Day 15

Weight: 201.6 I did not eat anything all day. I was busy cleaning and it made it easier to not think about food. My mom left early from work yesterday and we went to see the Avengers. This is my second time seeing it and her first. By the time we got to the movies I was starving. We got home around 7:45 and fed the kids a snack and put them to bed. I finally got to eat. I ate strawberries about 150 calories. I also had a couple of pieces of chicken lunch meat about 30 calories. 180 calories total. Not much huh? I know but that is all I felt like eating so late. I really wanted something sweet and strawberries was the only thing I could have. I also like crunchy things and have yet to find something I can eat. Tune in tomorrow to see if I lost anymore weight. It is getting exciting because I have not weighed less than 200 pounds in two years.

Day 14

Weight: 202.4 I cannot believe I cheated last weekend and now it is going to take me a over week to get back down to what I was before I left. I could have lost another five pounds by now had I not cheated. Totally sucks! I will never cheat again!!!! I ate a turkey burger patty for lunch yesterday and had the same thing for dinner with green beans. I ate strawberries for a late snack. About 430 calories total. Tune in tomorrow to see if I lost any weight. ;)

Day 13

Weight: 203 I went out of town for the weekend. My husband left for the summer and my cousin had a birthday party for her baby. The girls had a blast. I am not going to beat around the bush, I cheated on my diet. I am finally getting back down to the weight I was before I left last week. It is so hard when you go out of town to eat right. I have no willpower. I am working on that. All I had yesterday was a smoothie that had 240 calories. I really want to lose this weight. I bought some coffee to try. A friend told me that coffee first thing in the morning will help fill you up. I bought flavored coffee and fat free creamer to make it taste better. I hated it. I just cannot drink it. I do not know how people can drink it. It tastes so nasty. I might try it one more time because I know it will help me but man I would never drink it otherwise. No more cheating for me. I am going to work hard to lose as much weight as I can this first go around. The end of June will be the end of the first part of the diet. If I lose about 6 pounds a week for the next 5 weeks I will have lost about 35 pounds total. It would be nice to lose more than that but I need to be realistic. I am very tired all the time. I feel like I do not have any energy but that is really nothing new. I cannot wait to get some more energy. Being around my cousin this weekend makes me envious of all of her energy. She is the energizer bunny. She did so much for the birthday party and still cleaned everything up after. She says she cannot sleep without cleaning up first. I wish I had that feeling. There are some things I really need to work on about myself...organization and cleaning for the most part. I think Justin and I have decided that I will go to nursing school in Oklahoma City. It is just too hard being apart. That means about a year from now we will be in Oklahoma City. Not sure for how long. It just depends on how well Justin likes his job. I would love to come back to Texas, but we will see. I will post again tomorrow and let you know what I ate today and how much I weighed this morning.

Day Four

Weight: 205.3 pounds

My weight can fluctuate, as I have said in the past, so until I get down to the 190's I am not going to jump for joy. 

My lack of food:

Morning Snack- Orange  65cal.

Lunch- Chicken breast   110cal.

            fresh green beans  50cal.

Afternoon snack- Orange  65 cal.

Dinner- Chicken breast   110cal.

            fresh green beans  50cal.

Lots of water and crystal light.

Total: 450cal.

I was under yesterday.  I have not been to the grocery store with everything that we had going on this weekend.  I hope I can go after the kids go to bed tonight or maybe after I drop Kayley off at school tomorrow.  

This is going to be a busy week.  We have a lot to do to get ready for this weekend.  We are going to Fort Worth on Friday morning to spend some time together.  Justin will leave Saturday morning to go to Oklahoma City for the summer while the girls and I stay for a cousin birthday party!!  While we are gone my mom is having new flooring put in downstairs.  We will hopefully come home to some new beautiful floors on Sunday afternoon.  

Tune in tomorrow to see my progress.   

Day three

Weight: 206.3 pounds...ughhh!

Yesterday was day three of my hCG diet.  I will post about today tomorrow if that makes any sense.  Day three I am still allowed to eat as I usually do.  My sister and her husband and son came over yesterday afternoon after my mom and I had spent the morning cleaning out the garage.  It looked like an episode of hoarders there was so much junk.  We barbecued and played with the kids all afternoon.  Justin leaves for Oklahoma this weekend so we wanted to just have some family time before he is gone for the whole summer!! 
I hope to see some results by the end of the week.  Tune in tomorrow to see if I lost any weight!   

The Time has Come!

The time has come...I can finally start the hCG diet!  I am excited and nervous.  I will do my first injection tomorrow and start the 500 calorie diet on Monday.  I am going to be done with school for the semester tonight so it is really good timing!  I am hoping to lose about 30-40 pounds this first go around.  It would be great if I could lose a pound a day (50 pounds total), but I do not want to get my hopes up.  I will go in for an update weigh-in in two weeks and of course I will be weighing myself first thing in the morning and posting it every day.  I will upload pictures of myself, hopefully, on a weekly or bi-weekly basis (depending on how much weight I lose).  I cannot "weight" to feel better...too cheesy?  Ha!  I will post my weight tomorrow and start on Monday with the daily weight and food journal posts. 

I have a very busy summer planned in the works.  I hope to stay busy with my girls and will keep you all updated on all the tiring fun things we do this summer.  There is so much going on, people to see and places to go! 

Follow me on my weight-loss journey.  I hope this motivates others to do the same.  Happy reading!   

