Weigh in...

344.1!!!!! Yay!! that is 22lbs in 21days!!! I am so excited and feel so good!!

I told a lady at church about Allan and the challenge and gave her a copy of the eating plan and exercise, I really hope that she decides to do it with me. She is such a wonderful person. She needs someone to share a plan with.

Later, gator!!

Weigh in...

I am excited about tomorrow's weigh in! I have done really well this week!

Fast is over in the am, so I can have meat, bread and sweets again! Yay! But guess what! No sweets still. I am sticking to this!!! I have started buying some organic produce and eggs. I wish I could afford the organic meat, but can't. I am really looking forward to some Tilapia. I put Zataran's Creole Seasoning in it and then saute it in a pan with a small pat of butter and then a squeeze of lemon juice when done. Yummy!!! Nix on the butter now, I will use some butter flavored Pam instead. I make shrimp sorta the same way, but add a clove of minced garlic to the butter and then add the shrimp that I have sprinkled with Z and then finish with a squeeze of lemon. I will have to check to see if this is in the plan. Since I haven't had any meat for the same three weeks I have been in the challenge as I have been on the fast, I don't know what meats/seafood are allowed. I know Allan eats shrimp a good bit, so my fingers are crossed!

Had a great day today with Izzy and C3. Went to the Trolley Stop Cafe and shopped around a little. They didn't have as much as I thought they would, but the people were awesome and the food smelled divine!! They have plate lunch specials everyday and they post them on facebook. They also sell crafts, organic food items, organic meat, milk (raw), goat milk, several cheeses... I got a menu and C3 and I plan to go next Saturday for lunch. They have pimento cheese burgers, those sound so good! But that is not what I will be having, probably a salad. I haven't really looked at the menu thoroughly yet.

Well, I'm off to bed, singing again tomorrow so I have to be at church by 7:45, did I mention that it is a 30 minute drive to our church and that I get up earlier for church than I do for work?? Work is 4.5 miles away and church is 26 miles away, but I love our church!!!

'Night y'all!!

Tomorrow...

Going to Trolley Stop Market tomorrow. They have a farmers market there that Wild Wind Farms delivers to. Wild Wind has all organic produce, dairy and meat. I thought I would go check it out. Trolley Stop also has a cafe there and it sounds really good. I thought Isabella, C3 and I would go and have lunch and then shop. They are on facebook if anyone is interested in looking. I watched Food, Inc the other night and it was very disturbing how most of our food is controlled by a handful of companies. Do you know that it is against the law to talk bad about beef? Oprah was sued because she made a comment on her show about not wanting to have hamburgers anymore. There is something wrong with that and how "big" business has so much power.

Do you remember the e-coli incident at Jack in the Box years ago? The 2 yr old boy that died during that time, his mother is now an advocate for more safety regulations for meat. The interviewer asked her what had changed about her eating of hamburgers and she wouldn't answer. She was obviously afraid of saying anything about whether she still ate beef. So sad and scary. What happened to the 1st Amendment?

Ate good today, stayed under 1200 calories and went walking with the hubby.

One more day of the Daniel's Fast. Thank God, I miss meat.

Good day...

Today turned out to be a good day. Work was busy with the new phones...having to answer both phones until line 1 would forward over to the new phone, didn't happen before I left but hopefully it will in the morning. Felt good all day, no headache. It's been a while since I could say that. I've been fighting a sinus infection since Oct and just finished my 3rd round of antibiotics, I think this time it is finally licked.

Great day food wise. Ended up with exactly 1200 calories for the day. Not enough water, though. Good, brisk walk with Ginger. Can't do the stair exercise yet, knees won't tolerate it. Maybe when I weigh less.

Had worship practice tonight, it went really well. Went through all the songs just one time! Normally we do each one at least twice, but there were no new songs tonight.

Night y'all!

Busy, busy, busy...

It has been crazy busy at work this week!! We've gotten a new phone system and we are still trying to switch everything over from ATT to the HD voice phones that we now have. Still trying to work out all the bugs.

Weight loss is going great! Down to 347, following the plan, but slacking some on the walking. We have had snow 3 times in the last 2 1/2 weeks which is unheard of for Memphis. My husband says that it is "Butt crack cold outside". I just don't get that phrase...

Had 2 scrambled eggs for breakfast and now some baby carrots to munch on. It's funny how now they taste kind of sweet since I haven't had any sugar for 3 weeks.

Later...

Sorry...

I didn't post yesterday. Was a crazy busy day. Had to pick up a friend of my daughter's on the way to church at 7:15, be at church for worship team practice at 7:45, then church at 9 am and 10:45, done, dropped off and home at 1. Lunch at 2, then a marriage class at church at 4, back home at 6:30. Then crash!! Ate a salad and then off to bed.

Today was better, work was busy. Then I went to a friend's house and cut her hair for her. Back in the day, I went to beauty school, gradutated and then went back and taught for 3 1/2 years, we moved to Memphis and I worked in a Supercuts and then later a Fantastic Sam's. In a totally different field now. Insurance. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

Hubby and I went to see Faster tonight. It was ok, a revenge movie. It had "The Rock" in it and since huddy is a die hard wrestling fan, he was all for it. Not too bad for an action flick but not really my cup of tea. I did well though, we went to Taco Bell and bought him some food to smuggle into the movie and I got a water. No mex, no popcorn...just water.

Didn't weigh today, since weigh in was yesterday. I get too ticked off when I get on the scale and it doesn't go down or if I gain a little because of water. I don't want to get discouraged like I have in the past and give up. So, I will try to weigh only a couple of times a week instead of every day.

Allan posted the percentages today and I have lost 3.8% of my body weight, sweet. No award this week though other than the weight lose which is nothing to complain about.

Check out the top of my blog where the title is. I was reading my bible last night and found a scripture that backs up Allan's theory regarding food...it is food and then it is poop! Funny!!

'Night y'all

Wonderful...

Today has been wonderful!! Isabella was an angel!

A friend of mine that I have not seen in almost a year, came over today. She takes care of her elderly parents and has trouble getting away. We got to spend a couple of hours together and it was great seeing her. She, C3, Izzy and I went to do some shopping at Walmart. Got more veggies and fruit, and some food for C3 to take to C1's house. She is going to be babysitting there this week while C1's hubbie is off doing his class for the National Guard. He will be gone for a week and since C1 works at night, she needs someone at the house to take care of Izzy. C3 is doing our fast but C1 is not, so she has no fast friendly foods.

I call my children C1, C2 and C3, not to keep their identities a secret, but because my sister came up with the short hand names for them when we email each other.

C1 is Christian, 21 yr old mother of Isabella and wife of Charles.
C2 is Christopher, 19 yr old son, my favorite pain in the ass, love him like crazy but he pushes my buttons like nobody's business!
C3 is Christina, 16 yr old Goth diva, not goth in attitude but she likes black polish and dark make-up, but one of the most loving, giving people you would ever want to meet.

See why we use the numbers? All the Chris's makes it hard to come up with nicknames!! We tried tian (chin), pher and tina, Tina is the only one to stick!!

Can't wait for tomorrow's weigh in! I have a good feeling about it! I can't get over how much I have lost in 2 weeks! It's crazy and so far has not been that hard. Maybe because I have changed my mind set about food. I love what Allan says "It's food...and then it's poop". Priceless! Talk about perspective!

Well, I am off to bed. Hubby and I are both singing in the Worship team tomorrow and we have to be at church at 7:45 for practice.

'Night all!!