the center and he said the kids had just pulled up. So I'm racing home talking to Justina about everything that is going on, and I think at this point she's just as excited if not more excited than I was. I get home and am greeted to a couple of smiling children. Dominic is 4 years old and Aallyiah is 3 years old. On top of that Dominic was born on my 30th birthday and Aallyiah was born on my best friend Christine's 31st birthday. So their birthday's will be easy to remember if they are with us for very long. The worker that dropped them off told me that the reason they were removed was completely different than the reason we were given over the phone. He said the children were seen walking close to the highway or on the highway not far from their home which was in a trailer court close to the highway. They weren't dressed for the weather. Someone saw them and called the police. The police picked them up and went back to their home in which they found very unsanitary conditions. Social Services were called to come and pick up the children so that the police could arrest the mom. They don't arrest parents in front of children in the town that they are from. So we are told that mom at a minimum will have to bond out of jail and after that we aren't sure what has to be done.
Tomorrow we have a meeting with our caseworker in which she will bring out more paperwork and hopefully will have more answers for us on the time frame we are looking at having these children in our home. While I was extremely excited, I have to say that Jerry and I have forgotten what it's like to have preschoolers around. I ended up taking the rest of Friday off because we had to get more things for the kids because we weren't prepared. Since I had said that we could take a baby and another child that could be under the age of 7 or 5, I had a crib and a twin size bed. Well we needed to go out and get a toddler bed because another twin size bed isn't going to fit in the bedroom that we have set up. Plus, I didn't feel like the clothes that mom packed were warm enough for the kids going into colder weather. So off Jerry and I went to Wal-Mart and then we ran to Ashland to p/u kids because they had plans that required a p/u instead of riding home on the bus. We thought it would be a great way to surprise them. Jimmy gets in the van and just says "Hi", but Jessica's eyes about bug out of her head when she gets in. It was quite funny. We let our kids have friends spend the night, I figured that would help Jimmy with the transition since he's been struggling the most with adding children to our home, even though he was just as excited in the beginning when we started the process.
So we get through the first night, barely. I couldn't believe how much energy they had, and I even got help from Jessica and Grace. Poor Jessica is even tired from helping out with them. I didn't realize how bear my cupboards were because we've been buying food that's mostly for my diet and the kids and Jerry have been eating somewhat the same as I've been. So I've got 2 foster kids, my 2 kids and 3 kids spending the night. I don't have enough food for 7 kids, and decide to run to the Waverly McDonald's in the middle of a snow storm with Jerry to feed everyone but me. I have come to realize how much harder it is to keep up this life change this weekend. The biggest thing that I'm having a hard time with is the time frames that I need to stay within to eat, and Saturday night I understood truly why I need to stay within the time frames that Metabolic states. I felt like once Saturday started all I was doing was cleaning, cooking, feeding, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, cooking.......... Holy cow, how much cleaning do I have to do to keep up with these kids. We also had Jimmy's basketball game first thing Saturday morning and then church at 5:15 on Saturday night. Generally we grab either go home after church to eat or go to Hy-Vee for their salad bar. I'm pretty good about taking my supplement at church so that if we are going to get past the time that I need to have eaten, I've got that in me to keep me going. Well, I didn't get that done, so by the time we got out of church and got over to the Hy-Vee on 48th & O, so we could go to Paul & Justina's after that to visit and p/u 2 car seats that Justina said we could have the salad bar was closed and it was over 5 hours since I had last eaten. I didn't really care what we got, I just wanted to eat. So Jerry drives over to Perkins, and the kids are having a melt down about where they are wanting to eat. Jerry finally said that it didn't matter what they wanted, we need to go somewhere that mommy can eat.
