April 20

I really focused on looking for my hunger signals today. By 7:45 I was very hungry so I ate about 3/4 of my usual amount of cereal. By noon my stomach was growling so I had a salad and a yogurt. And that kept me going until supper. I bbq'd pork chops for supper and they smelled so good.

Andrea


Breakfast - Fibre One cereal with milk
Lunch - salad (lettuce, cucumbers, red and green onion, feta cheese, greek dressing), yogurt
Supper - leftover potato vegetable soup, pork chop
Snack - felt hungry when I came home from a meeting so I had a spoonful of peanut butter (probably should have just gone to bed)

New Day

After many weeks of avoiding stepping on the scale, I stepped on it this morning. I'm up about 3or 4 lbs since the beginning of February. I'm not impressed with it but I'm not surprised either. I could have gone on another many weeks avoiding it but I don't want to do that again. This weight loss journey seems so hard. I know what I have to do but doing it isn't easy. And life happens and it's easy to just toss it aside for a while.

So I'll take it one day at a time and start with today. I woke up to a call on Skype at 5:30 this morning so I've been going since then. Now my stomach is growling so I'll have breakfast, but a little less than usual. I think I'm eating pretty healthy, most of the time, but my portions should probably be a bit smaller. So I'll start with that today and see how it goes and deal with tomorrow when it comes.

Andrea

April 19

I wasn't feeling that great today. Headache and I think I got Michelle's cough. But it was a gorgeous day and I got out for a 1/2 hour walk after supper.

Andrea


Breakfast - 2 slice of a sweet bread (this was not a good choice at all!)
Lunch - a few turkey bites (didn't feel like anything else)
Snack - celery with a bit of cream cheese
Supper - spaghetti squash, casserole

April 17 & 18

Paul finally has plans in place to make it home. Hopefully they all go as planned. Seems Portugal is safe to fly to the US so that's what we've booked. Just fights from Portugal have been filling up quickly so Friday is the earliest we could get. Even if some flights around Europe start up Monday like they are talking, I think this is his best bet because it's going to take a while for everything to get back to normal.

Went for a long walk with Michelle and Ben today too.

Andrea


Saturday
Breakfast - Fibre One cereal with milk
Lunch - salad, yogurt, banana
Supper - 3 pieces of Mel's pizza at the 30 hour Famine (it was the end of the famine for the kids)

Sunday
Breakfast - Fibre One cereal with milk
Lunch - potluck at church, I choose 2 different kinds of salad, slice of ham, a bit of 2 casseroles, bit of soup, no dessert
Snack - banana
Supper - salad, 1 slice of a sweet bread

April 16

Breakfast - Fibre One cereal with milk, banana
Snack - orange
Lunch - salad, turkey bite
Supper - club sandwich on whole wheat bread, some fries
Snack - popcorn, 1 cookie

April 15

I just talked to Paul on Skype this afternoon. Because of the volcano that erupted in Iceland, all kinds of flights have been cancelled. He is trying to get out of Russia by train on Friday instead of by plane and then we will see if by Sunday flights are leaving Germany. Just what he needs, to be stuck over there after being there a month already.

I've had a good last few days. Got some meetings done that I had kind of been nervous about. Turns out that when I'm well prepared for them, there's nothing to worry about.

I'll be taking Michelle to the doctor tomorrow because of a bad cough she has that just won't go away. She has had it about a week now and she is so tired because it keeps her up at night. As soon as she comes home from school, she goes straight into my bed and falls asleep. We'll see if she can make it to the 30 Hour Famine that the youth at our church are having tomorrow.

Three more sleeps till Paul comes home (hopefully)!

Andrea


Breakfast - 2 eggs and slice of cheese, spoonful of peanut butter
Lunch - salad, 1 turkey bite
Supper - homemade soup, 3 homemade biscuits (I definitely should have stopped at 2)
a bit of canned peaches

Tuesday

Well, a busy weekend is done. Just one more busy day and then the kids and I will be relaxing poolside for a few days. I'm looking forward to that!

Andrea


(I couldn't even begin to track what I've eaten these last few days. I'll start tracking again tomorrow.)