Where have I been?!?!?

Week three is now down for the count and I can't believe I haven't been on here since last Wednesday!  I have been so busy with grad school projects, dance, softball, and just life.  But  I have been going strong on this diet!  This week I was a little bit more hungry than usual and I cheated on Saturday night by having a sliver of ice cream cake and OH BOY did that treat me badly!  I was in the bathroom for an hour that night! Never again will I cheat!  I don't know why my body reacted that way but it did and it wasn't pleasant.  The good news was I still lost .2 the next weigh in, still I do not reccommend cheating! It kicks your butt! Literally! LOL!

Here is the total weight loss so far!

13.4 lbs!

Much better loss this week than last! This week, I was also WAY more comfortable and I am starting to visually see my results all over rather than just on the scale!  I am loving it.  Anyway, off to do more grad school work!!! AHHHH

What I was looking for...

So, did the tips that my coordinator told me to do, and guess what, this morning....I dropped 1.6 lbs! OH YEAH! That is what I was looking for.  She also got back to me with information from the doctor.  It seems that the possible "pain" I was feeling in thigh could be from water retention, which the HCG does.  Well after taking in some more fiber and getting rid of some waste (which I was having problems doing) I am pain free and more comfortable.  Plus, seeing my weight go down on the scale.  Awesome!!

So today, I was outside with the kids and my husband enjoying the cool, but nice weather...I miss being able to run around with them.  However; in 5 weeks time I will be able too!  I am counting down!

I am still hungry at times, but I eat either my fruit or melba toast and I am good to go until one of my meal times.  I love the oranges I have been eating! They are so sweet and filling that I could eat them all day and be fine!  I wish they weren't so expensive. 

Anyway here is a start to an awesome 3rd week!

Down for the Count....

Week 2 has come and gone.  The total weight loss to date....

9.2 lbs

Not nearly what I hoped for.  I spoke with my awesome coordinator about the possible side effects I am feeling, and she is checking with the doctor.  As for the weight loss issue, she said I should still be loosing .5 to 1 lb per day.  Well, thats not happing.  So, she gave me a couple of tips.  I now need to continue to drink the super slimming tea every night and up my fiber pills to 2, 3 times a day.  So, we will try this and see what happens. 

Today I want to reflect what I miss the most....

My morning coffee with Hazelnut creamer
Walking on the nice warm days
Eating out with my girlfriends
Eating Chocolate Cake!

But, I am doing well and I am ok with the change of lifestyle.  Here is to a better week!

On HIGH alert!

Side effects are a known fact with anything you do medically.  I put a call in to my coordinator today to talk about some of the possible side effects I am having which, are scary.  I can't determine whether or not I am freaking myself out or I should really be concerned.  One of the side effects are clotting.  I looked up symptoms and it is possible I only have one of the symptoms, leg pains.  However; I start to panic a little bit and find myself having shortness of breath.  I believe that is because I am panicing because once I calm down I am fine.

On top of the fear, I am 1. either getting sick, or 2. my allergies have started early this season! My nose is stuffy, ears are stuffed, throat is scratchy! UGH! And I don't know if I am allowed to take allergy medicine with this diet.  So again, I am waiting to hear from my coordinator to see if that is ok.

This morning when I weighed....I gained! Not much but...what the heck! Today I think was bound to be a bad day.  They said there would be a time where I may flucuate or hit a plateau, I hope that this is the only week that happens. 

Tommorow is official weigh-in post!

RANT!!!

Ok today is a day for ranting!  Feel free to rant with me!  I am a very open person, and when I choose to tell you something about my life, I am choosing to tell you not, that I am choosing you to tell me negative things about the decision I made.  I KNOW that this is an extreme diet, I KNOW that there is a possibility that I could fail in the end! I DON'T need people telling me this!  Instead, I should be supported whether you agree with my decision or not because, I would encourage you not put you down!  Being on a diet is hard enough, then to have people, that you shouldn't really care about their opinions, telling you negative things just brings more negative and hardship on the diet! UGH!!!  I have learned my lesson no more telling people anything but my VERY close friends and family!  Geez!

