Snowpocalypse

I've been slacking on my blogging because we have had a ton of snow recently. My daughter had 9 snow days which means she has been home now for 13 days if you include the weekends. She goes back tomorrow thank goodness! 

It was really tough to stick with my diet because we loaded up on a bunch of high calorie non-perishable foods in case the power went out. We got about 25 inches out of 3 snow storms and even though we had four wheel drive I couldn't get to the gym because they were closed several days and then some sort of flu/stomach flu hit our house and both my husband and kids had fevers. My oldest daughter also puked several times. 

It has been a crazy few weeks. 

Anyway the good news is I've lost a decent amount of weight anyway. Adipex is great at controlling your appetite. Right now I am alternating. Some days I take half a pill, other days I take a full pill and some days like today I don't take any. My reasoning is my body won't get used to the dosing if I'm constantly changing it and it allows me to slowly build up my willpower. Today I didn't take any and I ate pretty well. i don't know my exact calories but I'd say it was around 1500. So a little more than i'm supposed to but I was surprised that I wasn't hungry at all through out the day and the meals I had I didn't even eat all of them (we went out to IHOP for brunch today and I had a grilled chicken salad that I did not completely finish and then we had an early dinner that I didn't eat all of either). 

Tomorrow our oldest daughter goes back to school and it will be easier scheduling my meals and hopefully I can get back to the gym. 

We had a glitch with our tax return. Our state tax commission is saying that we owe them almost $4000 from 2006 but they had our income listed as almost double for that year what it was. Turns out we do owe them about $34 and that is including all penalties and fees. We have a huge mailer full of documents and a letter filing a formal protest that will be sent out tomorrow. I'm hoping we have everything sorted out by the beginning of March so we can get back that $4000 the Federal Government is holding from our tax return (we are getting a huge return this year because my husband lost his job last March and we were destitute for a while so we once again qualified for the earned income credit and we have four kids so we get the child tax credit and I'm in school etc etc etc so we are getting a lot). So the tax return is paying for my tummy tuck and the down payment on a new Jeep for my husband. 

It better get fixed soon cause I want my tummy tuck in march! I'm scheduling it as soon as I reach 199 lbs. 

So are you ready for my weight? 

I don't know what my weight is compared to the gym, but I bought a scale a few days ago and this morning I weighed 213.8 lbs. If this scale is comparable to the gym scale then I have lost somewhere around 11 lbs in 20 days which is really good if you consider that I didn't follow my diet for a good week. 

I'm excited!

Nothing to see here, move along...

So apparently I have white coat blood pressure, meaning it gets higher when a doctor/nurse takes it. We took my blood pressure today and it was 107/67  when at the doctor's office it was 140/72 which is approaching high. However I'm going to monitor it every day for a week to get an average.

So that's it. My husband has a theory that I am tired because I am ADHD (or a least he has diagnosed me as such based on my personality and how I can hyperfocus on one thing and it will cause a lack of sleep). He says the adipex might be affecting me similar to how ritalin affects an ADD person in that it will calm me down even though it is a stimulant.

I'm going to speak with the doctor about it. It could also be that I'm not getting enough sleep at night time and no amount of stimulants can completely take away that tired feeling.

Forgot to mention

that i've lost more weight! On Tuesday evening (1/25/2011 or 4 days ago) I weighed in at the gym at 224.6 today I weighed 219.2 so I've lost 5.4 lbs in 4 days!
It will be interesting to see how much difference there is on the clinic scale compared to the gym scale as I weighed at the clinic and then ate dinner (my last big meal) before going to the gym.
Hopefully I see a decent amount lost at the clinic as well. I'm just sad that the first week is never really replicated. The first week is always when you loose the most. I'm anxious to see if I can lose 7 lbs total this week. I still have a few more days and only 1.6 lbs to lose.

Sleepy

So everything I know about adipex is it's supposed to make it harder to go to sleep than to wake up. Before I started taking adipex I was taking about 10 mg of melatonin to get to sleep at night (I've always struggled with being able to get to sleep). I was a bit worried about being tired enough to sleep so I decided to take only half a pill. I've noticed though that I get really tired in the afternoon. I'm taking naps like never before. My husband wants me to take the other half of the pill with my 10 am meal so I'm not so tired in the afternoon/evening, but 1. I'm cheap and want to cut my pill costs from $50 a month to $25 a month and 2. if this dose starts to lose it's effect I want to be able to take a whole pill instead of increasing to one and a half or two pills and 3. like other drugs, you can develop an attachment to adipex and I don't want that to happen.
I'm going to check my blood pressure today at the gym to make sure it's not gotten too high as that can be a common sign of daytime sleepiness. I've never had high blood pressure so hopefully this is just how I react to the medicine, kind of like those mom's who say benadryl makes their kids hyperactive instead of sleepy, I'm hoping that is the case with me.
Another possibility is that I'm doing much more than normal and half a pill may not be enough to cause insomnia. Mainly I'm great during the day as long as I'm up and doing something. Yesterday we went to the park and I stood almost the whole two hours without having pain (which is amazing as I normally can stand no longer than about 5 minutes without experiencing pain and needing to sit down). I was out in the sun and fine. But as soon as we got home and got the kids down for a nap, I went to my room to watch some tv and I fell asleep. Part of the problem could be that I haven't gotten to sleep before midnight for about the past week (and sometimes not until 2 am), though this is not from a lack of being tired so much as the kids were arguing for a long time while trying to go to sleep (they share rooms) and I had school work etc.
Anyway we are leaving for the gym in about an hour so I will check my blood pressure before I work out and see what's going on.

