weight loss

Like my mom said...putting your struggles even if they are about weight, on your blog keeps you accountable. Well after feeling hunger, yet knowing I ate plenty and enough all day, I weighed in at work (we have a large package scale) and I lost 4.6lbs! Holy cow! The last couple of weeks it just seemed like I was gaining and gaining and finally some results!

Weight Watchers

I'm sure many of you know what Weight Watchers is or at least have heard of it. Well I joined the online version. It is great! I don't have to go to meetings, and I love that. But the great thing about it is the features that the online version gives. I am able to look up any item and look up the points value and portion sizes and my favorite thing I can do is when I want to make something, say like chili or cookies, I am able to type in my recipe and it gives me the point values and the portion size. Wow! I know that a lot of times when you diet all you think about is food...is this ok?, did i eat too much today? But I am finding that if I plan ahead and stick with my meals and snacks for the day I don't have to worry about it again. I think the main thing that Weight Watchers does for me is makes me realize just how much I eat and what I should be eating instead. Right now I am just waiting for my stomach to get used to not eating such preposterous proportions. :) I will fill you in on my weekly weight loss.

smell

What is it about smell that can bring you back to specific places in your memory bank? Take tonight for example. I was organizing and cleaning up my desk space and everything that was on it, and at the same time I was burning one of those wax aroma things and all of the sudden I thought I was back in my apartment in Grandville. So crazy, and just this week I was in the tanning bed with the fan blowing on me and the combination of the "breeze" and the smell of my tanning lotion and the music playing put me right back on the cruise ship from 3 years ago. I don't know about any of you but there are certain smells that can bring me back to certain times. The certain smell of chlorine brings be back to water polo practices over 5 years ago, and the certain hairspray smell brings me back to camp AO-WA-KIYA, and that goes WAY back in the 'ole memory bank. It's crazy that I'll be right there right there again like it was yesterday. Do you have any smells that automatically put you in a certain place or time?

what a ham!

is this not the cutest picture??! she is so precious. I miss you baby girl. You are going to grow up a handful!

*************snowflakes***************

2 years

Happy Anniversary to me and jason!!! It's hard to believe that it has been 2 years already. And then on the other hand, it feels like 2 years ago was forever away. We are so blessed to have each other and the families that we "inherited." I kept thinking about all the wonderful things I was going to write about our last 2 years together....but it doesn't really matter now. What matters is that we loved and fought and made up, worked hard and sometimes not so hard to get to the place we are now. Jason and I are very happy with the paths we have taken since we started this journey together and we are very excited to see where the next path leads! Thank you to all of our family and friends that lent us an ear, cheered us up, encouraged us, commiserated with us, and most of all prayed for us. We would not be where we are if we had to do this all on our own. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!