VLCD Day 17

I can't believe I made it 17 days.  It's amazing how the fear of gaining weight keeps you from cheating (unless you're rationalizing with yourself at the Starbucks counter...a mistake I won't be repeating again!).  It's amazing how the same food that you were bored of cooking week in and week out for your family suddenly looks like a gourmet meal.  It's amazing that I miss pasta as much as I do as normally I don't crave pasta all that much.  I can't believe I'm almost done with the drops (Thursday is my last day on drops) and then just two more days until I can start eating real food again.  I lost another 1.2 lbs yesterday (Detox bath!) and if I only lost another .2 lbs per day for the next two days,  I will have lost 16 lbs in 19 days...not too bad at all! 

P.S.  I wore my tight slacks to work today.  They aren't tight anymore and I found out today I can take them off without unbuttoning them woohoo!

VLCD Day 16

Confession time:  I cheated a bit yesterday and didn't think I'd get found out by the scale this morning, but I did.  I gained .4 lbs lol.  I was feeling so sorry for myself that everybody got to eat barbeque yesterday at Aaron's grandparents house and all I got was the same stuff I've been eating for the last two weeks, so I bought myself a Starbucks.  I had a non-fat sugar free cinnamon dolce cafe latte.  I asked the girl to go light on the milk (I should have told her 1 T of milk, but I didn't want to because I really didn't only want 1 T of milk), and I'm certain she didn't hear me because I intentionally said it kind of quietly.   So I guess now I have to believe that I'm not above the consequences of cheating (I mean really, I didn't think that an extra 3 T of milk would do anything at all) so it's back to being a good girl for me. Right after I finish this Starbucks that I bought this morning...JUST KIDDING!

VLCD Day 15

My ticker won't update this morning, but I'm down 14.8 lbs!  Just .2 to go until I get to 15 lbs which is awesome.  Yesterday was kind of a sucky day.  We got a call in the morning from Aaron's mom letting us know that the doctor said Aaron's uncle Cliff would pass away shortly.  Aaron called to say goodbye and a few hours later we got another call saying he was gone.  It was hard because I wanted to eat to make myself feel better and I couldn't.  The other day when we closed on our house I wanted to go out to lunch to celebrate and we couldn't.  I'm looking forward to P3 when I can at least eat a grilled chicken salad at a restaurant or something.  A week from today I'll be eating oopsie french toast with cream cheese and strawberries.  Oh baby!

VLCD Day 14

I lost .8 lbs last night (and think I might re-weigh myself later because the scale was kind of jumping around between 169 and 170 this morning).  Anyways, thats .8 lbs gone overnight, and I swear it had something to do with Erica's detox bath.  I think TOM is almost here, so I was certain that I was going to have GAINED some weight.  I ran to the store and got epsom salts and baking soda and soaked in in the tub with those for about 30 minutes and woke up this morning to a large loss.  I wish I knew for sure it was from the bath, but I think it was?  Regardless, I am officially at 170.0 lbs as of this morning.  The next time I lose weight I will officially be in the 160s.  I can't believe this.  I haven't seen the 160s in years.  How exciting!

VLCD Day 13

We sold our house today finally.  It's completely behind us and no more worrying that the buyer might back out.  That also meant that I didn't get to eat lunch until 2 and that sucked.  And I really wanted to go out to lunch with Aaron to celebrate but I couldn't do that either.  Depressing.  I'm probably not going to post my food since I eat the same dang thing every day.  I really wish I liked fish.  I really wish that I liked chicken. 

VLCD Day 12

Well there's only 8 days left of drops (I'm counting today in that number) and then two more days of low cal, then I can start phase three.  I'm very excited about this.  I'm glad that Labor Day falls when it does, because the Sunday before labor day is my first day of phase 3 and I'm making cream cheese strawberry oopsie bread, and then on Monday I can make a Denver omelette...oh baby!  I'm tired of the food already, despite all the wonderful recipes there are out there for p2.  I don't like fish, and I don't care for big pieces of meat so it really limits what I can eat.  I've been eating the chili because it's so good that I actually look forward to it.  Scrambled eggs because I love them so much.  I'm not fond of chicken unless it's shredded inside an enchilada.  It's hard to find things new to try because I'm not an adventurous eater by any means.  My weight loss seems to be slowing a bit but I already expected that so I'm not upset.  I lost another .4 lbs last night and I'm totally fine with that.  I'm thinking that since I'm doing such short rounds, that even if I can only squeak 15 lbs out per round, that's fine by me.  I may have to do a third round at some point, but I will probably wait until after the holidays.  I want to be on maintenance during the holidays so I can eat with my family.  I am tired of separate meals and not eating with the kids because our dinners get done at a different time. 

VLCD Day 11

Only ten more days...woohoo!  I'm so excited!  I'm SO looking forward to the Sunday after next!

Breakfast - Coffee & Tea

Lunch - Chili & Cottage Cheese, Applesauce

Dinner - Garlic Shrimp (sans legs) and asparagus, Apple.