So we are at Perkins and I'm having a hard time figuring out what I can eat within my plan and I'm not really caring. I'm ready to order whatever I want to eat and going with it. Jerry found the top sirloin on the menu and it came with 2 side dishes. Well I did good and ordered the steamed broccoli w/o butter as one side, but I told Jerry I'm ordering mashed potatoes and gravy and I'm going to eat them and I don't really care. I had the rest of the items that I needed for the meal, so I had gotten everything that I needed, the potatoes were just extra. So I get my meal and I eat everything else, and then try the potatoes. They were so salty!! I couldn't believe how much salt was in the potatoes and the gravy. On top of that I forgot to ask how they seasoned the steak, so I'm pretty sure there was salt on that too. Oh well, at that point I was so tired I didn't really care. Jerry did though, by the time I got to eating my potatoes, he's looking at me saying, "Does that really taste good." I said, not really, it's pretty salty and I'm going to probably pay for it tomorrow. So I stopped eating them and then as I'm sitting there I find myself picking at them and eating more. So Jerry grabs the last bite with his fork and then asks the waiter to take my plate. He asks if he overstepped his boundaries and I said, no you are just trying to take care of me. After that we ran over to Paul and Justina's, it's 9:30 at night and we should have been going home and going to bed. It was a quick 30 minute visit, and Paul was giving me a hard time about how I complimented their addition. I said, I'm so tired, that I really need you all to just love me where I'm at. Then a little later Paul said, actually Missy you do look completely worn out.
So we got going home and put everyone to bed (they actually all fell asleep on the way home). Thankfully Jessica, Jimmy and Dominic woke up well enough to walk inside. Not only that but Jessica woke up well enough to take Aallyiah in for me too. Today I was awakened at 8:00 to my new sweet lil angels and we had breakfast together, then I took them downstairs to watch tv while I did my workout. I needed it after not getting one on Friday or Saturday. This was the first time we had sat them in front of the tv. Dominic I discovered really likes lil einsteins and he had already told us he likes sponge bob. Aallyiah on the other hand doesn't really care one way or the other about the tv and had more fun playing with different toys that were downstairs while I worked out.
After my workout I got things ready to go so Jimmy and I could have some mommy/son time going to Sam's Club and Wal-Mart. After getting lunch and putting the lil ones down for a nap he and I headed in and spent too much money but now have Jerry set for breakfasts, lunches and some family suppers along with getting more clothes, dishes, coloring books and colors for the kids. I couldn't believe how much I ended up having to get today, especially since we had already made a trip on Friday to get things.
So now I'm ready to get into bed and get some good sleep before I get up in the morning to try and get to work early because I've got to take my lunch a little later in order to come home and meet with our caseworker to find out what the plan is going to be and how long they think we will have our little joys with us. Along with that I'll be addressing several issues that have come up through the weekend. It'll be interesting to see how this new spin on our lives goes. Please keep us in your prayers as we are adjusting to this new change in our lives. Pray especially for Jerry as he's going to have a scheduled routine now Monday thru Friday. Hopefully I've helped to get it started for him because I tried to make sure I was feeding the kids and laying them down for naps at the same time the last two days. I figure that will help him keep things going. I asked if he needed me to make a menu up for him for lunches so he doesn't forget that they'll need a fruit and a veggie with whatever else he decides to feed them. LOL!! He thinks he'll do fine. I'm sure he will.
I'll try and blog more next Friday or Saturday after the next two weigh ins. Have a great week!!
Anyway, I had started weighing myself at home like Patty had recommended that I do, so I don't have too big of a shocker if there is a minor gain or loss or no change because I'm in a plateau. So I had weighed myself that morning and Patty and I had been emailing before we went for our weigh in and the class. We both were excited that we should both be hitting our next 10 lb. mark. It was great because when I got into the center Patty did weigh in at the next 10 lb. board, and Robin the center manager did her weigh in, then took me. We went over my food diary, talked about some times that I'm feeling hungry and what I can do about it since on the mornings that I work out I'm feeling hungry in between breakfast and lunch. Plus, I'm feeling hungry sometimes in the late afternoons. She helped me to know that I could add in some other drinks with fiber in them to help with the hunger pains. Then on to the scale. This was the most hilarious weigh in I've had. I get on the scale and it shows a loss, but instead of 20 lbs. I still had a 1/2 lb. to go to get to the 20 lb. board. Robin said, hold on get back on there, blow all the air out of your body. Then she whispers, "Do you have to go poop?" LOL!! OMG, I laughed and said, no I already went to the bathroom before I came in. I said, it's ok, I'm not at the 20 lb. board now, but I will be on Friday when I come back for my weigh in. It's going to be ok.
