Week 15

Lost another pound this week. That puts me at total of 22 lbs. I just realized this week that another 5 pounds and I will weigh the same as I weighed when I was 25 ( I will be 50 in a couple months). That is exciting.
Rick is still proud to say he is maintaining a normal blood sugar level.

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*We are trying out the Women's Success Select Program and Rick is doing the Nutrisystem D program for person's with diabetes, both free of charge.  All opinions are 100% our own*

Week 14

Still plugging away. I have to admit that with the Holidays approaching the temptations are a little hard to resist. Still I lost another pound , which puts me at 21 lbs lost. Rick has stayed steady where he is at 30 lbs and normal blood sugars.

Want to lose weight and get healthy on Nutrisystem? Join today by calling 1-888-853-4689 or by visiting http://www.nutrisystem.com/nsblog

*We are trying out the Women's Success Select Program and Rick is doing the Nutrisystem D program for person's with diabetes, both free of charge.  All opinions are 100% our own*

Book Review

Meet Your Happy Chemicals by Loretta G Breuning

I found this book to be very informative about how the chemicals in our brain work together to control our happy emotions. It gives practical and easy to understand information about how to build circuits that will create more of these chemicals. We all have choices and we can choose to build more of the positive chemicals or tear down our own happy chemicals.

Book Review

Poverty Sucks! How to become a self-made Millionare  by: Aimee Elizabeth

This is a great book for showing that you can overcome what life throws at you.  We may not be able to control some things but we don’t have to let life’s circumstance dictate what happens to us. Aimee gives good basic information about how to start a business. It is a must read for anyone who is just starting out.

Book Review

The Life Planner by Laura Huber

This is a great tool for the busy person always on the go. It will help set goals, organize and prioritize all of the stuff that we have to do. It even gives a suggestion of things to each month for fun. We all know that sometimes we get so caught up the events of life that we forget to live and have fun.

Book Review

Perfectly Crazy by Mitzi Penzes

This book was a quick read novel. I started and finished it in an hour and a half.  It was interesting and easy to ready; one of those books you just want to finish as soon as you start reading. It had a heartbreaking and joyous storyline. It gives hope to those who may not have found the perfect love, but have still experienced love.  I would read more by this author.

Week 13

I have to admit that we have been a bit off track the last couple of weeks. Having 6 extra people in the house has made following our plan a bit of a challenge.  Between that and work, I have not had time to plan meals the way I should have been. So I skipped some meals and ate some stuff that was not on our plan.  We also skipped the exercising as much. I still managed a 20 minute walk every morning but only made it to the gym once in the last 2 weeks.  So, this being said, I stayed at the same weight for the last 2 weeks. I am still at 20 lb total weight loss for the last 4 months.  I talked to the dietician at my office about it and she said that is not a bad thing. She explained to me that when we have maintained the same weight for a long period, and then go on a diet. Our body continues to try to get back to that “normal” weight. Now she said it will recognize my new weight (142) as my normal and will quit trying to get back to 162. Seems kind of weird to me but in an odd way it makes sense. But I am determined that this week I will get back on track and back to losing. I am determined to take off another 10 lbs by Christmas.

On a brighter note, Rick got his A1C test results back and it was a 7. This means that his blood sugars have been on an average for the last 3 months about 154. His last test 6 months ago was an 11 , so this was a significant change.   He is at his goal weight but still plans on losing 10 more pounds. He has lost a total of 30 lbs.

We know that we could not have accomplished this without Nutrisystem.

Want to lose weight and get healthy on Nutrisystem? Join today by calling  1-888-853-4689 or by visiting http://www.nutrisystem.com/nsblog