May 28, 2011

Aaron finally got meds for his strep and is no longer contagious - last night I got to sleep in the same bed as my husband for the first time since last weekend.  And I got to go to the gym for the first time in a week this morning as well.  Because Aaron's been sick and banned to the bedroom, I couldn't go to the gym because Nick isn't responsible enough to watch Chloe for that long yet.  I'm getting ready to go to Bonfils this morning and donate blood.  They posted on twitter that three local heart surgeries has tapped their supply of O-neg blood.  I happen to be O-neg - I'm a universal donor.  The thing that sucks is that anybody can have my blood type (except for AB-neg people) but if I ever need a transfusion, I can only have O-neg blood.  I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOO special lol.  Bye all!

May 24, 2010

Aaron is sick - we think it's strep but the rapid test came back negative yesterday and we won't get the results from the lab until tomorrow.  In the meantime, he's been laying in bed since yesterday morning with a temperature and feeling yuck.  I really hate when my family is sick - I wish it was me who would get sick.  I can't stand seeing people in pain.  I think this is why I avoided visiting Diana very much when she was diagnosed with cancer.  :(  I'll always regret that.

Work is going great - Ingrid bought me a massage and a pedicure and gave me a half day off work paid as my 2 year anniversary gift.  Not too many bosses give you presents on work anniversaries - that's just one more thing that I love about my boss.

Dishes are calling, and my laptop is about to die.  I just wanted to check in with everybody.

May 17, 2011

My boss' mom sent me about 97 lbs of homemade baklava.  I ate 93 lbs and shared the other 4.  Thanks to HCG, I really didn't gain very much weight from eating all that darn baklava!  Renee and I are still hitting the gym - we're supposed to be going 4 times a week, but for the last three weeks I think we've only gone 3 times per week.  Things keep coming up (marketing events, baby showers, etc.) and we have decided that if something is happening on our scheduled gym day, we're just going to skip the gym rather than try to make up the time later.  I don't want working out to be something that interferes with the rest of my life.  We did legs night last night and so far I'm not sore.  Normally it takes two days before I feel sore from a workout so tomorrow I'll probably be hurting pretty badly.  I did 3 sets of 20 reps on the hip adduction and hip abduction machine.  Started off at 135 lbs and ended up at 155 lbs.  When I first started in February, I could only do about 20 lbs. I'm up to 40-55 lbs on the tricep machine (up from about 10-15 lbs) and can calf-press 205 lbs.  I have massive leg muscles lol.

May 12, 2011

I'm tired of feeling busy - and whenever I feel like I have a few moments of spare time I never want to sit and blog, I usually want to sit and do nothing. 

Nothing interesting has been happening around here - I'm going to the RMPA Annual Dinner tonight as a vendor for my work so I guess that's kind of interesting.  I'm also accompanying Jacob and his class to a field trip tomorrow to the Denver Money Museum.  I'm not excited about that at all. 

May 8, 2010

I love Mother's Day - I love a guilt-free day of no chores or cooking. 

Zumba

I gave Zumba a try last night and really liked it.  I'm lacking in coordination though, and my rhythm could use a little work, but I think it was mostly because I was just trying to figure out the moves.  I found out that my butt is bigger than I thought it was - I'd sway my hips one way and my butt would go the other.  Still a fun workout though.

2 lbs!

I lost 2 lbs in the last week.  My bodybugg showed a total deficit of only 648 calories but according to my weight loss I had a calorie deficit of 1000 calories.  Normally what happens is my bodybugg thinks I ate more calories than I actually did - never LESS.  I'm down to 160 lbs now.  I had gotten down to 162 one time back in 2008, but it took months and months and then I shot right back up to the upper 180s after that because I got so sick of feeling like I was starving all the time.  I got down into the upper 150's with HCG, but then didn't finish out my third round and went straight from P2 to eating whatever I wanted and eating a lot of it (plus I quit smoking) and got back up to 167 or 168.  Guess what I did when that happened?  I freaked out and started smoking again.  I would give anything to go back and smack my 16 year old self around for ever starting smoking.

