What is your goal?

Around this time of year, it is always hard to lose weight.  In fact, most people probably gain a little bit of weight during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.  Especially since any given person usually goes somewhere for the holidays at least twice for the same holiday. When my side of the family did Thanksgiving, tradition was that it would be on Thanksgiving day and around lunch time.  Which was normally 2 in the afternoon.  Late lunch huh?  Then about 3 or 4 hours later, we are headed to Brad's parents for their Thanksgiving.  By the end of the day, I was so tired and full that I believed that I could go a couple of days without eating and be completely ok with it.

This is where meeting your goal can be hard.  You want to eat what everyone else is eating.  You want the same size pie, same amount of gravy and mashed potatoes or another roll or two. I am so close to my goal weight right now that honestly I am worried about the holidays.  I know that I will more than likely go a little overboard with my food choices. I am going to try my best but not everywhere that we go will have healthy options.  It is going to be hard to stay on track.  Since we are going to do something small at our house on Thanksgiving day with a little more healthier options, we are going to adjust our eating plan.

Instead of having our free day on Sunday this next week, we are going to move it to Saturday.  This is when our Thanksgiving is going to take place.  We will still have to watch what we eat but it won't be as bad.  We are hoping that the holiday season won't cause us to gain any weight.  We will just have to wait and see. 

Now on to this last week.  We have had a little bit of a slow week.  Mainly for Brad.  I believe that he would have lost more weight than what he did if he didn't have his meal at work.  We have both have learned that since we have changed the way that we have been eating that it doesn't take long for us to be full.  Isn't that crazy? 

Above is a picture of Brad.  To date, he has lost almost 25 pounds!!  I am so incredibly proud of this man.  He has been such an amazing husband in the years that we have married and especially in the last couple of years.  I am amazed at this man everyday and couldn't ask for anyone better.

Above is a picture of me.  To date, I have lost almost 14 pounds.  I have a little over 11 pounds before I hit my goal and I honestly never thought that I would see this day come.  I got up to highest weight of 194 in January 2011 and have been working out for almost 5 years.  There's been times that I have put on more weight and then had to lose it again.  That time was so aggravating but now I am on the right track and can't wait to be able to share with you the day that I am FINALLY able to share with y'all that I have hit my goal weight.

Thank y'all for staying tuned and supporting us in our weight loss journey.  Until the next time.