Well my progress is still 4 lbs from the first week. Woo freakin hoo. I talked it over with this fitness guru who is super nutrition conscious. She's not a specific nutritionist so I'm not sure what to call her, but she knows things. I logged my diet again, which I've been doing off and on for a while and sent her the link and she looked over it. I use My Fitness Pal now. I don't know why I switched but the database is huge and it has an android app. I don't remember if LiveStrong does or not, I probably would have checked. Either way, this is the one I'm using to oh well lol. So she looked it over and claims I'm eating TOO MANY carbs. I cut a bunch out and then Erin told me I wasn't eating enough so I put more in and apparently that was wrong. I pretty much have to cut all carbs out because it seems that I'm extremely carb sensitive. I can barley eat fruit now. Woo...hoo....
So tomorrow, Day Twenty four and the official last day of the failed challenge, John and I are going to an Italian restaurant and I'm going to eat a giant bowl of pasta since I won't be allowed to until SOMETHING starts working. I guess it's the next step in diet trying since nothing else works. It's probably true. So I'm going on high protein and low carbs and it's going to suck. It means lots of veggies which get terribly boring and no fruit which I prefer as snacks over veggies. I'm already finding substitutes and things to try. I can have mayo so Tuna Salad works perfectly, I just put it on celery stalks instead of bread and don't cut up the celery to put in the salad.
Tonight is pork tenderloin and squash and carrots. Fun fun! Last night was Turkey Taco Salad. Happily I can still eat that so it might be an every week thing. I can add cheese if I want, but I like it without so I'm not going to. It's delicious!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Day Fourteen
I think I skipped yesterday. Yes, I did. Yesterday was fine. I was helping with the bi-annual HI Monk Seal census yesterday as part of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team Oahu (HMSRTO) yesterday. It was from 930-130. Well the official census was 10-1 but I got there early to figure things out and the end involved some chatting. Unfortunately, in our zone, we didn't see any so that was pretty sad.
Because of my plans I took the shake in the morning for breakfast. I was also told the night before that I was doing my eating all entirely wrong, which was frustrating. I hate when you follow things as closely as possible, yet you're still doing it wrong. I can't find anywhere on the sheet that tells me I need to eat more carbs so I didn't add carbs to my meals. Carbs as in grains and such since they're in most anything anyway. The only place where it's added is in the snacks and I made nuts and fruits as my snacks since it said CHOOSE. I'm told that's wrong, too. So now I'm incredibly frustrated with Advocare because the only resource I have from them is a one sheet PDF that barely explains what I should be doing so I get outside info from fitness gurus who have done it and tell me I'm wrong. UGH. The products are still good, but the coaching is awful.
I definitely love the Spark. I do notice a difference. At first I wasn't sure, but it's more obvious when you stop than when you started. I'm often tired by 5 and with the Spark it's not so bad. Yesterday, around 3, my day was a little thrown off because of the count and other plans and I noticed I was ridiculously tired. That's when I realized I didn't drink my Spark around 230 like usual, so I did! I managed to last until about 8 haha. The sun often wears me out more than expected so I was pretty exhausted. At least I lasted that long! I haven't been sleeping well either (big surprise) so there's that component.
Uhm, as for other things. It's true that I don't feel as gross as I would be on Wendys, Papa Johns, and all those other delicious goodness. I do feel lighter I suppose. Today I saw the 182 on the scale for the second time during the cleanse. Hopefully it becomes more frequent. I'd feel better if it does.
Well the power went out during writing that, so I went upstairs to finish up my makeup. Magically I already gained 3 lbs just from having a spark and a morning shake so I'm back to the 185. Big Surprise.
Uh where was I? Now I'm just getting distracted by various cat things, and my nails. They're a holographic glitter nail polish and extremely distracting, especially in the sun.
We're leaving for lunch soon so I'm out.
Because of my plans I took the shake in the morning for breakfast. I was also told the night before that I was doing my eating all entirely wrong, which was frustrating. I hate when you follow things as closely as possible, yet you're still doing it wrong. I can't find anywhere on the sheet that tells me I need to eat more carbs so I didn't add carbs to my meals. Carbs as in grains and such since they're in most anything anyway. The only place where it's added is in the snacks and I made nuts and fruits as my snacks since it said CHOOSE. I'm told that's wrong, too. So now I'm incredibly frustrated with Advocare because the only resource I have from them is a one sheet PDF that barely explains what I should be doing so I get outside info from fitness gurus who have done it and tell me I'm wrong. UGH. The products are still good, but the coaching is awful.
I definitely love the Spark. I do notice a difference. At first I wasn't sure, but it's more obvious when you stop than when you started. I'm often tired by 5 and with the Spark it's not so bad. Yesterday, around 3, my day was a little thrown off because of the count and other plans and I noticed I was ridiculously tired. That's when I realized I didn't drink my Spark around 230 like usual, so I did! I managed to last until about 8 haha. The sun often wears me out more than expected so I was pretty exhausted. At least I lasted that long! I haven't been sleeping well either (big surprise) so there's that component.
Uhm, as for other things. It's true that I don't feel as gross as I would be on Wendys, Papa Johns, and all those other delicious goodness. I do feel lighter I suppose. Today I saw the 182 on the scale for the second time during the cleanse. Hopefully it becomes more frequent. I'd feel better if it does.
Well the power went out during writing that, so I went upstairs to finish up my makeup. Magically I already gained 3 lbs just from having a spark and a morning shake so I'm back to the 185. Big Surprise.
Uh where was I? Now I'm just getting distracted by various cat things, and my nails. They're a holographic glitter nail polish and extremely distracting, especially in the sun.
We're leaving for lunch soon so I'm out.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Day Twelve
I'm losing steam with this blogging. It's just all so repetitive. I'm also getting a little disheartened. I'm officially down somewhere between 2 and 4 lbs which isn't much at all for me. I'm down that much all the time and then it comes back a week later. It won't really seem like anything is working until I'm in the 70's. I feel great. The foods are healthy and I'm extremely strict, except maybe with my nut portion. It's disheartening to be doing it with other people and hear their weightloss be so high. I can't help but think I'm doing something completely wrong and missing something vital, but I'm following it to a tee. I was thinking I was officially down 4 lbs for the first 10 days and I'm supposed to go down after that, but today it was up two. So yeah. Woo.
