Gearing up for my 90 days of no turning back!

Loading Day #2
Cheesy green hatch Grits
Left over link from Crazy tiger
Fried catfish and more fried catfish
Beans
Potato salad
Whiskey sours
Left over beef rib
Margarita
2 additional adult desert drinks
And an Up set stomach.

I feel like I am more than prepared to give up sugar and starch and ALCOHOL for 3 months. Ive been looking back at old photographs. Some of me when I was thin, I dearly miss those days and some photos of me at my biggest and fattest. I surely don't want to go back to that. Looking back, I don't remember being that big and over weight. This is my motivation. Looking at the list of foods that I ate today I'm connecting them to these photos of a fat pig. Yep I said it. But being honest and knowing the fact that this is how unhealthy eats and this is how unhealthy looks will only help me get back to a healthy weight and a healthy life.

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 Oct 31, 2009

2010

Back At It Again

Loading Day #1 

Hot Mammas Cafe - White chocolate and caramel Italian cream soda
Muellers BBQ - Brisket and Beef Ribs, cheesy veggies, Screw drivers

STATS
Chest - 46 inches
R arm - 14.5 inches
L arm - 15 inches
Waist - upper 40.25 inches, Middle 42inch, lower 42 inches
Hips - 48.5 inches
R Thigh - 28.5 inches
L Thigh - 28.5 inches
Weight - 223 lbs

Ruggles Green Trip

VLCD #28 - Monday August 1, 2011

VLCD #22 - Thursday July 28, 2011

VLCD #21 - Wednesday July 27, 2011

Same lunch and snacks as yesterday and same weight. So tomorrow I hope to be two pounds lighter. Can't wait till I wake up to the scale

VLCD #20 - Tuesday July, 26 2011

2.5 pounds down from weigh-in day.

My new weight loss compadre at work and others wanted to know how many pounds and inches I had lost.  I reported my results proudly. The one funny thing about this process and experience, even though I'm nowhere near where I want to be, I have no problem telling anybody my nearly 300 pound weight before and now my new slimmer weight. I'm still a big girl, but every day I slim down and every day I feel better and better.

Can you guess what I ate?  Tilapia, green beans, Melba, grapefruit and plenty of water. Patting myself on the back. I did real well today.

VLCD #19 - Monday July 25, 2011

VLCD #18 - Sunday July 24, 2011

Today I made homemade miso soup with miso, of course, kelp, tilapia, shallots, green onions and filtered water. I've never had miso before or made it. So why would I even try?

It's kind of a funny thing. I discovered my blood type AB negative and it turns out that all of that veal I was eating, even though it's recommended for the HcG protocol, red meat is not recommended for AB blood types. Some of the best foods for my blood type are white fish, kelp and miso. I bought these items at the grocery store without having any idea what I would do with them. Today I Googled miso and looked at several different recipes.  Before you know it, voila! my own creation of miso soup. It's amazing what you can create when you just blindly buy ingredients.

 

VLCD #17 - Saturday July 23, 2011

Yep, it’s definitely a trend. I'm the same weight as yesterday. But I won’t be doing an apple day.

Today's meals consist of black coffee, grilled veal, green beans and edamame.

You might notice that I usually I eat the same meal for lunch and dinner. That's only because it's easier for me to cook that way and I don't mind eating the same thing for two meals in a row. If you get bored easily it's suggested for you to switch your meals up and have maybe chicken one meal and fish another, if that works for you.  As for me I'm not about to defrost and cook multiple different items at once.

VLCD #16 - Friday July 22, 2011

I don't know if the apple day helps me a whole lot when it comes to increasing weight loss. As I already suspected I did weigh two pounds less than yesterday. So it is looking like a trend. I'm the same weight two days in a row and then I drop two pounds. I hope this trend keeps up for me even when I'm in P3 because I vow to never again eat or drink like I was before.

Foodwise today went like this.  Black coffee for breakfast (interestingly enough I'm starting to enjoy good coffee this way--I used to have to drink it with mostly sugar and cream). Lunch and dinner was a grilled veal salad with my Georgia dressing. I'm just about done with my batch of dressing so soon I will be inventing something new and different, so I'll keep you posted on the recipe. And who can have a P2 meal with out the Melba. One think I have not been working in to well has been my fruit....  That is something for me to definitely try to improve.

VLCD #15 - Thursday July 21, 2011

Apple day! The only reason I decided to do an apple day was because I stayed the same weight for two days in a row. It's probably because I'm reaching a point where my weight loss becomes consistent. I was able to finish three apples rather than two, so I did do better on eating them this time around.

VLCD #14 - Wednesday July 20, 2011

Even though I just got my hair permed for work today I'm going to wear my brand new sexy long wig. And for the first time in I don't know how long I am able to reach my entire leg to shave. Sexy skirt it is and I was also easily able to put on a nice satin top and not have my breasts bust the buttons out! I wanted to make sure I wore this outfit before it gets too big for me.

At work I received many compliments on my jazzy look.  This felt really good.  It's been a long time since I've received a compliment and was able to take it. It also felt so good to have people tell ME I'm losing weight.  I'm glad my efforts are noticed.

Lunch and dinner: grilled veal, edamame and a Melba.

 

VLCD # 13 - Tuesday July 19, 2011

You can go ahead and subtract 4.5 pounds from yesterday. Yep, that's right--263.5. I'm on a roll. Feeling so good I don't want to detour from my progress, so today's meals will consist of coffee, veal, edamame and Melba toast times two. 

What did happen to me would probably send most overweight, self-conscious girls running in tears....  I ripped the back of my jeans on the way to get my car’s oil changed. Not a little rip that you can pull your shirt over and cover, of course it wouldn't be. It was a giant opening that wasn't shy about showing my backside. So I had to go home and change. Now this wasn't the kind of rip where you've laid on the bed and had two friends zip you into your pants. I had been wearing these jeans all summer long and they fit loose on the second day of wear. So I knew it wasn't from my current size--it was from my previous size, and the poor things just gave up entirely! Good thing nobody saw, but I did have to snap a photo to share with one of my best girlfriends so she could join me in laughter.

 

VLCD # 12 - Monday July 18, 2011 - 2nd Doctor’s Weigh in

268lb and 17 inches, baby. Yes! A total of 17 total inches gone. That means way more to me than the few pounds that I've lost.

My day so far. I've done a tremendous overhaul on my closet throwing away anything that is too big, unflattering, tattered. I even went through clothing and underwear that are so small that they wouldn't even fit when I get back that thin. There were three garbage bags filled up.  Two had nothing clothing and one with old purses and another large bag filled with shoes. All of this junk is going to GOODWILL with the quickness. I rest for lunch having my tilapia salad.

I'm on a roll with cleaning out the junk. Some things are hard to get rid of, but you have to clean out the old stuff from your life in order to make room for newer, better things. I think I will make this my weekly Monday habit. It feels so good. Soon enough, I'll have just the items around that make me feel 100% good. That goes for people as well.

For dinner I had dinner with a friend at Japanese restaurant called Sho-gun. I had onion soup, which was good but kind salty (taste buds changing?) and something called a Tom Roll, which I thought was a good idea because it was rice free. I wish they had noted that it had cream cheese and some sort of "lightly" fried outer crust. Well, you know me--I still have not figured out how to waste food, but I am making better choices eating out.