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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Friday, October 14, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Better Day
So, from yesterday to today, I lost 5 pounds. Yay!! I feel better about the diet now. =) What's irritating though, is my scale. On my scale this morning I weighed 341. I know better than to believe it, so I came down to my parents scale and on their's I weighed 363. 22 pounds different!! So irritating!! However, my Mom has weighed herself on my scale and then on her own scale and she weighs the same. It obviously doesn't know how to calculate super fat people properly. I wish I could get a new scale but... they can be so expensive. Especially if you need one that can withstand (and work) for super fat people. Sucksssss.
Last night at dinner I had a 2 oz. piece of chicken (60 grams, raw) which was actually fairly good sized. I would have thought it would have been more than 2 oz. I had put a little of Bragg's Liquid Aminos on it to season it and it was really good. Then I had about a cup of broccoli and a small amount of cauliflower. I also had a half of a whole wheat dinner roll. I had an orange and a pear later. We eat super late and then I stay up later, so it's not like I'm eating and going straight to bed. I've heard that that's not good to do. Supposedly if you do that, it all turns to fat. I don't know.
I was going to start my diet about a month ago but I didn't because my Mom and my sisters were going to Michigan to visit family. They were going to bring fudge and pasties home. So, I decided I'd wait to go on the diet til after they got back, so I could have some fudge and pasties. Well, I ate a bunch of fudge but I forgot that my Mom had frozen the pasties. Today she mentions to one of my sisters that we should have them next Monday night for dinner (every other Monday night, the whole family gets together for dinner. My Mom usually makes hamburgers on the grill). I kind of freaked out. I can't believe I forgot about the pasties!! Albeit a month has gone by (maybe longer!) and I have a tendency to be of the thought, "Out of sight, out of mind" sometimes... so that could explain it. But I was like, "What?!?! I told you I was going to be going on this diet!!" And she says, "Well, you could go off of it for a day!" She totally doesn't understand this diet at all! I had given her a little 2 page summary of what the diet was about and what I could and could NOT eat but did she read it?? No. She read a little bit of it, she said. Grrrr. So, now I'm not sure when we'll have the pasties because I'm on this diet and want to be on it for awhile. Another 'Ba-Hum-Bug' moment.
Last night my family had stuffing with their chicken, while I just had my plain chicken (with Bragg's Liquid Aminos). Thanks to last night, I was craving stuffing. So, today I made my own HCG-approved version. I'll post the recipe after this. It was actually pretty good, considering it's small amount of ingredients. And I did it in the microwave so it was fast and easy, which has always appealed to me. =) I was thinking, it would be really good if you rolled it up in the chicken and baked it. Yum! I'll have to try that next time. =) So, for lunch today I had a small piece of steak that was left over (about 2-3 oz, raw) from the other night and my "celery stuffing". It was good to eat the "stuffing" with a bite of steak. =)
Tonight my Mom made pork chops. I cut all the fat off, cut it in half and weighed it. It was about 70grams. I figured that was good enough. So, I had that for dinner with about a cup and a half of broccoli and some more of my 'Celery "Stuffing"'. I also had half of a whole wheat dinner roll. Afterwards, while we were watching TV, I had a tangerine. Later I'll probably have a pear. I can't believe how un-hungry I am. I mean, the craving to eat is still there because that's just what I've gotten used to, but I'm not actually HUNGRY. It's nice. =) I do have some self control!! ;-)
Oh, I also started my period tonight. Yay. I wonder if that's going to effect my weight tomorrow. I'll let you know. =)
Last night at dinner I had a 2 oz. piece of chicken (60 grams, raw) which was actually fairly good sized. I would have thought it would have been more than 2 oz. I had put a little of Bragg's Liquid Aminos on it to season it and it was really good. Then I had about a cup of broccoli and a small amount of cauliflower. I also had a half of a whole wheat dinner roll. I had an orange and a pear later. We eat super late and then I stay up later, so it's not like I'm eating and going straight to bed. I've heard that that's not good to do. Supposedly if you do that, it all turns to fat. I don't know.
I was going to start my diet about a month ago but I didn't because my Mom and my sisters were going to Michigan to visit family. They were going to bring fudge and pasties home. So, I decided I'd wait to go on the diet til after they got back, so I could have some fudge and pasties. Well, I ate a bunch of fudge but I forgot that my Mom had frozen the pasties. Today she mentions to one of my sisters that we should have them next Monday night for dinner (every other Monday night, the whole family gets together for dinner. My Mom usually makes hamburgers on the grill). I kind of freaked out. I can't believe I forgot about the pasties!! Albeit a month has gone by (maybe longer!) and I have a tendency to be of the thought, "Out of sight, out of mind" sometimes... so that could explain it. But I was like, "What?!?! I told you I was going to be going on this diet!!" And she says, "Well, you could go off of it for a day!" She totally doesn't understand this diet at all! I had given her a little 2 page summary of what the diet was about and what I could and could NOT eat but did she read it?? No. She read a little bit of it, she said. Grrrr. So, now I'm not sure when we'll have the pasties because I'm on this diet and want to be on it for awhile. Another 'Ba-Hum-Bug' moment.