The diet hasn't been bad, the pills are easy to take and the meal replacement shake is tasty. It's not the most filling, but it works especially since there is a mid afternoon snack. The snacks help me out but sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be doing those either. It doesn't feel like I'm doing it right if I don't feel miserable, I guess. My energy wasn't great today. The gym was rough, I'm sore all over and haven't been sleeping well since John came home so that's more the culprit than the diet. This weekend will be my days off. Tomorrow I help with the Hawaiian Monk Seal count, which consists of 3 or more hours of walking on a beach and looking for seals. Walking on beaches is actually a pretty rough workout for your legs so that's all I intend on doing. Especially since tomorrow should be an off day. I'm glad it's not completely since I feel so disheartened about my weight. If I didn't have that, I'd probably still go to the gym. I'm happy there.
So yeah. Today is a fat day I guess. I'm exactly halfway through. Hopefully this second half will go better than it's started.
The diet hasn't been bad, the pills are easy to take and the meal replacement shake is tasty. It's not the most filling, but it works especially since there is a mid afternoon snack. The snacks help me out but sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be doing those either. It doesn't feel like I'm doing it right if I don't feel miserable, I guess. My energy wasn't great today. The gym was rough, I'm sore all over and haven't been sleeping well since John came home so that's more the culprit than the diet. This weekend will be my days off. Tomorrow I help with the Hawaiian Monk Seal count, which consists of 3 or more hours of walking on a beach and looking for seals. Walking on beaches is actually a pretty rough workout for your legs so that's all I intend on doing. Especially since tomorrow should be an off day. I'm glad it's not completely since I feel so disheartened about my weight. If I didn't have that, I'd probably still go to the gym. I'm happy there.
So yeah. Today is a fat day I guess. I'm exactly halfway through. Hopefully this second half will go better than it's started.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Schedule
This is the schedule I made for us based on the PDF schedule I was given
Days 11-24
First Thing in the Morning Spark w/ Catalyst
30 min later/Breakfast:
Mid Morning/After Gym Snack (If Needed)
30 Min BEFORE Lunch: 2nd Color MNS Packet
Lunch
Mid Afternoon Snack
Dinner
Evening snack (If needed)
Bedtime
First Thing in the Morning Spark w/ Catalyst
1st Color MNS Packet
30 min later/Breakfast:
Meal Replacement Shake with both White MNS Packets (or take them at lunch)
OR
OR
Choose one or two: 3 or 4 whole eggs, ½ cup oats with nuts or fruit
Mid Morning/After Gym Snack (If Needed)
Choose One or Two:
3 Eggs, 1 Fruit, Veggies, Nuts or Nut Butter, Hummus, 2 Rice Cakes, Can of Tuna
30 Min BEFORE Lunch: 2nd Color MNS Packet
Lunch
Protein with Vegetables
MNS White Packets (if not taken at breakfast)
MNS White Packets (if not taken at breakfast)
Mid Afternoon Snack
Spark w/ 3 Catalyst
Choose One or Two:
3 Eggs, 1 Fruit, Veggies, Nuts or Nut Butter, Hummus, 2 Rice Cakes, Can of Tuna
Dinner
Protein with Vegetables
**add rice or potato if needed
Evening snack (If needed)
Choose One or Two:
3 Eggs, 1 Fruit, Veggies, Nuts or Nut Butter, Hummus, 2 Rice Cakes, Can of Tuna
Bedtime
Nothing The only difference is that I replaced lunch with the Meal Replacement Shake and am doing egg whites and fruit for breakfast
Day Eleven
1232pm
Well the Cleanse is officially over. I'm now on part two of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. Woohoo! So far it's going great. This section has 4 packets of pills, all finished before or during lunch. Unfortunately my last packet fell out of my pocket while I was at the car dealership! Oh no!! Soo I took one from another set since it's my first day. I'd rather wait till the last to screw up haha. That way everything else is in order. Can't do much else about it.
So far I'm feeling great. I wasn't very hungry at breakfast so I had three egg whites and a banana with most of the packets. I worked extra hard at the gym again, today was legs, and am now currently enjoying my meal replacement shake for lunch. I'm not too upset about drinking a chocolate shake for lunch. It's not too shabby. It's going just fine and I feel great.
Well the Cleanse is officially over. I'm now on part two of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. Woohoo! So far it's going great. This section has 4 packets of pills, all finished before or during lunch. Unfortunately my last packet fell out of my pocket while I was at the car dealership! Oh no!! Soo I took one from another set since it's my first day. I'd rather wait till the last to screw up haha. That way everything else is in order. Can't do much else about it.
So far I'm feeling great. I wasn't very hungry at breakfast so I had three egg whites and a banana with most of the packets. I worked extra hard at the gym again, today was legs, and am now currently enjoying my meal replacement shake for lunch. I'm not too upset about drinking a chocolate shake for lunch. It's not too shabby. It's going just fine and I feel great.
What I've learned so far
Now this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the challenge. I've been going to the gym for months now and learned a few things along the way as well.
1.) John has often asked why girls wear tight gym clothes and guys wear loose. He understands the guys reasoning because loose breathes and whatnot. WELL. I highly prefer tight, practically skin tight, pants. Shirts, loose is nice because it does breathe. Why? I have large thighs that rub together, this is how it's always been even when I was in my designated weight zone and very very active. Tight pants do not ride up, nor do they lead to chaffing (I like skirts but the thigh on thigh action can get painful). So yes. There is a perfectly logical reasoning behind tight pants. As for tight shirts, well I'm a mixture. Loose shirts are nice and breezy but they'll stick to you unless you get good ones. Tight shirts are already pressed against you so you don't really notice. I wear both, but nothing too tight because I still like things loose over my belly.
2.) Thongs, or nilche (if people do that?). I've always thought it was weird for people to wear thongs to the gym. Is it to be sexy? I mean it's THE GYM. I'm perfectly fine with panty lines at the gym. I'm not there to catch men or look sexy, I'm there to GET sexy! Haha but anyway. I won't go into details about this but from when I'm deducting and trying out, there is a very reasonable explanation to thongs. So far I prefer them. And honestly, I get worse wedgies at the gym with the non thongs so that's another plus.
3.) Once you get on track with something, it's easier to maintain. I haven't had soda in ten days. I wanted it BADLY the first few and now I'm ok. Same with cookies. I will always want cookies but nuts are surprisingly fabulous. Especially Cocoa Roast nuts. Emerald Nuts is genius.