Other than that, diet is going well!  Feel free to rant today!

Slow down, Grad School, & Not Enough Time in the Day!

Ok I think the slow down of the weight loss is coming.  They warned me that there may be a period where the weight flucuates and some days I will loose a couple pounds and other days a couple ounces.  So that can be a little discouraging but I am still willing to continue to work at it.

So today will be a short post, because I am in Grad school and I have been working away on this conference topic which is really a opinion topic but we have to find scholarly references.  UGGHH! So I must carry on with that! Which means, that since I work full time, the only time I have is when I get home, and I must get dinner going for the rest of the fam and then make mine, plus do homework, housework, baths, etc....therefore, there is not enough time in the day for me to do all this.  P.S. I am EXHUSTED!!!

So the detox phase is over, but I am starting to really like the tea.  I have to save it for the transition phase though, so I am looking for some tea to supplement the coffee I am missing in the morning. 

Anyway, got to go finish up my homework!

Full Week....Drumroll Please.....

Today marks 7 days of injections and 5 days of the low calorie diet and for the five days of the low calorie diet I have lost a total of:

7.6 lbs!

So far the diet has worked, because that is about 1 lbs per day if you count the 2 days of loading.  I skip injections every 7th day, and today, I could feel the difference.  I was more hungry than I have been.  So what does that mean?  The HCG injections are working.  With them I am more full, without them, I am hungry. 

Tonight I really didn't feel like cooking (I was suppose to make chicken soup) so I decided to make something quick and easy.  Instead of lean meat, I can substitute 3 egg whites and 1 full egg.  I made that instead and ate that with a cup of romaine lettuce, and it was quite tasty!  and I was full after the meal. 

In addition, my keytone level raised to moderate today, whereas the past couple of days it was a trace and small.  The moderate means my body is really starting to get rid of the fat! Awesome! What's even better, I could tell the difference this time!

My mood has been good, my energy stable, and my hunger under control! Here is to another successful week ahead!

Fire! Fire!

So, the diet has been going good. I have managed to stick to the menu I prepared and two things I have eaten in the past two days have made my mouth spit flames!  All it calls for is a 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper and for some reason that stuff is HOT! (and I love spicy food).  I have managed to drink a liter of water before even finishing my dinner and in turn, I am extremely full!  So, the water thing does work! 

Anyway, yesterday I started the Ketosis stick measurements to see how well I am burning fat.  The problem with this is I have to match colors to the side of the bottle and it's hard to tell which color is which.  I wish those type of things would use very different colors, like PINK! it would be much easier to read.

The hunger is no longer an issue at all.  So, although this is an extreme method of loosing weight it is working and I am not hungry like they said when I initially started. The HCG must be working! 

Tomorrow, I will be on this for an entire week (including the loading phase) and can't wait to tell everyone what I have lost so far!

Better Day, Late Night

Yesterday was much better than Friday and I have to say that I am rather proud of sticking to it when I went out with friends to celebrate one of my best friends birthday.  We went to the movies, and I brought my orange and ate that during the movie.  Then we went to dinner at this wonderful resturant in downtown Frederick, Cacique's.  I ended up ordering a side of broccoli, which was not on the list of items I am allowed to eat but, I was desperate, I only had my super slimming tea at that point.  I waited until I got back to my other best friends house to eat my dinner that I made prior to leaving for the night and I did however; between the movie and dinner it was a little later than expected.  I would have blogged last night but by the time I got home I was exhusted.

I was less hungry today than I was on Friday, but I think that has something to do with the fact that I am more busy running around and sleeping in a little later at home, than at work.  We will see Monday if this is going to be an ongoing trend of being less hungry. 

