Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Day 20...Half Way Mark!
Well, Today is my day 20, I have 20 more days to go until the end of round 1. I have decised that I will only be weighing once a week. It just seems easier for me to step up on the scale once a week instead of daily, I'd rather find that I lost 3 pounds in a week then to see I only lost a half a pound or lost nothing at all from day to day. Anyway thats just my pereference on it. I will be weighing one Tuesdays from now on. I first started out waiting a week to weigh because I had a bad day on day 13 I mixed 3 veggies, and ate 2 Melba toast at the same time, when I hadn't even been eat any Melba toast at all, I've had some pretty hard days but, somehow have made it through them, I went a week and didn't weigh until Yesterday and I had lost 2.5 pounds during last week. It was just so much better for me mentally doing it that way. It's so hard to stay strong when you get on the scale and find you haven't lost "anything" at all, (Not that this has happened to me, cause it hasn't!) But.... I can't help but think about getting on the scale to find no loss at all, so.....I'm choosing to simply weigh once per week to help mestay strong for these last 20 days! I look at it like this.... You do whatever you have to do to get through these 40 days!!!!! My last day for drops will be October 7th. so my last weigh in for round 1 will be October 11th exactly 3 weeks from today. I'm being realalistic here by saying I hope more then anything I will loose at least 10 more pounds by October 11th. I'm sure the weight loss gets to a slow point after lossing 20 pounds in just 19 days, I will continue to drink all my water, and eat only the foods allowed to give myself a fair shot at getting off 10 more pounds in the next 20 days! I may not blog again until next Tuesday which will be my 27th day, unless I have a horrible day and feel that I need to get it out here in a blog! (lol) I will continue to get on here and check out all my other hcg friends progress, just didn't want anybody thinking I had fallen off the waggon! (lol) Until next Tuesday my HCG friends... Have A Blessed Week!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Day 15
Hello & Good Morning Followers!
I don't really have much to blog about Today. I had a great day Yesterday, in fact I was thinking last night how I wished "every"day of the hcg diet could be as easy, and smooth as the day I had Yesterday! For lunch I ate Tilapia, with broccoli, and then had 7 strawberries. For supper I had grilled shrimp, with spinach in apple cider vinegar, with a yummy apple for my bedtime snack. I drank over a gallon of water and had 2liters of green tea sweetened with Stevia. I didn't weigh again Today simply because it's my TOM and I prefer not to weigh when it's my TOM simply because I don't want to be disappointed, I'd rather just not know, and wait a few days then weigh and be surprised. I'm surely not gaining, I'm eating only what I'm allowed, and making sure to drink more then the recommended amount of water, with NO cheats of any kind, I'm looking at it as, it can't be too bad waiting 3 or 4 days to weigh, when I'm doing everything right. I will be sure to blog Saturday what I've lost or gained during these days of not weighing. I do know one thing.... My wedding band is so loose on my finger I'm afraid of loosing it, especially when I wash my hands! I will say.... I do wonder if I've lost, but the curiosity isn't enough to make me step on the scale, during my TOM, so..... I'll wait until Saturday morning! Hope all of you have a wonderful day! Until next time friends......
I don't really have much to blog about Today. I had a great day Yesterday, in fact I was thinking last night how I wished "every"day of the hcg diet could be as easy, and smooth as the day I had Yesterday! For lunch I ate Tilapia, with broccoli, and then had 7 strawberries. For supper I had grilled shrimp, with spinach in apple cider vinegar, with a yummy apple for my bedtime snack. I drank over a gallon of water and had 2liters of green tea sweetened with Stevia. I didn't weigh again Today simply because it's my TOM and I prefer not to weigh when it's my TOM simply because I don't want to be disappointed, I'd rather just not know, and wait a few days then weigh and be surprised. I'm surely not gaining, I'm eating only what I'm allowed, and making sure to drink more then the recommended amount of water, with NO cheats of any kind, I'm looking at it as, it can't be too bad waiting 3 or 4 days to weigh, when I'm doing everything right. I will be sure to blog Saturday what I've lost or gained during these days of not weighing. I do know one thing.... My wedding band is so loose on my finger I'm afraid of loosing it, especially when I wash my hands! I will say.... I do wonder if I've lost, but the curiosity isn't enough to make me step on the scale, during my TOM, so..... I'll wait until Saturday morning! Hope all of you have a wonderful day! Until next time friends......
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Day 14
WOW! I just really don't know where to start with Today's blog. Yesterday was a good day up until about 6:00 Yesterday evening.... I'm not even sure exactly what happened that triggered the spiral down fall of my evening, I guess that's the mystery part of it all. I are my lunch which was 100g of ground beef (hamburger) 1 whole Roma tomatoes and an apple, then I went and ran my afternoon bus route, all day long I had drank over a gallon of water, everything was just fine and normal until....6:00pm. My alarm on my cell phone went off and I knew what it was for....Time for my evening drops! But.... I sat here and I thought, I'm DONE with this hcg diet...DONE! I'm so done I'm not even going to take my evening drops, and I didn't! I went into the kitchen, grilled my 100g of chicken, cut up 2 cups of lettuce, took the cucumbers out of the refrigerator that had been soaking in apple cider vinegar, cut up a Roma tomato added all "THREE" veggies together, added my chicken, opened up a package of Melba toast (That I've had since day 1 of this diet, but never ate) and I went out on my front porch and ate ALL of my salad and 2 Melba toast, and boy was it yummy good! I came inside got the twins in bed, watched a little TV, then went to sleep, had a hard time going to sleep, but....I finally did. I woke up at 2:15am and all I could think about was me "not" taking my drops.... I was so upset about that! I laid there thinking, do I really want to be finished with this diet? My heart was so upset and I realized right then and there, I "did" want to finish my 26 days of my 40 days. So...I got up right then and took my drops yup, I took them at 2am and knew I was going to finish this diet, I was going to be the WINNER not my crazy, weird whatever that was that told me I was DONE! Well, I think I know what caused me to get all weird and crazy....I got my TOM also at 2am. I have a pretty good feeling my behavior from last night had "something" to do with that!
I did "not" weight this morning at all, simply because I knew I'd weigh heavier due to my TOM, and because I mixed 3 different veggies, and ate 2 Melba toast at the same time, and I know all of that is a no no on this diet! I will say this.... I never one time even thought about eating anything bad, even though I thought I was DONE! I never touched a cookie, brownie, cheese balls, popcorn, granola bar, not even the bag of Candy Corn, (and that's my favorite candy too!) No soda pop, milk, juice, NOTHING at all like that, all I wanted was what I had a salad with more then just lettuce, and I wanted those 2 Melba toast. I will not weigh until my normal time 5:45 on Saturday morning, I'm hoping and praying that will give my body enough time to fix eating the 3 veggies all at once and the 2 Melba toast together, and perhaps have some time for my TOM water gain to leave. So.... I will be excited to see Saturday morning arrive! OK, so everything is back on track for me today took my morning drops as usual and my afternoon drops too, and I fixed 100g of Tilapia, with 1 cup broccoli, and 7 strawberries. I'm staying on the right path from here on out, I truly believe it took me going through what I did last night to make me realize, I really do want this!!!! Until next time my blogger friends.....Have A Blessed Day!
