the same

this period has to go away.  I'm totally bloated, and I'm not losing any weight.  today I lost ZERO pounds.  booo.

I'm going to try revisiting my menu from the first week, and I'm going to try to eat all of my allowable food, even though I don't feel like it.

NOTHING, not even a little.

slow

I lost another .4lbs but I'm really waiting for something bigger.  I realize though that I have never weighed this little (for more than a day or two) in my entire adult life and TEEN life even.  Many many many many years.  So... if my body wants to take it's time, so be it.  I have three weeks left and only about 10-15 more pounds til my goal for this round.

Anyway, short and sweet.  Today I weighed in at 144.4.  Didn't do anything off protocol yesterday except eat salsa as my vegetable at lunch and forgot to eat second fruit.  Also forgot second melba.

here comes the slowest train ever

Just took my last dose of the first mixing.  I'm 4/15ths done with p2.

sigh

Still massively bloated and periody.  Was disappointed to only be down .2 this morning.  Haven't been sleeping well though and haven't been taking my normal naps (I know, I'm a little old for naps but someday I'll be working 60 hours a week and there won't be naps anymore so I'm taking them while I can!)... but maybe I'll get a big drop tomorrow if I drink a shit ton of water today.

Jalepenos aren't technically on protocol but I've been eating my fish with salsa as my vegetable.  I have to figure out how to make things interesting; I don't want to eat anymore.

Except today.  Today I'm pretty hungry.  I think my hcg is losing it's effectiveness since I'm on my second to last dose.  I'm going to remix tonight.

It's getting harder and harder to find pictures for this task.

not now

Down just .4 lbs today. Went to a party yesterday.  Did pretty well.
Didn't lose as well this morning though so for my own records here's what I ate yesterday:

• 1 sip of vodka/7up
• 1.75 apples
• .5 wasa cracker
• 1oz cucumber
• 1 oz of celery
• roughly 6 oz of chicken (that had touched the fat of other meats on the grill and thus, was delicious)
• 1 thumbnail size shrimp from a pasta salad (wasn't even that good)
• 2 or 3 diet 7-ups
• 1 cup of Smooth Move tea

I also TOUCHED a lot of fat as helped prepare food.  I don't really have to do anything special to fix this behavior since it's only my party behavior and I'm out of parties for the moment.  Plan on starting p3 on Oli's birthday exactly.

Oh, other changes... I didn't take a nap as I usually do and I did not sleep well AT ALL last night.  I could probably go back to sleep and lose more but there's too much shit to do today.

145lbs today.  wish it were better, glad it's not worse.

when I'll be impressed

So this morning my weight was down .8, not as high as any other day, but totally fine with me, so far this week, I'm averaging about 1.1 pounds a day.  If you count my loading weight, it's even higher.

I have barely been eating my vegetables or last fruit... sooo not interested.  I get my protein in though and I never skip my morning apple.  I want to try this chili that I've been hearing about on the forums but apparently tomatoes and beef stall people.  I'll try it when I get a little further in.  So far all of this weight lost seems tentative, like it could all go away in a day (which is true, if I just quit the diet and don't stabilize).

My lowest weight in my adult life was this spring, 141.8.  When I beat that with this diet, I'll be impressed.



Just .8 down at 145.4

what is this?  I don't even know.

one tenth of the way there

I was sure that I wasn't going to lose anything this morning... I made mac and cheese for the family last night and I so, so wanted some, even though the exact same-tasting mac and cheese will be available for consumption in 3 months, I felt like this was the last box.  I got over my cravings, didn't even eat a noodle, but splurged on Truvia.  Truvia is not on protocol but I've been eating it (in small amounts!  I'm not that into sugar) every day with no problems so far.  Night before last, around dinner time, I only ate about 1/2 of my protein and didn't eat my fruit or vegetables but last night I ate everything available to me.  I'm pretty sure my fish was more than 100grams.

I even dipped my strawberries in Truvia.  I guess this isn't weird to people, because the logo for Truvia is a strawberry dipped in Truvia, but I have a thing about making sweet things sweeter: it's unnecessary and fucking gross.  Strawberries in sugar I guess isn't so bad since it's like dessert, but the things people do to sweet potatoes!  disgusting!

Also disgusting, I thought I was constipated because I hadn't gone at my normal time (should have been yesterday morning) so I drank some Smooth Move tea last night and that is probably some of my weight this morning.  That shit works, and a little too well.   I must not have been constipated because there was never anything hard and on the third toilet trip it was all water.  I've been drinking water to compensate.  I don't expect to lose as much, or any, tomorrow, but I say that everyday and have always been surprised.

One amazing thing, then I'll tell you my weight and you'll be done hearing about my bowels, when you do low carb you lose so much water weight and you feel all unbloated and ready to get into smaller jeans right away.  On this diet, I am losing but I still feel bloated and unwilling to try on smaller clothes.  Probably just the period.  When this stupid period goes away I should probably lose more water weight.

OK so today's weight: 146.2!  That's 1.6lbs down from yesterday and 5.8lbs over all!  We'll see how tomorrow goes- no tears if there isn't a loss.

in brief

So much to talk about but just so little blogging time.

Morning weight, 1lb down!  despite my three week long, barely-there period turning into a full-on blood bath.  noice.

147.8... that's 4.2 net pounds lost.

it was surprisingly hard to find a corresponding photo today.