Day 11

Today was a better day!!! It started out with a loss of .8 pounds so I'm down to 166.2 from 167 yesterday.  I can handle that.  Now if only TOM would go away, I could start losing some more.

I don't have a lot to update or say today.  I had my normal left overs for lunch and for dinner, I grilled chicken and asparagus.  I didn't have but one fruit today as I think the double fruit is what's starting to slow me down.  I didn't have melba toast at lunch but decided to have it as my evening snack with some sugar free strawberry jam.  It was super yummy, just hope the scale is okay with it tomorrow.

Well I don't have my stats handy to update them so I'll update and add that tomorrow.  Going to City Market in KC tomorrow to get produce as I'm almost out.

I CAN (and am) DO THIS!!!!

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Day 10

Today wasn't a good day, yes I lost but only .2 pounds... I'm not overly excited by this as you can tell.  Not sure if it was the 7oz of cabbage or if it's that monthly visit still causing this very little weight loss.  After figuring out the calories and carbs from dinner last night I was a little high on carbs due to the cabbage. 

I'm sort of full still from my dinner of beef and tomatoes tonight and only had one fruit today.  I think an extra apple with the amount of carbs in them may be a little to much after yesterday.  I had left over roast beef again tomorrow and I will have one more serving left after that. 

I'm about out of vegetables and only have a few apples left so I'm going to the farmer's market in KC on Saturday to load up for the next week or so.  Wonder if I can freeze some of the veggies or meals if I make them up ahead of time?  Hmmm, I'll have to do some research this weekend.

I decided to look at the calendar tonight, if I go the full 40 days, I won't be done till late July with phase 2 and then I'll have the 3 weeks of maintenance which puts me to around Aug 22.  That seems so far away when I look at it like that but I am already 10 days down... what's 30 more?!  I don't want to quit till I get the 35 pounds off or the 40 days whichever comes first.  I've thought about doing the 23 days, doing the maintenance for 3 weeks then 3 weeks of normal and then starting another round.  Maybe if I can lose around 30 pounds by my 23 days, I'll think about it.  30 pounds lost in 23 days would put me at a good rate and put me down to 145.  If I did that and maintained or lost, I'd only have 23 days more to do and only need to lose 15-20 pounds on that round... I'll have to think about this.

Well that's all I have for tonight.

I CAN DO THIS!!!!

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Stats:
Weight: 167
Waist: 32.5
Chest: 36
Hips: 39.5
Thigh - Left: 24
Thigh - Right: 23.5
Calf - Left: 14.25
Calf - Right: 14
Bicep - Left: 11.5
Bicep - Right: 11.75

Day 9

I lost 1 pound from yesterday!!! YAY!!!! Seeing the daily progress is really helping me stay on this diet.  I miss other foods but I'm taking that one day at a time.  My biggest miss is all carbs and pizza!!! Bob had a frozen DiGiorno (sp?) tonight and I went in to the kitchen to cook my cabbbage and chicken and I saw all the pepperonis and beef and could smell the wonderful aroma... It was very tempting to just still a piece of pepperoni but I held back and didn't do it.

Instead I finished cooking my grilled chicken on the george forman grill and sauteed some cabbage, onion and apples in the wok.  I have to say, the cabbage mixture I took from a recipe that got great reviews but it included butter... Obviously, I couldn't use the butter so I improvised and used the butter popcorn spray with 0 everything and some water.  The butter probably would have made it taste 50% better!  It's edible but not great by no means.

It's day 2 of TOM and day 2 of no drops till it's done and I haven't had any hunger at all.  I should be over TOM tomorrow and will continue the drops at that time.  I've just been eating leftover roast for lunch with a vegetable of choice that I chose in the morning.

Well down 7.25" and 7.8lbs in 8 days!!!

I CAN DO THIS!!!!




Stats:
Weight: 167.2
Waist: 32.5
Chest: 36
Hips: 39.5
Thigh - Left: 23.75
Thigh - Right: 23.5
Calf - Left: 14.25
Calf - Right: 15
Bicep - Left: 11.5
Bicep - Right: 11.75

Day 8

Today started out with only a drop of 0.4 pounds (and 0.5")... Lets just say I wasn't happy and thought it was something I ate yesterday and swore off strawberry shakes!  Well after reading some forums and other blogs, I found that the visit of TOM can cause you to not lose or even gain.  Well TOM is now here and visiting so I need to be patient for the next few days and hope I can at least stay even or lose even if not in a mass amount that I was so used to.