I did "not" weight this morning at all, simply because I knew I'd weigh heavier due to my TOM, and because I mixed 3 different veggies, and ate 2 Melba toast at the same time, and I know all of that is a no no on this diet! I will say this.... I never one time even thought about eating anything bad, even though I thought I was DONE! I never touched a cookie, brownie, cheese balls, popcorn, granola bar, not even the bag of Candy Corn, (and that's my favorite candy too!) No soda pop, milk, juice, NOTHING at all like that, all I wanted was what I had a salad with more then just lettuce, and I wanted those 2 Melba toast. I will not weigh until my normal time 5:45 on Saturday morning, I'm hoping and praying that will give my body enough time to fix eating the 3 veggies all at once and the 2 Melba toast together, and perhaps have some time for my TOM water gain to leave. So.... I will be excited to see Saturday morning arrive! OK, so everything is back on track for me today took my morning drops as usual and my afternoon drops too, and I fixed 100g of Tilapia, with 1 cup broccoli, and 7 strawberries. I'm staying on the right path from here on out, I truly believe it took me going through what I did last night to make me realize, I really do want this!!!! Until next time my blogger friends.....Have A Blessed Day!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Day 13
Hello HCG Friends!
I was unable to blog yesterday first it was because I had such a hectic day until about 7:30 last night, but then when I finally got the time to blog, my Internet was down, and didn't come back up until this morning! Day 12 Yesterday was not a real good day for me anyway, I still would have blogged about it, if I could have, but.... I got up Yesterday and weighed, only to find that I had gained a half a pound, I was pretty upset about that, simply because there was absolutely no explanation for it at all, I had drank almost 2 gallons of water, ate only the allowed foods, NO Cheats at all, and still gained! It's so hard to eat just 500 calories per day just to get up to weigh and find you've gain anything, even just a half a pound. As much as I hated it, I didn't let it get the best of me, nor did I allow it to give me a reason to cheat, I stayed strong and kept on chugging along to get through the day! I did just that, I even went to bed early, I guess that was because I had such a busy day, I was extra tired. Anyway... I got up this morning and weighted at my normal time, to find, that I lost 2.5 pounds!!!! I had to step off the scale and back on it at least 5 different times, to make sure it was correct, and...IT WAS!!!!!! I was so excited, I could hardly see straight! This makes my total weight loss of 17 pounds in 11 days! I'm so very happy and proud of that! It sure helps to make my hardest days 9, 10, & 11 more worth it! I realize I'm going to have good days and bad days, and this diet is not anything easy, but hopefully will be so worth it in the end! I will post my lunch here in a few hours, until then.... Have A Blessed Day Friends!
I was unable to blog yesterday first it was because I had such a hectic day until about 7:30 last night, but then when I finally got the time to blog, my Internet was down, and didn't come back up until this morning! Day 12 Yesterday was not a real good day for me anyway, I still would have blogged about it, if I could have, but.... I got up Yesterday and weighed, only to find that I had gained a half a pound, I was pretty upset about that, simply because there was absolutely no explanation for it at all, I had drank almost 2 gallons of water, ate only the allowed foods, NO Cheats at all, and still gained! It's so hard to eat just 500 calories per day just to get up to weigh and find you've gain anything, even just a half a pound. As much as I hated it, I didn't let it get the best of me, nor did I allow it to give me a reason to cheat, I stayed strong and kept on chugging along to get through the day! I did just that, I even went to bed early, I guess that was because I had such a busy day, I was extra tired. Anyway... I got up this morning and weighted at my normal time, to find, that I lost 2.5 pounds!!!! I had to step off the scale and back on it at least 5 different times, to make sure it was correct, and...IT WAS!!!!!! I was so excited, I could hardly see straight! This makes my total weight loss of 17 pounds in 11 days! I'm so very happy and proud of that! It sure helps to make my hardest days 9, 10, & 11 more worth it! I realize I'm going to have good days and bad days, and this diet is not anything easy, but hopefully will be so worth it in the end! I will post my lunch here in a few hours, until then.... Have A Blessed Day Friends!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Day 11...
As I type out day 11, I can't help but wish I were typing out day 37! Everyday I think to myself, how did I make it through yet another hcg day? I will report I have yet to have a cheat of "any" kind. but, man have these last 2 days been HELL! I do not understand it, perhaps it's due to the weekend, I'm having to be around more of the temptations with cooking for my family... I could just have my husband take them out for meals, but, as a mother I enjoy cooking meals for my family, I have always been that way! Not o mention my family loves to eat my cooking! As soon as I finish my daily blog, I told my husband I would fix Texas toast french toast with bacon, so see.... Then for supper I'm fixing them Turkey roast with loaded mashed potatoes with seasoned green beans & cream style corn, with yeast rolls. While I eat my boring 500 calorie hcg supper. Ugh! I'm crossing my fingers that Tomorrow Thur Thursday will be much better for me. Next weekend will be a doozy simply because the kids are out of school Friday, so that will be another long weekend like we had for Labor Day weekend. I'm not looking forward to that at all. Oh well, better get read for it, cause it's coming! I can feel Fall in the air, perhaps that too has a little to do with my mood and attitude.... I love everything about Fall! The weather, the smell of the air, blue jeans & hoodies, pumpkins & mums, the colored leaves on the trees and ground, bon fires with S'mores, apple cider, candy corn, Carmel corn balls, oh how the list goes on, and, on, and, on, and......Well you get the idea here! Oh and did I mention....Red Lobster is having there Shrimp Fest going on right now...All you can eat 5 different ways for 15.99 OMG! I want to go to Red Lobster, I look so very forward to when they have that deal going on! I guess you can see.... I'm still in my funk Today, and I'm sorry to be this way, but.... I just can't seem to shake it! I got up this morning not quite as early as I normally do, I guess it was about 8:15 I got on the scale and....I've lost another 1/2 pound. This is the 4th morning of losing 1/2 a pound. Not sure why it's just a half a pound when I'm taking in all my water and then some, eating only the allowed foods, not to mention I'm not even eating any Melba toast or the Grissini bread sticks. Not even the tiniest cheat for the entire time I've been on phase 2. So, I'm doing everything right, but for some reason my body only wants to let go of a 1/2 pound per day. I'll take that, not complaining, really I'm not. This makes my weight loss of 15 pounds in 9 days ( I never count my 2 loading days on my weight loss) I'm very happy & proud about this accomplishment. Today is Sunday, so I will be posting my measurements later in the afternoon, I've designated Sundays as my measuring days. I will mention also that I've noticed in the last 5 days that my lips and tongue are severely dry, not my whole mouth just my lips & tongue....Strange I know... Just thought I'd through that in there in case anybody else has that issue, they won't think they are alone. Well, I guess I'll go feed my family some brunch, wish me luck....Please!
It's 2:50pm and I'm back with my measuremants....
Measurements on 9-1-11 Measurements on 9-11-11
Upper Arm 14" Upper Arm 14"
Waist 41" Waist 37"
Hips 54" Hips 53`1/2"
Bust 44" Bust 41`1/4"
Thighs 30`1/2" Thighs 29`1/2
Total Inches 169.5" Total Inches 161"
That's a total of 8`1/2 inches lost in 9 days! AWESOME!... I still want Red Lobster tho! Ugh!
For my 9th VLC Diet Lunch I had 100g of Whiting Fish ( didn't care for it) 1 Cup broccoli, and an orange.
It's 2:50pm and I'm back with my measuremants....
Measurements on 9-1-11 Measurements on 9-11-11
Upper Arm 14" Upper Arm 14"
Waist 41" Waist 37"
Hips 54" Hips 53`1/2"
Bust 44" Bust 41`1/4"
Thighs 30`1/2" Thighs 29`1/2
Total Inches 169.5" Total Inches 161"
That's a total of 8`1/2 inches lost in 9 days! AWESOME!... I still want Red Lobster tho! Ugh!
