Yup yup! I’m 23 yall! Get excited! hahaha…not only is it my birthday day/week/month but I’ve also STAYED on points! woo hoo!

I know I haven’t posted in what seems like forever but I got sick So I wasn’t going into work (my prime time to use the computer - I hate messing with the computer when I get home because I am on it all day at work!) and I was sleeping a lot because I had a fever and my throat was killing me. Then I finally made it into Houston for doctor’s appointments and I am feeling better now and I am happy to report I had a lovely weekend in Galveston in the sun with a cool breeze with some of my BEST friends in the whole world! They planned a surprise early birthday celebration for me while we were down there and it was just so sweet. I am so blessed to have the people that are in my life!

But so due to the sickness and traveling between cities I wasn’t able to attend my meeting this past week but I’m pretty sure I’m still on track. There was a moment of slip up only because when I get sick and my throat hurts like it did, the ONLY thing that makes it feel better is eating because it like roughs it up so much that it doesn’t hurt…weird, I know…usually people lose weight when they are sick with a sore throat, I on the other hand have been known to gain weight while sick with a sore throat, haha. But like I said, I really don’t think I did myself any damage and as soon as I started feeling better my appetite went back to normal. Normal portion sizes, healthy food and being so busy and around such great people that I couldn’t eat out of sheer boredom. So I’m not complaining!

I am going to have to attend a different meeting time than normal this week and I haven’t figured out how to do that. My birthday is this Friday (I’m going to be 23!) and I usually go to meetings Friday after work. But we have dinner plans for Friday night soooo, I won’t be going to that meeting. The other one is usually Saturday morning but I don’t know that I will want to get up early to attend a meeting after a night of birthday celebration, lol. So hopefully, I can find a good time Thursday - I’m about to go look now - keep your fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’m not sure that I want to give up working out to go to a meeting (just because now that I am FINALLY able to work out again now that my fractured elbow is doing better, I just don’t want to miss any work outs because I already feel like I am behind). But I’ll do what I have to do to get into a meeting this week. I need them!

But I hope that everyone had a wonderful week last week, stayed within their points, got their exercise in and just had a nice week in general. I’ll be reading around today to catch up on yalls blogs - look out for some serious commentary! haha…I missed you guys! Have a great Monday!

Yes! Another solid week! AND I found a meeting that I enjoy a little better than last weeks - so it’s just a good day all around! Once again, great motivation to stay on track over the weekend. I hope that everyone has had successful weeks and that they have a strong weekend!

Also, y’all are all welcome for the Kashi link (y’all are so sweet to say thank you!), I sure hope everybody likes the snacks - although I don’t see how we couldn’t. Since we all probably got different products we’ll have to share with each other how they are!

 Finally - HOOK ‘EM HORNS!! We play TCU tonight and they are gunning for us! So we have to REALLY pull our game together. Get your horns up ladies and gentlemen!

Come again? lol…yes, it’s true! Kashi is giving away samples of their new snack food and I bet it’s going to be SUPER yummy…I got the dark chocolate oatmeal cookie…yumma! But I just thought I’d share…spreading the love…

http://www.kashi.com/outreach/snack_drive

Yeah, you heard me…late night pizza…my downfall last night. I came in late from a long night of karaoke - it’s been almost 6 hours since I’ve eaten anything and there it is, sitting on the kitchen table - dang it! I mean, it was cheese, medium crust and I only (haha, only) had two pieces but still! It shouldn’t have given in! And the frustrating part is that it shouldn’t have even been a temptation! I cooked chicken breast and rice for dinner last night and the roomie ordered pizza. That was fine, I had my chicken and rice, which I was really excited for (weird, I know). But nevertheless, I ate my chicken and she ate her pizza. All was well up until I was getting ready to leave for the evening and my roomie asks me if I want any pizza, and I firmly tell her “no thank you” and she taunts “even late night drunk pizza??” and I laugh a little and tell her, yeah of course it’d be great but no thank you. So she says she’s going to throw it away so she won’t eat it in the morning. Whew! Temptation gone! Or so I thought! I don’t know why she decided to not take the few steps to dump it into the garbage can, but she didn’t, she left it out for me to find coming in late and slightly intoxicated. Dang it!!

Granted, I totally can’t blame it on her because I opened the box, I picked it up and I ate it! But I wish it hadn’t even been there to begin with. I mean, in the long run I think it will be OK because I have it in my weekly allowance points to eat but I didn’t really want it! Oh well, it’s just one of those things I have to get over - it was SEVERAL 5 minutes ago, haha…so no use worrying about it now.

However, one last thing I will rant about. The new roomie swears she’s healthy - I see her food and it’s exactly the same stuff I eat - which I thought was going to be really nice - no temptations. But it seems like whenever we are together, she’s eating something unhealthy - like pizza! I don’t get it! I hope this doesn’t happen too often. I mean, I know I have it in me to resist but it would be nice to just not even have to face the temptation, you know? lol…oh well, such is life.

I hope everyone has a great day! 1.5 more days until the weekend, woo hoo!

Well ladies and gentlemen…I’ve finally done it….a progress pictures page. I debated on this for a while, just because I kind of like having my anonymity. However, I have come to a new understanding and acceptance of my past and present and hopefully what my future will look like, and I am no longer ashamed. I’m only stronger for having come as far as I have and I hope that no one would think any differently when they look at my photos. So go ahead and look if you are curious. Hopefully I will be adding some new pictures VERY soon!