The Waiting Game

Well, I went to my consultation for the hCG diet.  I will have to WAIT about a week before I start the injections.  The first three days I can eat like I regularly do.  Day four through fifty I can only have certain foods and only a total of 500 calories a day.  I will use this blog as a daily log of my weight and the food I eat.  I was told that if I stick to the diet that I should lose about 1/2 an pound to a pound a day.  I would be very happy to be down thirty pounds by the end of the 50 days.  I will take a six week break, then start again maybe with another fifty days or only 25 days depending on how much weight I lose.  During the six week break I can workout and eat more calories.  I am very anemic so that causing me to be very tired.  Iron levels should be about 60 and my are 13.  I am going to be taking iron and a multivitamin.  The hCG is infused with Vitamin B-12 to give me a little energy because I won't be taking in enough food for energy.  I won't write again until I start the injections...hopefully soon!    

New Road

I have been very busy with school and family.  I just have not had the energy to do anything other than homework and take care of the girls.  It is a vicious cycle...need to workout for energy, but no energy to workout.  It seems as though I cannot get a break.  For the last month at least one or both girls have been sick.  Every weekend for the last four months have been filled with family obligations and this weekend is no exception.  I am coming up to the end of the semester and Kayley gets out of school for the Summer at the end of May.  I am looking forward to the Summer off school.  Justin leaves for his internship in Oklahoma City mid May.  A Summer with the girls by myself all day everyday is going to be exhausting fun.  I am going to have a very structured day planned for the girls, especially Kayley.  She needs to be busy or she gets restless.  This Summer we are going to work on eating better, using our manners, and not talking back.  I am thinking about doing a chore/hygiene chart and also a chart for daily activities for visual aid.  I want to start going to church and get into a routine like what I used to have before going to school.  I need some major organization and motivation to keep the house clean and clutter free.  Wish me luck!! 

On to what this blog is really about...my weight loss.  So far I weigh the same 203.4 pounds that I have weighed for the last few months.  Come Monday I will start down a new road on my weight loss journey.  I am going to start the hCG diet.  I go in Monday for the consultation and I will know more details and learn just exactly what this diet entails.  I am excited and nervous at the same time.  I am so ready to have this weight off.  I am going to be very busy the next two weeks getting ready for Summer and I hope to be losing weight at the same time.  I will update the blog either Monday or Tuesday so stay tuned  :)    

Fresh Start

This week is a fresh start.  Yesterday I went to the dentist and got my eyes checked.  I need glasses for reading and driving at night.  I am trying to take better care of myself.  I not only need to lose weight but I need to take better care of myself and I am making an effort to do so.  I am feeling better.  I am still sore, but I just got finished on the treadmill.  I fast walked for five minutes then jogged for five minutes in that pattern for twenty five minutes.  I feel exhausted.  I am making this a daily goal for myself.  I want to continue to to add ten minutes to it each week, or every other week depending on how things are going, up to fifty-five minutes and then switch it up.
We had a long weekend with President's Day.  The weather was crappy to say the least so there was not much to do.  We played with play-doh and colored.  My sister and nephew came over Sunday and stayed until Tuesday while her husband was out of town.  Brody is getting so big!!  I cannot believe that he will be a year old in April.  Time flies when your having fun!  He is standing more and more on his own.  I believe he will be walking before his first birthday.  He adores the girls, especially Kayley.  She sings to him and plays with him.  Blake on the other hand is not that into sharing her toys with him, but she is three.  It is about what I would expect from someone her age.
I want to do something fun for Spring Break but not sure what to do???  I want to do something as a family and also something with just my husband.  Justin has to leave the end of May for Oklahoma to do his internship while the girls and I stay here.  We will visit and probably do a lot of meeting halfway in Fort Worth where some of my family lives.  Making an eight possibly nine hour drive with two kids by myself is next to impossible.  So I will be looking up a few fun things for us to do and share them with you all.                  

Pain is the Pits!!

Well, it is always something...I hurt myself and not sure how.  My sciatic nerve is very tight and swollen and has caused me bad leg pain and the whole right side of my back is swollen and hurting from it.  I went to get a massage yesterday and she tried to work it out but said that I would need to ice it and my back to get the swelling to go down.  SO......I cannot workout right now, but I have been trying to eat better and drink water.  I weighed myself this morning, 203.4 pounds.  Hopefully I can start fresh on Monday.  I already feel better having had a massage and going to bed at 8:45pm, which I never do.  I am a night owl.  I usually am up until after midnight.  It feels good to sleep from 8:45-6:30.  I might have to try that more often.  I guess I am getting old haha!      

WOW

I have had a very busy and somewhat stressful few months.  I am finally getting back into the swing of things.  I have actually gained back the weight that I lost.  I now weigh 205 pounds.  I just got finished doing a 45 minute fast walk on the treadmill.  I hope that in the coming months I can shed this weight before my ten year high school reunion in the summer.  I know I won't be at my goal weight by then, but I will continue to work on it until I do get there.  I read a couple of things on Pinterest a few weeks ago, "A year from now you will wish you started today!", "Suck it up today so someday you won't have to suck it in!".  

I woke up early this morning to make my girls some Valentine Muffins and raspberries stuffed with chocolate chips.  They each got a thing of chocolate candy, a new mini Barbie, a lovebug balloon, and are sharing an assortment of chocolates.  My husband bought me the new Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn.  I am not sure what we will do tonight if anything.  My mom will be babysitting my nephew so our Valentine Dinner may have to wait until this weekend.  Happy Valentine's Day everyone!