Here it is the day before Thanksgiving and I'm working on getting ready to have a large crowd of my very much loved family over tomorrow for the big day. As I ponder all the wonderful food that will be brought here, I think about what I can do to continue on this weight loss journey and not go overboard with the eating. The difference this time with losing weight has been the exercise and during this very busy season, that's the one thing that I can control for myself: making time for daily exercise. That's my goal: getting it in somehow no matter how crazy my schedule gets. I want to lose weight during the holidays, even if it's just one pound!! I pray that tomorrow will be a wonderful time of connecting with family, of counting our many blessings, of remembering our brave troops, and for praising our Holy God who is still in control of this mixed up world.

YES!! I reached a personal goal today at WW!! I hit the 20 pound mark and went beyond. My total weight loss is now 20.2 pounds. I am really motivated to continue my weight loss during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I love the holiday season, but I am starting to get that feeling that all mom's get with all that we have to do at this time of year. Thanksgiving is next week and we get to have all our family over for the big meal except for a precious few that can't come in from out of town. I am learning to take some deep breaths and spend some time daily asking God to give me peace and joy instead of stress and exhaustion. After all, let's put things in perspective---why are we celebrating anyway? I have committed to continuing the working out exercise during the next few weeks when it would be easy to let that go, but my trainer has not let up!! I look forward to WW weigh-in tomorrow and am in hopes that I will reach or even exceed the 20 pound loss mark.

As I lose the weight toward my extreme makeover, I'm also starting to do some other things toward that goal. Yesterday, I got a new haircut, color, and hair thickening treatment and I love it! I had a trim a couple of weeks ago, but this was an all day "transform me" kind of thing. Just doing that made me feel really good and gives me motivation to continue the hard work I have to do to get to my weight loss goal. More improvements later.............

Weigh in day and I lost 1.4 pounds for a total of 19.2 pounds. I look forward to hitting 20, hopefully next week!!

Just came back from a wonderful workout and I feel great. I always put those workouts off, but then feel so good when I finally go. Why is that? Hmmmmm...something to think about. Tomorrow is weigh in and I look forward to checking my progress.

After a fun getaway weekend of celebrating my sister's birthday and a tiny bit of overindulgence, I am determined to be extra vigilant about staying within my WW points and working out daily. I have a special goal I want to get to by Thursday which is my next weigh-in! Weigh-ins aren't everything, but they do give me a good idea of how I'm doing with this makeover journey and they do measure my success somewhat. I haven't always liked weigh-in days, but I sure do now that I'm on a roll with working out and staying within my WW points most of the time!!

I've had a great week with WW points and food choices and also getting in my exercise. Today was weigh in at WW and I LOST 2 POUNDS FOR A TOTAL OF 17.8 POUNDS LOST!!!! I seem to be stuck on losing 2 per week---I'll take that! Maybe next week, I can break the 20 pound mark.