Then I went in to the group room, I shared with Patty, who felt bad, but I was really ok. So we had our group and then Patty and I couldn't wait to leave because we were starving and ready to get home to eat.
So then as the week has progressed, not only am I getting back into the work routine after being off for almost 2 weeks, but I'm helping my step-daughter Danielle plan her wedding. We have to start paying for different things, like her wedding dress, and the reception hall deposit. Making sure that we have a D.J. lined up for the day, and all the other things that go along with a wedding. This I'm having a lot of fun planning with her and feel extremely blessed that Danielle would allow me to help take part in this most precious day that she & Ross are getting ready for.
So I get through the rest of the week, and then on Friday I know I'm going to weigh in again. I had a meeting for work first thing in the morning at the Pine Lake branch. So I get through that and check my phone as I'm getting ready to leave to go back to my branch and see that I have a voicemail and a text message. The voicemail is from our caseworker for foster care and the text message is from Jerry stating that it's important for me to call him because it's about a placement. So I listen to the VM, and the caseworker said that she has a placement for us, emergency care at this point and they are 3 and 4 years old. Don't know the sexes of the children at this point because it's a result of a drug bust. So I start driving and call Jerry. I'm no more than out of the parking lot and he's telling me that he's accepted the placement and the children should be at our house any moment now. So I said, Ok, I'm on my way home. I just need to call and let Denise know that I won't be coming right back now and call Lynette to clock me out. Not knowing how the day would go, I told Jerry I was going to stop at MRC on my way so that I could get my weigh in out of the way for the day. I stopped and this was the fastest weigh in I've ever done. I let them know we were getting a placement and I just needed to get my weigh in done quickly. The scale said that I was down another pound, so now I'm at 20.5 lbs. Yippee!! The 20 lb. board was made.
So on to getting home. I call Jerry on my way out of the center and he said the kids had just pulled up. So I'm racing home talking to Justina about everything that is going on, and I think at this point she's just as excited if not more excited than I was. I get home and am greeted to a couple of smiling children. Dominic is 4 years old and Aallyiah is 3 years old. On top of that Dominic was born on my 30th birthday and Aallyiah was born on my best friend Christine's 31st birthday. So their birthday's will be easy to remember if they are with us for very long. The worker that dropped them off told me that the reason they were removed was completely different than the reason we were given over the phone. He said the children were seen walking close to the highway or on the highway not far from their home which was in a trailer court close to the highway. They weren't dressed for the weather. Someone saw them and called the police. The police picked them up and went back to their home in which they found very unsanitary conditions. Social Services were called to come and pick up the children so that the police could arrest the mom. They don't arrest parents in front of children in the town that they are from. So we are told that mom at a minimum will have to bond out of jail and after that we aren't sure what has to be done.
Tomorrow we have a meeting with our caseworker in which she will bring out more paperwork and hopefully will have more answers for us on the time frame we are looking at having these children in our home. While I was extremely excited, I have to say that Jerry and I have forgotten what it's like to have preschoolers around. I ended up taking the rest of Friday off because we had to get more things for the kids because we weren't prepared. Since I had said that we could take a baby and another child that could be under the age of 7 or 5, I had a crib and a twin size bed. Well we needed to go out and get a toddler bed because another twin size bed isn't going to fit in the bedroom that we have set up. Plus, I didn't feel like the clothes that mom packed were warm enough for the kids going into colder weather. So off Jerry and I went to Wal-Mart and then we ran to Ashland to p/u kids because they had plans that required a p/u instead of riding home on the bus. We thought it would be a great way to surprise them. Jimmy gets in the van and just says "Hi", but Jessica's eyes about bug out of her head when she gets in. It was quite funny. We let our kids have friends spend the night, I figured that would help Jimmy with the transition since he's been struggling the most with adding children to our home, even though he was just as excited in the beginning when we started the process.