Uhhh. Can't think of what else I've learned. It's mainly been gym clothes reasoning. John wondered things and I wondered things and now I do both of the things we wondered about.
On that note, I need to buy more undergarments. I'm thinking of checking out the Underarmor sports bras at Sport Authority. I seriously need more. Most are from Walmart and not very good. I have ONE good one and it's from Victoria's Secret but they're still screwing me out of coupons so I'm getting annoyed and boycotty (I'm so my mother, only it's not Sears or Best Buy). And yes, since this is my personal blog I can make up whatever word I want to.
1.) John has often asked why girls wear tight gym clothes and guys wear loose. He understands the guys reasoning because loose breathes and whatnot. WELL. I highly prefer tight, practically skin tight, pants. Shirts, loose is nice because it does breathe. Why? I have large thighs that rub together, this is how it's always been even when I was in my designated weight zone and very very active. Tight pants do not ride up, nor do they lead to chaffing (I like skirts but the thigh on thigh action can get painful). So yes. There is a perfectly logical reasoning behind tight pants. As for tight shirts, well I'm a mixture. Loose shirts are nice and breezy but they'll stick to you unless you get good ones. Tight shirts are already pressed against you so you don't really notice. I wear both, but nothing too tight because I still like things loose over my belly.
2.) Thongs, or nilche (if people do that?). I've always thought it was weird for people to wear thongs to the gym. Is it to be sexy? I mean it's THE GYM. I'm perfectly fine with panty lines at the gym. I'm not there to catch men or look sexy, I'm there to GET sexy! Haha but anyway. I won't go into details about this but from when I'm deducting and trying out, there is a very reasonable explanation to thongs. So far I prefer them. And honestly, I get worse wedgies at the gym with the non thongs so that's another plus.
3.) Once you get on track with something, it's easier to maintain. I haven't had soda in ten days. I wanted it BADLY the first few and now I'm ok. Same with cookies. I will always want cookies but nuts are surprisingly fabulous. Especially Cocoa Roast nuts. Emerald Nuts is genius.
Uhhh. Can't think of what else I've learned. It's mainly been gym clothes reasoning. John wondered things and I wondered things and now I do both of the things we wondered about.
On that note, I need to buy more undergarments. I'm thinking of checking out the Underarmor sports bras at Sport Authority. I seriously need more. Most are from Walmart and not very good. I have ONE good one and it's from Victoria's Secret but they're still screwing me out of coupons so I'm getting annoyed and boycotty (I'm so my mother, only it's not Sears or Best Buy). And yes, since this is my personal blog I can make up whatever word I want to.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Day Ten
Woohoo! The cleanse is over! After a little advice about mixing the Fiber Drink with Topic 50 or whatever it was I gave it a shot with what I had downstairs, V8 Fusion. It was easier to drink, yes, but very sweet and hard to drink quickly cause it was so cold. If I do the cleanse again though, I'll have to look into that further.
So far I'm feeling great. My cravings and hunger are much more controlled. I was starving the first few days, for sure. I thought maybe I was eating too many nuts and that was keeping me full but the past few days we cut down on the nuts and I'm still not starving. Woo hooooo.
Weightwise, same problem as yesterday. It's looking like I'm down 2-3 lbs off the cleanse. It's something but not enough for me to jump for joy and insist this is the perfect thing to do. Like I said, I fluctuate A LOT.
I'm excited for the Max part! I'm trying to decide the best time for meal replacement. If I'm fine with only a few pieces of fruit for breakfast, then that might be too much to do and it may be better to do for lunch. I think that's how I'll do it the first day or two and see what happens. I don't want to eat too much by following it exactly when I might have eaten less to begin with since I'm normally that way and have gotten used to the minimal amount of morning stuff from the cleanse.
John went back to work this morning so I went to the gym by myself. It was actually pretty nice. I didn't have to worry about people waiting on me or having to leave for a friend's schedule. I did 40 min on the elliptical, 4 weight machines, one which was new, and even extra ab and stretching. It was fabulous. Maybe I'll have to start going earlier so I can do that. I have a friend I go with and she typically has work on Tues and Thurs to try to make.
So far I'm feeling great. My cravings and hunger are much more controlled. I was starving the first few days, for sure. I thought maybe I was eating too many nuts and that was keeping me full but the past few days we cut down on the nuts and I'm still not starving. Woo hooooo.
Weightwise, same problem as yesterday. It's looking like I'm down 2-3 lbs off the cleanse. It's something but not enough for me to jump for joy and insist this is the perfect thing to do. Like I said, I fluctuate A LOT.
I'm excited for the Max part! I'm trying to decide the best time for meal replacement. If I'm fine with only a few pieces of fruit for breakfast, then that might be too much to do and it may be better to do for lunch. I think that's how I'll do it the first day or two and see what happens. I don't want to eat too much by following it exactly when I might have eaten less to begin with since I'm normally that way and have gotten used to the minimal amount of morning stuff from the cleanse.
John went back to work this morning so I went to the gym by myself. It was actually pretty nice. I didn't have to worry about people waiting on me or having to leave for a friend's schedule. I did 40 min on the elliptical, 4 weight machines, one which was new, and even extra ab and stretching. It was fabulous. Maybe I'll have to start going earlier so I can do that. I have a friend I go with and she typically has work on Tues and Thurs to try to make.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Day Nine
Well here we are! One day nine! Only one Fiber Drink left to go! woo hoooo
I'm feeling fine. So far I'm down a whole THREE POUNDS, yeah... not too big. John is down Nine+ lbs cause he's a man and that's what men do.
Ok so anyway. Yesterday went as planned. Lots of veggies. We made kabobs for dinner! We bought extra lean meat and chicken and kabobbed them with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers (which I didn't eat), and peaches! Did you know grilled peaches are AMAZING? Because they are, so keep that in mind. We were out of pineapple and I don't even like them grilled so we replaced them with peaches since I recently read that was doable. It was remarkable. We'll definitely need to do that more often.
Today is going well. We had fruit for breakfast and suffered through the fiber drink. In the opposite order, but that doesn't really matter when it comes to writing about it. We were supposed to go snorkeling for the day but I forgot that October in Hawaii means bad surf so that didn't work out. On the way home we picked up sushi for lunch and made sure to steer clear of tempura and cream cheese. It was tasty!
