Quick Update

For those of you who follow my blog and not my facebook I have lost another 5 Pounds this week so thats a total of 18 POUNDS!!!! Can you tell Im Excited???!!!!

Slacking

Im so sorry my friends for not blogging for so long I have been busy with the new job and trying not to think about food! LOL. It has been a crazy 3 weeks I have been on this great new diet called Medifast Fit for Life. It is AMAIZING!! I absolutly love it I have lost 13 pounds so far and tomorow marks another week so we will see how much I add to tally. Hopefully its a loss instead of a gain but i guess you never know ;) I actualy wanted to share with you some things that I have learned from this new life stile I am living. 1st and very most Important I AM STRONG! I have learned that I am stronger then food. What use to be an addiction is becoming something way more manageable. Dont get me wrong I have cravings for sure but I dont have to give into them. There is so much power in saying no when yes is the easy answer. There is so much power in thinking it thru instead of the tastes good now feel sorry later philosiphy. And there is so much power in knowing that if I can over come a food adiction that has plagued me for years there is no reason why I cant overcome anything else in my life. Lesson # 2 KNOWING THAT I AM MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN NOT JUST MY LIFE BUT THE LIFE OF MY HUSBAND AND MY CHILDREN! How sad would I be if I couldnt chase after my kids when they wanted to play? what kind of example of healthy eating would I set for them if I ate poorly and expected them to eat different? What kind of wife am I when I cant go on a hike or a walk or take the stairs or do any kind of physical activity with my husband? What am I missing out on by keeping on the weight? Is Mac and Cheese honestly worth loosing all that. and Harsh reality # 3 what kind of Wife and Mother would I be if I died of heart diseese at the age of 50 and left my children and my husband alone! Mac and Cheese and Mashed Potatoes definatly dont seem worth it! I am loving being healthy I am loving not being sick after I eat and I love the Idea of being around with all the people I love! Lesson # 3 I DONT HAVE TO EMOTIONALY EAT! Have you ever noticed how much of our socioty revolves around food?! Its really quite rediculous actualy. It reminds me of the scene in over the hedge where Rj is talking to the others about human food and how the humans lives revolve around it. What I am learning to do is find other things to do other then eating for emotinal reasons. I dont have to cut myself off from the world just because I want to eat better. Im just being smarter about the foods that I eat. Instead of mashed potatoes I have califlower instead of gravy I use seasonings I watch my portion size. I really dont feel any more or less left out of the fun or the conversation because someone is eating more or startchier foods then me. Im learning to eat to live not live to eat. I feel great about my progress and I feel great that people notice it. I hope that I will have the streangth to continue on until I reach my goal! Thank you for all your love and support! Much Love !!!!!!!