For my 9th VLC Diet Lunch I had 100g of Whiting Fish ( didn't care for it) 1 Cup broccoli, and an orange.
For my 9th VLC Diet Supper I fixed 100g grilled chicken, and 1 Cup cucumbers in apple cider vinegar, and my Strawberries for my bedtime snack.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Day 10....
I've made it on this diet 10 days with NO cheats! It's been 1 week on the VLC diet part aka...Phase 2. Also found that when I got on the scale this morning, I had lost another .5 pound, with a total of 14.5 pounds in 7 days ( not counting the 2 loading days here.) OMG! Yesterday was so hard,( my first super hard day) I was at Wal*Mart trying to pick-up a few things, and "everything" I saw I wasn't to taste it, like my mouth was just salivating so bad, it was as if I was holding water in my mouth! I saw a huge barrel of cheese balls, have I mentioned I absolutely love those & cheeto's? Yeah, well I do! Then it was granola bars, and then it was a thousand other things that I could just imagine myself tasting.... I don't know what it was about yesterday but....I had to leave Wal*Mart right then and there! Came home and cried. It may sound silly, but it's the truth, I just felt so blah about seeing all the yummy food that I wasn't allowed to eat! Not just the junk food, cause I'm not a huge junk food eater, but... having a few cheese balls, or 2-3 Oreo's I would do from time to time. I want a salad so bad with 5 or 7 different veggies, and I want a can of tuna, and I want a baked pot.too! I knew this diet would not be easy, not easy at all. I just wasn't prepared for the day that i had Yesterday, It was awful....Really! I ended up calling my cousin Jeana and she talked with me, and help me through the difficult moment, just telling me it was 40 days not the rest of my life, that it would be so worth it in the end. All the things I already knew, just hearing it from somebody else, who's been through it, just helped my get past it! So... I went back to Wal*Mart after my son's little league football game this morning, and bought the kids the barrel of cheese balls, and the Oreo's, and a few other kid friendly foods, and then bought myself some strawberries, and a head of lettuce, 4 more cans of Alien Mucus, 3 more grapefruits, 4 more oranges, oh and some whiting fish. Took my afternoon drops, brewed some green tea, and then fixed my lunch.
Here is what I ate for my 8th VLC Diet lunch Today, It was.... 100g of grilled shrimp, w/ a little under 1 cup of Spinach w/ apple cider vinegar, and a half of grapefruit. It was good!
Here is what I ate for my 8th VLC Diet lunch Today, It was.... 100g of grilled shrimp, w/ a little under 1 cup of Spinach w/ apple cider vinegar, and a half of grapefruit. It was good!
For my 8th VLC Diet supper I fixed 100g of grilled chicken, w/ 3 Cups shredded lettuce I put my hcg friendly Vinaigrette salad dressing on it, it's clear in color so you can't see it on there, but it's there. Also there are my strawberries, which I always save my last fruit for my bedtime snack.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Day 9
Hello Followers!
I know I'm very late on blogging Today, I guess that's what I get for my hubby being off work on Fridays! ( That's ok, cause I love it!) So...Just know for future Friday blogs...They will be late! I had a great day Yesterday, everything wet smooth, and still absolutely no cheats, not even a lick of a finger....Awesome!...Right? Well, got up this morning at my usual time, and did my usual thing, stripped and stepped up on the scale to find.... I lost another .5 pound. Again I'm great with that! YIPEE that makes 14 pounds total in 7 days ( I'm not counting the 2 loading days here!) I went to the grocery last night to get some Alien Mucus AKA.... spinach. (A blogger friend calls it that, and I will never look at spinach the same way after reading her blog about her experience with it... Needless to say, she didn't like it) I on the other hand love it, always have! Not a whole lot to report Today, I am going to my middle daughter's High School Football game tonight, (she's a cheerleader,) Didn't want you thinking she was a football player! LOL! and we are going to video her and watch the game. So that will be a couple hours of keeping me busy, and not thinking about "food!" Well, at least until I start seeing boxes of popcorn, and Nachos, and candy bars, Mmmmmm.... What was I thinking? Oh well, I'll have my trusty green tea in hand, so... I'll be fine...Really I will!
Here is my 7th VLC Diet lunch, Today's menu was... 100g of grilled chicken, with 1 cup spinach in apple cider vinegar, and my tasty Gala apple. It was an Amazing lunch...Alien Mucus and all! (lol)
I know I'm very late on blogging Today, I guess that's what I get for my hubby being off work on Fridays! ( That's ok, cause I love it!) So...Just know for future Friday blogs...They will be late! I had a great day Yesterday, everything wet smooth, and still absolutely no cheats, not even a lick of a finger....Awesome!...Right? Well, got up this morning at my usual time, and did my usual thing, stripped and stepped up on the scale to find.... I lost another .5 pound. Again I'm great with that! YIPEE that makes 14 pounds total in 7 days ( I'm not counting the 2 loading days here!) I went to the grocery last night to get some Alien Mucus AKA.... spinach. (A blogger friend calls it that, and I will never look at spinach the same way after reading her blog about her experience with it... Needless to say, she didn't like it) I on the other hand love it, always have! Not a whole lot to report Today, I am going to my middle daughter's High School Football game tonight, (she's a cheerleader,) Didn't want you thinking she was a football player! LOL! and we are going to video her and watch the game. So that will be a couple hours of keeping me busy, and not thinking about "food!" Well, at least until I start seeing boxes of popcorn, and Nachos, and candy bars, Mmmmmm.... What was I thinking? Oh well, I'll have my trusty green tea in hand, so... I'll be fine...Really I will!
Here is my 7th VLC Diet lunch, Today's menu was... 100g of grilled chicken, with 1 cup spinach in apple cider vinegar, and my tasty Gala apple. It was an Amazing lunch...Alien Mucus and all! (lol)
My 7th VLC Diet Supper tonight, it was 100g of grilled Flounder, 100g of asparagus, with my juicy orange, that I took to the football game to eat, while everybody else had nacho's & popcorn!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Day 8
Well, here I am 1 week later after starting this hcg diet journey! Mmmm, seems kinda deceiving to say it's been 1 week, when the first 2 days were not a diet at all, but it was last Thursday that I dedicated myself to this diet plan, through the fun time of loading and eating like a pig, actually I ate like 3 or 4 pigs, but anyway... To the 500 calorie diet for the next 40 days, but for me I have only 32 more to go, ( Hey, it beats 40!) and also to eating and maintaining my weight with being honest and watchful to not consume carbs, or sugars. I'm in this for the long haul. Once I set my heart and mind on something... LOOK OUT!
There is noway possible that I'm going to go through these 40 days, just to get to phase 3 and screw up all my hard work, not to mention the dedication it took to get me where I will be on my maintenance phase...Are you kidding me? This diet does not end after you've put in your 40 days.... This diet will be something we all must follow for the rest of lives, no...not the 500 calorie part, heck no! No will power or determination could last that long, but for sure the maintenance part of eating lots, and lots of veggies, eating a normal portion of protein, and making sure you get a couple fruits per day, and yes even eating carbs... The good carbs only though! I'm so happy that I've dedicated myself to this diet, although it's not been easy, and like I said I still have 32 days to go, but... I have to keep my focus on just Today, not Tomorrow or next week, it makes this journey even harder when I find myself looking at how many days i have left, perhaps it will be better once I get to the half way mark, which won't be until September 20th ( That's really not too far away!) But still.......