Tonight I'll be making a really basic turkey taco salad. Ground turkey mixed with a taco mix, lettuce, tomatoes and onions. No cheese. John is insisting on salsa but I'll have to check the label on that one. I won't eat it, I rarely do. So we shall see. Tomorrow is the last day of the cleanse!! Wooo!!!
I'm looking fwd for the 14-Day Max part. Chocolate meal replacement shake for breakfast? SOOO Much better than a nasty clumpy fiber drink!
I'm feeling fine. So far I'm down a whole THREE POUNDS, yeah... not too big. John is down Nine+ lbs cause he's a man and that's what men do.
Ok so anyway. Yesterday went as planned. Lots of veggies. We made kabobs for dinner! We bought extra lean meat and chicken and kabobbed them with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers (which I didn't eat), and peaches! Did you know grilled peaches are AMAZING? Because they are, so keep that in mind. We were out of pineapple and I don't even like them grilled so we replaced them with peaches since I recently read that was doable. It was remarkable. We'll definitely need to do that more often.
Today is going well. We had fruit for breakfast and suffered through the fiber drink. In the opposite order, but that doesn't really matter when it comes to writing about it. We were supposed to go snorkeling for the day but I forgot that October in Hawaii means bad surf so that didn't work out. On the way home we picked up sushi for lunch and made sure to steer clear of tempura and cream cheese. It was tasty!
Tonight I'll be making a really basic turkey taco salad. Ground turkey mixed with a taco mix, lettuce, tomatoes and onions. No cheese. John is insisting on salsa but I'll have to check the label on that one. I won't eat it, I rarely do. So we shall see. Tomorrow is the last day of the cleanse!! Wooo!!!
I'm looking fwd for the 14-Day Max part. Chocolate meal replacement shake for breakfast? SOOO Much better than a nasty clumpy fiber drink!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Day Eight
It's a bit easier to write on gym days. My muscles were so sore throughout the weekend that I couldn't get to the gym. The hike was brutal! But then you're supposed to take a few days off here and there so it worked out. We're going today though and then I have my 60 min walk at 4 and that's a pretty good walk, all uphill then downhill. I think it prolonged my quads from healing.
The fiber drink is back today, but the bedtime herbal cleanse pills are over. That isn't anywhere near an even trade. The pills taste a little bad, but they're pills. The Fiber Drink makes you almost puke. I don't even think it's the taste, it's the particles and the overall grossness of it. Advocare needs a different way of getting done whatever this cleanse drink gets done. There's more than just fiber in it. It's seriously disgusting.
Today will be LOTS of fruits and veggies, moreso than before, to make up for yesterday. We gotta keep the cleanse cleansing!
The fiber drink is back today, but the bedtime herbal cleanse pills are over. That isn't anywhere near an even trade. The pills taste a little bad, but they're pills. The Fiber Drink makes you almost puke. I don't even think it's the taste, it's the particles and the overall grossness of it. Advocare needs a different way of getting done whatever this cleanse drink gets done. There's more than just fiber in it. It's seriously disgusting.
Today will be LOTS of fruits and veggies, moreso than before, to make up for yesterday. We gotta keep the cleanse cleansing!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Day Seven
Woooo Day Seven!
Not much to report on. No gym today.
Uh oh looks like XBox is calling me, I was just handed a controller and Borderlands is already loading. I'd better make this quick!!
Long story short, we're still doing great and feeling fine. Bought lots and lots of fruits, veggies, and lean meats for this week. We went out to dinner at La Mer which is a super expensive and fancy and wonderful place. We kind of put off making reservations for our one year anniversary till yesterday and as you can guess, it was booked so we went today. No biggie.
We definitely went off the diet with a little included champagne and some breads and dessert. They have course options and all include dessert so it wasn't really a choice but it was AMAZING. We did our best to make good decisions though, like order duck (super super lean!) and John got Filet Mingon of Venison. I can admit that there were obvious downside to going off the diet, but nothing too horrific. It was delicious, the waiters were amazing and extremely attentive (but not in an overbearing way) and just amazing. We drank lots of water and tomorrow will be better than today!
We can't be perfect and if we were, this would be harder to do anyway.
alright alright someone is getting impatient so I'd better be off.
Day Seven and going strong!!!
Not much to report on. No gym today.
Uh oh looks like XBox is calling me, I was just handed a controller and Borderlands is already loading. I'd better make this quick!!
Long story short, we're still doing great and feeling fine. Bought lots and lots of fruits, veggies, and lean meats for this week. We went out to dinner at La Mer which is a super expensive and fancy and wonderful place. We kind of put off making reservations for our one year anniversary till yesterday and as you can guess, it was booked so we went today. No biggie.
We definitely went off the diet with a little included champagne and some breads and dessert. They have course options and all include dessert so it wasn't really a choice but it was AMAZING. We did our best to make good decisions though, like order duck (super super lean!) and John got Filet Mingon of Venison. I can admit that there were obvious downside to going off the diet, but nothing too horrific. It was delicious, the waiters were amazing and extremely attentive (but not in an overbearing way) and just amazing. We drank lots of water and tomorrow will be better than today!
We can't be perfect and if we were, this would be harder to do anyway.
alright alright someone is getting impatient so I'd better be off.
Day Seven and going strong!!!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Day Six
Day Six! We're more than halfway through the cleanse and then things changed. I weighed in at 182.8 this morning and that is DEFINITELY lower than the past few month's flucuations so that's amazing. John was around 213 I think and he started around 212 so this is going great.
Yesterday was how I predicated regarding eating. Complicated but not awful. We basically didn't eat lunch... We went on this 4 hour intense hike that hurt SO BADLY. My legs are killing me today. We each had and finished our own camelbacks and I brought a bag of nuts since that's allowed in the diet and those nuts were life savers. When I felt like I wanted to cry cause my heartrate was so high and my legs were so sore we'd eat a few nuts and take a couple minutes break and it would get me back on my feet. Yay protein and sodium! It was the Kuliou'ou Ridge Hike. I know Diamond Head is the most known hike in Hawaii. I've done Diamond Hike 3 or so times and it only takes maybe an hour or an hour and a half total? Not sure but it's cake compared to this one. And I've been going to the gym for months and haven't prior to a few Diamond Head hikes. My legs are dead. However, it was worth it. See!
Few and that's only a small portion of the few. You can the Kaneohe Bay peninsula (aka Marine Corps Base) all the way to Diamond Head way off in the distance. It was pretty fantastic.
