I lost two pounds since yesterday! Yay!! So, now I'm down almost 14 pounds. I don't think I've mentioned how much I weigh and I hate to do it because I'm so embarrassed by it but I'm going to just get it out there. When I started this whole thing, I weighed about 380 pounds. I know. WOW! Disgusting! Repulsive! etc. Get it over with. I'm doing something about it now. I know I just let myself get to that point because of my depression and not wanting to live, etc. My depression isn't gone but it's under control somewhat, so that helps. It's really hard to get motivated when your mind is pulling you down. So, now is probably the better time to do something about this. A few years ago I lost weight too... 70+ pounds but I ended up gaining it all back because my depression got bad again and I just gave up. I was also on the protein diet, so it was very limiting (granted, you could eat all the meat you wanted to eat but that get's really disgusting after awhile). I know this diet is limiting too but it has a way to get out of it slowly that should (if done correctly) allow you to eat about 2000 calories once you're done. We'll see. I read somewhere that, in order to maintain your weight, you should figure about 100 calories for every pound. So, I would really like to get down to 190 pounds. Therefore, I could eat about 1900 calories a day and maintain my weight. Another website I went to gave two different websites to figure what your caloric intake should be to maintain your weight and they were different. Out of curiosity, I entered my current weight (before the diet) and the one site said to eat 2'450 calories while the other site said 5'182 calories. I took the two numbers, added them together and then divided by two to get the average. The average was 3'816 calories, which was basically my original thought of 100 calories for every pound. =)
For lunch today I had 3 hard-boiled egg whites (I gave the yolks to my Dad) and spinach with the dijon mustard and Bragg Liquid Aminos on it. This time I didn't heat the spinach in the microwave. It was still good. =) I don't think I could eat that meal every day but it was nice to have for a change. Besides, I was all out of chicken at the moment.
I still have my period. I know, it has only been a few days but it's so heavy that it seems like longer. I have to wear a tampon and a pad, just to be safe. I'm sure you wanted to know. =) Usually the heaviness lasts for a day or two and then it's just fairly light to average for 5 or so days. I wonder when this is going to go away. What if it never goes away while I'm on this diet? Yikes. That would be horrible. I suppose, if that really happened, I'd have to eventually go off the diet. Though, that would suck big time because I'm actually losing weight. Oh well. I'm not going to worry about that unless it happens. =)
I'll probably add more later tonight... or just tomorrow. We'll see. =)
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