High Five For Friday!

Welcome to High Five For Friday! Thanks Lauren at From My Grey Desk for hosting! I feel like I should be accepting an award for making it to the end of the week. Where to begin and who to thank first? I would like to thank my blogger friends for the encouraging comments. Thank you Subway for fueling me and a huge thank you to God for miraculously getting me through a challenging week. Whew! Dinner Sunday night was Dungeness Crab, a west coast treat. I love you West Coast!

This is the banana bread from Sunday, which had questionable bananas from the freezer but still worked out.

 McNellies $3 burger deal and turns out there was a $3 beer deal too! Score on Wednesday!

 Hilton Skirvin Christmas tree. This photo was taken last week and I'm finally sharing some Christmas love with you wonderful readers.

Thank you iPhone for taking these lovely photos. Please stay tuned for Silly Saturday.

Weight Loss Wednesday - Confessions

I confess that I did not weigh in on Saturday, which means no progress report. I confess that I feel my portion sizes are better than previous week's (smaller is good.) I confess that I did make banana bread and I've been eating some of it since Sunday. I confess that getting dental work decreases my desire for eating (chewing in particular.) I confess that gyms are getting too expensive and I may have to cave in and buy a scale.   This week has been very stressful, at least that's how it started. Bad news, with more bad news, and top it off with a dead headlight on my car. Staying positive has been painfully hard. Trying to hold my enthusiasm for the future has been a test in mental will. I will work on that for tomorrow's post: Thankful Thursday. I love all sweet comments, if you feel like encouraging me. :o) Banana Bread:  

Silly Saturday

Welcome to Silly Saturday. It's silly that I'm trying to lose weight during the holidays. It's silly that I'm trying to lose weight, yet I'm still baking treats and freezing them. I made banana bread with whole wheat flour and chocolate chips. I also made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with some whole wheat flour. It still sounds a little healthy, right? Stay tuned to Serious Sunday. I'm linking up with Jilly at Hi It's Jilly. Update at 8:30 am: De Ja Vu, I gained last week's pound back. I'm shaking my head in unhappiness.

Weight Loss Wednesday: Top Five

1) I lost one pound in one week. Only nine more pounds/weeks to go. 2) I made banana bread with whole wheat flour and some chocolate chips. Yum! 3) I'm keeping my calorie count together on Myfitnesspal. 4) I'm trying to decide how I'll keep from over doing in on Thanksgiving. 5) I am running a 5k on Thanksgiving and perhaps another on Friday. Today, I am linking up with Jessica @Home Take 2 for Wonderful Wednesday. Please stay tuned for Thankful Thursday and please comment any turkey day tips you may have. (I really need the help!)