Last night my family had stuffing with their chicken, while I just had my plain chicken (with Bragg's Liquid Aminos). Thanks to last night, I was craving stuffing. So, today I made my own HCG-approved version. I'll post the recipe after this. It was actually pretty good, considering it's small amount of ingredients. And I did it in the microwave so it was fast and easy, which has always appealed to me. =) I was thinking, it would be really good if you rolled it up in the chicken and baked it. Yum! I'll have to try that next time. =) So, for lunch today I had a small piece of steak that was left over (about 2-3 oz, raw) from the other night and my "celery stuffing". It was good to eat the "stuffing" with a bite of steak. =)
Tonight my Mom made pork chops. I cut all the fat off, cut it in half and weighed it. It was about 70grams. I figured that was good enough. So, I had that for dinner with about a cup and a half of broccoli and some more of my 'Celery "Stuffing"'. I also had half of a whole wheat dinner roll. Afterwards, while we were watching TV, I had a tangerine. Later I'll probably have a pear. I can't believe how un-hungry I am. I mean, the craving to eat is still there because that's just what I've gotten used to, but I'm not actually HUNGRY. It's nice. =) I do have some self control!! ;-)
Oh, I also started my period tonight. Yay. I wonder if that's going to effect my weight tomorrow. I'll let you know. =)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Doing the Diet Thing...
I've done loads of diets over the years. I'll save you the boredom of going over all the ones I've been on. But I'm now trying the HCG diet. I know. It's all the craze lately. I'm just sick of being fat and I want to be a smaller version of myself. Actually, I wouldn't mind being a smaller version of anyone but me... but I'll get into that some other time.
I started my HCG Journey a few days ago... I'm doing the homeopathic HCG drops. I have to put 10-20 drops under my tongue and let them sit there for 15 minutes. Then I have to wait 15-30 minutes before I can eat. Or I can take the drops 15-20 minutes after I've finished eating. Fun stuff here. =) It's alcohol based but to me it kind of tastes like flat diet Sprite. Yum.
So, the first two days of the HCG diet, you "load". In other words, you eat like a maniac and try to get as much food in you as you possibly can. I managed to eat about 7'500 calories both days. Seriously. I was aiming for 10'000 but it didn't happen. Maybe next time. =)
The HCG diet I'm doing is more based on the one Kathleen Barnes talks about in her book "The Super Simple HCG Diet" which allows you to eat 700 calories per day, rather than the 500 calories that Dr. Simeon's (the originator of the HCG Diet) suggested.
I'm keeping track of the food I eat with an app on my iPod. It was free. It's one of those calorie counting app's. They have a few HCG app's but most of them cost and I'm super cheap. =)
Thursday the 6th of October was my first actual low-calorie day. According to the calorie app, I ate 490 calories. It was a hard day. I was really unprepared for the diet and I didn't know what to do or what to eat. I wasn't really hungry much but I wanted to eat because that has been the way I have been doing things. I would sit in front of the computer and munch on stuff occasionally. Anyway, I ended up just having broccoli for lunch. And for dinner I had some chicken (about 150grams of it) and about 2 cups of canned tomatoes with tomato juice, so it was like a soup.
Friday the 7th, I ate 546 calories. For lunch I had two small slices of turkey lunch meat (about 75grams of it) and a red bell pepper with some Bragg's Liquid Amino for flavoring (if you've never had it, it pretty much tastes like soy sauce. It's really good, if you like soy sauce! =) For dinner we had fast food. I got the Chicken Caesar Salad from McDonald's. I painstakingly picked out all the little bits of cheese. OK, most of the little bits of cheese. Some of the bits were so small, I just couldn't get them and I ended up eating them. I made my own dressing for the salad... Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar and some stevia to sweeten it. It tasted quite a bit like honey mustard dressing. Then I took about half of the chicken out of the salad and put that half in the fridge for the next day. All in all, the meal seemed to work out, considering it was fast food. Then I ate a few stalks of celery because you can eat an unlimited amount of that. I'm not a huge fan of celery, if I have a lot of it, it sort of starts making my tongue numb. I don't know why but it does. I had a slice of honeydew melon later.
Today, I made a soup for lunch with the chicken that was left-over from my salad last night. I pulled it apart into small pieces and made sure to remove any fat that was visible. I weighed it and it was about 50grams of chicken. Then I cut up two small radishes and three stalks of celery and put them in the water with the chicken on the stove. I added some of the Liquid Aminos to flavor it. I added some random spices just to add more texture to the soup. It was really good, if I do say so myself. I was surprised that I did so well with it. No recipe!! About an hour after I ate it, I went diarrhea. Big time diarrhea. I refer to it as "Bummit" because it's kind of like vomiting from your bum. This was total liquid bummit. I'm not positive but I seriously wonder if it was my soup... it was about the same consistency and color. If you wanted to know that. =) I've never had a problem with my bowels. When I was on HerbaLife once, I would expel my dinner within a few hours after eating. It was weird. I knew it was my dinner because I didn't eat corn a lot and so, when I did, I'd watch for the corn to come out. I was at my sister's house once when it happened. I had told them all about it and they didn't believe me. So, when I went to the bathroom and saw the corn, I called her and her husband and my other sister up to the bathroom to see it. They were surprised. They believed me after that. =)
You'll find that I talk about my bowels fairly regular. I don't know why I do it but I do. I guess I just like to share gross things with anyone who will listen (read).