Today is going pretty well. As I said I weighed in at 182 this morning which is lower than my flucuation, just now is 185 which is still lower so that's a good sign. I flucuate like no other as you can see but if both numbers are lower than my previous ups and downs then yaaay.
320pm
I left rather abruptly before. We had a couples massage planned and it was fabulous! Happy Anniversary to us. I also have a snuggly kitty in my lap, how wonderful.
So anyway today was spent with a morning that went well and then we went to a beach wedding on the east side. Knowing that the only location of Aloha Salads we know if was near the wedding location, we went there for lunch and it was delicious. It's great to at least have one place to go that's easy for the diet! I got an ahi salad with grilled shrimp. The salad had strawberries and mangos in it with a mango vinaigrette, it was amazing. I wonder if that dressing is sold anywhere?
Diet is still going well. I'm hungry but not dying. Currently eating eggs and nuts as my afternoon snack. I should have some fruit but we're running out of fruit, veggies, and proteins! Eek! Good sign that we're eating them though.
Yesterday was how I predicated regarding eating. Complicated but not awful. We basically didn't eat lunch... We went on this 4 hour intense hike that hurt SO BADLY. My legs are killing me today. We each had and finished our own camelbacks and I brought a bag of nuts since that's allowed in the diet and those nuts were life savers. When I felt like I wanted to cry cause my heartrate was so high and my legs were so sore we'd eat a few nuts and take a couple minutes break and it would get me back on my feet. Yay protein and sodium! It was the Kuliou'ou Ridge Hike. I know Diamond Head is the most known hike in Hawaii. I've done Diamond Hike 3 or so times and it only takes maybe an hour or an hour and a half total? Not sure but it's cake compared to this one. And I've been going to the gym for months and haven't prior to a few Diamond Head hikes. My legs are dead. However, it was worth it. See!
Few and that's only a small portion of the few. You can the Kaneohe Bay peninsula (aka Marine Corps Base) all the way to Diamond Head way off in the distance. It was pretty fantastic.
Today is going pretty well. As I said I weighed in at 182 this morning which is lower than my flucuation, just now is 185 which is still lower so that's a good sign. I flucuate like no other as you can see but if both numbers are lower than my previous ups and downs then yaaay.
320pm
I left rather abruptly before. We had a couples massage planned and it was fabulous! Happy Anniversary to us. I also have a snuggly kitty in my lap, how wonderful.
So anyway today was spent with a morning that went well and then we went to a beach wedding on the east side. Knowing that the only location of Aloha Salads we know if was near the wedding location, we went there for lunch and it was delicious. It's great to at least have one place to go that's easy for the diet! I got an ahi salad with grilled shrimp. The salad had strawberries and mangos in it with a mango vinaigrette, it was amazing. I wonder if that dressing is sold anywhere?
Diet is still going well. I'm hungry but not dying. Currently eating eggs and nuts as my afternoon snack. I should have some fruit but we're running out of fruit, veggies, and proteins! Eek! Good sign that we're eating them though.
Day Five
This is a quick one. It's 1035pm and I feel awful. Not because of the diet. The cleanse is actually great, however John and I did a 5 mile hike with an 1800 ft elevation change up the Kulio'ou'ou ridge and my legs are KILLING ME. Our energy level was great, we brought nuts to sustain us and that's all we needed. The scale was pretty. I'll talk more tomorrow
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Day Four
Day Four!
That means 3 days down, woo hoo! We didn't have to drink the fiber drink today so that's fabulous. I took the probiotics before I even got out of bed so I'd have time since this morning was a little busy. Both our car and truck are in the shop so our ride to the gym needed to get there earlier today. Oh fun fun. We managed to wait 30 min b4 fruit and then leaving, or almost. It'll go better tomorrow, timing wise. John is already experiencing a scale change. I can't really report since I fluctuate by 5-8 lbs daily anyway. One moment I'll be 188, the next 185, and the next 190 so losing 4 lbs means absolutely nothing to me. It's also only been 4 days so I'm not expecting much to begin with. When I start seeing the fluctuation go lower than before and do it a few times then maybe I'll feel like something is working.
We did our usual schedule so I don't really need to report on that. Also, picked up the truck so hooray having transportation! Tomorrow might be rough for our schedule. If we get the BMW back today we'll be getting rid of that piece of crap asap and buying a Honda (or looking for one) tomorrow. If not, we'll be hiking so either way it'll be a little complicated.
735pm
Hmm I left off with weight and my car, that pretty much sums up my life! Well along with back problems and Navy grievances. Lunch was alright, pretty boring. Just stir fried chicken with chinese green snap peas, tomato, bean sprouts, basil and garlic. It's starting to get old. I'm not sure how strict I'm supposed to be with sauces and such during the cleanse so I'm nervous about branching out. Tonight is mesquite BBQ marinated pork loin and microwaved canned green beans, because I can.
I recently printed out some lean mean recipes to try. I've been looking through my 800 recipes books but it's so hard to know what I'm allowed to do and what I'm not! I lack greatly in nutritional knowledge. School wasn't the best at that and what they tried to teach probably bored me too much because I didn't care then. Now I care and no one knows anything.
I had to look up complex carbs because I kept asking John which ones are complex and which ones aren't. Pretty much everything he told me definitely wasn't, actually is. So hooray whole grain pasta, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and various other things. I still intend on avoiding pasta but sweet potatoes will be welcome.
That means 3 days down, woo hoo! We didn't have to drink the fiber drink today so that's fabulous. I took the probiotics before I even got out of bed so I'd have time since this morning was a little busy. Both our car and truck are in the shop so our ride to the gym needed to get there earlier today. Oh fun fun. We managed to wait 30 min b4 fruit and then leaving, or almost. It'll go better tomorrow, timing wise. John is already experiencing a scale change. I can't really report since I fluctuate by 5-8 lbs daily anyway. One moment I'll be 188, the next 185, and the next 190 so losing 4 lbs means absolutely nothing to me. It's also only been 4 days so I'm not expecting much to begin with. When I start seeing the fluctuation go lower than before and do it a few times then maybe I'll feel like something is working.
We did our usual schedule so I don't really need to report on that. Also, picked up the truck so hooray having transportation! Tomorrow might be rough for our schedule. If we get the BMW back today we'll be getting rid of that piece of crap asap and buying a Honda (or looking for one) tomorrow. If not, we'll be hiking so either way it'll be a little complicated.
