VLCD Cycle 2 Day 9

:( this morning I was 193.3 - I'm guessing maybe the extra food on Saturday is catching up with me, or that time of the month is going to be a pain in the ass this week. I did have a nice BM this morning and my stomach felt a lot lighter and not so bloated. I also think that I need to not weigh myself until Saturday so I don't get discouraged this week if the scale doesn't do what I expect.

I got up and did my work out this morning. I really wasn't that in to it though. I did burn 177 calories though in 20 minutes, so that's not too bad. I've already drank 32 oz of water. I love that - getting 1/3 of my water in before 7:00am.

Goals from yesterday:
Eating: Perfect on plan
Workout: complete (24 min walk)
Green tea: complete (1 cup)
100-120 oz water: 95 oz

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 8

This morning I was at 192.2, I guess the extra food I ate on Saturday caught up with me. I've been feeling so bloated and gassy the last 2 weeks. I thought that it was just the crappy food we had been eating on vacation because I felt that way all that week, but now since I've been on this for a week I'm still feeling that way. I really hope it goes away soon. This week is also that time of the month, so that could be part of why the bloated feeling is sticking around.

Yesterday we went to the movies. I cut up some steak and some apples and put that and some cherry tomatoes in a bag and took that with me to munch on during the movie. That worked out great.
I didn't work out yesterday, I decided to take Sunday's off. This morning I also didn't work out, I couldn't get my butt out of bed this morning. So Gary and I are going to walk tonight. I told him not to let me out of it.

I hope the scale is better tomorrow.

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 7

191.7 lbs today. That's 10 pounds since Monday. Woo Hoo!!!!! I can't wait to see what I'm at tomorrow for my official weigh in for the week.

Yesterday I ate alot. I didn't eat anything bad, just a lot because I stayed up later than normal and I think the extra calories I have been burning are making me more hungry too. I had 2 extra protein shakes. So nothing as bad as I wanted. We went bowling last night with some of my friends from work. Gary and I ate dinner before we went. We had steak and veggies. (Yummy, by the way) Everyone else ate at the bowling alley - pizza, onion rings, burgers...... looked so good, but I didn't have any of that. I did have a vodka and diet though. Which isn't bad, but I didn't have to have it. I drank lots of water yesterday - 132 oz. :)

Today I'm pretty sore, not sure if it was the jogging yesterday, the bowling last night, or falling out of the hammock yesterday.

Goals from yesterday:
Eating: on plan – except two extra protein drinks
Workout: complete
Green tea: complete
100-120 oz water: 132 oz

I guess that's it for today.....

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 6

Woo hoo, 192.2 this morning. I'm back to where I was before we went on our honeymoon!!!! Now it's all downhill from here, into new numbers. I had my weigh in at the clinic yesterday and she said I still have 6 weeks of HCG left, so maybe I won't have to buy any extra. Hopefully I will get to goal or at least close to goal in 6 weeks.

I just got back from taking Katy for a walk. I decided not to do my turbo jam video since my Gary is home. I would have had to kick him out of the bedroom while I did it, so I walked instead. We were only gone for 20 minutes, but that's good. There is a park by our house, so we walked to the park and then I jogged around it, I only had to walk maybe ¼ of it, which isn't bad since I haven't jogged in almost a year. Jogging/running has never been something I have been strong in. Even in jr high and high school, if I could get away with walking around the track I would do it. Last year when I was trying to lose for the wedding I decided that I really wanted to enjoy running. I was working up to being able to jog for at least 30 minutes straight. I never quite made it, but I could do 7 minutes and then walk for 1 and then jog for 7 again. I was doing pretty well. So I decided that when I exercise outside my first goal will be to jog around the park without walking. Once I can do that then I will set a new goal and eventually get to my 30 minutes straight.

Yesterday I was more hungry than normal. It was either because I was home or because of the exercising the last 2 mornings, since I'm burning more calories than my body is used to on this diet. I went ahead and had a protein shake in the evening and that helped. So I had a little more protein and calories than I should have, but it was a medshape shake instead of junk.

Goals from yesterday:
Eating: on plan – except one extra protein drink
Workout: complete
Green tea: complete
100-120 oz water: 118 oz

Calories for yesterday:
763 Calories
36 Carbs
16 Fat
120 Protein
118 oz Water

Well I guess that's it for today……

 

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 5

Weigh in: 194.8 – that's 6.9 pounds down since Monday. Pretty darn good.

Goals from yesterday:
Eating: Perfect on plan
Workout: complete
Green tea: complete
100-120 oz water: 125 oz

Calories from yesterday:
705 calories
53 carbs
13 fat
101 protein

I got up and worked out this morning. 20 minute turbo jam and I drank 32 oz of water with it. I did something different for breakfast this morning because I'm working from home. I had 4 egg whites scrambled with some mushrooms and green onions, and some strawberries with a little milk and splenda. I'm going to have a cup of tea pretty soon. I have a dentist appointment today and my weigh in at medshape. Tomorrow we are going bowling with some friends from my work; I will have to eat dinner before we go so I won't be tempted to eat all the junk food at the bowling alley. No beer either – o'well, short term sacrifices for long term gains – right?