We're having steak for dinner tonight. I have to go measure out my meat and everything. I'll get back to you later. =)
I hate sharing my personal info but here it is:
Starting weight: 370.8 (I know!! I'm not proud of this at all!!)
After Loading: 375.4 (suck it!! I ate about 7500 calories on both of those days!! Awesome!! =)
FYI, when I record my loss, I'm recording it from my highest weight ("After Loading" weight) because I still had to lose that!! =)
I started my HCG Journey a few days ago... I'm doing the homeopathic HCG drops. I have to put 10-20 drops under my tongue and let them sit there for 15 minutes. Then I have to wait 15-30 minutes before I can eat. Or I can take the drops 15-20 minutes after I've finished eating. Fun stuff here. =) It's alcohol based but to me it kind of tastes like flat diet Sprite. Yum.
So, the first two days of the HCG diet, you "load". In other words, you eat like a maniac and try to get as much food in you as you possibly can. I managed to eat about 7'500 calories both days. Seriously. I was aiming for 10'000 but it didn't happen. Maybe next time. =)
The HCG diet I'm doing is more based on the one Kathleen Barnes talks about in her book "The Super Simple HCG Diet" which allows you to eat 700 calories per day, rather than the 500 calories that Dr. Simeon's (the originator of the HCG Diet) suggested.
I'm keeping track of the food I eat with an app on my iPod. It was free. It's one of those calorie counting app's. They have a few HCG app's but most of them cost and I'm super cheap. =)
Thursday the 6th of October was my first actual low-calorie day. According to the calorie app, I ate 490 calories. It was a hard day. I was really unprepared for the diet and I didn't know what to do or what to eat. I wasn't really hungry much but I wanted to eat because that has been the way I have been doing things. I would sit in front of the computer and munch on stuff occasionally. Anyway, I ended up just having broccoli for lunch. And for dinner I had some chicken (about 150grams of it) and about 2 cups of canned tomatoes with tomato juice, so it was like a soup.
Friday the 7th, I ate 546 calories. For lunch I had two small slices of turkey lunch meat (about 75grams of it) and a red bell pepper with some Bragg's Liquid Amino for flavoring (if you've never had it, it pretty much tastes like soy sauce. It's really good, if you like soy sauce! =) For dinner we had fast food. I got the Chicken Caesar Salad from McDonald's. I painstakingly picked out all the little bits of cheese. OK, most of the little bits of cheese. Some of the bits were so small, I just couldn't get them and I ended up eating them. I made my own dressing for the salad... Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar and some stevia to sweeten it. It tasted quite a bit like honey mustard dressing. Then I took about half of the chicken out of the salad and put that half in the fridge for the next day. All in all, the meal seemed to work out, considering it was fast food. Then I ate a few stalks of celery because you can eat an unlimited amount of that. I'm not a huge fan of celery, if I have a lot of it, it sort of starts making my tongue numb. I don't know why but it does. I had a slice of honeydew melon later.
Today, I made a soup for lunch with the chicken that was left-over from my salad last night. I pulled it apart into small pieces and made sure to remove any fat that was visible. I weighed it and it was about 50grams of chicken. Then I cut up two small radishes and three stalks of celery and put them in the water with the chicken on the stove. I added some of the Liquid Aminos to flavor it. I added some random spices just to add more texture to the soup. It was really good, if I do say so myself. I was surprised that I did so well with it. No recipe!! About an hour after I ate it, I went diarrhea. Big time diarrhea. I refer to it as "Bummit" because it's kind of like vomiting from your bum. This was total liquid bummit. I'm not positive but I seriously wonder if it was my soup... it was about the same consistency and color. If you wanted to know that. =) I've never had a problem with my bowels. When I was on HerbaLife once, I would expel my dinner within a few hours after eating. It was weird. I knew it was my dinner because I didn't eat corn a lot and so, when I did, I'd watch for the corn to come out. I was at my sister's house once when it happened. I had told them all about it and they didn't believe me. So, when I went to the bathroom and saw the corn, I called her and her husband and my other sister up to the bathroom to see it. They were surprised. They believed me after that. =)
You'll find that I talk about my bowels fairly regular. I don't know why I do it but I do. I guess I just like to share gross things with anyone who will listen (read).
We're having steak for dinner tonight. I have to go measure out my meat and everything. I'll get back to you later. =)
I hate sharing my personal info but here it is:
Starting weight: 370.8 (I know!! I'm not proud of this at all!!)
After Loading: 375.4 (suck it!! I ate about 7500 calories on both of those days!! Awesome!! =)
FYI, when I record my loss, I'm recording it from my highest weight ("After Loading" weight) because I still had to lose that!! =)
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