Wow, that was a long hiatus

Hello!! Sorry about the two months off. Lots of things happening, especially with my little sister, Andrea's wedding!! The wedding was on 7/20, and was gorgeous! We had so much fun. Also, I have been diagnosed with fibermyalgia. If you remember, in my earlier posts, I said I have a lot of pain and tenderness. I finally saw the rheumatologist earlier this month, and she gave me that as a working diagnosis. It's not the best news, but it could certainly be worse, and I'm just so excited that we're finally on the path to some relief! Now, as far as the weight loss, it's been very slow going, with a lot of back and forth. Our friend, Adrienne, who has her Master's degree in nutrition, is using us as guinea pigs, because she wants to be a weight loss counselor. For the past 2 months, (except for the past few weeks) we have been meeting with Adrienne on a weekly basis to set obtainable, weekly goals, in order to make this more of a life style change. She also gave us a quick and nutritious cookbook. Since January, Kyle and I were pulling recipes from Sparkpeople.com. Some of these were really tasty, some were really bad, but most of them took quite a bit of preparation. Needless to say, we were very burnt out. With the new cookbook, the recipes are typically 5 main ingredients or less, and take about 10 min to prepare and 10 to 20 minutes to cook. Our favorite recipe so far has been the baked potato with bbq chicken, sour cream, green onions, and sharp cheddar cheese! My current goals are to cut out sugary sodas and drinks, and to walk our dog Oscar 4 times a week. Kyle's are to watch portion control, go to bed by 10 on work nights, and to exercise 4x a week. The first several weeks with Adrienne were great! However, we have not been able to meet with her recently because of work and vacation schedules, and regretfully, we've fallen back into our old ways. I do know I am a stress eater, and there were a lot of stressers, especially helping with eveything for Peeglet's wedding, so now, we are going to get back to it, since the wedding is over! I am going to try to post at least weekly, especially after we set our goals with Adrienne, so that I can stay focused!