WL Update

I weighed in with 4 pounds less of fat and 1 pound down on water.  Pretty good.  I am on my third week now and my appetite should be resetting soon.  I went ahead and got a B12 shot and it only is helping a little bit with energy not as much as I would like.  I was hoping for a super charged surge of energy.

Day ?

I lost track of what day it is in my WL journey...but I am in my second week.  The doc was right, it was easier to do while on vacation.  I thought it was pretty hard to do while visiting my parents, but waking up on Sat morning and being home all day was way harder.  All I want to do is snack.  I did cheat and has some  goldfish crackers with my tomato soup.  The tomato is gross!  It has green flecks of some leafy thing floating in in.   According to my scale I am down 6 pounds...on Weds I will find out exactly how much of that is fat and how much is water.  Hoping for 2 pounds of fat loss a week. I am so hungry that its getting hard...I may have to get the injections after all.  I hate needles so opted not to do that at my last visit.  I could choose between a B12 shot or a Lipo-B shot.  The lipo-b has more vitamins, amino acids, and minerals in it.  I can't figure out if  I am tired from traveling, pms or the diet.  I had to really push myself to do 30 minutes of cardio today. So much for my 600 calorie daily burn goal.

Day 2

I actually feel pretty good.  This isn't going to be so bad after all.  I even was able to get Andi Chick-Fil-A and not die while smelling the food in the car.  LOL

So far the soup has been the best.  I thought it would be the absolute worst.  Last night I had creamy chicken and tonight I am having Tomato.

And I still had the energy to do 60minutes on the treadmill this morning.  My goal is to burn 600 cal a day with aerobics.  When I get back from vaca I will add weight training.  My wrist is still healing from the car accident and I can't do it yet.  I tried and it hurt like hell.  P90X or Insanity is out for at least another 6 weeks. 

Day One of Weight Loss Journey

So about two weeks ago I went in for a consultation at the The Center for Medical Weight Loss.  Here is my starting point.  59.5 pounds of fat. Yikes. 37 pounds of that fat is on my torso.  Yuck!  I knew it so I wasn't too surprised, but it really sucked having the doc point out the actual numbers to me.  Then when I finally got the nerve to sign up, the doctor was on vacation so I had to wait another week....so now three weeks from when I decided to do something about it I finally am starting today.  In my body composition analysis my calorie count to maintain my current weight is 1495, that's not a whole lot---I tried to eat just that until I started.  And here's the problem that has plagued me since forever.  I have tremendous willpower all day and can stick to that calorie count, but then I blow it and I blow it big---like 3000 calories over with binge eating for two days after having it controlled for 5 days.  Thus the 37 pounds of fat.   The plan I choose to do with CMWL is the 800 calorie plan for 6 weeks and then decide if I want to switch to the 1200 cal or remain on the 800 cal.  That puts me to lose about 13 pounds in 6 weeks....I hope it's more.  I went with that because since my calories are at 1495 if I did 1200 it would take me 10 days to lose a pound....3 pounds in a month would be very discouraging.  So how do I do 800 and not become malnourished.   4 shakes a day and 1 bar or soup.  Sounds extreme.  It is.  But I suspect I have a mild compulsive overeating disorder so going completely off food for awhile actually sounds less hard than trying to limit food.  In the meantime, depending on how much withdraw I have (since food has become my coping tool) I may seek out an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.

Day One:  First Shake.  I choose to start with the Strawberry Shake since I thought it would taste the nastiest.  I wasn't bad at all.  I made it with very cold water.  and tried to make is last.  It was kind of more bland than I expected.  I thought it would have that awful fake strawberry flavor.  Can't wait to try the Chocolate one in three hours.
Second Shake: Vanilla.  Pretty good.  I put it in the freezer for awhile so it was good and chilled.  and tried to make drinking it last and hour.
Third Shake:  Chocolate.  I saved the chocolate one for my biggest munchie time of the day  3:00.  And it is a total disappointment.  Not very chocolaty at all.  I think I'm going to freeze my bedtime shake into a pudding pop.
So here I am at three with a killer headache.  I've drank about 80 ounces of water so I don't think I'm dehydrated.  But I am very tired.

Cole is official

May 20 marked Cole's first day as a licensed driver!  And I totaled the car we were planning on letting him use in the fall.  

May 20 - Auto Accident

Thanks everyone, for the kind comments left about Jake leaving.  I'm still sad about it, but not as devastated as I thought I would be.  I just wish he wasn't so far away.  I am resiting the urge to call, text, email and facebook  him a million times a day.  His 19th birthday was on Mother's day this year.  So my day was ok, not spectacular. I just wanted to get it over with.  He texted, but didn't call.