Okay folks... I know I've not been on here much lately, but so much has happened in the past few weeks that I am running in circles... good circles, but circles nonetheless lol!
First the diet coke info for those inquiring minds who want to know.
That is going awesome. Wanted one very briefly the other day because it was a new thing that had cropped up where I usually drink diet coke and once I reminded myself that I can change this into iced tea or water or lemonaide here too... I forgot about the coke. So I think I'm about 99.9% free of it. I won't say 100% until I no longer feel any twinges... I can go into a resturant, fast food joint or whatever else and order water or iced tea... am starting to like that icky Nestea in a pinch but found Brisk lemon ice tea is okay and closer to my good host. I've always loved that! I'm drinking and yea even CRAVING water when really thirsty and my coffee drinking has even changed too. I drink about 1 cup per morning but never ever finish it regularly unless it's a special occasion. I just need that warm drink in the morning. Well... now.... I may have 2-4 sips and leave it! Also, I've been horrified at the sweetness and have instructed my daughters to use less sugar much to their amazement! I LOVE my sugar right? Not any more!
I'm eating one or two cookies... maybe three out of an entire package and not touching anymore of them. I have had a couple of soft chocolate icecrea sundaes this week... a rare treat but with the stress and craziness of what I will write below this... you will understand we need a break a breather and so we go out for an ice cream for me, something other than ice cream for Derk and a drive where we talk and pray together about all that has happened and is happening and will happen to our family in the very near future. Then we come home refreshed and feeling stronger to tackle the things we need to get done.
SO..................
First of all is the awesome news.... hopefully men other than my hubby aren't reading this blog... but if you are just get over it!
This morning I measured and compared back to July 11th when I wasn't doing anything about my weight yet. I have gone down all over my body but won't bore you with 1/4" or1/2" etc. My stomach area is hard to measure because it's going down and changing shape on me so very hard to keep measuring in the same spot when it is no longer there! lol. Lets sufice it to say, I can pull out my skirts on either side of my legs bigtime.. get to that in a minute and can pull my wasitbands out on my skirts or wear them lower if they are that type of skirt as my jean skirts are.
Now.... drum roll please................
I have lost 1 3/4" off my behind!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!
I've lost even more..... a whopping 3 1/4" off each of my thighs! DOUBLE YES YES YES!!
I knew they were smaller but not how much. I'm sooooo happy. Maybe if you met me for the first time or never paid attention to what I look like, you wouldn't notice anything different, but my family does and I sure do. I'm amazed at what has come off SINCE quitting diet coke! First though was that ballooning up like I was pregnant and then wham! It started coming off.
So now... I've added working out with my 5 lb free weights for my upper arms. My arms are very weak and sore due to the tendonitis which today is driving me up a wall in both elbows if I try to use them a certain way.
I hope to add more exercise in soon, but due to my other news... it's kind of impossible at the moment!
Okay... here it is folks.
We've not put this on facebook exactly because some of our children's futures aren't quite figured out yet, but here it is.
We are moving. Soon. Out of province and back to Saskatchewan a place I said I never wanted to return to. But we are going and I'm very happy about it. We have a house reserved for us to rent but perhaps also buy at some point in Preeceville SK. We told our church on Sunday night and it was sad to think we're leaving 7 years of hard work here in this church, but it's time and for the past two years we've felt it and have kept our ears and eyes open but were never settled on where God really wanted us to go. When this opportunity came up, we fought it, prayed and talked about it, and tested it to be sure it was GOD talking not just us or someone else, but when we went to camp over there, a very dear preacher friend of ours, one we look up to so much, Bro. Budgell preached right to us and we could no longer delay. Even though we couldn't see how it would work out, we made the comittmant and within hours I'd found a 4 bdr house with 2 bathrooms just like I was praying for and it was renting at a reasonable price. I think we will love it there and I didn't want to move to the city of Yorkton just now, not with little girls who are town girls not city girls at all! This will be a much better environment for them to start out in and I will be relieved.
So that's the news. We're waiting on a possession date... it'll be sometime in Sept and the kids and I may go first and the rest of the family will do what they have plans to do. Our house is still being renovated and I've said for years we need to move out in order to finish it and here we are.... doing just that. Keeping the house with it's low mortgage and moving out so we can finish renovating it and then either sell it, or rent it out.
I won't put the kids news on here... and by kids I mean my oldest two. Their plans are their own to tell and they will do that to whomever they want however they want when they are ready to do so. Until then... you will have to just guess lol.
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