OK, so...I got up this morning did my usual routine, stepped up on the scale to find I lost .5 pound! I was very happy to see that! No... It wasn't my usual 2 pounds, or even 1.5 pounds, but....I'm perfectly fine with my .5 loss! I will be happy with "any"thing as long as it's not a gain, staying the same will be ok, as long as it's not just days & days in a row! ( if that happens... I will do the apple a day!) So...I'm down 13.5 pounds my first week, how awesome is that? I'll answer that....SUPER AWESOME! OK... it's time for my afternoon drops, and then lunch here pretty soon too. Until we blog again..... Have a Terrific Thursday My Followers!
Well, here it is...My 6th VLC diet lunch. It's 100g of grilled chicken w/ 1 cup of cucumbers in apple cider vinegar, and an orange.
My 6th VLC Diet Supper, it's 2 cups lettuce w/ 100g of shrimp with the very yummy HCG Vinaigrette dressing, along with my apple that I will eat as my bedtime snack. ( As always!)
There is noway possible that I'm going to go through these 40 days, just to get to phase 3 and screw up all my hard work, not to mention the dedication it took to get me where I will be on my maintenance phase...Are you kidding me? This diet does not end after you've put in your 40 days.... This diet will be something we all must follow for the rest of lives, no...not the 500 calorie part, heck no! No will power or determination could last that long, but for sure the maintenance part of eating lots, and lots of veggies, eating a normal portion of protein, and making sure you get a couple fruits per day, and yes even eating carbs... The good carbs only though! I'm so happy that I've dedicated myself to this diet, although it's not been easy, and like I said I still have 32 days to go, but... I have to keep my focus on just Today, not Tomorrow or next week, it makes this journey even harder when I find myself looking at how many days i have left, perhaps it will be better once I get to the half way mark, which won't be until September 20th ( That's really not too far away!) But still.......
OK, so...I got up this morning did my usual routine, stepped up on the scale to find I lost .5 pound! I was very happy to see that! No... It wasn't my usual 2 pounds, or even 1.5 pounds, but....I'm perfectly fine with my .5 loss! I will be happy with "any"thing as long as it's not a gain, staying the same will be ok, as long as it's not just days & days in a row! ( if that happens... I will do the apple a day!) So...I'm down 13.5 pounds my first week, how awesome is that? I'll answer that....SUPER AWESOME! OK... it's time for my afternoon drops, and then lunch here pretty soon too. Until we blog again..... Have a Terrific Thursday My Followers!
Well, here it is...My 6th VLC diet lunch. It's 100g of grilled chicken w/ 1 cup of cucumbers in apple cider vinegar, and an orange.
I found this website diyhcg.com and they had all kinds of hcg friendly food items, including the Grissini breadsticks they had traditional, garlic, and wheat, I bought 2 of them Traditional & garlic, not sure when I will start adding the breadsticks to my meals, as I've yet to eat any melba toast or Grissini Breadsticks since the start of my diet. I just went on and bought them incasr I feel I need to add them, if I don't use them on my 40 days, I can always add them when it's time to add good carbs later in phase 4. You also will see in the picture some Vinaigrette dressing it's zero everything and made with Stevia, it says on the bottle perfect for use on the hcg protocol! I'm going to try it on my shrimp salad tonight for supper, I'll let you know how it is, or how I think it is! (lol)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Day 7
Good Morning Followers!
I had a great day yesterday, and it was a pretty easy day, I guess due to the kids being back at school from the long Labor day weekend, and not home eating this or that or warming up yummy smelling food in the microwave, or me needing to fix food for them during the day like it's been for the past 3 days. I got up this morning, used the bathroom and stepped on the scale to find that I have lost yet another 2 pounds! I honestly was not expecting a 2 pound loss, NO.... Not because I cheated! But because I've been losing so much that I just really figured my weight would sorta level out to where I'm losing may a half pound to maybe a pound at most! So, needless to say I was pretty surprised about the 2 pounds, and NO I'm not complaining at all about it! Well, my coffee is ready, and I so very much need a cup, so... Until I post my lunch pictures.....Have a Wonderful Wednesday Friends! :-)
Here is my 5th VLC diet lunch for today. It's 100g of grilled chicken, w/ 100g of tomato, which I made into tomato soup (recipe from another blogger whom I follow) and my sweet tasty apple. Such a yummy yummy lunch, I must say!
I had a great day yesterday, and it was a pretty easy day, I guess due to the kids being back at school from the long Labor day weekend, and not home eating this or that or warming up yummy smelling food in the microwave, or me needing to fix food for them during the day like it's been for the past 3 days. I got up this morning, used the bathroom and stepped on the scale to find that I have lost yet another 2 pounds! I honestly was not expecting a 2 pound loss, NO.... Not because I cheated! But because I've been losing so much that I just really figured my weight would sorta level out to where I'm losing may a half pound to maybe a pound at most! So, needless to say I was pretty surprised about the 2 pounds, and NO I'm not complaining at all about it! Well, my coffee is ready, and I so very much need a cup, so... Until I post my lunch pictures.....Have a Wonderful Wednesday Friends! :-)
Here is my 5th VLC diet lunch for today. It's 100g of grilled chicken, w/ 100g of tomato, which I made into tomato soup (recipe from another blogger whom I follow) and my sweet tasty apple. Such a yummy yummy lunch, I must say!
Here is my 5th VLC Supper, it's 100g of shrimp, w/ 100g of lettuce, It also has a yummy dressing on it, you just can't see it, the dressing is made up of Apple Cider vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder. Then there is a half of grapefruit, that I will save until my bedtime snack!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Day 6
Hello Followers!
I'm a little behind on my normal blogging time, it's been a bit crazy for me this morning. I got up at my normal time (5:30) stepped onto the scale and.....I lost another 1.5 pounds... YAY ME! I was very excited about that! My first day on the VLC diet I lost 4.5 pounds, on day 2 of the VLC diet I lost 5 pounds, I knew there was absolutely NO WAY I could/would continue to keep losing that much weight each morning, simply because if I were to keep losing like that, I would only weigh about 80 pounds at the end of my 40 day of HCG! (lol) But.... I'm was just as happy with the 1.5 pounds lost as I was to see both the 4.5 and the 5 pound loss the past 2 days. This makes my total weight loss of 11 pounds in 4 days. Heck yeah, I'm very pleased with that! I'm going to have and keep the attitude that anything is better then a stall, or gain! Even if I do happen to have a stall, especially when my TOM approaches, I'm NOT going to get all worked up over it, especially when I know whole hearted it's not a stall that is due to any type of cheat, If I'm following this diet to a T and drinking all my water, it will have to work itself out in a matter of time, I'm going to keep my chin up and know I'm doing everything right, and know that it will pass. Altho I will say I hope I don't have too many stalls, I'd just settle for a half of pound vs a stall, I'm sure all of you can totally agree! As you know if you read my blog from Yesterday, it was my daughter's 21st birthday, we had a Labor day cookout, along with cake and ice-cream , and you know.... it wasn't as bad as I truly thought it would be! I stayed indoors while the bar BQ chicken was out on the grill, because I knew how yummy that would smell, even though the windows on the house were all open due to the beautiful cool day we had, I could still smell the grill, (Oh how yummy it smelled!) so that was a little hard, then when my son-in-law brought in the bar BQ chicken oh that was pretty tough too, because the entire house smelled like grilled food. But...I MADE IT! The next hard time was when I took the lid off the birthday cake, Oh man, did my mouth ever water....I just stood there smelling the inside lid of the cake and imagining I was eating a slice while I was smelling it, but.... then I was thinking about all the fat and calories it that cake, and....I was perfectly fine, and never thought another thing about that cake, nor did I even think I wanted a slice! I truly believe that phase 2 of this diet is a lot of MIND over MATTER!!!!!!!!!!! So, I'm proud to say.... I did NOT have even the teeniest tiniest cheat Yesterday! I must say my determination runs deep! I will be posting my lunch photo soon, so until then.....Have a Terrific Tuesday!
