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24 October 2007

One of my buddies sent me a message today and in it she wrote - "I believe you are ready for this." It made me think of all the other times I tried to lose weight and failed. (I'd weigh myself EVERY day and if the scale didn't budge like I thought it should, I'd say -you know what...I'm going to have a 'fill in the blank' - this s---'- not working anyway. Unless you are really ready to lose weight, unless you truly BELIEVE in yourself and unless you are really ready to put in hard work that is necessary to do it, it probably won't work. And it is hard work. Because a life-time of habits are hard to change. Not to mention, how easily accessible those delicious fried foods are. And they are easily accessible. I can pick up the phone and have a cheeseburger and chips delivered to my door with a super-duper soda on the side. (I know in the "big city" you may have options for healthy food delivery, but here in my little southern town - not an option.) It's hard to change overnight and I have had set-backs but overall the big picture is what I need to focus on. It's a learning process. I only did okay yesterday, not perfect. I got a stomach virus a couple of days ago and you can use your imagination as to what all that entails. So, all that has made me feel not so energetic - so my work out only consisted of taking the dog for a 1 mile walk. I would have gone two (no..really I would have) but he didn't want to. Seriously, I took my 1 mile (measured out by my car) walk and decided to stop by the house to drop off my MP-3 player (needed to be synced) and a sweater (just got too hot.) Well, he just went into the house and looked it me as if to say, "Sister...we did a mile - it's muggy out there - let's just relax." He's a fat chocolate lab named Hershel. So, I thought...what the heck. As far as food went, I pretty much stuck to it until dinner when my daughter wanted me to make one of her favorite recipes and I did....and then kept "tasting" it...sigh. Let's just say...this recipe is not fat-smash acceptable. On a good note, I did make a batch of spinach pancakes for today and bought a big bag of organic apples to snack on! And did some grocery shopping. I saw it Wal-mart that they have suger-free spaghetti sauce...FINALLY - I was wondering last time I looked why the heck they didn't have that! So I bought some jars of that and I'm going to make some brown-rice pasta and use that sauce - and add some vegetables and take that to work tonight. I decided not to weigh myself until next week (like every Tuesday) so I don't make myself crazy.

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23 October 2007

Well, I CAN'T believe I lost 9 pounds - I weighed myself this morning only because it turned out that the reason I was so tired and run down feeling and had all these wierd symptoms is because I got sick. I stuck to my diet all day, kinda hung out in bed, and then when my husband got home with "comfort" food- I caved. I didn't feel great and the thought of brown rice and vegies just didn't do it for me. I didn't go nuts, but I did eat one of everything off of the "not allowed" list...lol - well maybe half of all the items on the list. I'm still not feeling great but not going to cheat today. I may just skip that 9th day of Phase 1 and go into Phase 2 today - We'll see. It's early. Just wanted to log my weight for now. I actually weighed myself yesterday and it was 10 pounds lost (that's why you should not weigh yourself every day - cause that crap will make you crazy)- when I called my husband yesterday to tell him i was sick he told me...you might need some more protein - eat some of that turkey that's in the fridge - but weigh yourself first - I thought it was kinda stupid...but I did it and when I saw the scale read 167 I was SHOCKED. I have not been starving myself - I have not really felt all that hungry through-out this. I have not been killing myself at the gym - so it was surprising to see that much weight loss.

Weigh-in: 168.0 lb

lost so far: 9.0 lb

still to go: 23.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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22 October 2007

Starting day 8 - so, I've made it a week. I noticed last night I just could not get warm - I'm usually complaining about how hot it is - i put on a sweatshirt, socks, sweatpants to sleep in. Then a couple of hours later I was hot - hormones? I'm off today so slept in. Plan is to go to the gym and walk the treadmill some time this morning. I just can't get motivated yet. I've never been one of those people that can just get up in the a.m. and run off to the gym - I don't know how people do it. Also last night I felt a little upset stomach - I did have some carbonated water and that actually settled it down. I really don't know the reason for not being allowed carbonated water - at least a couple of glasses! That is one thing I'm so sick of is drinking water, water and more water. I've never been a water drinker-have always hated it - I'm the type of person that has to put Crystal Light in their water in order to get it down - so I'm surprised at how well I've done. My husband was drinking a beer and eating some turkey slices last night while watching the game and I just wanted a slice of turkey so badly. I thought, what the heck could ONE little slice of turkey hurt? I didn't do it, because maybe it's just a slippery slope. You eat a slice a turkey and before you know it, you look down and you're wondering how the bowl of ice-cream got in your hands. I'm anxious to weigh myself on Wednesday morning. I know I've lost weight because my clothes fit much loser. Well, if you're reading this wish me luck to get through another day. I'm so looking forward to having some chicken or a piece of steak in a couple of days. And a good cup of coffee. I thought I would have much more withdrawal symptoms from cutting out the sodas. I was drinking a shameful amount per day - put it this way, I'd wake up in the morning and pop open a can of diet Pepsi. So to completely cut it out for a week makes me pretty darn proud of myself.

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21 October 2007

Day 7 - I went for a 3 1/2 mile walk today with my husband and dog. After the walk we had a great lunch - we put some cooking spray in a pan, added a chopped red pepper and chopped red onion, when that was tender, added the left-over brown rice,a rinsed can of black beans and a fresh chopped mango, heated it up and seasoned it, and sprinkled some fresh cilantro on it - it was really delicious. For dessert I just cut a banana in half and sprinkled some cinnamon and vanilla on it and broiled it - it took care of my sweet tooth. I've been drinking my water and I have noticed I feel much more energetic than I have on any other diet. So far had a relaxing weekend. I've noticed my skin looks a lot better too - must be all that water!

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20 October 2007

Day 6 - Still sticking with it - did cheat last night and had some wine with my husband - but still stuck to the diet every other way.- I'm not going to beat myself up about the wine - it's done, I did it, now I'm moving on. In the past I may have thought, will you blew it with the wine, may as well break out some cheese and crackers while you're at it, oh and some ice-cream, and maybe heat up that leftover lasagna and is that one of those fudge stripped cookies over there!! I had a rough day yesterday with work - really rough (basically quit my job because I couldn't take working for someone with the IQ of a cucumber. Put it this way, we're in the medical profession and she's such an idiot she refers to Alzheimer's as...OLD-TIMERS..what a dumba.. and she seriously thinks she's correct. We're supposed to educate our clients - although she's American born and raised, her English is HORRIBLE and quite often she's RUDE. Long story short, I just couldn't take it anymore, got into an argument with her and quit. It's not that big of a deal because it was just a part-time thing that I did in addition to my other job.

I still stuck with my diet and didn't resort to my usual coping mechanism of drowning my sorrows in deep fried chicken and chocolate cake. What I have noticed at this stage is that emotionally I'm not using food to numb stress, worries, and emotions. It's rough having to use new coping mechanisms - I don't light up a cigarette, I don't stop at McDonald's, I can't even "reward" myself with a diet Pepsi. So I took the dog for a walk. I talked it out with my husband. I cried. I'm replacing all my old habits with healthier ways of coping - it's not an overnight change but it's gradual and I'm slowly adding more and more healthy changes into my life. My husband and I have watched several seasons of The Biggest Loser and from the begining we noticed that the guys that blubberd and cried the most, for some reason lost the most weight. Now when we watch the show and when they show someone having big breakdowns, we're like...oh - so-and-so is having a great week -they're going to have good numbers...Maybe there's something to it.

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