Friday, March 7, 2008

Head in the Game

OMG I read Jenn's blog today and I am so happy for her! She has reached her goal! AND that IS so awesome! I read her post and tears just streamed down my face.... she is so awesome.... what an acomplishment! I have to say.... so many of you are so much more important than you even know.... to those of us out here that totally need your support.... even if you think it is mundane.... You all don't even know. For example.... Here is Jenn... totally awesome and reaching her goal after, I don't know how long..... but a weight loss of 50 or more pounds, and finally at her goal. That is SOOOO awesome.... I just HAVE to continue to sing her praises.... because I am just BLOWN AWAY!
I was just telling Tim how I was feeling so discouraged, because I have been so hungry this last week and feeling like I need a break and all that "quitting" like stuff.... and then there is Jenn who has totally persevered through it all..... THANK YOU so much.... because, now I am thinking..... you know.... I really CAN do this too!

OK... so about me today... I weighed in this morning at 246.5... so down 1.5 from my yesterday's gain.... so back on track and much more encouraged to continue on. My plan is 10 more days on the vlcd and I have a goal of a total loss of 25 pounds. I am currentlyat 17.5 pounds down.... so only 7.5 pound to go.... YES... I can do it for this round! I just really need to keep my head in the game.... and that is where Jenn has really helped me today!

Any extra encouragement is totally welcome right now! Thanks so much for all your help!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Argggggh I GAINED

R1- D27 Starting weight 264; Yesterday's weight 247- Today's weight 248 - gain 1 pound arhhhhhg!

It's all my fault!!! I totally cheated yesterday. I was so hungry! It started with "taking a bite" of my daughter's blueberry pancake. (I don't even like pancakes!) Then I ate a hard boiled egg on gluten free toast. For lunch I went to applebee's with a friend and ate the "weightwatchers" portobella steak... a whopping 320 calories all by itself! a little later I ate some french onion (full of sodium) soup complete with havarti cheese and a ceasar salad with shrimp (No dressing, no croutons.) Then, when I got home, I had to "just take a bite" of the roast pork that I had thrown in the slow cooker for the family in the morning. I am not sure of the total calories, but I am sure that I was at least double for the day. I don't know why I sabbatoged myself like that! especially after such a good loss the day before! I think this diet is such a head game sometimes!

Oh well.... new day, new start.

To my dear commenting friends...
Becca, thanks for stopping by! I did my 2nd injection this morning and again, didn't feel a thing. I can't believe I was such a wimp before! LOL I did a LOT of reading up on the mixing for injection part before I did the mix, and my DH equivalent, Tim, helped me a lot! I have zero medical experience, but he used to be a nurses aid in a hospital, so he showed me how to use a syringe and mix the bac water. We were laughing so much at me! LOL

Ed & Jen.... Yep, officially in the shooters up club! OMG my mother would die if she heard me say that! I don't think I will tell her.... EVER! (I have a loser brother drug addict.... my mom has gone through so much with him.)
I did have a good loss... but this morning a gain Ugghhh I weighed myself 4 times to see if I could possibly fudge a little (Playing my head games) .... but NO solidly at 248 this morning.

Ewewho... I'm glad you found me again! No, I mixed this batch differently than the drops. I used a modified version of "Gloria's" recipe for my initial SL mixture, complete with B-12 and vodka. But I have read that if you mix for injection with just the bac water, that it works sublingually as well. Any experience with that? Let me know.... I always like having options!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

First Time-

Starting weight 264 - R1 D26 -Yesterday's weight 249, Today's weight 247 - DOWN 2 - Woo Hoo

Today was a real milestone! My very first injection ever!

I had been using the sublingual method since I started with hCG. But yesterday I ran out of drops and so last night, while mixing, I decided to go with an injection mix, since I had all the supplies. I was kind of freaked out by the whole needle thing, though.... so I wasn't real sure about it. I had read on the board that some mixed with less liquid so that they didn't need to inject as much per dose. That sounded good to me, so that's what I did.

Anyway, not being privy to anything medical at all.... I did my science experiment last night.... figured all the math and made my mixture. This morning I got up and filled the syringe with my .5 cc dose and just "popped" it in my stomach (where there is plenty of belly fat) and that was that! I didn't even feel it! WOW - No longer an injection virgin!

I was also VERY happy to see that I had dropped 2 pounds since yesterday. Last week was so discouraging with TOM and everything. I was beginning to think I was "stuck". But things are heading south again... I wish I were heading south... It is so freakin cold here! LOL I'd really like to see (and feel) some sunshine!

To my dear commenting friend(s).....
Jen - Thanks so much for the encouragement! I am finally kind of getting all this stuff down. I think you really have to go through it all to understand the whole experience. Being on R1, I still consider myself a newbie. I'm sure there are even more things that will come up while following this diet... But I am so amazed that there is actually something out there that is working for me.

I like my wine now and then too! But will try to keep it to a minimum and plan it for the weekends. Thanks also for the tip on linking to other blogs too. I will get that done this week when I have a chance to spend a bit of time on it!

Monday, March 3, 2008

Back on track after TOM

Hi all!
I've been kind of out of it lately. Just trying to do too many things and not keeping up on my blog very well! This has been a tough week because of TOM and because I haven't lost stinkin pound since.... I don't know when! I am still at the 250 mark. I was hoping to have at least gotten into the 240's by now.... but Nope... still sitting here at 250. I also had a little cheat day if you can count a whopping 736 calories cheating.... but I guess it surely is! (I drank 2 glasses of red wine! Got a little tipsy and truly enjoyed the evening! LOL) Oh well.... today I am back on track!

Today's menu was 4 strawberries with coffee fo breakfast. A lettuce salad with chicken for lunch and stewed tomatoes with prawns and melba toast for dinner. I also had an apple for afternoon snack. That puts me at 486 calories for the day. Not too bad.

to my commentors from my long past post...
Lili - Thanks for stopping by... and thanks for the encouragement. It truly does help to have new friends stop by and encourage me.

Jen... I can't wait to try some more stevia. I finally found it at super supplements in my town, and got some of the dark chocolate... which is ok in hot water, but not that great in my coffee. I think I will get some of the lemon and vanilla cream for soda water... that sounds really good. I need to figure out how to link to your blog.... One of these days I will get this tech thing figured out! LOL

OK...onward to a new day... And I am looking forward to being DOWN tomorrow! Bye bye for now!