Denise & her family were home before Thanksgiving so I spent Wednesday - Saturday of last week with them. We took the girls to go see Disney's Frozen (great movie, by the way!), we had a small little Thanksgiving dinner, Denise & I braved the crazy Black Friday shopping, we had an after-Thanksgiving dinner get-together with the rest of the family Friday when they got home from Hawaii, and Saturday I bought my new Christmas tree!! It has been a REALLY busy, REALLY crazy, REALLY fun two weeks!! I hope that everyone reading had a great Thanksgiving as well and had fun with their families for the beginning of this holiday season!!
I have done pretty good the past two weeks with my diet ... I am now at 37 lbs lost! Yay! I've experienced a little bit of problems ... some regurgitation of my food because I've eaten too fast or taken too big of a bite. I have to remember to slow down sometimes and well, I'm not a patient person - so I just don't do it every once in a while. It's not a comfortable thing and it pretty much kills me when it happens, but I'm getting better and learning. I have added in some exercise ... but not too much. I had actually been doing more prior to about a month ago - that's when I got a really awful cold and my breathing became really bad. Every time I ride my bike or walk for too long, I get very winded and wheezy. It has gotten quite a bit better the past few days, so I'm hoping that I can pick back up in the next day or so. I feel so much better when I am able to exercise and I feel like I'm doing more to help myself. Oh ... and just so everyone knows ... we did GREAT with the Thanksgiving dinner this year!! Since it was just me and Denise's family (as seen above - aren't they a great looking group!?!) ... we decided we'd keep it very small and simple. We had a smoked turkey that one of the men who goes to church with Denise & Jeremy did up for us ... it was DELICIOUS! Denise made a broccoli/cheese/rice casserole, green beans, carrots, salad and cranberry sauce. That was it. We didn't have rolls or any other kind of bread and the only sweets that we had were mini-Chocolate cupcakes (made the WW way!). Now ... my mom did get home on Friday and it was requested that she make her apple pie (it's just not a family holiday without it!). I was really good though and I had two little bitty slivers and I didn't eat much of the crust. I'm sure that made everyone else happy because it left more for them ... but it was totally enough to make me happy that I got a taste of my favorite dessert!! (and it wasn't a huge slip from all my good eating!)
Okay - I promise I'll try to be better at keeping you all updated! I'll post some Christmas decoration pictures later this week. Eventually I'll get someone to take a decent picture of me so I can post it on here ... I'm not great at the selfie!! Maybe I'll get someone to take one of me & Rascal in front of our tree this year!! We'll see!! Thanks for reading!
You are doing great especially since it is the Thanksgiving & Christmas season! Keep up the great work!
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