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Hey friends!!

This weeks was a tough week. I decided it was time to shake it up a little, meaning more time to cut back. It is rough when you cut back but it was important and it paid off. I lost six pounds this week. This was really good for me. So far a total of 36 pounds. This feels really good. Sometimes it is really frustrating, sometimes really hard to know what to do, sometimes emotional but I am happy with the changes. I feel great and I am happy. 

Thanks for the love and support, I know how much I need it!!

Love,

Keri

Strange Requests

Hey Lovelies!

I am sorry I never posted my weigh in for the week last week. Here it is almost time for next weeks and I am just letting you all know that I lost 1 pound last week. Not my best or worst week. I have lost a total of 30 pounds so far in this journey. It feels really good and I am noticing lots of changes. Some obviously physical in appearance. But also some in the way I feel, the things I can do, also some emotional changes. These are always the hardest for me. Because I feel more confident while at the same time more self conscious. I have had a couple of days where I just feel plain old fat, the real surprising thing is I never felt like that when I wasn't doing anything to loose weight so I find much confusion as to why I feel this way now but didn't before. I am still trying to understand it. 

So other thoughts. As you probably read my title you probably thought what in the world is that about. It was just a ploy to get you to read my blog. haha just kidding. No I have been thinking about how sometimes we are prompted to follow through on strange requests through the spirit, some that don't always make sense. The last couple of weeks have felt full of them. They all have to do with almost the same subject but all leading me one step in front of the other. It is hard sometimes when you get these kinds of promptings, you question are they mine or are they really the spirit. As I have contemplated the nature and direction these promptings seem to be taking me, how each seem to build on one another and how some have already turned out and how I feel about them I am reminded that they are not just my own thoughts. But sometimes they feel hard, hard to understand, hard to know what to expect. I have never been the patient kind of gal and these kinds of directions ask for more patience then I sometimes feel like I have but I am trying. Anyways that is all. Love you all. I will check back in with my weigh in. Have a great weekend!!

Love

Keri

Patience a Long and Bumpy Road

Hey Lovelies!

I hope I find you all doing so incredibly well! I have been thinking the last couple of days about patience. Patience is really hard, probably the hardest lesson I continually have to learn. I think about how patience affects every aspect of my life. School, work, friends, family, dating or lack there of, weight loss etc. As of late I keep feeling impatient about how slow things feel like they are going in a few areas of my life. One would definitely be school. I want to be a teacher today. I am tired of being the student. I want to get on with my life, with my plans and sometimes it feels like it is going too slow!! Patience in this area is an ever present need. I keep thinking I need to keep working hard on this. Another thing I keep thinking is how impatient I feel about dating or the lack there of. All I ever wanted was to be in love and to be loved in return. It is hard when that doesn't happen. Especially when it doesn't happen fast enough for me. I always thought I would have kids and be married before I turned 25 let alone 30. Sometimes patience in this area is really hard. especially since I wanted nothing more then this my whole life. I find that some of this impatience sometimes boils over to my other journey. 29 pounds is no small amount of weight to loose in two weeks. I know this. I feel the difference in me, in how I feel. But the outside changes often feel slower. I am trying very hard to have patience in this journey.

It got me thinking about a conversation I had with someone the other night about how frustrating patience in the Lords timing can be. But how sometimes waiting on his time is important because his timing is better then my timing. I have tried lots of times to loose weight. I have been in love before. But today is the time it feels right for weight loss and hopefully love will follow suit really soon, as will school and working and all other things.

Love you all!

Keri

Weekend Wrap up

Hey Lovelies!!

I figured out I started my lifestyle change on the May 15th. So with this weeks weigh in it has been 2 months. I have lost a total of 29 pounds this week! I was so excited! So the big news was a total of 3 pounds. For this week. So no side effects other then what was expected meaning eating less and loosing more! I am excited and happy with it! Hope you are all well!!

Love
Keri

Surprises and the week

Hey Lovelies!!

It is the weekend! I would say that I am so excited but truth be told I am not! I have a test to study for tonight and take tomorrow!! BOO fractions!! I know elementary math should be easy right??? Oh well. Wish me luck on that one!

In 2004 I saved up what little money I could and went shopping for my first car. I remember looking and looking and was so excited when I found by baby. That is what I call her. A 2003 Chevy Cavalier. She has been through a lot with me. A few car trips, a few bangs and bruises, heartaches, loud music, tears, long conversations, and many many memories, here she is:

Isn't she beautiful?? Well After a long run I have sold her to my brother to get many more miles and fun memories. I will miss my baby for sure. She got me through a lot with little to no problems at all! I am so grateful for my first car! 

But with getting rid of  an old car comes getting a new car, meet Sassy:

A 2010 Camry. She was a good deal and she has a sun roof! I sure like her a lot and am looking forward to making memories with her!! So yeah, that is a big surprise!

Lets see this week has turned out way more surprising than that for me. That is for sure, and maybe even an understatement. I won't go into to many details on my blog but I definitely told someone something that makes me more vulnerable than I felt in a long time, we will see what happens with it. Yeah I tried for a long time to not be but there is no going back, simply moving forward from here.

This week has been good, a little stressful, a few ups and a few worries but really good, eating has been pretty good too! So here is wishing me luck that it pays off come Sunday when I weigh in! Have great weekend dear friends!!

Love
Keri

Been a Couple weeks!

Hey dear friends!!

Sorry it has been a couple weeks. I wasn't happy with the results a couple weeks ago and I needed a week to go over what I was doing and what needed to be changed. So two weeks ago the loss was 0, yep nothing. But I made some changes, I changed what I was eating and how much I was eating. This week I am happy to say was much better. I ate a lot better and I am happy to say I lost 6 pounds. I am so excited I have lost a total of 26 weeks! So yeah.

I have other news to share but I have a few other things I need to get before I can show you my exciting news! So yeah! Thanks for your love and support!!

Love,

Keri