Lost and hopefully not to be found again

I have lost several pounds on my journey. I am really wanting a Sonic Java Chiller. That is going to be my reward when I reach my first weight lost goal. Hopefully it will be in 3 weeks.

May 3rd---Java Chiller!!!

Having an aging parent is the pits

I have now taken over my mother's bills and medicine. My sister has done it for several years and it is causing a strain on her home life, so I volunteered to do it for a while. My mother thinks that my sister is using her (mother) money and she also thinks that the druggist is shorting her meds. (my sister's husband). Neither thing is happening and I know for sure bec. I have counted her meds and have seen the checkbook. So, on Wed evening I took Mother to the store to get groceries, to the drugstore, and to pay her bills. I showed her each check that I wrote and made a list showing how much money she has used and gave her $10 in cash for whatever she needed. By Thurs. evening she needed toilet paper. I told her to send my nephew with the $10 to the Dollar General. She couldn't remember me giving her a 10 ( so it is apparently already spent by my nephew), By Friday, she wanted me to go get sugar. I can't go to the store every day for one thing. But, that is, BY FAR, the least of my worries. By Fri. afternoon, she was calling my sister demanding her meds be brought to her. (I am keeping them at my house). I went over to her house and look in her med box. She had used all of her med for Sat and it was only 4:00. I asked her about it and she said that she hadn't taken anything all day. Then she remembered taking some med. and writing it down on paper. She had taken almost double what she was supposed to take. She is to take 1 tablet every 6 to 8 hrs. She had taken 1 1/2 in a little over 3 hours! That may be why she thinks the store is shorting her. She is taken too much and too soon. What is so pitiful is that she looks so confused about. She rants and raves about people doing her wrong but then when you show her mistake, she looks so confused. It is like a roller coaster of emotions... one minute i am mad bec. she is ranting and then I a guilty for being mad. She had always been "high-strung" so it is hard to tell what is her "hard-to-get-along-with personality" and what is old-age dementia.

I am proud of myself

I have done much better this week with the "diet-thang". I am treating myself to a Klondike Bar. I had no plans to treat myself so early in the game, but David came back from Walmart with my "diet" food for lunch tomorrow and in he walks eating a Klondike bar. I can't say no since I have been "good" today..... cooked oatmeal for breakfast, salad and strawberries for lunch, soap and salad for dinner.

Now I Am Enlightened

I have rejoined Weight Watchers and have logged all of foods that I have eaten this week. Well, now I know why I keep gaining weight. I have 3 more days to go and I have used WAY, WAY more points than allowed. I didn't realized how much I was (am) over-eating. Next week, I have got to do better about cutting back and exercising more.