Guess who has lost 3.8 lbs in 24 hours? Me! Yay! It's too soon to tell if it is really the hcg, or perhaps all the water I drank today flushed out some sodium with it or something.
This was wearing almost the exact same outfit (t-shirt and capris) and on the gym scale.
So yesterday at the gym I weighed 224.6 and today I weigh 220.8! Yay!
I can't believe it. Anyway we will see. Only time will tell what exactly is going on. I stuck to my calorie range for the day (1182). In fact it hit it exactly lol.
This afternoon I had a Jello Pudding Cup (the whipped decadence dark chocolate one) for 60 calories
then I was able to take a brief nap (until my husband came home and turned on the bedroom light astonished that I was sleeping and that the house was still a mess while I'm taking my "speed". And then I made the kids dinner and I didn't take one bite. I was so proud of myself. I was super hungry. Instead I drank some water, and ate a strawberry.
Oh and I had a piece of gum. Crap I guess I'm over cause it wasn't sugar free gum lol.
Drank more water while working out. Did some interval training and came home.
For my dinner I had a tuna fish sandwich on wheat bread with a slice of american cheese and a bit of the mayo made with olive oil. My total sandwich was 285 calories. Then I had another 60 calorie sugar free pudding thing and used 3 strawberries as a spoon. It was yummy.
I wanted to be in bed asleep 28 minutes ago but my kids have been crazy. I took 10 mg of melatonin (don't worry the Doctor knows I'm taking it and said it is fine) to help me fall asleep. So I'm going to go to bed and read until I fall asleep.
I'm so excited to see what the scale says tomorrow!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Can I really do this?
Ok so I splurged for Lunch... :(
I had a small salad with 1.5 servings of Caesar Vinaigrette dressing and a few slivered almonds (I mean a very few) I sprinkled on some chopped pecans and walnuts. The whole thing was about 230 calories.
Then I was still a bit hungry and didn't want to eat too much dressing because of the fat and sodium (it's surprisingly low calorie for salad dressing) and something a bit sweet sounded good. So I had 1/2 a cup of life cereal and 1/2 a cup of whole milk (I forgot to pick up some skim last night at the store and I don't know why I did 1/2 a cup of milk when I should have done 1/4, it was like a bowl of milk with some cereal flakes in it lol). Then I added in two medium sized sliced strawberries. It hit the spot.
So I started typing this blog about 10 minutes ago and then had to go switch over the laundry since we are washing my son's favorite blankie and he was panicking, then I went to check on the two kids that went upstairs, and now I'm back finishing the blog.
I can honestly say, I am a little bit full. I've consumed about 754 calories today which means I only have about 428 left of my daily amount. That's not a lot. I'm going to have to spread things out a bit more in the morning/afternoon. I can't believe I'm full though. Normally I could have eaten 754 calories for one meal. In fact most people can. So I'm going to say that the hcg and the adipex are working.
I've gotten a bit tired today which seems strange since adipex is basically legal speed, but I guess even legal speed won't keep you going, going, going, all day when you went to bed around 2 am the night before and woke up at 7 am.
I'm going to see if I can take a quick nap before we go to the gym. This will be the test to see how the adipex will affect my sleeping. I have a feeling that I might lay down and yawn but my mind might continue to race.
I'm hoping to be asleep by 10pm tonight and no later. Tomorrow I have a friend from high school coming over with her son. We are going to do an indoor picnic.
Can I really do this? 1182 calories is going to be hard for me. 1500 I can do, but I want to stick with the program. The program calls for 1200 calories a day, but for my weight and height I should eat 1182 to lose 2 lbs a week if I am sedentary. Hopefully since I will also be exercising I will be able to lose 3+ lbs a week.
I'm planning on doing high intensity interval training on the stationary bike today, or possibly doing some TRX. We will see.
I had a small salad with 1.5 servings of Caesar Vinaigrette dressing and a few slivered almonds (I mean a very few) I sprinkled on some chopped pecans and walnuts. The whole thing was about 230 calories.
Then I was still a bit hungry and didn't want to eat too much dressing because of the fat and sodium (it's surprisingly low calorie for salad dressing) and something a bit sweet sounded good. So I had 1/2 a cup of life cereal and 1/2 a cup of whole milk (I forgot to pick up some skim last night at the store and I don't know why I did 1/2 a cup of milk when I should have done 1/4, it was like a bowl of milk with some cereal flakes in it lol). Then I added in two medium sized sliced strawberries. It hit the spot.
