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woot woot down 15!!!  I’m sure many of buddies figure I’d given up on this whole thing…rest assured that I haven’t.  I guess I’m just taking the slow and steady wins the race kind of attitude.  I also was without the computer for a bit due to….technical difficulties lol.  Here’s to new clothes by xmas

I don’t really have a whole bunch of time to write today, and now that I’m back from my vacay I really wanted to get writing more. lol.  SO I’m officially down 11 lbs!!!!! YES!  Although no one else has noticed yet, (and it’ll probably be a while) i do, and it’s fabulous.  :-)  I’m feeling much happier these days (go figure!) and feel more able to do the things i want to do.  Thanks to everyone here who has been such a great help and inspiration to me!

Hellooo people!  I’m finally back from the big race, and man alive, did I ever have a blast! AND I managed to lose a pound!  YAY!  Well, tomorrow I go back to the normal food at my house, and that whole regular excercise deal.  So wish me luck! Enough exclamation marks!?!?

Alrighty people, the last few days have been most excellent…. I’m down a total of 9lbs now.  WOO-HOO!  It’s exciting and kinda depressing at the same time; knowing that I have so far to go.  :-S  Anyway, tomorrow morning I’m heading out to my home town to help prepare for my auntie’s (and godmother’s) suprise 50th birthday.  We’re having a fiesta theme…as she L.O.V.E.S. tequila.  lol.  We’re having about 70 people so I will be cooking for them both thurs. and fri.  It’s gonna be hard to stay strong and on track!  I’m also supposed to go out with some of my old gal pals sat. night.  ey-yi-yi.  Why do I do this to myself?  Well, I’m just gonna hafta do my very best and not binge on the wonderful spread I’ll be making….right? 

It’s absolutely ridiculous but i am absolutely pooped..at 9pm so sad.  I had a seriously active day though.  My hubby and I spent the day in the hot hot sun (36c) in the bushes playing at a woodsball scenario game. (woodsball = paintball played in the bush)  I didn’t exactly eat properly today….i was told that there would be chicken burgers for lunch along with the hamburgers….but alas there wasn’t and the smell of that beef just about made me hurl…..I think it was the heat really.  Ah, well i sure drank a lot anyway.  Saturday was great too…my friend and I went and watched mamma mia….those songs are going to be stuck in my head for a long long time.  lol.  I’m thinking about weighing in tomorrow…but seeing that i seriously upped the water intake today I’m not sure if that would be a bright idea.  I hope everyone else had a fabulous weekend! 

I’m SO excited!  A friend that I haven’t seen in say…6 months is coming to visit me! I’m so happy that she’s coming.  She’s an inspiration to me; after her and her husband divorced when she was 7 months pregnant with their 2nd she’s lost over 50 lbs and doesn’t let anything get in her way.  She’s even become a successful reporter/photographer for a local paper.  I’ll be posting again sometime on Sunday.  Have a great weekend!

Yesterday night went alright…(liking the internal rhyme of that line…rofl)  Anyway we ended up stopping at my Mother-in-law’s house, which was ok because she was having grilled chicken breast burgers for supper…crisis averted.  Although I did indulge in a…errr…Smirnoff Ice afterward.  It was sooo good.  Again, I’m still within the cals i was supposed to be.  I’m completely petrified of going over!  The meeting went alright.  Aparently there are a bunch of Mexicans (15) who were paid to come up here to work at McDonalds (seriously?) that all want to volunteer to be either on the clean up crew or set up crew for 4 hr shift so they can get in for free…which is great aside from the remaining bit of a language barrier.  I guess we’ll cross that hurdle when we come to it.  OOO and I’m now down a total of 7 lbs….WOO!  (that will slow to the 2/3 lbs a week here really soon :-S )  Have a fabulous day people!

YAY I got through yesterday’s hunger without completely messing things up!  I had one extra snack that I didn’t plan on, but that handful of cripsy minis seemed to subdue my growling tummy.  I still stayed withing the cals that I was supposed to anyway…so that’s a good thing. Tonight we have to drive to our hometown to go to a meeting about a drag race event that we’re involved in.  (I’m singing the anthem and working the water box, hubby is running security, and my father in law is the site coordinator)  We expect around 250 racers plus ??? for the show n shine.  There will be jet cars, a semis, and a wheel stander…plus fireworks and drive in movie….it’s not exactly a small-town show anymore and requires a lot of prep work.  Anyway…the point is that we’ll have to grab something fast-food like after Lance gets off work…I’d have to make a smart choice and I’m not sure what exactly would be a smart choice (subway?).  The other option is to pack a sandwich or something, but that kinda sucks and I know I can’t always deprive myself of things like grabbing a bite to eat with my husband…I’ll fill you all in tomorrow afternoon about what happens…and as always suggestions are truly appreciated!

I am sooo hungry today!! I feel like I could wolf down the entire contents of my fridge!  I know I won’t because I’m way too impressed with those lost lbs to think about find them again.  Does anyone know of any low-cal snacks that they find filling? 

Well, I know I shouldn’t be too excited but according to my scale, as of this morning, I weigh 4 lbs less ..YAY!  Yep, probably just water weight…but I’m going to celebrate anyway.  The rest of yesterday went fairly good.  I ended up staying up fairly late…the power went out and I needed to reset my fish’s water filter when it went back on.  It was out for 2 hours until 1:30 in the am. I’m soo pooped out this morning it’s ridiculous.  My hubby gets up at 5:30 for work and I haven’t been able to sleep since; thus the reason I’m blogging so darn early.  I plan on walking that hound dog of mine for at least 1/2 hour today…maybe twice, he was really hyped up yesterday so I figure I should tire him out.