735pm
Hmm I left off with weight and my car, that pretty much sums up my life! Well along with back problems and Navy grievances. Lunch was alright, pretty boring. Just stir fried chicken with chinese green snap peas, tomato, bean sprouts, basil and garlic. It's starting to get old. I'm not sure how strict I'm supposed to be with sauces and such during the cleanse so I'm nervous about branching out. Tonight is mesquite BBQ marinated pork loin and microwaved canned green beans, because I can.
I recently printed out some lean mean recipes to try. I've been looking through my 800 recipes books but it's so hard to know what I'm allowed to do and what I'm not! I lack greatly in nutritional knowledge. School wasn't the best at that and what they tried to teach probably bored me too much because I didn't care then. Now I care and no one knows anything.
I had to look up complex carbs because I kept asking John which ones are complex and which ones aren't. Pretty much everything he told me definitely wasn't, actually is. So hooray whole grain pasta, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and various other things. I still intend on avoiding pasta but sweet potatoes will be welcome.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Day Three
300pm
So here we are on "Day Three" of the 24-Day Challenge. As you will notice, I like to start of sentences with "So" It shouldn't be contagious so just ignore it if it bothers you.
I'm doing pretty well. Had the third day of the fiber drink, it's nastier every day. Now we go three days WITHOUT it and start probiotics in that morning, so that's wonderful. John hates the drink so much he wants to find other ways of doing it. I'm not certain it that's allowed given that it's made for the cleanse. I'll have to look stuff up. Shortly after I had a banana and a mandarin orange and went to the gym. John didn't go today so it was just me and a friend. As usual, post gym I had my mid-afternoon snack of three egg whites, a kiwi, and a mandarin orange. The other kiwi's aren't ripe yet... John had plums instead. Oh how exciting! FOOD TALK.
So here we are on "Day Three" of the 24-Day Challenge. As you will notice, I like to start of sentences with "So" It shouldn't be contagious so just ignore it if it bothers you.
I'm doing pretty well. Had the third day of the fiber drink, it's nastier every day. Now we go three days WITHOUT it and start probiotics in that morning, so that's wonderful. John hates the drink so much he wants to find other ways of doing it. I'm not certain it that's allowed given that it's made for the cleanse. I'll have to look stuff up. Shortly after I had a banana and a mandarin orange and went to the gym. John didn't go today so it was just me and a friend. As usual, post gym I had my mid-afternoon snack of three egg whites, a kiwi, and a mandarin orange. The other kiwi's aren't ripe yet... John had plums instead. Oh how exciting! FOOD TALK.
I know this must be boring but I'm writing it so that if people are interested, they'll know. I'm not going to lie and say "oh yeah it was great, all the drinks are great, unicorns moved in next door!" No. The Spark is fabulous and the Fiber Drink is naaasty. I tried the Grape Spark today and found it pretty gross, which is funny since I like Fruit Punch and usually it's the other way around. I'm one of the few anti-fruit punch people out there and I usually like grape. Oh well. John drank the rest of the grape for me and I switch to the fruit punch for the day. He doesn't mind it but did agree that there's a bit of an aftertaste.
We did a few errands and came home to make the chicken and salad mixture I made two days ago. It was a bit of a rush since I had an appt outside Chinatown at 2, but if I waited till afterwards I'd be starving and far more likely to say "screw it, I want an Asiago Ranch Bacon Chicken sandwich from Wendys" WHICH I say often because that sandwich is DELICIOUS. Ohhh yummm.
Moving on before I think too much on that. It's 300pm now as I listed at the top of this and I'm doing pretty well. Getting a tad hungry but my afternoon snack will be coming up soon and I think I still have Spark to finish! Yay!
534pm
I'm most definitely full. We went out and bought sushi for dinner since rice is allowed at a complex carb. Not too much, of course. It was sad because usually I love the tempura shrimp in the rolls but knew the fried bits wouldn't be the best choice so I stuck with Rainbow roll. Mmm sushi! And we have low sodium soy sauce that hooray for that. I'm super full now, so that's fabulous.
Soon we'll be hanging out with friends and watching a movie. Post dinner the only thing allowed is fruit so I'll bring along some of the tiny little mandarin oranges and water. Just in case. I'm pretty full though so we should be able to last!
534pm
I'm most definitely full. We went out and bought sushi for dinner since rice is allowed at a complex carb. Not too much, of course. It was sad because usually I love the tempura shrimp in the rolls but knew the fried bits wouldn't be the best choice so I stuck with Rainbow roll. Mmm sushi! And we have low sodium soy sauce that hooray for that. I'm super full now, so that's fabulous.
Soon we'll be hanging out with friends and watching a movie. Post dinner the only thing allowed is fruit so I'll bring along some of the tiny little mandarin oranges and water. Just in case. I'm pretty full though so we should be able to last!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Day Two
Day Two is going well..
11:08am
The fiber drink really is pretty gross. John can't stand the taste and waters it down enough so he's drinking a ton of water and then has to follow it with water. Today I did the 8 oz of water mixed with it and chugged it with the 8 oz of water ready to follow. I gagged a little, bleak. Thankfully it's only a 6 day thing, 3 days now and 3 days at the end of the cleanse. Oh it's gross.
I did read the pamphlet and learned that the timing for the nasty drink isn't too strict, it's the probiotics that we'll be taking on days 4-10 that need to be 30 min before so I'm tempted to leave them by the bed and drink when the first alarm goes off. That way I KNOW I'll have 30-60 min before I eat my first fruit since my morning routines are really quick.
So we took the morning yuckiness and then each had our chosen fruits and left for the gym, me with my Spark. Well we had to take the truck in to get fixed first and sat until our ride came, but THEN went to the gym. I did my morning 30-40 min on the elliptical since it's the only cardio machine I can do without aggravating whatever gets aggravated and pinches my sciatic nerve. Also, the bikes are boring. John lasted about as long as my elliptical trip, but 7 months on a sub will do that to you.
We are currently home from the gym and just finished 4 egg whites and two pieces of fruit (Kiwi for me, plum for him). The menu says 3 eggs if needed, it's needed and since neither of us each the hard boiled yolks I threw in another egg. The yolk has most of the fat and bad things anyway so a few extra egg whites can't be so bad. I may grab another.
Not sure what I'll do for lunch. Prob leftover porkloin since I forgot to defrost the chicken. Our car troubles are messy so today's plans aren't too crazy. I'm thinking a movie would be fun, but that will be SO HARD to do with this diet. I love diet cokes + some snack for the movie. I can do nuts, but water? at the movies? How awful.... And this is the "cleanse" so I feel like any cheat during this section would just be awful and anti-cleansie.
