5 weeks.........and a couple of days.

Wow. Didn't realize it had been so long since I've written. OOPS. AGAIN. lol I really do have a good excuse. My sister Amanda and nephew Wyatt came to visit us for a week and I've been busy busy. Not to mention, the school year is winding down, so we've got all the end of the school year craziness going on at the moment. Luckily, school is out in two weeks and life will calm down. I am READY for the break. This school year has been tougher on me than it has been on the kids. lol No doubt with the other depression and stress factors in my life, it led to stress/emotional eating. I'm so happy to be breaking that cycle. But, I can still do without unnecessary stress!!! Yay for SUMMER VACATION!!!!!

So........onto the weight loss updates. Not going to go back and update for the weeks I forgot to blog, because it's only leading up to where we are now anyway. As of today, I am officially 25 lbs (exactly!) down! GO ME!!!! :) It's great, but I will be so happy when I'm at a point where others start taking notice of my success. Not that I need the praise of others. But, it's always nice when you've gotten to a recognizable state where others can see it too. ;) I've not had anyone who doesn't know I'm dieting mention anything to me. Maybe they are just being polite and not talking about my weight. lol
Erik is still doing so completely amazing and I'm so proud of him. He is less than a pound away from FORTY pounds lost and has officially gone below 250 lbs!!! YAY ERIK!!!!!! His physical transformation is so completely obvious and he HAS had people comment about his weight loss. He's doing a great job and I'm so pleased he is happily sticking with it. I probably mentioned at the beginning what a crabby dieter he is. lol He does pout from time to time about not being able to eat certain things. Like when we were in Gatlinburg last weekend and we'd already had our lean and green meal for the day.....but the kids and my sister still had to eat, so we stopped in at the Mellow Mushroom and watched the kids eat pizza. Erik LOVES pizza and Italian food in general, so this was depressing for him. He likes to avoid even seeing foods that he loves at all costs. That is a little frustrating for me, because I went and had a very nice lunch with my sister at our favorite restaurant (a Japanese steak house called Wasabi) and split a meal with our 5 year old and ate only the things allowed for a lean and green meal and enjoyed it immensely. Erik doesn't want to go there, because he doesn't want to see the yummy rice and not be able to have it. He needs to get over it. lol
In a nutshell, things are still going really great. :) We get our next order on Tuesday and there's a couple of things in it that we've not tried yet, so looking forward to that. :) Medifast is changing our lives. :)