So I started typing this blog about 10 minutes ago and then had to go switch over the laundry since we are washing my son's favorite blankie and he was panicking, then I went to check on the two kids that went upstairs, and now I'm back finishing the blog.
I can honestly say, I am a little bit full. I've consumed about 754 calories today which means I only have about 428 left of my daily amount. That's not a lot. I'm going to have to spread things out a bit more in the morning/afternoon. I can't believe I'm full though. Normally I could have eaten 754 calories for one meal. In fact most people can. So I'm going to say that the hcg and the adipex are working.
I've gotten a bit tired today which seems strange since adipex is basically legal speed, but I guess even legal speed won't keep you going, going, going, all day when you went to bed around 2 am the night before and woke up at 7 am.
I'm going to see if I can take a quick nap before we go to the gym. This will be the test to see how the adipex will affect my sleeping. I have a feeling that I might lay down and yawn but my mind might continue to race.
I'm hoping to be asleep by 10pm tonight and no later. Tomorrow I have a friend from high school coming over with her son. We are going to do an indoor picnic.
Can I really do this? 1182 calories is going to be hard for me. 1500 I can do, but I want to stick with the program. The program calls for 1200 calories a day, but for my weight and height I should eat 1182 to lose 2 lbs a week if I am sedentary. Hopefully since I will also be exercising I will be able to lose 3+ lbs a week.
I'm planning on doing high intensity interval training on the stationary bike today, or possibly doing some TRX. We will see.
So far
Today has been my first day taking the adipex and yesterday was the first day I got an hcg shot. So far I'm only taking half a pill of adipex. I am such a chatty cathy on this stuff. And for some reason it makes me sentimental. I just spilled my guts on facebook to my sister-in-law about how much I appreciate her. Which is strange because even though everything I said is true, I normally do not speak with her that often. We don't have a ton in common and she lives about an hour away so we don't see each but once every few months.
Here is what i've eaten so far today
Breakfast: 2 slices of Nature's Own 35 cal toast with some honey butter on top.
Okay the honey butter was bad. I didn't even think to look at the calories or fat, I just new that I needed to take my pill with medicine and I was excited and I had just woken up and was a bit out of it still. I do have spray butter that I will start using tomorrow.
Morning Snack: One small granny smith apple and a sargento's sharp cheddar cheese stick.
So far today I've had about 330 calories and I'm not really hungry. In fact I wasn't hungry either time (though I normally don't eat breakfast) but I know I need to keep my metabolism going. So I'm trying to eat every 3. hours. I think for lunch (around 1 pm) I will have a small salad. A whole bag of the store bought salad mix only has 45 calories. I also bought some slivered almonds, crushed pecans, and crushed walnuts to add some protein. I don't know the exact serving sizes but almonds are great for protein and pecans and walnuts are not that bad either.
I plan on only using a little bit just to add some texture and flavor. I also bought some different dressings last night a Caesar Vinaigrette one other Vinaigrette (don't remember exactly which it was right now).
Obviously the most calories will come from the dressing. I'm going to measure them so I'm not getting a huge serving.
Here is what i've eaten so far today
Breakfast: 2 slices of Nature's Own 35 cal toast with some honey butter on top.
Okay the honey butter was bad. I didn't even think to look at the calories or fat, I just new that I needed to take my pill with medicine and I was excited and I had just woken up and was a bit out of it still. I do have spray butter that I will start using tomorrow.
Morning Snack: One small granny smith apple and a sargento's sharp cheddar cheese stick.
So far today I've had about 330 calories and I'm not really hungry. In fact I wasn't hungry either time (though I normally don't eat breakfast) but I know I need to keep my metabolism going. So I'm trying to eat every 3. hours. I think for lunch (around 1 pm) I will have a small salad. A whole bag of the store bought salad mix only has 45 calories. I also bought some slivered almonds, crushed pecans, and crushed walnuts to add some protein. I don't know the exact serving sizes but almonds are great for protein and pecans and walnuts are not that bad either.
I plan on only using a little bit just to add some texture and flavor. I also bought some different dressings last night a Caesar Vinaigrette one other Vinaigrette (don't remember exactly which it was right now).
Obviously the most calories will come from the dressing. I'm going to measure them so I'm not getting a huge serving.
Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me, so help m so help me, and CUT!