WordPress - Again

Okay so I'm going back to WordPress (www.miaisneat.wordpress.com).  The last few days I was finding myself sliding down into a depression so I'm off the drops for now.  I'm going to be working out for a bit and then probably...who knows.  Atkins?  Probably Atkins.  I hate even saying this because HCG worked so well for me.  I think at this point I'm so close to my goal that it's nearly impossible to keep myself focused - especially when the HCG has really slowed down and I'm seeing barely any progress (unless I'm doing apple day and I REFUSE to spend the next few weeks doing apple days!)

I feel like a failure but oh well.  I did two rounds successfully, and am quitting a week early on my third round.  I started off at 184.4 lbs and in a very TIGHT size 14 and ended at 158.4 in a very LOOSE size 10.  I would consider this a huge success.  I'll still keep my blogger around so that I can follow everyone's progress.

G'night cruel world.

r3 vlcd day 13

I knew that I would gain today because I rehydrated yesterday so when I saw only a .2 gain I was actually happy about it. I am so ready to be done with this. I am looking forward to starting to work out and get toned and should see even more losses once I get started on that. I want it to be next saturday already!

r3 vlcd day 12

Only a week of drops left - YES!!! So apple day was a partial success. I ended up eating dinner because I couldn't handle one more dang apple. I lost a pound though which is good. I didn't drink much water though so I am pretty sure some of it is water weight and I will probably gain a little tomorrow. Oh well - I am at 158.2 today and happy with that. .2 until I've lost 10 lbs on this round!

r3 vlcd day 11

I only had a .2 lb loss so today is apple day for me. I am determined to hit 155 before this round is over. I can get rid of the last 10 lbs on my own.

r3 vlcd day 10

I am down another .4 today putting me only 14.4 away from my goal and at the lowest weight I saw on the scale since my first pregnancy checkup with chloe five years ago! I weighed 154 at that point and then shot up into the 160s by the next appointment. I will never forget that day either. I weighed 154 and was in a size ten and the nurse told me I was obese. I shoulda kicked her while I had the chance!

r3 vlcd day 9

My ticker is wrong this morning because I accidentally entered the wrong weight at first and now the ticker won't update. I am down 8.2 lbs as of this morning and officially into the 150s! Hopefully I don't go back up at all tomorrow or I will be in the 160s again lol. 159.8 was the lowest I got on my second round before I gained .4 at the end so anything I lose from this point on is completely new weight territory for me. Only 14.8 lbs left.

r3 vlcd day 8

My computer got the blue screen of death because nick dropped it last night. It may or may not be fixable and even then, they might not be able to recover the info. So this morning I got to sit down and try to recreate my check register on an actual check register. Blogging on a blackberry isn't all that speedy either. You'll have to excuse spelling and punctuation.

I did apple day as you all know and woke up to a 1.8 lb loss putting me just .4 away from the 150s. I detest apple day but am going to do them with every stall or loss of .2 because this is my last round that I think I can handle

R3 VLCD Day 7

Okay - so now it is my first stall day for reals.  This morning I woke up to a .6 lb gain but I re-weighed after I woke up a bit and I'm back at 162.  I got another crappy night of sleep last night because Chloe was up coughing all night.

I never thought I'd say this but I think I'm going to try an apple day.  I'm curious to see if it works.  I know I'm not technically supposed to do one this early into a stall (lol - one day stall) but I really just don't want to cook today and I want to see what apples do.

UPDATE - Apple day sucks.  I used to think apples were okay until this happened to me.

SECOND UPDATE - I just weighed myself and I'm already down .2 from where I was this morning so that's really good news because I'll still lose overnight.  As much as I detest apple day, I think this will be my new go-to for when I stall even ONE day because this is my last round.  I don't think that I'll want to do HCG ever again unless I gain back a bunch of weight because I go crazy and eat my children or something.  (don't worry, it's the apple poisoning talking)

R3 VLCD Day 6

My first stall day...how special!  I'm going to weigh myself again in a little bit and see if the scale moves though.  I only got 6 hours of sleep last night and only drank about a liter of water (I just kept forgetting about it!).  Hopefully tomorrow is better!

