My Weekend...

Saturday I slept in some and when I woke up I took my HCG, weighed myself and found that I hadn't gained or lost any weight since my previous weigh-in the day before, had some coffee and a piece of fruit. That was sort of late in the day, so I decided to skip lunch.  I took some HCG around 4 or 5pm, just to be safe.  We had some carrots in the refrigerator that were starting to grow again (seriously.  Some of them were sprouting roots and where the green leaves had been, they were starting to grow back!).  My sister said to throw them out but I said they could be used (even though I knew I couldn't eat them, as carrots are not one of the "approved" HCG vegetables) so I boiled them up and mashed them with a hand potato masher, I added some spices and stuff.  Then I took some more HCG before dinner and I had my recommended amount of everything (not extra, which I debated about doing since I had skipped one meal).  My family had rice, pork chops and the carrot soup I had made.  I had a piece of chicken and some fresh baby spinach which I had microwaved and added garlic powder, curry powder and dijon mustard to.  It was good.  My family was impressed with my made up carrot soup.  It seemed more like a lentil stew or something.  I was pretty impressed with it too (I tried a couple spoonfuls of the broth) and I would have really liked to have had some of it.  Oh, well.  It was easy to make and I can make it again some other time.  =)

Sunday I weighed myself and I had gained 4/10ths of a pound!!  =(  So depressing.  I came to the conclusion that it was either because I had skipped a meal (probably that!) or because I'd had an apple, which I've read can effect some people differently, even though it is an "approved" HCG fruit.  I really think it was the skipping of lunch though.  I suppose it could have been the couple spoonfuls of carrot soup broth too...  Later in the day I made some microwave dog biscuits that I found a recipe for on food.com.  I changed things up a little in it.  I'll maybe post the recipe sometime.  Anyway, my dog and my Dad's dog didn't eat any of them but my sister's dog loves them.  At least someone does.  =(  I tried to make them somewhat healthy and instead of adding salt, I added Bragg Liquid Aminos.  I also added some flax seed meal.  I gave some to my other sister for her to take home and give to her three dogs.  I don't know if they liked them or not because she hasn't told me.  They were easy to make though.  The recipe called for them to be in the microwave for ten minutes but the first batch started smoking after 5 minutes and then the smoke detector went off.  Needless to say, the first batch was ruined.  The other batches came out fine.  I put them in for 3 minutes and that seemed to be enough time.

Anyway, my Mom and Dad left Sunday to go to Canada to visit my Mom's brother.  So my sister and I are here and fending for ourselves.  =)  Last night I had more chicken and spinach.  That seems to be my "go-to" meal.

Today I weighed myself and I lose about 2 and a half pounds, so Yay!!  I'm so glad!!  I was getting worried - even though it was only one day of no gain/loss and one day of a small gain.  I'm going to really try not to ever skip a meal again.  =)  For lunch today I grilled a piece of tilapia (fish) from Schwan's on the George Foreman grill.  It was frozen and took only about 15 minutes.  Easy peasy!!  =)  It was good too.  I added some garlic powder and some curry powder to it.  =)  I also had my spinach staple with it.

Tonight I cut up three chicken breasts that my Mom got.  I found out that one of those giant chicken breasts can be divided in half in order to equal 3.5oz (on average).  So, I'll be having one of those pieces for dinner tonight.  The others I put in individual snack-size ziplock bags and added spices to each one.  Here's the spices (if you were wondering):
1.  Bragg Liquid Aminos, Dijon Mustard, Curry Powder, Garlic Powder  (you knew that would be in there!!)
2.  Bragg Liquid Aminos, Miami Spice Chicken Seasoning
3.  Grace's Jamaican Jerk Seasoning
4.  Curry Powder, Garlic Powder
5.  Bragg Liquid Aminos, Mrs. Dash
That leaves the other one for tonight which I've seasoned with Grace's Jamaican Jerk Seasoning and Garlic Powder and I'll grill it on the George Foreman Grill.

If you were also wondering, I still have my period.  It's still pretty heavy.  Definitely heavier than it has been in the past.  It seems to be heavier during the day rather than at night.  I also seem to have cramps every other day (on average) that hurt enough to require me to take some Advil.  I wish that it would all just go away.  Grrr.

Some Weight and Calorie Ramblings...

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.  =)

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.  =)