Sunday Sept. 4- Labor Day Weekend

So it's Labor Day weekend and we have nothing going on!  Boo!  I thought about throwing a little backyard BBQ but honestly, I didn't have the desire or energy.  I have so far spent the weekend running errands.  I picked up my son from college for the long weekend (to give him a bit of a break from his party roommates), I went shopping with my other son for appropriate clothes for his upcoming student teaching practicum,  and then my husband and I spent most of today at Home Depot (his home away from home) looking for a new front door for our house.  Have you ever heard the story of the shoemakers kids that have no shoes?  Well, we are the Contractor's house that has no improvements.  We didn't order the door yet because I don't want it sitting in our livingroom for months until he has time to put it in. There is a new window for our living room that had been propped up next to the closet in our living room for three months -seriously!   I finally stuffed it in the pantry last February and that's where it's been ever since!  When my husband makes the time, we'll go get the door we picked out, and he can put that and the stupid window in at the same time!
 
On the brighter side, with school having started this week it's beginning to feel a little bit like Fall, and I love Fall!  I love the smell of woodsmoke in the air, I love the cooler air at night, I love when all the leaves turn their beautiful colors, I love the leaves crunching under my feet when I walk, and I love homemade soups and breads on a chilly evening.   Oh whoops, cross out that homemade bread part!    Anyway, I've been weighing myself everyday and haven't seen any loss. In fact it's kind of weird, some days I'm 174 and then another day I'm 176, and then back to 174 again...,back and forth like that.  Never 175 though - weird huh!  So, I decided to go back to my original little handwritten journal I was keeping when I first started the BFC.  I lost the first twenty pounds fairly quickly and I wanted to see what I was doing differently back then.    The only changes I could find were these:  In the beginning I was eating the Uncle Sams cereal with unsweetened almond milk for breakfast.  Plus back then I was taking a Flax seed oil supplement with my morning vitamins.  Other than that I haven't changed things up too much.  I switched from the Uncle Sam's because it didn't keep me full until lunch, plus I thought there might be too many carbs in the cereal and the milk together.  So I might just try going back to that cereal for a while to see if that makes a difference, plus I bought another stash of Flax seed oil pills.  If after a week that doesn't make a difference then I might try that Fast Track menu for a week and see if that gets me moving again.   I guess I will keep trying tweaking things until I find the right food choices that work best for me.  I hope everyone is enjoying the last of their Labor Day weekend!