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 Top O'the Morning to ya!

Happy St. Patricks Day

Weighed in this morning! I lost 4 lbs. this week. Not as much as last week, but I WILL TAKE IT! I started to walk at the park for 2 miles on Thur & Fri. I am going to try to make it my goal to walk it every day after I put my son on the bus. I know I just got a gym membership, but my car will not be fixed until Wednesday of next week so for now the park will have to do. Who knows, I just might walk 2miles in the morning and go to the gym at night to walk another 2 miles and do some light lifting after the car is fixed. My husband has been going to the gym this whole week and already lost 6 lbs. ANNOYING! Men don't have to do much, the lbs. just fall off. Women on the other hand have to give up the Oreos, chips, and sacrifice a small lamb just to lose 2 lbs. and keep it off. Not fair! WAHH WAHH!

So Sad

I am still doing good with sticking to the plan. I do find myself cheating by eating another medifast meal 2 hours after my last meal, which I hope I will stop doing soon! It stinks! I looked online though at the medifast forum and some people will have a WHOLE CHEAT DAY! I'm like WHAAAAT! I can't do that because then I'll try to justify in my mind why not 2 cheat days, then 3, then let's just cheat till I'm fat again. And that is a serious no, no. I'm not saying cheat days are stupid, I'm just saying for me and at the stage I am at with this diet a cheat day is not an option for me. Maybe when I get all my crap together and reach my goal weight, then I can investigate more of this cheat day they speak of :)

My healthy lunch I made for the kids!
Veggie burger on Whole Wheat bread w/broccoli & asparagus.

I should just focus on the positive of even though I'm cheating, I'm not eating normal fatty foods. I am proud of myself in that way. Oh, but THE MOST PROUDEST I have been is this for the past 6 days I have cooked nothing, but HEALTHY food for my kids! With every meal, with the exception of breakfast, I have been cooking fresh vegetables. For breakfast they do get a serving of fruit and over all their portions have been significantly smaller. They are in the habit of still being hungry, but I tell them go play and if they come back to me still hungry I give them a snack of fruit or crackers. It's not as hard as I thought it was going to be to keep them on this. I just pray that I can build some good eating habits for them. My husband has cut his eating this week as well!

 I am just happy we are doing SOMETHING about the way we are eating. It's weird because I was talking with my husband last night and he was saying we are saving SO much money right now. Well he said besides me not eating tons *shame* our grocery bill has gone down because of me and plus the smaller portions we are cooking. The 2nd thing is we are NOT eating out as much because I keep cooking healthy for them. And the gas it takes for us to shop/go out to eat is smaller as well. He actually said, "I can't even tell we are paying for the diet because we are saving so much from every where else". I was WAY excited to hear that.

We usually do most of our shopping for produce/fruits at Costco because it seems fresher and since I'm cooking more veggies now, we need it in bulk. Before we would shop at Winco & Walmart. Sometimes Maceys & Smith, but each grocery store to find certain cheaper items. It was exhausting. lol

My last Costco goodies stash!

I know, I'm all over the place with this entry and not even thinking much before I'm typing, but another thing has changed! My skin & hair! Before I started this diet, my skin was very discolored, dry, and I felt like I was looking so tore up and old. My hair was falling out and thinning in the front. I just noticed last night looking in the mirror that my hair is FULL! It hasn't been falling out when I brush it. My skin looks hydrated. Hydrated is the first word that came to mind because it's more smooth and I feel like I don't look tired & tore up. I don't put make up on every day because c'mon. 5 kids remember. Before I would wake up because one of the kids was crying or my alarm is blaring. Now I wake up before the alarm feeling refreshed. It's amazing to say the least.

Now what does that mean? Am I trying to sell you Medifast? NO! I'm trying to sell you on YOUR OWN HEALTH! I've wasted too much time feeling like crap, waking up dreading the days, and all around feeling like it was all too much. And by all means, I'm not saying after 2 weeks I have it all figured out. What I'm saying is, FOR ME, it was about damn time. I got a wake up call and I'm answering it full force. I'm inspired because I know this change in my life has to come about with my attitude first. It's like what I believe in. If I trust in the Lord, all else will fall into place. I didn't go into this journey without consulting my Heavenly Father for strength first. All right. I will lay off the heavy for now, but just wanted to share that with every one this morning. Wish me luck the rest of this week. I know I can conquer this bad habit and replace it with good ones. Not only for myself, but for my family.