Loves the Feel of a Freshly Cleaned House....

I just spent the last hour and a half cleaning the apartment and doing my ironing. Feels good to sit down and relax after getting that done. I've got the scented candles going too so it really smells good in here.

The past couple weeks have flown by and I haven't been writing in here like I planned to! I've been off and on with my eating habits lately. It's hard because it's not causing me to gain weight... but pigging out definitely doesn't feel good afterwards. My sister has asked for my help in losing weight again and I vow to be a positive influence on her. Follow by example, right? I wish her all the luck in losing weight! I know how hard it can be. And she's got a wedding coming up in 10 months. What girl doesn't want to be a smaller size when they walk down the aisle?

I went to the doctor on Thursday for my annual checkup and loved when she did a double take when checking my weight at the scale. "You've lost 53 lbs?!?! That can't be right!" Oh, but it is :) Takes a lot of work, but it can be done!

I finished my 3rd driving lesson with Brian on the weekend. We took the lesson out of the parking lot and onto the road :) Not a road that anyone was on, but it still felt like a big accomplishment for me!

This weekend was Halloween and it.... SNOWED! It was crazy! I wanted to stay in and sip hot chocolate and watch Christmas specials :) But I made the trek out to a party, in my French Maid costume. It was pretty fun! But now that Halloween is over.... it's less than 8 weeks until Christmas! Need to get my shopping on ;)

Meals for today:

Breakfast - Nutrigrain bar, 1 cup of skim milk (220)

Snack - Sugar free jello pudding, Apple, 2 cups of water (140)

Lunch - 2 slices of wonderbread +, 1 tbsp. of light peanut butter, 1/2 banana, Del monte fruit twist, Diet coke (385)

Snack - Rainbow chip granola bar, 2 cups of water (130)

Dinner - Chicken stir fry - 2 oz. of chicken, 3/4 cup of stir fry veggies, 1/2 tsp. of oil, 3 tbsp. of sweet chili thai sauce, 1 cup of rice. 2 cups of water. (425)

Snack - Mini bag of ketchup chips, 2 fun size chocolate bars, 4 cups of water (280)

Total - 1580 calories

Workout - Ran up and down 21 flights of stairs on my lunch break.