Well, that's all I got for now…..

 

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 4

I was at 195.7 this morning. This is actually where I was at before I took my shower yesterday morning, so I didn't lose anything. But still 6 lbs since Monday is pretty darn good and I'm not going to complain!

It's funny, on the mornings I make the commitment to exercise; I wake up later and have a harder time getting out of bed. All week I have been waking up between 4:30-5:00am, this morning I had to force myself to get up at 5:30, and then I stalled and found other things to do, but I finally got myself motivated and did my 20 minute turbo jam video. But since I stalled I didn't have time to get on my computer this morning, as a matter a fact I almost had Beu to school late. We just barely made it. No stalling tomorrow. I had already drunk 32 oz of water before 6:30 this morning too. I love getting my day started like that. J I think on Saturday morning I will do the longer turbo jam video for more of a workout.

For my goals that I set yesterday:
Eating: On plan all day
Workout: complete
Green tea: complete
100-120 oz water: 125 oz

This morning I haven't been super hungry like I had been the past mornings. That's a great thing. Well, that's about it for now. I will update more later.

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 3 update

So today was a good day. I noticed this morning I am feeling great, so it's the HCG, the weight loss, or the healthy eating – or maybe all three. I was just eating dinner – steak and grilled veggies. I have to say I really do love eating healthy. I'm not saying I don't like the junk, but I do like healthy eating too. I had 2 big cups of green tea today and I'm drinking my last 32 oz of water, so I should have just over 100 oz of water today. I'm going to work really hard to always drink 100-120 oz of water a day and at least one cup of that will be green tea. Tomorrow I'm going to get my work out in as soon as I wake up. Those are my main goals for this round of HCG. Last round the only thing I cared about was making sure I didn't cheat on the eating plan. I was successful with that, so now I need to add in the other two goals and see if that increases my weight loss. I have 4 more weeks of HCG paid for, so it would be great if I could lose the rest of the weight in the next 4 weeks , not sure though since I only lost 25lbs in the first 7 weeks. I still have about 45 lbs to lose – so we will see how quickly I can do it.

I usually get on my computer in the morning and check my email, myspace, facebook, etc….. but tomorrow I will not allow myself to get on the computer until after I have done my work out. No excuses!!!

My calorie stats for today are:
679 Calories
47g Carbs
13 g Fat
100 g Protein
100 oz of water

Till tomorrow……

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 2 update

Tuesday (day 2):

This morning hasn't been too tough. Not like yesterday. I'm forcing myself to hold out for lunch until 12:00. I ate breakfast around 6:30 and then had my snack at 9:30, so I should be able to make it till 12:00 if I stop thinking about it. Today I had my "protein coffee" and strawberries, then apple slices and some chicken, next will be apple slices, chicken, cucumber, celery and grape tomatoes, and my afternoon snack will be the same and dinner will be trout (not sure how I'm gonna cook it yet though) and some veggies. I can't wait for the trout, I haven't had that kind of fish in sooooo long.

I drank 32 oz of water this morning before I left for work, I went to the bathroom before I left too and by the time I got to work I was dying. It hurt so badly because I had to hold it so long. I'm sure that didn't help the UTI. I've had some tea this morning so I think that helped me not feel hungry too.

Dinner was yummy. I baked the trout with salt and pepper and then I put some lemon juice on top when it was done. I also had some steamed broccoli and 1 strawberry because I wanted something sweet. I still feel kind of hungry, I may have to have some tea tonight.

My calorie stats for today are:
610 calories
43 g carbs
10 g fat
92 g protein
119 oz water

Wednesday morning (day 3):

My morning weigh in was 196.6lbs – 5.1 pounds in 2 days. Woo Hoo. Have I said how much I love HCG? I just wish that I was starting at my LIW instead of 10 lbs heavier. I would be 187 today instead. But I can't think about it like that. Today's food plan is pretty much the same as yesterday, but probably steak for dinner instead of fish.

I was hungry last night. I had a cup of tea and was still hungry, so I just went to bed. So I was good. On my way home from work I had cravings for peanut butter banana pancakes, but I was good and just had my fish and broccoli.

Well, that's about all I have this morning….. till later.

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 1 update

Monday continued (day 1):

Ok, today has been tough. I even cheated a little. I did go back and read my blog from the first couple days of the first cycle and day 1 was tough then too. I'm hoping tomorrow gets easier. I've been hungry, I have a headache, I feel weak. I had coffee with protein powder in it and some strawberries with 1 tblsp of milk for breakfast, I had some apple slices and a protein shake for a snack, lunch was supposed to be 2 oz of shrimp, cucumber, grape tomatoes and apple slices, but I also went to the cafeteria and got a salad – not a bad choice except I had a little dressing on it and some sunflower seeds. Other than that I was good though. For my afternoon snack I have more grape tomatoes, cucumber and some grilled chicken, oh and the rest of my apple slices. The other tough thing is that they have stopped buying the big bottles of water for us at work, so that means no tea because there is no way to get hot water and I have to bring water with me to work. It's going to be a real pain in the butt trying to get my water in each day.