Oh and P.S. Not sure if anyone is bothering to keep up with this, but I'll come back later today to edit so that all the days stay one entry.
105pm
Well Lunch is done! It was pretty yummy. I cooked the rest of the lemon garlic pork, cut it up, and mixed it with tomatoes, zucchini, bean sprouts, and green snap peas. I cooked it in water and poured a little bit of basil and garlic powder on it. Just a little! It was good. I'm eating an orange now because I'm not very satisfied, John is full though. I wonder if it's due to the gym since I worked out longer.
Spark in a few hours. I got the distributer pack today! I'm going to try the Mango Strawberry from it and I'm pretty excited. Both are my favorite flavours!
542pm
I'm lasting better than yesterday. I took the Spark and Catalyst around two and the Mango Strawberry was DELICIOUS. I'm also very biased being that mango is my favorite fruit. Oh, it's so delicious. Too bad it's so hard to find. And by hard to find, I mean I know exactly where it is but they're often much too hard and not good enough to buy. I may live in Hawaii but the current Mango selection is quite horrible. It's very sad. It's nearly 6 and I am getting pretty hungry, John claims he's going to grill the fish so that needs to be getting done. I had cashews in between lunch and dinner and I'm sad to say that they're all gone now. I love cashews, I'll need to get more. I suppose I should start steaming the broccoli. I'm not sure what else would go ok with the fish. Squash definitely wouldn't and I don't know how to cook that yet so I'm putting it off. We do have chinese snap peas, but they're very similar to what we had for lunch. A full salad might work just as well though. Decisions, decisions. How very exciting!
Alright, where was I? It's the morning of Day 3 and I just want to get in that we went to see a movie last night at 745 with water and nuts. I only ate like 3 of the nuts. My energy level was pretty stable and I wasn't hungry through out, yay!
Ok now I'm out so I can start today
11:08am
The fiber drink really is pretty gross. John can't stand the taste and waters it down enough so he's drinking a ton of water and then has to follow it with water. Today I did the 8 oz of water mixed with it and chugged it with the 8 oz of water ready to follow. I gagged a little, bleak. Thankfully it's only a 6 day thing, 3 days now and 3 days at the end of the cleanse. Oh it's gross.
I did read the pamphlet and learned that the timing for the nasty drink isn't too strict, it's the probiotics that we'll be taking on days 4-10 that need to be 30 min before so I'm tempted to leave them by the bed and drink when the first alarm goes off. That way I KNOW I'll have 30-60 min before I eat my first fruit since my morning routines are really quick.
So we took the morning yuckiness and then each had our chosen fruits and left for the gym, me with my Spark. Well we had to take the truck in to get fixed first and sat until our ride came, but THEN went to the gym. I did my morning 30-40 min on the elliptical since it's the only cardio machine I can do without aggravating whatever gets aggravated and pinches my sciatic nerve. Also, the bikes are boring. John lasted about as long as my elliptical trip, but 7 months on a sub will do that to you.
We are currently home from the gym and just finished 4 egg whites and two pieces of fruit (Kiwi for me, plum for him). The menu says 3 eggs if needed, it's needed and since neither of us each the hard boiled yolks I threw in another egg. The yolk has most of the fat and bad things anyway so a few extra egg whites can't be so bad. I may grab another.
Not sure what I'll do for lunch. Prob leftover porkloin since I forgot to defrost the chicken. Our car troubles are messy so today's plans aren't too crazy. I'm thinking a movie would be fun, but that will be SO HARD to do with this diet. I love diet cokes + some snack for the movie. I can do nuts, but water? at the movies? How awful.... And this is the "cleanse" so I feel like any cheat during this section would just be awful and anti-cleansie.
Oh and P.S. Not sure if anyone is bothering to keep up with this, but I'll come back later today to edit so that all the days stay one entry.
105pm
Well Lunch is done! It was pretty yummy. I cooked the rest of the lemon garlic pork, cut it up, and mixed it with tomatoes, zucchini, bean sprouts, and green snap peas. I cooked it in water and poured a little bit of basil and garlic powder on it. Just a little! It was good. I'm eating an orange now because I'm not very satisfied, John is full though. I wonder if it's due to the gym since I worked out longer.
Spark in a few hours. I got the distributer pack today! I'm going to try the Mango Strawberry from it and I'm pretty excited. Both are my favorite flavours!
542pm
I'm lasting better than yesterday. I took the Spark and Catalyst around two and the Mango Strawberry was DELICIOUS. I'm also very biased being that mango is my favorite fruit. Oh, it's so delicious. Too bad it's so hard to find. And by hard to find, I mean I know exactly where it is but they're often much too hard and not good enough to buy. I may live in Hawaii but the current Mango selection is quite horrible. It's very sad. It's nearly 6 and I am getting pretty hungry, John claims he's going to grill the fish so that needs to be getting done. I had cashews in between lunch and dinner and I'm sad to say that they're all gone now. I love cashews, I'll need to get more. I suppose I should start steaming the broccoli. I'm not sure what else would go ok with the fish. Squash definitely wouldn't and I don't know how to cook that yet so I'm putting it off. We do have chinese snap peas, but they're very similar to what we had for lunch. A full salad might work just as well though. Decisions, decisions. How very exciting!
Alright, where was I? It's the morning of Day 3 and I just want to get in that we went to see a movie last night at 745 with water and nuts. I only ate like 3 of the nuts. My energy level was pretty stable and I wasn't hungry through out, yay!
Ok now I'm out so I can start today
Monday, October 3, 2011
Day One
Alrightie all, today is Day One of the 24-Day Challenge and Day One of the ten day Cleansing section.
8:30am
I woke up around 8, John's currently still asleep since it's currently 8:30, and took the Fiber drink. That's a first thing in the morning deal. The paper said to take it with 2 glasses of water so I mixed it with 16 ounces and brushed my teeth while shaking. Afterward I noticed that the packet explains to take it with 8 ounces of water and then follow it up immediately with the 2nd glass, so I followed it up with the extra water and will do it more correctly tomorrow. I think the main difference is that was a LOT of liquid to drink straight down. Yeah, definitely a little much, so it'll make tomorrow easier. Not that it was that big of a deal, but still good to know lol.
