Haulted

Loosing weight, is like climbing a mountain. It's easier to do with a group of family and friends, and a leader to tell you where to go, and to warn you of dangers that may lie ahead.

Last week, was entertaining, to say the least.

I have said many a times before that I work for the best people on the planet, and recently they started selecting people for employee of the month.... I was selected as employee of the month for May! The person who earns this is given a gift, each gift is different. They actually spend time deciding what gift will serve the individual the best....they decided to give me a $50 gift card to Kohl's.... They announced (to the entire company) that they know I have been on a diet, and wont go to restaurants and figured I could use some new clothes, and they know Kohl's doesn't sell food items that I shouldn't be eating. And boy, could I have ever used to clothes!!!  Oh, and by the way, they refrained from offering me the monthly dose of cake! :) Also, they have started making "healthier food options" available for the monthly meetings, meaning they have gone from pizza to sub sandwiches (you put your own condiments on them). It's really nice to see healthy changes in other people.

It's great to be appreciated, but it's even more great to have employers, and team members who invest in you. The investments from my team members at work, continue to roll on. I have gotten several messages from these kind folks that list their unwanted medifast items that they are not interested in using, and asking if I want them. Of course, I can't decline these generous offers. These will come to mean a lot more than imaginable.

As I have mentioned so many of times before, we are having difficulty getting our monthly order entirely processed. Last Tuesday I called the health coach services (as I had previously done, five times) but this time, we actually made progress with what was going on, or so we thought.  I will give short version of the story. In March, we were charged double for one order. I called the company to see why this occurred, they had no record of it, although my bank statements clearly had a record of it. I filed a dispute of claims with the bank to get the extra funds reversed. Instead of being refunded half of the money (the half that we were double charged) TSFL refunded us the WHOLE amount. Every time we have submitted an order since then, it has been cancelled out by TSFL because technically we now owe them 300 bucks, from our order they royally screwed up, back in March. Of course I attempted to pay this debt that we occurred because of them last Tuesday, but they have continued to fail to acquire these funds. We double checked that they have the right information, but yet, they haven't figured out how to process it. Which is nothing more then incredibly frustrating. I need to somehow talk these people into debiting the correct amount for once, and be able to purchase a new order. Therefore, the "gifts" of the free medifast foods from my teammates, is what is going to propel me forward, for a few weeks. I have been burnt out on the foods (bars and pretzels) for a couple of months now, cause all I have eaten since March, are bars and pretzels, due to that being one of the variety packs that were 40 bucks off during their special they ran. But tonight, one of my team members is going to donate her unused items, and they include more of the "real foods" which translates into soups, and my all time favorite Mac N Cheese!

Well anyways, back to this Kohl's business....I decided to take myself shopping! The jeans from Kohl's were excruciatingly painfully expensive.  And I had previously fallen in love with a pair of jeans at target, for a quarter of the price. So I decided to head next door, buy the jeans, and then get shirts, and bras at Kohl's. I successfully accomplished this, but it came with buyer's remorse. I bought the wrong jeans! I bought the kind that I spoke about previously with the material that was hot! I did by some shirts that I thought were cute..... nothing makes me miss Mitchell more than shopping alone.  I will post photos of my new outfits later in the week.

Well, now that we have reached the end of this blog, the scale clocked me in at 173 this week. Yes, this is the same as last week, and I can pin point why this has happened. Number one: I ate a piece of candy on Monday (I had planned to go completely off plan until we were able to completely process a new order, but Dean did the Math, and I have enough food for a couple of weeks), I don't think I drank enough water. And, my bile reflux disease came back with an absolute, excruciatingly painful vengeance. Due to this, I was taking the medication for this disease. The number one common side effect of this drug that is listed is weight gain, and increase in your triglycerides (fat cells). Also, when I snuck in a check in with the scale mid week last week, I weighed 175, so I guess I gained and lost in one week. Who knows.   On that note, I'm going to go chug a bottle of water, and  I'm going to go buy me the RIGHT pair of jeans. I'm excited to go to work in my new outfits!