Christmas

I have just returned home from dropping my daughter and her boyfriend off at their place. My daughter is 21 and is the light of my life.
I don't celebrate Christmas myself as I am on the path of return to Judaism, but my daughter does.
I am her only family here on the West coast, (my ex-husband and other daughter live on the other side of the country)
As her only family, I try to give my daughter a little celebration to make her day a little more special.
I would like to say that this is the only reason, but that would be a lie. I also do it for me. I won't go into it here, maybe never will, but for reasons that are private, I did not get to spend the holidays with my daughters for the past few years, so I try to make the holiday really nice.

Today, I made brunch and we had a nice time. I made waffles, frittattas, sausage and mimosas. We opened gifts, and we watched "A Christmas Story"

I will be honest, I did and will continue to do Christmas for my daughter and if she has children, I will do Christmas for them as well.
Of course, I will also make sure to expose them to Channukah.

The rest of the evening, I will just kick back and relax with my husband, maybe watch a movie. After all, being with those we love, that is the real reason for Christmas.

Down

Had my weigh in today. I am down 6 pounds....mostly water weight, but whatever, it's 6 pounds.
I am finding this new method of WW to be pretty awesome and easy to follow. I am getting 36 points a day plus the 49 extra weekly points.

I also like that fruits and most veggies are 0 points. On the old plan, for example, a banana was 3 points and a 100 calorie snack pack was 1 or 2 points. Now, the point difference may not seem alot, but when you are towards the end of your week and the end of your day and you have a very few amount of points, which do you think you are going to go for? The 1 point snack and not the 3 point banana.
Now, the choice is simple....Have the banana.

I am feeling really good about this and know that I am going to rock the hell out of this.

244

See that number up in the title? Yeah, that is how much I weighed last Monday. This is the most I have weighed in the 12 years I have been with my husband.
This is not good.
No fertility doctor will touch me if I am this heavy, and I really want a baby.
Also, only three of my pants for work fit at this time. This is also not good. I have some very nice pants that I would love to be able to wear but my ass is so big and I have gained so much weight that, at this time, this is not a possibility.
I am not going to sit here and claim that I have no idea how I got this heavy, the fact is, I got this heavy because I just kept shoving food into my mouth....and not veggies and fruits, my friends, but rather, fatty, rich and calorie laden foods.

So, I made the decision that I would go back and join Weight watchers and get the weight off. The new plan, which is called "Points Plus" is supposed to seriously rock and I am going to look this weight gain in the eye and I am going to drop those pounds that I packed on. When I do, it will be for the same reason that I gained the weight.....because I made the choices that I made and I ate the foods I ate and I was the one in control of me.

These Are the People in Your Neighborhood.....

Where I work, I run a Coffee Kiosk. I get to meet many interesting people. One of my favorites is Duff. Duff and I have managed to become friends, I really do treasure her.
Duff has this ability to make me smile when I happen to be having a rough day.
Duff likes to tell stories about the liqour store where she works and who she works with. I am not exgagerrating when I say that there are times when I am doubled over from laughing so hard from the stuff that Duff tells me.

Duff and I have discussed the idea of developing a comedy routine. I told her that all we would have to do is sit up on stage and engage in a typical conversation and we would have the audience rolling.
Of course, I would probably need a prop in the form of an Espresso machine and Duff would need to have some sort of a prop that resembelled a liqour counter.

Either way, it would be mind blowing-ly awesome.