Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 23 November 2016

Apparently one can make progress in the battle to lose weight if they just put their head in the game, tell no one, make no grand declarations, ignore the scale, and just do it. That is what I have been doing for about 3 weeks now. It also helps if you run around like a crazy lady, wrestle with tiny humans over every single thing because they like to argue about everything, milk cows 3 times a week minimum, and eyeball every room in your house to redecorate because you've decided it isn't homey enough and you hate all of your furniture. Still in 3 weeks I went from 210 to 203.6. Not amazing but not bad either. Progress is progress.

Thanksgiving should be easy peasy. I'm keeping it to a minimum because it's just the immediate family and possibly my mother-in-law. She likes to weigh all the invites before picking one and she knows I can't cook. lol My family is apparently not talking to me.. not sure why. Not sure I care to dive into the drama to find out. I did tell my mom we wouldn't be out for xmas because her 4 yr old grandson needs to have surgery on his mouth that requires he to be put completely under. Which in all honesty absolutely terrifies me. I'm not traveling then two days after xmas going through that. Just no. Maybe it's a political thing.. for people I never knew were into politics they went all out this year on the opposite side of my family. Eh.. See? Too much work to find out. They can cut me out of the family. I'm ok with that. It's less stress. I have enough stress.

On the bright side I'm grateful for the family I have that behaves like a family, I'm grateful everyone is healthy, I'm grateful for the giggles of little boys making snow forts, and I'm grateful I can fit back into a size 16 with sparkly things on the back butt pockets.