When I look in the mirror and see my stomach and my bubbies, this is the song that comes to mind. For those that don't know, it is a song from the movie Monster's Inc. Sully and Mike are arguing over putting Boo back through a door that is not her house and some people see them and ask what they are doing, so Mike turns it into a song for their company musical he says "it's called Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me"
Anyway this is my weight loss blog. My goal is to lose 60 lbs by May 21st (the tenative date for my 10 year high school reunion).
I've had four kids and four c-sections so I'm pretty Gah-Ross looking right now. I've already lost a bunch of weight on my own. The day that I delivered my 4th baby I weighed 95 lbs more than I did when I got pregnant with my first. I was a whopping 270 lbs. My normal weight before I had my daughter was 170-175 without trying to do anything. Sounds like a lot but I was about a size 12 at that point.
Yesterday I went to a weight loss clinic to get started taking hcg shots and adipex (phentermine). I know how to lose weight, and at one point I had already lost 58lbs, however my children like to stay sick from October to April so I haven't been able to go to the gym regularly. I'm also in school full time. I take classes online from our local community college and last semester was really stressful as I had 3 classes that were in an 8 week format. So they were very condensed and I had a ton of work. Then we had the holidays too. I generally end up eating the least of all my family during the holidays, so it wasn't thanksgiving and christmas that made me gain back weight. It was being stressed during finals and having cold weather and making big pots of chili and stew.
I don't really care for sweets that much, though I do like soda. My main problem is I love salty comfort food like chili, taco soup, stew, a big huge plate of pasta with marinara sauce. And instead of dessert, I'll normally have a second serving (which calorie wise is probably more like an extra 2 servings because those things are very dense and a normal size bowl full is a ton more calories and sodium than anyone needs).
So I had lost 7 lbs, but then very quickly put back 9.4 lbs. My jeans from my husband's Christmas party, do not fit me :(
So I've decided that since I love to eat and I eat out of boredom, that perhaps an appetite suppressant would help. So I went to the clinic yesterday and had my first weigh in.
The scale said 218 lbs which would mean I'm still down 52 lbs from the day I had my last child (which was April 21st 2009 so he is about 22 months old right now). I lost the majority of that weight within 3 months of having my soon. That's part of the joys of having a kids is seeing a bunch of weight melt off really fast. Plus I had him in the spring so 6 weeks later (once my c-section was healed), I was good to go. I worked out all summer and was eating pretty decently.
So I've maintained a weight loss between 50-60 lbs for 19 months. I've sort of been on this plateau where I lose and gain. I stopped losing once the kids started getting sick in the fall of 2009. Then I lost weight when they stopped getting sick in the spring of 2010. Then my husband lost his job but got another one almost immediately but since his job has a sort of sales aspect to it it took a few months to build things back up and I was definitely stress eating and eating a bunch of crap because we couldn't afford a lot of fresh foods.
Then I lost some more and then the kids got sick again etc and now we are here after I've gained back 9.4 lbs. Now the math may not be adding up, but that is because the scale at the weight clinic is off compared to the scale at my gym. And since I have access to the scale at the gym more often, that is the number I will mainly use. So are you ready for my real number? It's 224.6 O_O YIKES! I don't like 218, but I definitely don't like 224.6 Especially since I've gained 9 of it recently and my clothes don't fit well.
So I'm going to make a chart to keep track of my measurements and my weight etc. I will list both the gym weight and the clinic weight.
I did start the hcg shots yesterday in addition to the adipex because it was only $10 more a week and it also had b12 in it which is another great energy booster.
I'm hoping that since the adipex gives you energy as well as suppressing your appetite, and since the b12 helps with energy too, that I will lose more weight even if I still have to miss the gym due to sick babies, because I will be more motivated to get up off my butt, stop looking at facebook and other websites, and perhaps be a better housekeeper.
So here are the goals:
Lose 60 lbs (so I'm under 160 according to the clinic scales)
Have more energy
Do better in school (cause these things are supposed to focus you as well)
Do a better job keeping my house clean
And to Put these things back where they came from!
What do I mean by that last one? Well I am hopefully having a tummy tuck done in March sometime. I want to lose at least 26 lbs before I get it done. I have to be under 200 lbs before I will do it. And I want that to be under 200 according to the gym scale, not the doctor's office scale.
I'm hoping for mid-march so I have time to recover and have most of the major swelling gone. Cause what good is a tummy tuck if your swelling makes you look bigger than what you are. Also I will lose 6 weeks at the gym (at least hard core exercising) and I will have to stop taking the adipex about 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the surgery. So I will be on my own for about 4 months. I really hope I make it through!
