So it's Friday and that means date night and normally Bill & I stay at home, watch tv and have pizza.  Well tonight Bill saw an ad for the Ruben sandwich at Arby's and he wanted to try it so we went.  I am happy to say that I had a BLT in a whole wheat wrap and a salad instead of fries.  I did splurge and have the chocolate turnover for dessert.  The whole thing was really good and I am so pleased with my choices.  I don't feel 'overfull' like I normally do after having pizza.  In fact, I am a little on the hungry side and will go to bed like that.

I went to the doctor on Thursday and have officially lost 12 pounds since I was there back at the beginning of January.  It's been about 6 weeks now and I am so happy.  At the doctors office, with all my clothes on, I weighed 489.9.  I can't wait until Sunday rolls around and see how much I weigh at home.  The doctor was very pleased with my weight loss.  He said that you should lose about 2 pounds a week to be healthy.  We did talk about how many points I was allowed and how hard it is to eat that many.  He encouraged me to try and get that otherwise my body goes into starvation mode and it is harder to lose weight. 

My mom shared with me an article about heating coconut oil for health reasons and I think Bill and I are gonna try it.  There are a lot of benefits to it.  You are to eat 3 T. a day and we talked about making smoothes for breakfast with our yogurt and putting it in there.  So tomorrow when we go grocery shopping we will get all the ingredients and see how it goes. 

I have also come up with 4 recipes for meals over the next 2 weeks.  I am gonna make them up this weekend and then portion them out and freeze them.  We are gonna eat these 'dinner' meals for lunch Monday - Thursday since Bill is gone in the evening for dinner and then for dinner we will just have sandwiches.  I really hope it works, I am excited about giving it a try.  My husband is gonna be sick of chicken when I get through with these recipes but 3 of them are chicken and 1 is pork chops.  It is really hard to make meals out of ground beef and have them healthy I am discovering.  We always get 93/7 meat but our meals consist of spaghetti, tacos, lasagna, hamburger pie, etc.  Those meals are high in fat.  1 ounce of 93/7 meat is 1 point.  That is a lot compared to chicken.

I have had several people write to me saying how I am encouraging them.  How they are exercising more or watching what they eat.  They see me trying harder and it makes them try harder.  I am so happy that they are being encouraged.  Makes me want to work even harder so they won't give up.  So to those of you who I am talking about, and you know who you are, LET'S KEEP THIS THING GOING.  We will just keep encouraging each other and before you know it we will be healthier.

Hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend.  Later...K