Update on the family

Everyone is doing great....happy, healthy, growing (except Mama and Papa, we're shrinking!), learning so much....Yah is so GOOD to us!!! \o/

Jonathan and Jacob will no longer be in Boy/Cub Scouts because of their policy change, but they will still do something. Jayla just started dance again last week. Jack is doing well in speech and will start horse riding therapy again in a few weeks. Joe is talking like crazy and loves his baby sister so much! And Jessica is always wanting to eat and always wanting Mama. :)

They all (except Jessi) just entered some crafts in the county fair. Jonathan won 2nd place on his set of tzitziot. Jayla won 3 2nd place ribbons on art made from nature, decoupage and a felt house/yard. Jacob won 2nd on his Lego racecar and 3rd on his decoupage. Jack won 2nd on his decoupage. Joe won 2nd on his Lego racecar and 1st on his decoupage! The only ones competing against each other were Jack and Joe with their decoupage. The only items that did not place in the top 3 were Jonathan's drawing and 3 more crafts by Jayla; a Lego rescue boat, a bead bracelet and a quilt she made for my mom. Now, this quilt was entirely her own work, and she did an excellent job, but they never unfolded it to look at it!!!! In fact, it was folded to where you could only see the back side of it! So she was pretty upset about that, but Grandma still has a quilt from her that she will cherish, and I'm sure Jayla will get it back someday.

Weight loss update

I am 9 weeks into my weight loss journey. I haven't stayed perfectly on plan, so the weight has been coming off much slower, but this past week I resolved to do better, and it paid off. I lost 4 pounds this past week!!!! I am getting close to the 20 pound mark, finally, so with no more cheating, I am hoping to reach that by next week. Yay!!!!

I have to say, the idea that fat people eat too much is sooooo blown out of the water! I wasn't eating ENOUGH or often enough, so my metabolism was slow. Now I am eating every 3-4 hours, am hungry all the time, exercise very little and the fat is melting away. I can lose 2 pounds in one day some days, when I stick to the plan, and eating more often is key for me.

Here is a side by side comparison of my face before starting THM at my highest (non-pregnancy) weight ever, and again at 5 weeks. I had lost around 15 pounds at this point. It's not a drastic change, but I can see a difference!!!

Update on weight loss

Apparently that big, sudden drop in weight was not accurate. It jumped right back to where it was, then I have slowly been losing since then, so I guess the scale was having a bad day!

But I am HAPPY to report a total loss of 14.2 pounds for my first month!!! I was hoping for more, but with all the little cheats I've had here and there, I am good with that! And I am losing at a steady pace, regardless of the occasional cheats, so I feel really good about it!

I'm not sure if I'll take pictures or not. Maybe just for my own viewing, we'll see, but I will definitely post some more updated pictures in the near future.