Dear Jennifer Hudson (week 39)

Dear Jennifer Hudson,

Can you believe it!?...I wrote you letters in back-to-back weeks! :-0 

This past week was a week of a LOT of events! I put the new-to-me dresses from my sister's mother-in-law (did you follow that?) to GREAT use!

There was a (ladies-only) birthday party dress...

 

...a date-night-with-MY-mama dress...

 

...and a tea party dress...

 

(The above pictures were all taken for my sister's approval, lol)

With each party dress, comes party food!

Specifically, for date night, I made my mom the most delicious Italian picnic! We had "Caponata Sandwiches", with an olive-oil based potato salad (made with basil from MYYYY garden, LOL!)...

 

...and for dessert I whipped (or rolled, lol) up, these TASTY cinnamon-caramel-pinwheels (INSANELY delicious!!!)...

 

Even family dinner packed a calorie-punch with (2 servings of) Chili and cornbread...

 

...and my sister's jar of Nutella for dessert! ;0) There are SO many ways to eat Nutella. My recent fave is, "Nutella Lips"...

 

Sooooooo, it should come as a SHOOOOOOCK to everyone that I not only recorded a LOSS on the scale, but that I lost 3 whole pounds!?!?!? I'm not sure how that one happened, but...I'll take it!!!

My WW meeting was very motivating today. It was brought to our attention that there are 8 weeks remaining until Thanksgiving (craziness!!!). Our WW leader gave us two 8-week challenges. She handed us a 3x5 card...on one side of the card, there was a picture of a turkey, and then there were 8 circles around the turkey. That challenge is: for every meeting you attend in the next 8 weeks, you will get a "Bravo" sticker (Bravo stickers are rewards at our meetings, lol) in one of your eight circles. At the end of the 8 weeks, if you have filled all of your circles with a Bravo sticker, you will be entered into a special prize drawing.

On the other side of the card, she had you write down a weekly weight loss goal (lose 1/2 pound, lose 2 pounds, maintain weight, etc.) for each week. Every week that you weigh-in and meet that goal, you will earn a Bravo sticker for that side of your card also. At the end of the 8 week challenge, if you have at least 5 stickers on that side of your card, you will be entered into a 2nd special prize drawing. 

I think this idea is REALLY cool...I definitely plan to participate in the 8-week challenge! My weekly-weight-loss goal for the challenge was 1.5 pounds per week...If I stick to the WW plan, that goal is more than achievable!

But can "she" do it!?!? ;0)

Thanks for always reading my letters!

Your biggest fan,
Elizabeth