It's been a little past 30 minutes so I'm going to grab my banana for breakfast and make a Spark (energy drink) to bring to the gym since that is marked to be "between meals" underneath the breakfast and mid morning and I have mid morning planned for after gym! I did just take my Catalyst with a few sips of the Spark. Ok I lied about the Banana, they're still green so I just cut up an Asian Pear. They're SO hard to pick out so hopefully this one is good.
11:25am
Well the gym was fab. Did about 35 min on the elliptical, 3 leg machines, and some ab work. I nearly always do arms and I know you're supposed to switch around so since I don't have my 60 min uphill walk with the doggies today, I did legs. I drank Spark DURING the workout mainly cause it fit in with the time well. My energy level during that time isn't awful so I really need the energy afterwards vs during anyway. I came home and eat 2 mandarin oranges and three hard boiled egg whites, with water on the side. I'm actually pretty full at the moment. John JUST woke up so he's pretty behind regarding the eating schedule. I'll be eating lunch later than I would like and might steal another mandarin orange if I start to feel hungry. He just got back from 7 months deployment so I can't really complain that he wanted to sleep for 12 hours today and miss the gym. It's fine, as long as we get all the stuff in correctly by the end of the day all will be well. I need to weigh and measure him before it gets too late!
7:52pm
Well the day got a little rough. Lots of unplanned events leading to stress and dinner STILL NOT READY at 7:52. My pork is like 10 degrees away of being safe and it's driving me nuts cause i'm super hungry. Around 5 I started crashing a bit, I was super hungry and tired. I had also missed the 2nd Spark. I couldn't definitely tell if there was a difference when I first started the Spark but without it I was pretty tired and super hungry. I took it around 5 and did feel a bit better. Still hungry and waiting for dinner.
At dinner we'll take the 4-6 Omega Plex pills. OH For lunch I steamed chicken with garlic power and mixed it with salad and a little Balsamic Vinaigrette. It was pretty tasty. Tonight is pork tenderloin and cooked veggies. John isn't feeling nearly as hungry as I am. I suppose the gym made a big difference and being different in general. For now Day One is nearly over. Woo hoo! 9 to go of the cleanse. Hopefully they'll be more smooth. I had brought coco roasted Almonds with us on our errands so I used those as the midafternoon snack. Tomorrow I might grab a bag of the spark too in case we can't make it home again.
John wasn't hungry the entire day, but I most certainly am very very hungry. What a pain.
818pm
Ah so We have finally eaten dinner and I feel MUCH better. If I was able to eat at an appropriate dinner time, this feat might have been easier today. I added two egg whites and a mandarin orange to the dinner. It was pretty tasty and took 5 of the Omega 3's. Woo fish oil! Haha.
Oh man, hopefully tomorrow is easier.
One day down, Nine to go!
8:30am
I woke up around 8, John's currently still asleep since it's currently 8:30, and took the Fiber drink. That's a first thing in the morning deal. The paper said to take it with 2 glasses of water so I mixed it with 16 ounces and brushed my teeth while shaking. Afterward I noticed that the packet explains to take it with 8 ounces of water and then follow it up immediately with the 2nd glass, so I followed it up with the extra water and will do it more correctly tomorrow. I think the main difference is that was a LOT of liquid to drink straight down. Yeah, definitely a little much, so it'll make tomorrow easier. Not that it was that big of a deal, but still good to know lol.
It's been a little past 30 minutes so I'm going to grab my banana for breakfast and make a Spark (energy drink) to bring to the gym since that is marked to be "between meals" underneath the breakfast and mid morning and I have mid morning planned for after gym! I did just take my Catalyst with a few sips of the Spark. Ok I lied about the Banana, they're still green so I just cut up an Asian Pear. They're SO hard to pick out so hopefully this one is good.
11:25am
Well the gym was fab. Did about 35 min on the elliptical, 3 leg machines, and some ab work. I nearly always do arms and I know you're supposed to switch around so since I don't have my 60 min uphill walk with the doggies today, I did legs. I drank Spark DURING the workout mainly cause it fit in with the time well. My energy level during that time isn't awful so I really need the energy afterwards vs during anyway. I came home and eat 2 mandarin oranges and three hard boiled egg whites, with water on the side. I'm actually pretty full at the moment. John JUST woke up so he's pretty behind regarding the eating schedule. I'll be eating lunch later than I would like and might steal another mandarin orange if I start to feel hungry. He just got back from 7 months deployment so I can't really complain that he wanted to sleep for 12 hours today and miss the gym. It's fine, as long as we get all the stuff in correctly by the end of the day all will be well. I need to weigh and measure him before it gets too late!
7:52pm
Well the day got a little rough. Lots of unplanned events leading to stress and dinner STILL NOT READY at 7:52. My pork is like 10 degrees away of being safe and it's driving me nuts cause i'm super hungry. Around 5 I started crashing a bit, I was super hungry and tired. I had also missed the 2nd Spark. I couldn't definitely tell if there was a difference when I first started the Spark but without it I was pretty tired and super hungry. I took it around 5 and did feel a bit better. Still hungry and waiting for dinner.
At dinner we'll take the 4-6 Omega Plex pills. OH For lunch I steamed chicken with garlic power and mixed it with salad and a little Balsamic Vinaigrette. It was pretty tasty. Tonight is pork tenderloin and cooked veggies. John isn't feeling nearly as hungry as I am. I suppose the gym made a big difference and being different in general. For now Day One is nearly over. Woo hoo! 9 to go of the cleanse. Hopefully they'll be more smooth. I had brought coco roasted Almonds with us on our errands so I used those as the midafternoon snack. Tomorrow I might grab a bag of the spark too in case we can't make it home again.
John wasn't hungry the entire day, but I most certainly am very very hungry. What a pain.
818pm
Ah so We have finally eaten dinner and I feel MUCH better. If I was able to eat at an appropriate dinner time, this feat might have been easier today. I added two egg whites and a mandarin orange to the dinner. It was pretty tasty and took 5 of the Omega 3's. Woo fish oil! Haha.
Oh man, hopefully tomorrow is easier.
One day down, Nine to go!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Starting Point
Alrightie well John is definitely on board, there was pretty much no convincing necessary. We will be officially starting on Monday! Eeek! So logically we went out for Ramen tonight haha. It was delicious but the last noodles I'll be eating for a while, but I've already been trying to cut those out for a while anyway.
Monday, it begins.
Monday, it begins.
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