So we get through the first night, barely. I couldn't believe how much energy they had, and I even got help from Jessica and Grace. Poor Jessica is even tired from helping out with them. I didn't realize how bear my cupboards were because we've been buying food that's mostly for my diet and the kids and Jerry have been eating somewhat the same as I've been. So I've got 2 foster kids, my 2 kids and 3 kids spending the night. I don't have enough food for 7 kids, and decide to run to the Waverly McDonald's in the middle of a snow storm with Jerry to feed everyone but me. I have come to realize how much harder it is to keep up this life change this weekend. The biggest thing that I'm having a hard time with is the time frames that I need to stay within to eat, and Saturday night I understood truly why I need to stay within the time frames that Metabolic states. I felt like once Saturday started all I was doing was cleaning, cooking, feeding, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, cooking.......... Holy cow, how much cleaning do I have to do to keep up with these kids. We also had Jimmy's basketball game first thing Saturday morning and then church at 5:15 on Saturday night. Generally we grab either go home after church to eat or go to Hy-Vee for their salad bar. I'm pretty good about taking my supplement at church so that if we are going to get past the time that I need to have eaten, I've got that in me to keep me going. Well, I didn't get that done, so by the time we got out of church and got over to the Hy-Vee on 48th & O, so we could go to Paul & Justina's after that to visit and p/u 2 car seats that Justina said we could have the salad bar was closed and it was over 5 hours since I had last eaten. I didn't really care what we got, I just wanted to eat. So Jerry drives over to Perkins, and the kids are having a melt down about where they are wanting to eat. Jerry finally said that it didn't matter what they wanted, we need to go somewhere that mommy can eat.
So we are at Perkins and I'm having a hard time figuring out what I can eat within my plan and I'm not really caring. I'm ready to order whatever I want to eat and going with it. Jerry found the top sirloin on the menu and it came with 2 side dishes. Well I did good and ordered the steamed broccoli w/o butter as one side, but I told Jerry I'm ordering mashed potatoes and gravy and I'm going to eat them and I don't really care. I had the rest of the items that I needed for the meal, so I had gotten everything that I needed, the potatoes were just extra. So I get my meal and I eat everything else, and then try the potatoes. They were so salty!! I couldn't believe how much salt was in the potatoes and the gravy. On top of that I forgot to ask how they seasoned the steak, so I'm pretty sure there was salt on that too. Oh well, at that point I was so tired I didn't really care. Jerry did though, by the time I got to eating my potatoes, he's looking at me saying, "Does that really taste good." I said, not really, it's pretty salty and I'm going to probably pay for it tomorrow. So I stopped eating them and then as I'm sitting there I find myself picking at them and eating more. So Jerry grabs the last bite with his fork and then asks the waiter to take my plate. He asks if he overstepped his boundaries and I said, no you are just trying to take care of me. After that we ran over to Paul and Justina's, it's 9:30 at night and we should have been going home and going to bed. It was a quick 30 minute visit, and Paul was giving me a hard time about how I complimented their addition. I said, I'm so tired, that I really need you all to just love me where I'm at. Then a little later Paul said, actually Missy you do look completely worn out.
So we got going home and put everyone to bed (they actually all fell asleep on the way home). Thankfully Jessica, Jimmy and Dominic woke up well enough to walk inside. Not only that but Jessica woke up well enough to take Aallyiah in for me too. Today I was awakened at 8:00 to my new sweet lil angels and we had breakfast together, then I took them downstairs to watch tv while I did my workout. I needed it after not getting one on Friday or Saturday. This was the first time we had sat them in front of the tv. Dominic I discovered really likes lil einsteins and he had already told us he likes sponge bob. Aallyiah on the other hand doesn't really care one way or the other about the tv and had more fun playing with different toys that were downstairs while I worked out.
After my workout I got things ready to go so Jimmy and I could have some mommy/son time going to Sam's Club and Wal-Mart. After getting lunch and putting the lil ones down for a nap he and I headed in and spent too much money but now have Jerry set for breakfasts, lunches and some family suppers along with getting more clothes, dishes, coloring books and colors for the kids. I couldn't believe how much I ended up having to get today, especially since we had already made a trip on Friday to get things.