UPDATE - I gave myself a few minutes to wake up and then re-weighed myself.  I'm so glad that I remembered that trick because I actually lost .4 today.  Now I'm at an even six lbs lost.  I wish that I could do a 1 lb per day loss (right now I'm averaging that - but only because I lost 3.4 lbs on my second day) so that it would only take me 17 more days to get to my goal weight but I have a feeling that this round is going to be a looooooong one.

R3 VLCD Day 5

Another .6 down today for a total of 5.6.  The disappointing thing about being close to my goal weight is that I definitely seem to be losing weight a lot slower than everybody else.  I have 17.4 lbs to go and I'm pretty sure I'm just going to stay on phase 2 until it's gone but it might take FOREVER at this rate!

I made some chicken chili last night and added too much tomato paste so it's a little saucier than I would normally make it but it turned out pretty good.  I tried shrimp again the other night and I don't know why I do that to myself.  The flavor of shrimp gags me so WHY do I keep trying it?  I guess shrimp sounds like it would taste good but it DOESN'T.

R3 VLCD Day 4

Another .8 lb loss - I'm now at 5 lbs total for this round and only 18 to go! 

This round has been easier than my first two rounds.  I get hungry but not overly hungry like I did the first two rounds - probably because my stomach shrank up from the first two rounds.  Only 3 lbs until the 150s!

R3 VLCD Day 3

Aah - that's more like it.  3.4 lbs lost this morning.  I'm just .4 lbs above where I stabilized at after round 2 - and I'm 1.6 lbs down from what I weighed right before loading (on Wednesday).  Yahoo! 

I only have 18.8 lbs left to lose.  I can't believe this. 

R3 VLCD Day 2

I think I just had the suckiest first day weight loss ever.  Only .8 lbs - what the heck.  At this rate it will take me four days to lose my loading weight.  I'm pretty disappointed.   I really hope that the reason that I lost so little was because of how much water I drank yesterday.  I am really terrible about drinking my water and yesterday I drank quite a bit so my body may have just been rehydrating itself.  Maybe another thing is that I don't really have that much to lose anymore.  Who knows - I guess I just have to press on.

UPDATE - I just weighed myself (I know - I'm a glutton for punishment) and I'm down a full lb from this morning.  I'm convinced that my tiny loss from yesterday wouldn't have been so tiny if I had drank enough water the day before.  I was so scared from gaining 3 lbs from my first day of loading that I didn't really drink anything except for coffee.  I'm definitely more excited to get on the scale tomorrow than I was this morning!

R3 VLCD Day 1

I had to re-do my ticker this morning - I couldn't bear to see my little ticker go backwards as far as it had gone.  I weigh 168 as of this morning - 5 lbs up from where I stabilized at and a full 8 lbs over the lowest weight I got to on my last round.  So now I have 23 lbs to lose (at one point I only had 16 lbs to go...boo).  I really hope this round goes great.  I was up to 168 yesterday morning and I started crying a little so I decided NOT to really "load" yesterday and just eat when I was hungry.  Well, thanks to the drops - I never got hungry so I pretty much had to force myself to eat anyways and felt full and sick all day long.  I'm so grateful that my last two rounds got me out of the habit of eating breakfast because that used to be my hardest part of the day to get through and now it's not bad at all.  Today my mission is to get to the grocery store to go shopping and then come home and start cooking some meals for the next few weeks that I can put into the freezer so that I can still eat dinner with my family at night.  I missed eating with my family so bad last time.  I'm going to do a meatloaf, and some meatballs with some sort of sauce.  I plan on eating a lot more vegetables than I did on the last two rounds (I kind of let the veggies go last time) and will probably do some chicken stir-fry pretty often. 

Well, that's all for now.  I'm really excited to see the scale tomorrow.  It BETTER give me some good news!!!