Here's my 4th VLC lunch it is 100g of chicken and 100g of cucumbers, and an orange. I can't wait to eat it....YUMMY!
I'm a little behind on my normal blogging time, it's been a bit crazy for me this morning. I got up at my normal time (5:30) stepped onto the scale and.....I lost another 1.5 pounds... YAY ME! I was very excited about that! My first day on the VLC diet I lost 4.5 pounds, on day 2 of the VLC diet I lost 5 pounds, I knew there was absolutely NO WAY I could/would continue to keep losing that much weight each morning, simply because if I were to keep losing like that, I would only weigh about 80 pounds at the end of my 40 day of HCG! (lol) But.... I'm was just as happy with the 1.5 pounds lost as I was to see both the 4.5 and the 5 pound loss the past 2 days. This makes my total weight loss of 11 pounds in 4 days. Heck yeah, I'm very pleased with that! I'm going to have and keep the attitude that anything is better then a stall, or gain! Even if I do happen to have a stall, especially when my TOM approaches, I'm NOT going to get all worked up over it, especially when I know whole hearted it's not a stall that is due to any type of cheat, If I'm following this diet to a T and drinking all my water, it will have to work itself out in a matter of time, I'm going to keep my chin up and know I'm doing everything right, and know that it will pass. Altho I will say I hope I don't have too many stalls, I'd just settle for a half of pound vs a stall, I'm sure all of you can totally agree! As you know if you read my blog from Yesterday, it was my daughter's 21st birthday, we had a Labor day cookout, along with cake and ice-cream , and you know.... it wasn't as bad as I truly thought it would be! I stayed indoors while the bar BQ chicken was out on the grill, because I knew how yummy that would smell, even though the windows on the house were all open due to the beautiful cool day we had, I could still smell the grill, (Oh how yummy it smelled!) so that was a little hard, then when my son-in-law brought in the bar BQ chicken oh that was pretty tough too, because the entire house smelled like grilled food. But...I MADE IT! The next hard time was when I took the lid off the birthday cake, Oh man, did my mouth ever water....I just stood there smelling the inside lid of the cake and imagining I was eating a slice while I was smelling it, but.... then I was thinking about all the fat and calories it that cake, and....I was perfectly fine, and never thought another thing about that cake, nor did I even think I wanted a slice! I truly believe that phase 2 of this diet is a lot of MIND over MATTER!!!!!!!!!!! So, I'm proud to say.... I did NOT have even the teeniest tiniest cheat Yesterday! I must say my determination runs deep! I will be posting my lunch photo soon, so until then.....Have a Terrific Tuesday!
Here's my 4th VLC lunch it is 100g of chicken and 100g of cucumbers, and an orange. I can't wait to eat it....YUMMY!
Here is my 4th VLC diet supper it is 100g of shrimp with 100g of broccoli, and my apple for my bedtime snack!
Monday, September 5, 2011
Day 5.... Labor Day Cookout & My Daughter's 21st Birthday...This Will Be The Test!
WOW! I've made it to day 3 of the vlc diet without a singal cheat not even a lick of my finger! Has it been easy....Heck No! It's been quite the challenge that's for sure! Today will be a toughy I can fee it....It's Labor Day & My oldest daughter's 21st birthday! (YIKES!) We have plans to grill some bar bq chicken, have baked beans, homemade potatoe salad, chips & dip, and we couldn't leave out the Snickers ice-cream birthday cake now could we? See.... I told you it was going to be tough! But.... I will do this and get through this day without a single cheat I have complete faith in myself, for I know without a doubt none of the food which I have listed above is worth causing me to stall or not continue to lose the weight I've seen fall these past 2 days! That food or anyother bad food is not going to get the best of me not today, tomorrow, or even days, weeks, months, & years to come, I was thinking yesterday while I was cooking my family supper, which by the way was chicken bean burittos topped with cheese, salsa, sour cream, lettuce & tomato, and mexican rice, just had to through that in there for ya! (Sorry!) Even when I finish this round 1 of hcg it doesn't stop there unless I want to be back up 63 pounds, this is a forever change, I will choose to continue eat healthy, maybe not 500 calories per day kind of healthy but... Eating the same types of food we are having to eat on this diet, just more of that kind of food. I love all the food we are allowed to eat there is not a veggie I don't like, and I love fish, shrimp, and chicken, I never have been a red meat eater not at all. So the food on this diet is right up my ally, I just wish I could have more of it! I know without a doubt I will do great on the maintenance part of this simply because it's just what we're doing only you get more of the yummy foods we are eating now, I can't wait for phase 3! OK.... So I got up this morning at my usual time 5:30 used the bathroom and weighed......I've lost 5 pounds since my morning weigh in yesterday that's a total of 9.5 pounds in 2 days, do these drops work? I'd say so! I measured my self in the waist, thigh, upper arm, hips, and bust on my day 1 I'm only doing measurments on each Sunday and I didn't do yesterday simply because I just started on Thursday and it would have only been 3 days, so this comming Sunday 9-11-11 I will post my new measurments. Yesterday I did get weak feeling about 1:00 and to be honest I still feel that way, I took a hour nap and then got up and drank some water and it did help. I'm thinking and hoping that part gets better, or I just get more use to it. I've been posting pictures of my meals just to show my followers to help them to feel better about the food they are getting to eat, I think it helps mentaly when you see and know others are right there with you, surviving on the same kind of 500 foods. HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL!
Here is my 3rd VCL lunch for today It's 100g grilled chicken, half of a grapefruit, and 100g tomato with a 1/4 cup water, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and some cayenne. Thanks to another blogers recipe! It was mighty tasty that's for sure!
Here is my 3rd VCL lunch for today It's 100g grilled chicken, half of a grapefruit, and 100g tomato with a 1/4 cup water, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and some cayenne. Thanks to another blogers recipe! It was mighty tasty that's for sure!
