Debbie Cousins's Journal, 14 June 2021

Day 44 - up a half pound this morning. Back to having 7 pounds to lose and now only 13 days to do it. I checked the past 13 days, and I lost exactly 7 pounds during that period. The 13 days before that, however, I only lost 6.5 pounds. Gonna be a nail-biter! This is all still God! There's nothing I can do to "help" Him along, except to trust that He will provide, as He always has.

Yesterday, I decided that I will use part of my challenge winnings to have some of the lighting fixed here in the church parsonage (where we live). The florescent lights in half of the kitchen went out about a year ago. The other one in the cooking half you have to switch on 5-6 times to get it to come fully on. We have the same problem in our pantry and in the laundry room. Plus, we need a motion sensor light on the corner of the house. No idea how much all of that will cost, but I at LEAST need to get the one in the kitchen replaced.

Other than tithing on my winnings, enjoying the Great Wolf Lodge trip, and taking my husband out to Spoon Bread Bistro (very expensive) for dinner one night, I'll just play the rest by ear. I could replace the broken dishwasher, but I've been doing very well on keeping the dishes done by hand and just drying them in the non-working dishwasher. At least it keeps the dishes out of sight while they are drying, instead of having to have them on a kitchen counter.

Making it short today.

206.0 lb Lost so far: 53.0 lb.    Still to go: 56.0 lb.    Diet followed 100%.