I was going to do my first VLOG today, however; I am going to wait until I have been on it a whole week for the results to show, and believe me they are starting to show.  I can't see it visually yet, but according to my scale the number is going down.  So, the first video is probably going to be next sunday.

Here is to my Revolution 2010!

Hungry is a Nasty Word...

That I used all day today....

I was told that I would probably be hungry for the first couple of days, as well as have a headache and maybe moody.  Well, I was hungry and had a headache, but the girls at my office remained extremely positive for my sake. 

In my kit I recieved a binder prepared for me with a bunch of recipes that I decided to try out.  For lunch I had a Chicken Salad, which entails chicken rubed with spices and a cup of lettuce.  I had 1 (that's right one) Melba toast with it and it was very good.  For dinner I had Chicken Italia.  That included chicken with spiced up tomatoes on the top and bottom.  Not so good.  I don't like tomatoes but figured maybe I would like them with all the spices tossed on it.  WRONG! I still don't like them.  I included a yummy orange for my side and my 1 Melba toast.

I am now drinking the slimming tea as part of my detox phase, and again, not trying to sound picky but...I don't like tea.  However; I am going to be a soldier and drink it up.

The hardest part is sitting down with the rest of the fam while they eat what ever they want and I eat this strict food!  My husband is lucky to eat tons of junk and still be rail thin.  My girls are active and they burn off everything they eat too, but I am sure to watch their "junk food intake" as well.

I am staying strong and hopefully will be seeing results very soon. 

I wanted a revolution right?  Here is to truding on!

Eat Like a King...

Cuz, this is the last time you'll be eating that way for a while!

Day two of the "loading" phase has been wonderful!  I have eaten every unhealthy, fattening, high-caloric food there is in this world!  And the result....not feeling so hot, tired, and uncomfortable.  However; tomorrow is the begining of a very stressful number of days. 

This afternoon I prepared my menu for the next week and tonight I am prepping my lunch for tomorrow.  I am very sad that I can't do my morning routine of coffee with my yummy Hazelnut creamer!  Instead I will be drinking tea; which I am not fond of!

The injections are going well, except, Note to self-pick a FATTY spot to inject.  Otherwise it hurts like heck!  I am hoping they become a bit faster to do in the AM.  Currently, it takes me 5 minutes of staring at my stomach talking myself in to doing it! Then, I do it and wonder why I sike myself out b/c it doesn't hurt!

Here is to getting through my first day of the low-calorie diet tomorrow!  I will be checking in then!

WeightNOT! is Here

Finally the day has come to start the Reveal WeightNot diet!  I met with the doctor and WeightNot coordinator yesterday and everything was great that I could start today.  Here is the details!

It is a 45 day program where 40 of the days I give mysef HCG injections and 38 of the days on a low-cal diet.  How low-cal you may ask?  Try 500 calories out for size!!! AHH! I know, I about fell over too, however, the HCG injections help off set the calories.  There is absolutely no working out and a very strict diet!  VERY STRICT diet! Once I start that, I will give you more details.  Anyway, at least for the day one and two of the injections you get to pig out like it's 1999!  Oh yeah!  I have eaten everything I possibly could today and now I feel gross.  However, the purpose of this is to prepare your body for the low-cal diet.  It takes a couple of days for the body to register the HCG, so my body will be able to store food for a while until I get use to eating next to nothing!

Each day my goal is to reveal a little more about the program so that I give you every bit of information they have given me.  I got a huge kit that included syringes, a drop box for the syringes, the HCG perscription medicine, a food scale, a tape measure, supplements, and teas!  Also, a book prepare just for me! YAY!

So here is my current standings:

Height: 5'1"
Weight: 165.4 (whoa! I know!)

What is normal for my height and ages is between 120-130 lbs. and that is my goal.  Each day I will blog about my experience and every Sunday I will post a VLOG for an official weigh in.  You will get to see the scale numbers go down and everything! So subscribe! 

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