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Christmas has come and gone.  I wont go on and on about how terrible I was eating all that Christmas Fun.  I am not proud of some of the days that I went overboard, and I'm not proud that I will not make my January 2nd goal of being 199 pounds, but I am proud of one thing.....I am proud of the fact that I jumped back on track on Monday.  Usually I let my eating continue until after the New Year begins, thinking, in my own twisted way, that I will never eat chocolate again, so I'm going to eat as much as I can right now and "start January 1st".  I didn't do that.  This is a first.  I broke the chain, and I am damn proud!  Now, please let me get through New Years!!  :) Here are a few moments of our Christmas Season.... This first one is from my Sister Connie's birthday celebration :)   My Mom, my SIL Julie,  Connie, Me, my SIL Steph,  and my daughter Blayne :) One of our traditions is to go on a Santa Walk on Christmas Eve.  Usually we

I really am still here!  So sorry I have been missing for a while.  Things are not really hectic here, I've just been busy with work and family stuff, so finding "me time" to blog his just been put on the back burner. Anyway, not much has been going on really.  Like I said, we've been working a lot.  Our customers like getting their "babies" pretty for Santa, so we like to get as many of them in as possible!! I'm finally finished with my shopping and wrapping.  I still have a few cookies to make, but the ingredients are bought so that's half the battle! This past Friday I went to my WW meeting. I am down 3.6 pounds.  But don't forget, I had that big gain last week, so I am still off track from my plan for December, but at least this week I lost some, so I will take it :)    WW has made some changes to their plan.  These are pretty big changes.  Some of my WW friends are pretty negative about it.  Honestly, I was super mad and hes

Friday was my weigh in day.  I am up for the first time since I began WW.  Up almost 6 pounds.  I know what happened.  I was off with my tracking, so I know I went over my points some days.  Well, that and the fact that I have been "flying to close to the sun" with some yummy Christmas chocolates and that darn Holiday Creamer.   I just love how my body relates to food.  I'm not going to let this get to me.  After my meeting, I so badly wanted to wallow in my gain, feel bad for myself, and head on over to Taco Bell and get something cheesy and oh so bad for me, but I stopped.  I told myself, "you're up 5 plus pounds....you did it, so own it, and move on."   So, I am.  I'm owning it by tell you all about it.   Putting it out there gives me the strength I need to get back on track instead of turning to the self sabotage actions that I usually turn to.  Our weight loss journeys are full of ups and downs.  It's the downs that we don't like to tal

My daughter Blayne and I recently took a trip to an old campground which we used to camp at.  It sadly is closed now due to lack of funding from the State.  My sister and I, every year used to take all of the kids camping.  We started this when her son was 2 and my youngest Dominic was 3.  My two older kids would always bring a friend.  No husbands.  One week.  Fun memories!  First we started with tent camping.  In the beginning it was hard with they boys being so little.  Diapers, pull-up, juice, treats, food, binky's, toys!   After a few years of this, we moved to a campground that had better bike paths, because, by then the younger boys were riding bike a lot more.  That's when Greg bought me a pop-up camper!   Oh the luxury!   We stayed here for many years.  My daughter even made friends with a lot of kids there, and would coordinate it so they would all be there at the same time.  They kept these friendships for years after we stopped.  After my older kids were to busy wit

Today was my weigh in day at WW.  Remember, last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, I took advantage of the Free No Weigh In Pass at my meeting, so as per their scale, I didn't know how much I had gained over the holiday's and beyond, (Remember that I continued my holiday eating until Sunday?  Yeah!).  Anyway, I had stepped on my scale at home, which I hadn't used since for about 6 weeks, since I started WW, and I was up close to 8 lbs.  I stuck to my point the rest of the week and at my meeting today I was super happy because I only showed a gain of .6 pounds! Even tho it look me a few extra days I am proud of myself for getting back on track after Thanksgiving.  I used to extend my eating frenzy  a week or more. So that is one thing that is changing! So...a few thing about this past week....I get that if I would have gone back on track the Friday of my meeting, I would have done so much better.  I wouldn't have wasted one week.  I mean, I went to the meeting.

Happy December 1st!!  We have a little tradition in our family that my mom started a long time ago. We celebrate December 1st.  We usually buy little gifts for each other, go shopping and or go out to lunch to celebrate!  Since we don't work on Mondays, we decided to celebrate yesterday, so Blayne took the day off work for all the fun!  We went shopping and out to lunch!  We  had a fun day celebrating December 1st.  I guess we just do this to acknowledge that it is finally December and that it's the beginning of all the fun and love that December brings :) My first Peppermint Mocha of the season!! Non Fat, No Whip.... 8 points?!  Is that right?? This may be my last ;) A fun early Christmas present to myself!! Everyone needs a new fun Christmas tumbler!! Yes, I have an obsession with cups and mugs,  but isn't this super pretty!? This is a cute lantern that Blayne made me for a December 1st present!!  I'll show all 4 sides because she