Here is my 3rd VLC supper for Labor day & My daughter's 21st Birthday celebration! While everybody else had well.....The traditional cookout food. Here I have 100g of Flounder, 100g of asparagus, and my apple which I always save for bed time....About to slice it up NOW! =)
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Day 4... First weigh in on the VLC
Well, I made it through my first day of the VLC diet. I must say it wasn't too bad at all, I'm not sure if these days get easier, or if they get harder as we make our mark to day 40? I guess I'll just have to continue forward on this journey and see for myself. I really think round 2 has to be easier just for the simple fact, you kinda have a better idea as to what to expect and all that you've learned from round 1, so I have to believe you get wiser with the more you do this, that's just my thought on it. OK, so yesterday I got up and weighed and I had gained 4 pounds from my 2 loading days ( and boy did I load!) I said from the start of this diet I was going to do it right, or I was not going to do it at all, and I'm a woman of my word! So, after I weighed yesterday morning, I took my drops and and blogged while I waited for my coffee to brew, I had 2 good size coffee cups of black coffee with my Vanilla Creme stevia, then we went to my 9 yr old son's first little league football game that was suppose to start at 11:10 but didn't actually start until 12:45 ( I was pretty upset about that, simply because it was 100 degrees here yesterday and all those little guys were just soaking wet from sweat) Needless to say... I drank close to 4 liters of water just sitting at the football stadium with the hot sun beating down on us. Ok, we got home about 2:00 I took my drops and started fixing my lunch which was 100g of chicken grilled on my Geroge Foreman and 100g of asparagus and a half of a grapefruit. then we went shopping at the mall my middle daughter needed some blue jeans and my hubby wanted to try and find a good tripod for our video camera. Seems like everybody at the mall either had a waffle cone filled to the top with yummy ice-cream, of had a delicious cookie or brownie from the Great American Cookie Store, and I lost count on the people carrying cups of StarBucks coffee, my twins always get a cup of Dip-N-Dots when we go to the mall, so it was just one thing after another the entire time we we're there. I'm thinking to myself well, Shyla you'd just best get use to that, because the whole world is not ever going to be on this diet with you, and there are always, always going to be people & family for that matter who will be eating, sipping, licking, smacking, & chewing on things that are not allowed for you so....Pull up those big girl panties and stay strong and no matter what, DO NOT lose sight of that goal you so desperately want to reach! They funny thing about all those people I saw with all that yummy and fattening stuff, they all were over weight, and didn't need to be eating it them selves, and guess what? I'm still here alive and well this morning, so that means..... I didn't die because I couldn't or didn't get any of it! (lol)
Ok, so on to my supper last night, We got home from the mall and shopping about 5:00 I went to Wal*Mart and got a few things for me, Chicken breast, Shrimp, garlic powder, onion powder, apples, oranges, lemons, apple cider vinegar, ect.... I also picked up from the deli honey Bar B.Q. chicken, fried okra, and potato wedges for the family. Came in from Wal*Mart took my drops, fixed the kids plates, then started fixing my food, and that being 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and then I drank 32 oz of water and I was too full for my apple so I went into the kitchen cleaned up from the family, and sat down at the kitchen table and for 2 hours I weighed out my 5.58 pounds of fresh chicken breast I had just bought from Wal*Mart I took a small piece of Glad cling wrap laid it on the table then I would weigh out my 100g of chicken then wrap it up, then I continued to do that until all my chicken was weighed into 100g portions and individually wrapped, so now I have 21 packages of 100g chicken in my freezer, so all I have to do when I want chicken is pull out one of those wrapped up chickens and cook it, Jeez, that weighing took forever last night, I was so ready to be done with that! Ok so I finished all that, cleaned up again, then I decided I needed to eat my apple, it wasn't because I was hungry, but.... I just didn't want to leave out any of my important foods. I'm not doing the bread stick or the Melba toast right now, I may add it in at a little later time, but, for me I just didn't want it for now. So I ate my apple at 9:30 as my bedtime snack. I went to bed at 10:30. I woke up this morning scared to death to step on the scale, all I could think about was.....What if I step up on it, and I haven't dropped a single pound? I ate like a pig my 2 loading days, and gained that 4 pounds, and I was just so worried, those for pounds would still be there, and it was just more then I could stand to think about! I pulled my clothes off just dreading the move of placing my feet on that scale but, I knew they only way to find out was to just do it! So... I did! And I could not believe what I saw.... I stepped off the scale let it reset, then I stepped back onto it, and still could not believe y eyes, "HAD"to step off yet again, let the scale reset, and for the 3rd time I stepped back onto it, yup all 3 times the scale said the same number, so... I called my 21 yr. old daughter ( she'll be 21 tomorrow!) into the bathroom, had told her what I had lost, and she was like....NO WAY! she had to look, and again for the 4th time the scale read out that same number........ I lost 8.5 pounds!!!!!!!!!!! Kourtney ( that's my daughter's name) said OMG! that is so CRAZY! I told her, I know it is, I just can NOT believe I lost that much.... I'm totally blown away! After seeing that loss I truly believe I could eat a lunch of 100g of chicken, 100g of asparagus, and half a grapefruit, and have a supper of 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and an apple for a bedtime snack for the rest of my life!!!!!!! I will say that I did drink a little more then a half gallon of water yesterday as well, if my tummy started growling, I drank water and it helped so much. So, I have to wonder if the high water intake doesn't play a vital role in all this?!?! OK so that's my latest update on my HCG 40 Journey!
THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY LUNCH TODAY... 100g OF CHICKEN, 100g OF CUCUMBERS w/ APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, AND AN ORANGE.
FOR SUPPER I HAD 100g OF GRILLED SHRIMP & 100g OF BROCCOLI W/ MY APPLE WHICH I DIDN'T EAT UNTIL CLOSE TO BED TIME.
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Ok, so on to my supper last night, We got home from the mall and shopping about 5:00 I went to Wal*Mart and got a few things for me, Chicken breast, Shrimp, garlic powder, onion powder, apples, oranges, lemons, apple cider vinegar, ect.... I also picked up from the deli honey Bar B.Q. chicken, fried okra, and potato wedges for the family. Came in from Wal*Mart took my drops, fixed the kids plates, then started fixing my food, and that being 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and then I drank 32 oz of water and I was too full for my apple so I went into the kitchen cleaned up from the family, and sat down at the kitchen table and for 2 hours I weighed out my 5.58 pounds of fresh chicken breast I had just bought from Wal*Mart I took a small piece of Glad cling wrap laid it on the table then I would weigh out my 100g of chicken then wrap it up, then I continued to do that until all my chicken was weighed into 100g portions and individually wrapped, so now I have 21 packages of 100g chicken in my freezer, so all I have to do when I want chicken is pull out one of those wrapped up chickens and cook it, Jeez, that weighing took forever last night, I was so ready to be done with that! Ok so I finished all that, cleaned up again, then I decided I needed to eat my apple, it wasn't because I was hungry, but.... I just didn't want to leave out any of my important foods. I'm not doing the bread stick or the Melba toast right now, I may add it in at a little later time, but, for me I just didn't want it for now. So I ate my apple at 9:30 as my bedtime snack. I went to bed at 10:30. I woke up this morning scared to death to step on the scale, all I could think about was.....What if I step up on it, and I haven't dropped a single pound? I ate like a pig my 2 loading days, and gained that 4 pounds, and I was just so worried, those for pounds would still be there, and it was just more then I could stand to think about! I pulled my clothes off just dreading the move of placing my feet on that scale but, I knew they only way to find out was to just do it! So... I did! And I could not believe what I saw.... I stepped off the scale let it reset, then I stepped back onto it, and still could not believe y eyes, "HAD"to step off yet again, let the scale reset, and for the 3rd time I stepped back onto it, yup all 3 times the scale said the same number, so... I called my 21 yr. old daughter ( she'll be 21 tomorrow!) into the bathroom, had told her what I had lost, and she was like....NO WAY! she had to look, and again for the 4th time the scale read out that same number........ I lost 8.5 pounds!!!!!!!!!!! Kourtney ( that's my daughter's name) said OMG! that is so CRAZY! I told her, I know it is, I just can NOT believe I lost that much.... I'm totally blown away! After seeing that loss I truly believe I could eat a lunch of 100g of chicken, 100g of asparagus, and half a grapefruit, and have a supper of 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and an apple for a bedtime snack for the rest of my life!!!!!!! I will say that I did drink a little more then a half gallon of water yesterday as well, if my tummy started growling, I drank water and it helped so much. So, I have to wonder if the high water intake doesn't play a vital role in all this?!?! OK so that's my latest update on my HCG 40 Journey!
THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY LUNCH TODAY... 100g OF CHICKEN, 100g OF CUCUMBERS w/ APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, AND AN ORANGE.
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Saturday, September 3, 2011
Day 3 First day of VLC
I must say I really enjoyed my 2 loading days, but I must admit I'm really glad to see them behind me! I weighed this morning and I have gained 4 pounds from the 2 loading days, so I guess that's a sign I did a good job of it! Now I'm just hoping I didn't do so good of a job that when I get up tomorrow and weigh, I haven't gained another 2, 3, or 4 pounds. I'm telling you I ate like a fool my 2 loading days. For supper last night (my last real meal) I fixed spaghetti with Italian sausage, buttery garlic, cheesy bread, and for desert we had strawberry cheese cake. My oldest daughter, said "Mom, I love this diet your on!" Ha..Ha!
Her 21st birthday is Monday (Labor Day) and we always have a huge cookout with cake, ice-cream the whole 10 yards, so she ask me what are we cooking for my BIG day? I just gave her this look..... She said "oh that's right you'll be on you diet!" I told her that just because I couldn't eat, didn't mean the rest of the family had to suffer, so I told her to let me know what she wanted, and this Birthday would be NO different from the past 20 Birthday's she's had! She looked at me with her sweet smile and said....."I'll grill your fish for you!" ( too sweet... I know!) I am so very determined to rock this diet, and do everything just as the protocol says to do! I promise you won't see me asking if I can eat tuna,( even if it is in water) of if I can have yogurt, (even the sugar free kind.) And, I won't ask if I can use my coffee creamer ( and I love my coffee creamer!) Good Grief I've read so many silly thing on the HCG.com Facebook page of people asking if they can have this or that, I just sit here and think....Really people? If it's not listed on Pounds & Inches don't stick it in your mouth, and DON'T ask if you can have it.....The answer is NO!!!!!!!!! I have my entire heart & mind in this diet, not saying it'll be easy, or that I won't have hard days, but I'm very focused on this, and I know just how bad I want to reach my goal of 175, I am not going to mess that up and cheat myself out of my hard work, because nothing, nothing at all taste as yummy as what 175 looks like on my frame! If I fail at losing any weight it's not going to be because I didn't follow the rules that's for sure! I know this is just my 3rd day and my 1st day of the VLC diet, and it may just be easy for me to say this, but I know my determination for these next 40 days!
HERE ARE 2 PICTURES I'VE POSTED.... PICTURE #1 IS MY 1ST VLC LUNCH IT'S GRILLED 100g OF CHICKEN W/ 100g OF STEAMED ASPARAGUS & HALF OF A GRAPEFRUIT.
PICTURE #2 IS MY 1ST VLC SUPPER IT'S 100g OF GRILL FLOUNDER W/ 100g OF STEAMED BROCCOLI & MY APPLE WHICH I DIDN'T EAT UNTIL BED TIME.
Her 21st birthday is Monday (Labor Day) and we always have a huge cookout with cake, ice-cream the whole 10 yards, so she ask me what are we cooking for my BIG day? I just gave her this look..... She said "oh that's right you'll be on you diet!" I told her that just because I couldn't eat, didn't mean the rest of the family had to suffer, so I told her to let me know what she wanted, and this Birthday would be NO different from the past 20 Birthday's she's had! She looked at me with her sweet smile and said....."I'll grill your fish for you!" ( too sweet... I know!) I am so very determined to rock this diet, and do everything just as the protocol says to do! I promise you won't see me asking if I can eat tuna,( even if it is in water) of if I can have yogurt, (even the sugar free kind.) And, I won't ask if I can use my coffee creamer ( and I love my coffee creamer!) Good Grief I've read so many silly thing on the HCG.com Facebook page of people asking if they can have this or that, I just sit here and think....Really people? If it's not listed on Pounds & Inches don't stick it in your mouth, and DON'T ask if you can have it.....The answer is NO!!!!!!!!! I have my entire heart & mind in this diet, not saying it'll be easy, or that I won't have hard days, but I'm very focused on this, and I know just how bad I want to reach my goal of 175, I am not going to mess that up and cheat myself out of my hard work, because nothing, nothing at all taste as yummy as what 175 looks like on my frame! If I fail at losing any weight it's not going to be because I didn't follow the rules that's for sure! I know this is just my 3rd day and my 1st day of the VLC diet, and it may just be easy for me to say this, but I know my determination for these next 40 days!
HERE ARE 2 PICTURES I'VE POSTED.... PICTURE #1 IS MY 1ST VLC LUNCH IT'S GRILLED 100g OF CHICKEN W/ 100g OF STEAMED ASPARAGUS & HALF OF A GRAPEFRUIT.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Day 2 of Loading!
Well, Today marks day 2 of loading, I got up this morning at 5:30 used the bathroom and stepped on the scale to find that I only gained a half a pound after eating a huge apple fritter, a Frisco breakfast sandwich, and a medium size tater rounds ( from Hardee's) then a supremo P'Zone from Pizza Hut, a nutter butter blizzard from Dairy Queen, a huge brownie with coconut & pecan icing, a fried chicken fillet sandwich, and a large order of french fries. I never did get around to eating my 2 king size cad bars, I guess I will have to squeeze them in Today! It thinking that perhaps when I get on the scale in the morning I will show a bigger gain, at least I hope so! Good Grief that's a lot of eating in just one day, I never, ever eat like that.....I swear! But... I've read in a million different places that these 2 loading days are so very important, so I had my mind and menu made up, that I was going to do this right, or I just wasn't going to do it at all!!! I'd say I'm off to a great start! (lol) This morning for breakfast I had 3 large pancakes with tons of butter and syrup, and 2 sausage patties, Now it's lunch time and I'm about to do my drops then wait 20 minutes and go to Burger King for a double whopper, and onion rings. For supper tonight, I'm thinking maybe spaghetti with buttery cheesy bread, and I have got to remember to eat my King Size PayDay & Whatchamacallit before bedtime.
So... I just went and took my drops, and I just notice after I took them just now, that I've been measuring them all wrong with the syringe that came with them, jeez..... Just my luck, I tell ya! It's suppose to be .38 and I've been doing .42 I just caught it, and I am so mad at myself, here I've been trying so hard to make sure I only measure out exactly what I'm suppose to take each time, and being even extra careful not to spill them, I've read where a few people have spilt their drop, (OMGosh, I would just dye if I did that!) I so hope and pray due to my mistake of taking too much for the 5 doses ( 3 yesterday and 2 today) that I haven't cut myself short for my 40 days. My husband says for me not to worry about it, he say's I will have plenty, that the company is not going to cut it that close, I told him, he didn't know what he was talking about, because I have read where people have ran out of their drops before their days were up and they started their maintenance early..... I DO NOT want that to be me! Now, I'm going to be worrying everyday about these drops running out to soon for me! GRRRR! This is just my luck.... trying so hard to do it all perfect and here I'm taking too many drps, how did I mess that up? it even has a picture in the pamphlet that comes wth he drops.....Good Grief! Ugh.... I'm just in a funk now....
