Struggling

Today has been a struggle to stick with the food plan.

Here's all the things I wanted to eat: (I'm hoping listing everything will help me realize that I do have to will power to get through this successfully)

Cheese Balls
Peanut Butter
Cheese
Spaghetti
A gigantic salad with tons of cheese, croutons and ranch dressing
Dark Chocolate
Banana Bread, warm with butter slathered all over it.

I managed to get through the day with only have a forkful of spaghetti when I was making plates for the girls.

I knew this round was going to be a bit harder than the first time around. Ross isn't doing it with me this time, so I'm cooking for him and the girls, lots of yummy things I can't have right now. I decided I was going to quit smoking when I started the diet as well. If I had quit any other time, I would have undoubtedly gained weight. This diet is so strict and limited on what you can eat and I've already done it once so I figured that would be the best time to get over smoking as well since I'm not allowed to go munchies wild when I have a nicotine craving. But, I also don't have the nicotine to depend on when I'm hungry, which is what I did the first time around. When I was hungry, I'd just go out and have a cigarette and then I'd be fine. I've been kinda cranky today, but I made it through.

Tomorrow is a new day, a fresh start and more pounds to lose. I'm currently at 9.6lbs down since the 4th. This mornings weight was 191.2. I'm just a few pounds away from my lowest weight after the first round, and then I'm moving on to new pounds!!

I haven't started with any exercise yet, but I'm thinking I'll get one of my Walk Away The Pounds DVD's out tomorrow. This weekend I plan to clean off the treadclimber so I can start training for the 5K.

hCG Diet Update

 Ross and I at the beach in September when I was at my smallest, 187ish during that week.

I finished up our first round of the hCG at 193.8lbs. I lost a few more and the lowest I got down to was around 186 while we were on vacation. I maintained for several months around 188. Over the holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year) I splurged a little too much and got up to 200 again. I began my second round of hCG on January 4, 2013. I'm already back down to 192.8. My goal with this second round is to end up somewhere between 165-170lbs. I am also going to begin exercising this time around. My sister Jaimee invited us all to join her on a 5K this year. Looks like we'll be trying for the Color Run in St. Louis in April. I'm looking forward to it. I may never become a serious runner, but at least on this more laid back race, it's okay if I walk it if necessary.

hCG Diet

Ross and I started the hCG diet on June 30th. As of this morning, I've lost 17.6 pounds and Ross has lost 25. We have more to go, but it's encouraging to see some weight coming off finally. I'm currently at 205.6

A Long Overdue Update

Well, a lot has changed since January of 2011, including my weight! I'm not really sure when I started to see any weight loss, but I have had some. I lost about 10+ lbs somewhere between January and November. In November I began dieting and tracking my weight weekly. On 11-15-11 I weighed 222.2 lbs. The lowest I got was 209.6 on 2-7-12. Now I'm currently 214 and 10 weeks pregnant. I'm going to try and be careful about how much weight I gain during this pregnancy and afterwards I will be doing the hcg diet. My parents both had great success with it and are keeping their weight off. I don't remember them every being as skinny as they are now. I'm so proud of both of them!

New Year, New Way

I'm ringing in the New Year at 234.8 lbs. I'm really glad I made it through the holidays without gaining. I actually lost a pound or two. I'm considering trying the counting calories approach along with some SlimFast.

Seeing the few pictures of myself from Christmas were a real eye opener for me. Something has to be done, starting now!

Pre-Thanksgiving Weigh In

I just weighed and the scale said: 236.8. Let's see if I can manage to get through Thanksgiving at the same weight or maybe even slightly less!

Saturday

Well, I'm not making any progress yet. I always seems so come up with tons of excuses for why I can't do this or why I eat that and I've just got to stop. I've been spending a lot of time praying for will power and self control, those are the things I'm lacking that I need in order to make weight loss work. I weighed 237.4 this morning.