Week Forty-Nine

Not good, not good at all. I weighed 170.8 yesterday morning, and that was before Christmas dinner! I have not weighed myself since and refuse to until next week. It will be one year since i started this blog in three weeks. On one hand I am really proud of myself for all the weight I have lost, but I will not reach my goal. I am definitely going to have to regroup almost as if I am starting all over again. I know everybody slips once in a while but I also know how easy it is to slip into old behavours and before you realize it you're back where you started.

On a lighter note, yesterday was Christmas and the food was fantastic. I got some great gifts. Some of the highlights were my son Brandon gave me a gift card from Barnes and Nobel and a heated neck massager and Brittany got me a certificate for a mani pedi and a wooden recipe box with my name engraved in it and personalized recipe cards. Ayden had a blast opening all his present at his moms and then here. His favorite was the motorized police car Mark bought him. Later we watched a movie and played games. A good time was had by all. Mark had to fly back to base on Christmas day so I'm sure it was bittersweet for Brittany.

I also wanted to mention that Brandon quit smoking about three weeks ago and is doing great.

Week Forty-Eight

I was 169 even this morning. These holidays are killing me. At this point I'm just trying to make it through without gaining a lot. I did make it into the gym three days this week. But, unfortunately Brittany came over last night and we made Christmas cookies. Yeah I have eaten a few.

Today we decorated the sugar cookies and we didn't hear Ayden for a minute. We called him and he came in with green hands. He had gotten into the food coloring. He dumped them all over in the laundry room. What a mess! I still haven't gotten the tree up yet so I really have to do that tomorrow.

I heard from an old friend on Facebook recently. That was nice. Apparently she has lost a quite a bit of weight too. I guess it's the thing to do.

Week Forty-Seven

I weighed 168.4 yesterday. Of course the day before I was 167.8. Friday we went to my office Christmas party. We had it at my coworker Betsy's house. It was fun. She has nice home. Ayden had fun playing with the other kids and Brandon had fun at the open bar. Everyone brought a dish and the food was fantastic. I brought BBQ pulled pork. Someone brought these awesome cheese stuffed dates wrapped in Bacon. I think I liked those too much. That and the chicken wing dip. Ughhh. Oh well nobody said it was going to be easy.

Week Forty-Six

Busy with a lot of cooking and baking last week for Thanksgiving. A lot of eating too and I put on about 4 pounds. Boy that went back on quick! I didn't make it into the gym at all. I did better this past week and I'm back down to 168.6 today. I lost some ground and it was scarry. I thought I was going to start plummeting upward out of control. Now I am even more concerned about Christmas and parties. Its going to be hard. I certainly need to have a better plan.

I have done some of my Christmas shopping and hope to have the rest done in a couple days. I also bought myself some new clothes which I desperately needed. Now I need to get a winter coat and boots. Me and Brittany went shopping a couple times for her dress, then shoes, clutch and a pretty necklace. She will be leaving on Thursday for Georgia to go to a ball with Mark and I will be watching Ayden for a few days.