So... I just went and took my drops, and I just notice after I took them just now, that I've been measuring them all wrong with the syringe that came with them, jeez..... Just my luck, I tell ya! It's suppose to be .38 and I've been doing .42 I just caught it, and I am so mad at myself, here I've been trying so hard to make sure I only measure out exactly what I'm suppose to take each time, and being even extra careful not to spill them, I've read where a few people have spilt their drop, (OMGosh, I would just dye if I did that!) I so hope and pray due to my mistake of taking too much for the 5 doses ( 3 yesterday and 2 today) that I haven't cut myself short for my 40 days. My husband says for me not to worry about it, he say's I will have plenty, that the company is not going to cut it that close, I told him, he didn't know what he was talking about, because I have read where people have ran out of their drops before their days were up and they started their maintenance early..... I DO NOT want that to be me! Now, I'm going to be worrying everyday about these drops running out to soon for me! GRRRR! This is just my luck.... trying so hard to do it all perfect and here I'm taking too many drps, how did I mess that up? it even has a picture in the pamphlet that comes wth he drops.....Good Grief! Ugh.... I'm just in a funk now....
Thursday, September 1, 2011
DAY1
It's finally here....September 1st!
So I woke up at 5:00 am with a million thoughts running through my head about my fist day of the hcg. I didn't know if I was suppose to just jump up use the bathroom, weigh, take my drops, then take my shower, and head out for the am bus route, or.... If I was to get up use the bathroom, weigh, take a shower, then head out for my am bus route, then take my drops when I got home. I was just not sure of the exact order of how and when I was suppose to be doing all that I knew I had to do! Jeez talk about worried and stressed out for that first day! I ended up doing like this.... I got up used the bathroom, weighed, then took my shower. Then I went and put on a pot of coffee and at 6:30 I took my drops, fixed my coffee for the road, but, didn't take my first sip of it until 7:02. Then I came home and went to the doughnut shop down the road and got me a huge fresh from the grease apple fritter, ( I never get those, but I do get my son one from there maybe once a month) then at about 9:00 I want to Hardees and got a loaded Frisco breakfast sandwich, and hashrounds size medium! ( Needless to say... I'm so full) so, now I'm trying to think about lunch and I'm leaning towards a deep fried chicken sandwich with fries, or maybe a P'Zone from Pizza Hut, and I am going to D.Q for a Nutter Butter Blizzard sometime between now and bedtime tomorrow! ( Nothing like thinking ahead....Right?) Oh and I bought 2 yummy fatty Candy bars (Whatchamacallit, & PayDay) last week that I stashed away for these 2 glorious days of loading! Oh did I mention that they both are KING SIZE? Bahahaha! I'm making sure I do these 2 days right! I'm trying my best to not feel guilty about all this JUNK, it's had not to though, I'm not use to eating like this, I don't even allow my kids to do this, so I feel as though I'm being naughty and sneaky too, as if I'm doing wrong! ( Not a good feeling!) I'm not real sure how I'm going to pull this off again tomorrow, one day is bad enoug, but.... I keep reminding myself of how important these 2 days of loading are to this 40 day journey, I guess that's what's making me DO IT!
I was not sure about the water intake for these 2 loading days, I didn't know if on top of all this eating if I was suppose to be drinkin the 2liters- half gallon of water, so I ask the lady whom I spoke with about the 38 days v/s 40 days of drops, and she told me not to worry so much about drinking all the water on the 2 loadings days but for sure starting on day 3 make sure to drink all the required amount of water. (which I knew that) so, I'm still drinking water (cause that's my favorte drink anyway) I'm just not worrying about drinking a half gallon today!
I did tell that same lady how I took my morning drops at 6:30am but didn't actually eay any breakfast until after 8:30, she did tell me that when we take our drops, we need to wait 15 minutes before & after the drops to eat or drink anything, but...That I needed to eat within that hour of taking the drops. ( Something else I didn't know, but ask!) So, I have to leave out for my morning bus route at 6:40 each morning ( Mon-Fri) and I get home at 8:00am so I believe I'll just start taking my drops as soon as I get in at 8:00 and make sure I eat by 9:00am. Wait...... We don't get breakfast unless you count coffee, tea, or water breakfast? So.... Mmmmmm..... I guess I could still take my rops at 6:30 and just not sip on my coffee until 6:45....Right? Please comment on what you think about this idea.... Anyway.... This has been my 1st day thus far it's almost 11:00 so I suppose I should start thinking about Lunch, and I'm still plenty satisfied from my huge breakfast! I simply can't imagine doing these loading days for any longer then 2 days, good grief.... At this rate it wouldn't take me long to balloon up! (LOL)
So I woke up at 5:00 am with a million thoughts running through my head about my fist day of the hcg. I didn't know if I was suppose to just jump up use the bathroom, weigh, take my drops, then take my shower, and head out for the am bus route, or.... If I was to get up use the bathroom, weigh, take a shower, then head out for my am bus route, then take my drops when I got home. I was just not sure of the exact order of how and when I was suppose to be doing all that I knew I had to do! Jeez talk about worried and stressed out for that first day! I ended up doing like this.... I got up used the bathroom, weighed, then took my shower. Then I went and put on a pot of coffee and at 6:30 I took my drops, fixed my coffee for the road, but, didn't take my first sip of it until 7:02. Then I came home and went to the doughnut shop down the road and got me a huge fresh from the grease apple fritter, ( I never get those, but I do get my son one from there maybe once a month) then at about 9:00 I want to Hardees and got a loaded Frisco breakfast sandwich, and hashrounds size medium! ( Needless to say... I'm so full) so, now I'm trying to think about lunch and I'm leaning towards a deep fried chicken sandwich with fries, or maybe a P'Zone from Pizza Hut, and I am going to D.Q for a Nutter Butter Blizzard sometime between now and bedtime tomorrow! ( Nothing like thinking ahead....Right?) Oh and I bought 2 yummy fatty Candy bars (Whatchamacallit, & PayDay) last week that I stashed away for these 2 glorious days of loading! Oh did I mention that they both are KING SIZE? Bahahaha! I'm making sure I do these 2 days right! I'm trying my best to not feel guilty about all this JUNK, it's had not to though, I'm not use to eating like this, I don't even allow my kids to do this, so I feel as though I'm being naughty and sneaky too, as if I'm doing wrong! ( Not a good feeling!) I'm not real sure how I'm going to pull this off again tomorrow, one day is bad enoug, but.... I keep reminding myself of how important these 2 days of loading are to this 40 day journey, I guess that's what's making me DO IT!
I was not sure about the water intake for these 2 loading days, I didn't know if on top of all this eating if I was suppose to be drinkin the 2liters- half gallon of water, so I ask the lady whom I spoke with about the 38 days v/s 40 days of drops, and she told me not to worry so much about drinking all the water on the 2 loadings days but for sure starting on day 3 make sure to drink all the required amount of water. (which I knew that) so, I'm still drinking water (cause that's my favorte drink anyway) I'm just not worrying about drinking a half gallon today!
I did tell that same lady how I took my morning drops at 6:30am but didn't actually eay any breakfast until after 8:30, she did tell me that when we take our drops, we need to wait 15 minutes before & after the drops to eat or drink anything, but...That I needed to eat within that hour of taking the drops. ( Something else I didn't know, but ask!) So, I have to leave out for my morning bus route at 6:40 each morning ( Mon-Fri) and I get home at 8:00am so I believe I'll just start taking my drops as soon as I get in at 8:00 and make sure I eat by 9:00am. Wait...... We don't get breakfast unless you count coffee, tea, or water breakfast? So.... Mmmmmm..... I guess I could still take my rops at 6:30 and just not sip on my coffee until 6:45....Right? Please comment on what you think about this idea.... Anyway.... This has been my 1st day thus far it's almost 11:00 so I suppose I should start thinking about Lunch, and I'm still plenty satisfied from my huge breakfast! I simply can't imagine doing these loading days for any longer then 2 days, good grief.... At this rate it wouldn't take me long to balloon up! (LOL)
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