LeslieLee

Good morning to me,

Busy week here for me, lots of running around and cleaning. I finally decided to clean out my kitchen and do a bit of moving things around. It took me most of the day but I think I am happier now with how my kitchen works. I even moved the flippen fridge. That thing is way to big!! Sure makes a difference having it moved to the other side of the little room...lol I had been wanting to do that for years but just never bothered till this week. It is funny how the layout of a kitchen can really effect a person, at least it really effected me. I hated my kitchen, I have one tiny drawer and very little cupboard space, but a wonderful big window that faces into the backyard! Which apparently sold me when we looked at this house because I never even noticed the down falls of the rest of the kitchen, I was too busy looking out the window to the yard!!

I really didn't enjoy cooking in there and so a lot of meals were not well thought out and were fast and easy things. While I was cleaning out the cupboards I found things that were expired for years! 2004 for gosh sakes! Crazy!! There is also no room for a table and chairs so every meal had to be eaten in the dining room or the family room in front of the TV. Not the best at all. Looking back I can see where a few bad habits got their start.

I have wanted to remodel the kitchen for years too but it isn't looking all that promising. Very difficult to get anyone what with the housing boom here. So for now changing things around will have to do! I think it will be a bit better at least.

I lost 2 pounds this week and that was so nice to see. It is a bit of a slow go for me. I wish I could still lose like I did when I was in my 20's lol afterall I still feel 20, most days .... well in my head I do anyway. I guess my poor old system is all messed up after so many years of yo-yoing. I wish there was no such thing as losing and regaining and adding more and more with each new diet.

I think the band is saving my life right now. With all the changes going on, mostly empty nest stuff I could easily be gaining a pound or 5 or 10 a week.

So for today I will remind myself that although I am losing slowly I am losing well and that without this little band I would be in a mess again. Eating to fill that empty spot. Eating to feel some kind of comfort because I miss my son. Eating because I have nothing to do, or so I think at the time... Gads I can think of so many reasons I could be eating. -=smiles=- but a few why I am not.

The Band and the hope and results it gives me.

Have a good day LeslieLee!!

Well I have never been much for writing in a journal but I am going to try to write in this one. It will be nice to look back on it as time goes by. I can't believe it is already almost the end of September which means it will be four months since my surgery.Wow! where did the days go....

-=smiles=- The weight is coming off slowly and I am trying to keep in mind that that is ok and even the better way to do it.

Slow and easy wins the race.

Can't wait to be out of the 200's and into the 100's it has been so long since I have been there.

I want my son to see a difference when I see him in November at his graduation parade.