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!