DON'T SKIP MEALS!!!

That's my new rule. Today it was 72 degrees. I got to go to the gym this morning and while blow drying my hair in the locker room decided to see if my friend wanted to have a playdate at the park for our kids since I had the car for the day.

So I decided to get a quick protein shake but didn't explain myself well enough to the guy making it and instead of getting about 200 calories in it I got somewhere between 40 and 80. So my 80 cal toast that morning plus my 40-80 cal protein shake at 10:30 meant that I only had 120-160 calories from the time I got up at 7 until 4 pm and I had 6 miles of high intensity interval training on the bike today (20+ miles per hour the whole time, my heart rate was in the 170's)!

When I got home I made a quick tuna fish sandwich (245 calories) and instead of saving the other half for dinner I ate the rest of the can on another sandwich. And then a 60 cal pudding cup with 4 strawberries.

Then the kids took a late nap and didn't wake up until 7 so we took them to chick-fil-a to play on the playground etc. I had the chargrilled chicken and fruit salad which was awesome, only I made the mistake of getting the thousand island dressing instead of a basalmic vinaigrette and the dressing had more calories than the salad (though my 2 year old helped me eat a lot of the fruit and some chicken so really I only had about 80% of the calories). My salad was 605 calories total (including what my 2 yr old ate... I'm guessing I really only had about 500 calories of it but I'm counting it all).

Total calories for the day? 1324 and 8+ glasses of water. It would have been super easy to stick to 1200 calories today, I just shouldn't have skipped a meal and I would have been fine. I really credit the adipex for the appetite suppression.

And a girl from the gym has some sublingual hcg drops that she might give me. She is just checking to make sure her mom doesn't want them. So yay for that!

End of day two

Did not get to weigh myself today because we did not go to the gym. Makes me sound like a slacker but my husband and I went to see Bill Bellamy's Lady's Night Comedy Tour as a treat for my birthday.

Later we ate at Logan's Road House.

I'm sad to say that I didn't just order a chicken breast and water. However the good news is that normally I would have been full on rolls and Dr Pepper by the time my entree came, tonight though, I limited myself to one glass of Dr Pepper and drank water the rest of the time and only had two rolls. I had a salad with some steak pieces to add protein.

All together I'd still say my meal was 1500 calories total, which isn't too bad when you look at what I ate the rest of the day. And since I cleaned a lot today as my exercise I'm thinking that today will be a wash instead of a diet breaker.

But no matter, it was fine. This was my birthday date with my husband and we rarely get to eat out.

Also as a side note, even though I had only eaten about 1000 calories earlier in the day, I still wasn't super hungry when we ate dinner at 10 pm (another no-no, I know... say that 10 times fast). So the adipex is definitely working to suppress my appetite.

Now it's time to go to bed. I'll be anxious to see how I feel during the day when I've finally been able to get a full night's sleep. Here's hoping we can be in bed by our usual 8pm tomorrow :)

Oh and on an unrelated note, be very happy for us, we paid of our vehicle today. Sure we only have one vehicle, but it belongs to us! We can go pick up the lien release at any time!

Day 2

This morning I got up a bit earlier than normal (around 6:45 instead of 7) I made some toast with the 40 calorie nature's own bread (I said it was 35 calories yesterday but looking at it more closely today it is 40 calories the 35 was some percentage of something else). Instead of honey butter I used about 30 sprays or spray butter. So even though it says 1 spray has no calories, and 5 sprays has no calories (but it has 1% of sodium compared to no sodium in one spray) I'm guessing there were some calories in this. So since they say no calories in 5 sprays, I'm going to assign 1 calorie per 5 sprays and say that was 6 calories. Cause I can't believe there are absolutely no calories in it. So 86 calories for breakfast. And I'm already had 20 oz of water, so I'm doing pretty good!

For some reason I am tired. Like I could go take a nap right now. Which is strange because the adipex is supposed to give me energy. I wonder if it's just because I'm not getting enough sleep. I tried to get into bed last night by 10 but my kids would not go to sleep even though they had been in bed since about 8:30.

So I fell asleep shortly after 11. I didn't quite get a full 8 hours last night, but I know I need to. I find that if I'm up doing something I'm fine, but if I'm sitting doing my homework or reading I start to yawn. Maybe it's just the homework? lol