We went to go see the river tonight.  The Missouri is expecting to hit flood stage for the north side of the city by Friday or Saturday and this is only the beginning, we are told we will be dealing with this through fall.  Hopefully it stays low enough that Elwood/Hwy 36 doesn't flood or I'll never get home unless I take about 4 hours to get there instead of the normal 2 hours it should take me.  Ugh!

Well I guess since this blog is more about the diet, I'll get back on track.  My diet today was water for breakfast, an apple for my morning and evening snack.  Roast and cucumbers for lunch and since I forgot my Melba Toast, I had it has my snack after work and before dinner.

Well lets hope tomorrow starts out a bit better than today but if TOM has his way, I don't think that will happen. Till tomorrow, have a good night!

I CAN DO THIS!!!!




Stats:
Weight: 168.2
Waist: 32.5
Chest: 37
Hips: 39.75
Thigh - Left: 23.75
Thigh - Right: 23.75
Calf - Left: 14.25
Calf - Right: 14
Bicep - Left: 12
Bicep - Right: 12

Day 7

One week is finally over!!!  The summary from the beginning is I'm 14% to goal for my weight loss!!!  I've lost a net total of 6.4 pounds and lost a net total of 4.75 inches!!!!  I'll take that for one week since when I was eating 1100 calories a day and burning 600-650 calories at the gym a day 5 days a week for 3 weeks, I lost a net total of about 6 pounds.  This time, I make extremely strict meals and don't snack and take it easy! :)  I have to say though, when this is done, I'm sure I will be watching things more closely and not reverting to old habits as I don't think I can handle another 30-40 days of this diet!  If I get to the max allowed to lose within 40 days of 35 pounds, I'll have 10 more to go to get to my goal.  I'm hoping at that point, giving the 3 weeks of maintenance and then slowly increasing carbs and sugars in the diet to work up to about a 1200 calorie diet and the gym, that I can lose the last 10 on my own. If not, I'll wait the 6 weeks after the maintenance time and do another round to lose the remaining amount but would hopefully only need to do the minimum 23 days of drops.

Enough about all that... I made it to lunch without having my fruit and had my stuffed chicken and spinach for lunch again.  I managed to still not have my fruit before leaving work so I got home and made another strawberry shake before having dinner.

I decided while waiting for dinner time, to cut up all the vegetables and presort them to sandwich baggies so they would be pre-measured and ready to go.  The roast I cooked last night turned out pretty good but slightly dry.  I was able to get 8 servings out of it and pre-measured those as well.

Roast Beef w/ Soy-Sesame Asparagus

Well now it's time to finish my 2nd bottle of water so I can get a 3rd and maybe 4th done by bed time and manage one more fruit although I'm not hungry.

I CAN DO THIS!!!



Stats:
Weight: 168.6
Waist: 32.75
Chest: 37
Hips: 40
Thigh - Left: 24
Thigh - Right: 23.75
Calf - Left: 14.25
Calf - Right: 14.25
Bicep - Left: 12
Bicep - Right: 12

Day 6

Well another positive day!!! Got up and weighed and was down another 2.0 pounds!!!!  I guess those 8 pieces of popcorn didn't hurt me too bad!

On a side note, physically, the cleansing of the diet was not agreeing with me earlier and I wasn't feeling well.  I took a nap and felt back to normal.  I'm getting a side pain more towards my back on the right side off and on and it's like a spasm and it doesn't last long but it's painful when it hits. I'm guessing it's just the body adjusting to the healthiness of the food I'm not putting into it instead of all the greasy and fatty foods.

Strawberry Shake

I finally got my strawberry shake today. I had it for breakfast, it made 16oz and I was full before finishing it!! Lunch I had the same as yesterday and tried the stuffed chicken for dinner tonight.  I had enough to make two so I made the 2nd one for my lunch tomorrow.  It was pretty tasty.  I bought a lean roast today at the store and cut all the visible fat off that I could.  It's now in the crock pot and enough meat for 8 days so I don't have to worry about lunches this week, just my vegetable.

Spinach stuffed Chicken

Well I've only accomplished almost 3 bottles of water today.  I'm going to make sure this last one is done before going to bed but I won't get to my 4th one.  I think I only had 3 yesterday as well along with a couple of iced teas.

I CAN DO THIS!!!!




Stats:
Weight: 169.4
Waist: 33
Chest: 37
Hips: 40
Thigh - Left: 24.25
Thigh - Right: 24
Calf - Left: 14.5
Calf - Right: 14
Bicep - Left: 12
Bicep - Right: 12