knee pain

i'm having knee pain, they have always hurt they have been bad for years now, and at last dr. appt i was told i need both knees totally replaced. but the dr. wants to wait till i rech goal weight to do it. well here lately they have been hurting more then they have ever hurt. i'm having to use a cane and a walker to walk around...i've made another appt with the dr. thursday...i think they are hurting right now cause the weight i took off , i put some of it back on..they were really feeling better after losing weight..so dont let anyone ever tell you weight doesnt affect your joints, it does!

weight in update monday i weigh in and gained 4 pounds. i knew it was gonna be up. i had an issue with a chinese buffett. lol...i'm on track this week and my home scale shows down. plus i've been tacking raspberry ketones recommended by dr. oz. i'll let you know how they work! the only bad thing is my ww leader is leaving my monday meeting. she has gotten another job. which sucks shes the best so she only gonna do her sunday meeting in another part of town so im gonna travel the distance so i'll still have her as a leader.

weigh in report

weigh in monday! well warning i had another bad week this last week...i gained like 7 pounds...this week will be different. i got the meeting journal. whats that? well its a journal my leader passes around to one person each week to fill in the tracker all week long then you turn it in at the end of the week. and given to the next person to track. so im trying simply filling method.off to the store i go to buy a few items to make me last till i get paid later this week.

today im off to a good start my family took me to a buffet place and i stayed on track and eat better then i normally would. i use most of my 49 points but what the heck thats what there for.and then we went walking around stores for 2 hours. so i earned 16 activity points..

i saw a good inspriaration ideal, buy or use two glasses or bowls you have. buy some marbles or the glass rocks they use for flowers. and put in one dish the amount of marbles you need to lose...like me i need to lose 114 pounds so 114 marbles. then as you lose put one marble=1pd into the other dish..just a visual reminder on how many pounds youve lost.

better late then never weigh in report

i weigh in on sunday a day early due to a snow storm that was coming our way. i lost 7.6 pounds. happy dance. guess my once a month cooking is doing some good. snow storm came and went..we only got a inch or two. this week i'm on plan and praying for some sort of loss.havent been exercising, i know im a big ole slacker...i watched dr. oz awhile back and he was talking about raspberry ketones..they are supposed to help with fat burning. so i go to the health food store yesterday and they were out and 300 people on the waiting list. so i'm gonna have to wait a month or so to try it and see if it works.i found a goodd tv show on lifetime on wednesdays called my 600 pound life. lat night was great about a man who had once weight 715 pounds , he has gastric bypass and loses 467 pounds in 4 years..i realized after watching that if he can struggle with the the things he had to overcome to lose the weight i can do this!

weight in report..

today was weight in...i gained.. i've had a bad couple of weeks..i was dealing with my motivation. i had gotten to the point that i didnt care but i really did sounds strange i know.this weight loss stuff isnt easy! i need to fix my brain first then maybe the weight loss will fall into place.im on track now i did my whole once a month cooking again...this is what i cooked. i got the recipes off: http://www.onceamonthmom.com/
lunches:
chicken tortilla soup
black bean burgers
grilled ham and swiss on a diet
chilled chicken broccoli salad
Dinners:
chicken enchiladas
lasanga
pork chops and rice oven dinner
turkey meatloaf
skinny italian meatballs
crockpot honey dijon pork
chicken,sweet potato and butternut squash slow cooker recipe
Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken

cooked the other day and cooked half the meals now today i'll cook the rest and everything is in the freezer and ready to eat when ready.points are listed on each container...

a great bible study

i started thursday a bible study at church called the lord's table on weight management. how to crave god instead of food. so far so good, i love it. the website for it is: http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/courses/lords-table/

you can also go online and do the course online for free. and two books that can go along with this is made to crave, website with more info:http://madetocrave.org/
and hunger for god by john piper.

this last monday at weigh in i lost 1.5 pounds...great way to start the new year!!! now as far as this week we'll see if i can lose anything. i'm hoping at least an ounce or something.

goal by the end of the year

i decided to reach goal this year, which breaks down to 1.94 pounds a week for the rest of the year. and i'll hit it. my scale so far this week shows a 2 pound loss. so far so good. its been a rough week but i'm hanging in there, and sticking to plan a well as possible. i'm gonna make this...its gonna be one day at a time but i'm gonna make it.

a new year

its a new year! and i'm ready for it. i started back on plan on the 1st and plan to follow plan till i reach goal, which is about 103 pounds. i can pull it off! i've got the power to do this!!!i believe! christmas and new years was great! with all the eating i did i only gained 7 pounds in the couple weeks i was gone. i was proud of my self for not doing so bad, as i thought i would.this week im in for a loss! this is gonna be short for this post more to come later...