So now I'm ready to get into bed and get some good sleep before I get up in the morning to try and get to work early because I've got to take my lunch a little later in order to come home and meet with our caseworker to find out what the plan is going to be and how long they think we will have our little joys with us. Along with that I'll be addressing several issues that have come up through the weekend. It'll be interesting to see how this new spin on our lives goes. Please keep us in your prayers as we are adjusting to this new change in our lives. Pray especially for Jerry as he's going to have a scheduled routine now Monday thru Friday. Hopefully I've helped to get it started for him because I tried to make sure I was feeding the kids and laying them down for naps at the same time the last two days. I figure that will help him keep things going. I asked if he needed me to make a menu up for him for lunches so he doesn't forget that they'll need a fruit and a veggie with whatever else he decides to feed them. LOL!! He thinks he'll do fine. I'm sure he will.
I'll try and blog more next Friday or Saturday after the next two weigh ins. Have a great week!!
Friday, January 2, 2009
Day 33
I'm so excited to blog today. We got back from Pierre late Tuesday afternoon. After dropping Jimmy off at a friends house to spend the night and then getting the van emptied out, we ran into town so I could weigh in. I was a bit concerned because I ended up cheating on what I was eating both Monday evening and Tuesday at lunch. Not too bad, but it was still cheating. We were coming home on Tuesday and stopped in O'Neill NE for lunch. The first thing we saw was a Taco John's and I thought that was the only choice. Little did I realize there were other choices down the same road, but I was fine with this one. I told Jerry that I was really tired of eating the same thing I'd been eating for the last 4 days, so I was going to order something there. I did order a taco salad with chicken, but also had 4 potato oles with nacho cheese and salsa. Ok, I know most of you are probably laughing saying 4 potato oles. But they tell us at the center than any little thing not on the diet can set us back 3 days.
After we ate Jessica said she was surprised that I didn't feel sick from eating the potato oles because I've been saying that whenever I smell anything deep fried, it makes me feel nauseous. I know it wasn't the potatoes that I was craving though, it was the nacho cheese sauce and the salsa. I got the craving out of the way by having 4 of the potatoes and I was satisfied. So we go to the center and Jessica went in with me to weigh in. We got Eric (the only guy consultant at the center) for my weigh in. As we sat down he asked how things were going and I said, I cheated, I don't feel guilty about it, and I'm ready to move on. He laughed and asked what happened. So I told him how we had been out of town and I had packed the same exact meals for lunch and supper for the previous 4 days, that I couldn't take anymore chicken and salad. Eric asked if I thought I'd have a problem getting back on the program, and I said no, I'm home now and I have everything here, plus I can get back into my routine. He was satisfied with the answer and then got a laugh out of Jessica saying, "I told mom not to cheat, and she didn't listen to me."
So we headed for the scale and I said, as long as I didn't gain anything I'll be happy. Well imagine my surprise when the scale said I lost a pound. I was so excited. So then we stopped to get bottled water for home and then came back home to make supper. Then we went into New Year's Eve and I did just fine, I even got my excercise going back really well again. I've been working out 45 minutes to an hour every day since then. It feels really good to be getting the workouts back in.
Yesterday was New Year's and the Huskers were playing so I did my work out during the first 1/2 of the game while watching it on the big screen with Jerry and Jessica. My mom even called while I was working out and said I sounded winded, then asked if I was working out. I said, yep, I sure am. I had made our traditional chili for the game and had decided that it should be ok to have a bowl at supper because the beans are on my list for a bread and I buy the leanest hamburger for the family. The only part that wasn't on my list of approved foods was the tomato juice and tomato puree.
So today I got up got going and did my work out. Then the kids came in with me to the center for my weigh in and some shopping. I was so ready to weigh in and see what I had lost since Tuesday and then also I asked to be measured because I've been doing the program for a little over a month now. I was very pleased to find out that I've lost another pound and a half so I'm at 16 1/2 lbs lost. After being measured I'm at 5 1/2 total inches lost. It's probably a little different than that because my waist measurement showed an inch and a half gain, but the consultant said she thinks it's because the consultant that measured me the first time didn't measure in the right spot. She measured me 3 times and said, that's not right, it's not possible for you to have gained inches. I wasn't too worried. It'll all keep coming off, and I'm excited for that. My BMI has also dropped 3 points. The scale has a computer program in it that measures all sorts of things with the weight, so it'll be great to watch the BMI drop too.
I hope everyone has had a great start to their New Years. Jessica took a picture of me so I'll post that to see if anyone can tell the difference from the last month.
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