Over the hump!

I finally made 25 pounds! Today when I weighed in I had lost 2 pounds this past week for a total of 26! Excited-you bet! only 24 to go! Some day I will get my pictures loaded onto my computer and post a picture of the "new" me! I love my hoop-a-loop exercise! You should try it, it is a weighted hool-a-hoop. I had to learn to hoola because when I was a kid and it was popular my Mom never let me have a hool-a-hoop because she considered it dancing! So, I taught my self and every night i hoola for 10 minutes. I can at least keep it up around my waist now for a few seconds. I spend more time picking it up off the floor-but isn't that excercise? I can now wear skirts that are 2 sizes smaller than where I started. So many of them I can't keep up anymore! I bought a size Medium blouse a couple of weeks ago! I hope I have something to wear during the next 25 pound loss. I went to Goodwill the other day but couldn't find anything cheap that I liked. I will have to try some of the other thrift stores-if I can find time.
See ya later!

Still woking on the cookies but have lost the potatoes!

I have lost 22.5 pounds in 60 days! People are teasing me about losing 20 pounds of potatoes and how heavy those potatoes are. Yesterday one of my student's patients told me I looked like Aunt B! I told him not as much as 20 pounds ago! He had no room to talk because he looked like Santa Claus minus the beard! The guy was really a cool guy somewhere in his 60's. Some day I will post a picture to see if you all can see any difference.

Last week I was feeling a little blue and down so of course I had a little extra prayer time before going to bed. The next morning on the way to school I did feel better emotionally and started thanking God for all the things He has done for me. These words came to my mind and believe or not even tthe music which I can't put here.
How can I give thanks for all you have done for me,
How can I give praise so that all men can see
The grace you give to me when my burdens you recieve,
How can I give thanks for your care of me?

Maybe next week I will have met my half way point on loosing weight! :)

Lost the cinnamon rolls, now working on the cookies!

Well as of today, which is 47 days of dieting, I have lost a total of 17.5 pounds! I have also lost a total of 31.5 inches of fat from top to bottom (the ribbon is pink this time!). My body mass index is decreasing, fat mass also. Here is a summary of inches lost since starting.
Neck: 1 inch
Shoulders: 4 inches
Upper arm: 2 inches
Bust: 3 inches (primarily off the back)
Waist and mid section: 4 inches
Hips: 3 inches
Thighs: 2
And the lady asked me if I could feel a difference in the way my clothes fit me. Well-duh!
I lost 3 pounds last week.
Aunt Bee is looking and feeling better!

Update on "Christmas Project"

2.5 pounds gone since last week! Actually, 1.5 since I had to loose the pound I had gained the week before. Total lost is 14.5 pounds! Only 35.5 more to go!!!

Happy New Years!

Howdy all! May you all be blessed by God in 2008!

A Georgia Christmas

I know I am late at getting Christmas pictures on but if you read my sister's blog you have probably seen a few of what I am posting. I had an AWESOME time in Georgia with my family. The girls had told their husbands that this was to be a family Christmas so we were doing everything together-none of this men and women doing things separately! For two days we basically partied! Saturday found us on the mountain hiking and cooking over an open fire at Bob Jones's cabin (not associated with Bob Jones University by any means!) Sunday we had the dedication of Susan and Jeff's little Colton during the Christmas service. What a blessed time to worship and dedicate together as a family. Sunday afternoon was Christmas dinner and gift exchange. The kids draw names and decided this year that everyone had to make their "name" something. In private I will tell you about one of the gifts!

The first picture is Susan and Jeff Hunt with baby Colton after dedication service .
This is a picture of Linda and I after the Christmas service.







The Scarbrough clan. Carson and Linda in the middle. To Carson's left is the Vernon family: Dave and Cheryl, Isaac and Ethan (in front of Papa). To Linda's right is Christa and the Sam's family: Martha holding Peyton, Larry and Carson and Steven are in front of Linda. Sitting on the pew is Jeff, Susan and Colton. Last but not least is me. My "boys" are so cute!!! Can you imagine 6 boys in a trailer playing? Fortunately, the weather was nice enough for them to be outside some.


At the cabin even the big people had to play! Here is Cheryl defending the girl's flag from the guys. The girl's had excellent strategy and finally won much to the chargin of the guys!






Jeff so graciously took his ammunition out and let me "hunt". What I was hunting I have no idea-maybe a man? LOL! Not likely to find one in the woods!





I have many many more pictures that maybe I will share later. I have a new camara and it isn't compatible with my computer so I had to make a CD in order to download them onto my computer and I haven't had time to label them so it is hard to pick the right pictures based on numbers only.
We had a great Christmas with Daddy-he was able to spend the entire day with us at my hourse which is just what my sister wanted. But then that night he was all messed up, couldn't sleep and fell walking in his sleep. Got a big black eye! He looks pitiful.
I have so thankful that God gave me such precious Christmas memories this year. As you all know it hasn't been the easiest of year's for me and God has been so very good to me!

It's all Aunt B's fault!!!

It was when I saw the pictures of me as Aunt Bee that I knew something had to go! Pounds that is. So I signed up at the Metabolic Research Center in Columbus to loose some weight! Here is the meaning of all the hints.

1. The Christmas project was to loose 20 pounds by Christmas! The green was the ribbon they measured off after I had been on the plan for a month and had lost 19.5 inches of stored fat!!! The number 12 was the original number of pounds I had lost since Thanksgiving, then I was sick and gained 1.5 pounds so that is why the magic number changed to 10.5 and in 3 days I lost that for a total of 13 pounds lost! I can't believe no one noticed I looked a few pounds lighter. I have had fun with this and I hope no one is too disappointed that it had nothing to do with a special friend or a special date! Sheila and Jonathon were just too funny in their comments.

When I walked into my niece's house with my food she thought, "how nice that Aunt Jan brought some food to help us out at Christmas!" but didn't say anything. The next morning when Linda saw me peeling boiled eggs for breakfast and talked about how she needed to go on a diet. Martha is the one who connected the dots between what I was eating and the hints and actually said the magic words Christmas project so she won the special Christmas present when we opened gifts-a small bottle of lotion she had been admiring all weekend when I lotioned my hands after washing dishes!

So the secret is out and I am still marching along to lose 50 pounds! This is the only weight loss plan I have ever been able to stick too and I love it. I feel sooooo good and can tell a big difference with just 13 pounds off. I am already off one of my blood pressure pills.

So stayed tuned and I may share some more magic numbers as we go along.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, I did. Sometime soon I'll post some pictures of me hunting, eating salad while others ate hot dogs, and the kids I so dearly love.