Wish me luck!
Anyway this is my weight loss blog. My goal is to lose 60 lbs by May 21st (the tenative date for my 10 year high school reunion).
I've had four kids and four c-sections so I'm pretty Gah-Ross looking right now. I've already lost a bunch of weight on my own. The day that I delivered my 4th baby I weighed 95 lbs more than I did when I got pregnant with my first. I was a whopping 270 lbs. My normal weight before I had my daughter was 170-175 without trying to do anything. Sounds like a lot but I was about a size 12 at that point.
Yesterday I went to a weight loss clinic to get started taking hcg shots and adipex (phentermine). I know how to lose weight, and at one point I had already lost 58lbs, however my children like to stay sick from October to April so I haven't been able to go to the gym regularly. I'm also in school full time. I take classes online from our local community college and last semester was really stressful as I had 3 classes that were in an 8 week format. So they were very condensed and I had a ton of work. Then we had the holidays too. I generally end up eating the least of all my family during the holidays, so it wasn't thanksgiving and christmas that made me gain back weight. It was being stressed during finals and having cold weather and making big pots of chili and stew.
I don't really care for sweets that much, though I do like soda. My main problem is I love salty comfort food like chili, taco soup, stew, a big huge plate of pasta with marinara sauce. And instead of dessert, I'll normally have a second serving (which calorie wise is probably more like an extra 2 servings because those things are very dense and a normal size bowl full is a ton more calories and sodium than anyone needs).
So I had lost 7 lbs, but then very quickly put back 9.4 lbs. My jeans from my husband's Christmas party, do not fit me :(
So I've decided that since I love to eat and I eat out of boredom, that perhaps an appetite suppressant would help. So I went to the clinic yesterday and had my first weigh in.
The scale said 218 lbs which would mean I'm still down 52 lbs from the day I had my last child (which was April 21st 2009 so he is about 22 months old right now). I lost the majority of that weight within 3 months of having my soon. That's part of the joys of having a kids is seeing a bunch of weight melt off really fast. Plus I had him in the spring so 6 weeks later (once my c-section was healed), I was good to go. I worked out all summer and was eating pretty decently.
So I've maintained a weight loss between 50-60 lbs for 19 months. I've sort of been on this plateau where I lose and gain. I stopped losing once the kids started getting sick in the fall of 2009. Then I lost weight when they stopped getting sick in the spring of 2010. Then my husband lost his job but got another one almost immediately but since his job has a sort of sales aspect to it it took a few months to build things back up and I was definitely stress eating and eating a bunch of crap because we couldn't afford a lot of fresh foods.
Then I lost some more and then the kids got sick again etc and now we are here after I've gained back 9.4 lbs. Now the math may not be adding up, but that is because the scale at the weight clinic is off compared to the scale at my gym. And since I have access to the scale at the gym more often, that is the number I will mainly use. So are you ready for my real number? It's 224.6 O_O YIKES! I don't like 218, but I definitely don't like 224.6 Especially since I've gained 9 of it recently and my clothes don't fit well.
So I'm going to make a chart to keep track of my measurements and my weight etc. I will list both the gym weight and the clinic weight.
I did start the hcg shots yesterday in addition to the adipex because it was only $10 more a week and it also had b12 in it which is another great energy booster.
I'm hoping that since the adipex gives you energy as well as suppressing your appetite, and since the b12 helps with energy too, that I will lose more weight even if I still have to miss the gym due to sick babies, because I will be more motivated to get up off my butt, stop looking at facebook and other websites, and perhaps be a better housekeeper.
So here are the goals:
Lose 60 lbs (so I'm under 160 according to the clinic scales)
Have more energy
Do better in school (cause these things are supposed to focus you as well)
Do a better job keeping my house clean
And to Put these things back where they came from!
What do I mean by that last one? Well I am hopefully having a tummy tuck done in March sometime. I want to lose at least 26 lbs before I get it done. I have to be under 200 lbs before I will do it. And I want that to be under 200 according to the gym scale, not the doctor's office scale.
I'm hoping for mid-march so I have time to recover and have most of the major swelling gone. Cause what good is a tummy tuck if your swelling makes you look bigger than what you are. Also I will lose 6 weeks at the gym (at least hard core exercising) and I will have to stop taking the adipex about 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the surgery. So I will be on my own for about 4 months. I really hope I make it through!
Wish me luck!
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