It really is amazing how much just 10 lbs can make a difference in how I feel. That's about what I gained last week on our honeymoon and I can see it around my waist. I can't wait for it to come back off. Since I'm still on Eastern time, I'm going to try to use that to my advantage and keep in the habit of getting up around 5am and getting in some cardio. Before we left on vacation I was sleeping as long as I possibly could, but all last week I was waking up around 3:30 or 4:00am our time (which was 6:30 or 7:00am Eastern time), so I want to try to stick somewhat to that now that we are home again. I did force myself to sleep till 5am today but then I didn't get up and exercise, instead I tried to get caught up on email and stuff. But tomorrow I'm going to get my lazy butt out of bed and get a work out in, and I'm going to try super hard to stay in the habit. I'm hoping that if I keep consistent with that I will see better weight loss this time around. (Not to say 25lbs in 45 days wasn't good.)

The afternoon hasn't been bad. So it looks like it's the same as last time, I had a hard time in the morning at first, but by afternoon I was ok. So I will have to see if I can eat a little more in the morning until I'm back in the groove of things.

Tuesday Morning (day 2):

Today I weighed in at 199.6. Woo hoo!!! 2.1 lbs down since yesterday. That's what I like to see. OK, so this is the last time I am going to say this for the rest of my life. I will never see 200 pounds again! Yesterday was the last time.

Last night I was a little hungry after dinner. I would have loved to have some strawberries for dessert, but I was good and didn't eat anything after dinner. I had a piece of gum instead. Today there will be no "cheating". My husband grilled some extra chicken last night so I have plenty of food for lunch and snacks today.

I got up early this morning, but didn't work out. I came home from vacation with a urinary tract infection and I've been having a lot of pain around my kidneys, so I don't want to overdo it yet.

I hope today is easier than yesterday. Till later……

VLCD Cycle 2 Day 1

So today is the first day of VLCD. I'm a little nervous to be honest. I'm worried that I'm not in the same mind set I was when I first started in December. And then I think about the fact that by May I will be to my goal weight. It still seems unreal to me, but I'm sure it will sink in as I start dropping sizes again.

So today is a protein coffee and some strawberries for breakfast, more apple slices and probably a protein shake for morning snack, more apple slices and some salad for lunch, more apple slices and some sort of protein for afternoon snack and grilled chicken or steak and veggies for dinner. Lots of water. Sounds so yummy......

201.7 lbs this morning. I can't wait to get back under 200. Kind of sad that I said I would never see that number on the scale again once I got under it and I did. It's also a little scary for when I'm totally done. What if I don't maintain. I did pretty good for a couple weeks, but then last week just went crazy. I know part of it was because I told myself that I could eat whatever because I would just lose again once I started HCG again. And I know that when I'm done, I will be done, there will be no more cycles to lose the weight again, so I will have to be more careful next time. I will also be exercising when I'm totally done. So I should be ok.

I will update after my day 1 is over......

I also wanted to post a recent picture....

Back in the saddle again....

I am back from my honeymoon and ready to get going again. Last week I ate like there was no tomorrow. Well, not really. I ate a lot of junk, but I could barely eat half of what I ordered and I was stuffed. It was rather disappointing since we were eating out most of the time, I would order something really yummy and then I could only eat 1/4-1/2 of the meal and then I would be stuffed and if I ate any more I would be stuffed beyond being miserable. I weighed myself when I got home last night, but that was at night, so I'm waiting for my husband to wake up so I can weigh myself this morning. Last night I was back up to 202 - I'm hoping to be under 200 this morning though. *nope, i just weighed myself, 200.5 - that's my official starting weight.

I started my shots yesterday, so yesterday and today is my loading days. We will be grocery shopping today and trying to remember how to eat right. Tomorrow will be day 1 VLCD. I can't wait to see where I am next Saturday. It will actually be nice to get back to eating healthy again. All week as soon as I ate I was so tired. I'm sure that had a lot to do the food we were eating.

Monday 3/2/09

I've been slacking again on my posts. I've been sick the last couple days. I have a cold and feeling pretty miserable. I went in for my appointment at Medshape on Friday and I was 192.8, which is what I was 3 weeks before that after I stopped my injections and the last time I weighed in the clinic. So I was pretty happy about that. On my scale the last couple days I have been fluctuating between 189-191. I'm pretty happy about that but because I have been sick I haven't been really watching what I'm eating and I'm drinking a ton of carbs because of all the juice I'm drinking for the vitamin c and probably having a ton of sugar from the cough drops and cough medicine I have been taking. I hate being sick, I'm such a baby.
Only 1 week and a half until we leave for our honeymoon and then I will be back to injections around the 21st or 22nd. I have decided if I want to start them on our last 2 days of the honeymoon and use those as my loading days or if I want to wait until we get home and do loading days on Sunday and Monday. I'm leaning towards starting the injections on Saturday, then have Saturday and Sunday as my loading days, that way I will have Sunday to go grocery shopping for VLCD food and start that on Monday.
I guess that's all that's going on in my maintenance world....I will try to do better at posting daily again once I start the injections again.