Someone once told me that if you are nursing you won't have a period. Well I found out with my first, THAT is NOT true. So now it's been 4 months since I had Katelyn and my sweet mother nature has come back to visit. It's been a year and I haven't missed her at all. But I'm happy to report that I still lost some weight.

135!

Yeah!

In your face!

Rollercoaster......

157. something (I forgot) as of yesterday.

That's not so bad seeing that 4 days ago I was at 160.

(I told you I could gain 3 lbs in a week....he he)

Anyway...I'm not off or on the wagon anymore.

Most days I just try to make it through the day without treats...and most evenings I stick to it as well.

Not so much last night.

I ate a caramel and pecan covered sticky roll (a MASSIVE ONE) warm with vanilla ice cream on top. It was tasty!

That's why I didn't weigh this morning.

:)

Men Are Looking At Me In The Grocery Store...

I have opted for the short version of the hcg diet because when Joe gets home next week I'm going to need to be able to eat something in front of him. So. I am currently in maintenance mode which goes for 3 weeks. Once I decided this I totally lost all control over the diet in general and started cheating like mad for the last three days of drops. So I didn't end up losing as much as I wanted...and now that maintenance has started it's become a lovely game of "what can I add back in to my diet and not gain weight from?" Mac and Cheese is not one of those things, just fyi.

What you really are just dying to know, I'm sure, is what I weigh right now: 153.8 as of this morning. That's 17.6 lbs down from when I started the diet. However on Monday I weighed 152.6 which was the lowest I got on the diet (18.8 lbs down). I think there's going to be some natural fluctuation as my body decides where it wants to end up right now, and I'm okay with that. I'm going back to the gym either tonight or tomorrow, realistically probably tomorrow...and I'm hoping that doing so will help regulate the weight.

Anyhow, that's my update. I didn't quite lose 20 lbs, but I'm going to do another short course at the start of the year to see if I have any more to lose. In the meantime I've had to buy all new pants in a size 8 because everything I owned was falling off and looked horrible. One of the new pairs I wore for a morning and then had to exchange for a 6 because it looked too baggy. Do you know when the last time I wore a size 6 was???? High School.

I remember why I loved shopping as a teenager...it was fun because everything looked so good! This shopping trip I had to whittle my options down to what were my absolute favorites instead of settling for something that looked good enough. I love my new body!

Week 9

Maintaining at 137. Happy about that. Even more happy to go work out to hip hop hustle and strength classes!

New Goal

SO since my last goal does not seem to be working out for me I decided on a new one.

It is my hope this next week to PUT ON at least 3 pounds.

I'm well on my way!

There's nothing like reaching ones goals to boost ones spirits.





:)

the hcg update

So far on this diet I have lost 15.2 lbs. My weight this morning: 156.2 BUT the very best part in the whole wide world is that I have started pulling things out of my closet that I haven't been able to put on and DO UP in YEARS.

Ahem. I have an announcement to make...

Today I put on the outfit that I was wearing when I met my ex-husband. When I was 19 and hot ;) And it looked GOOD. AND THEN I PUT ON MY WEDDING DRESS AND DID IT UP. I know you know that that sentence deserves all caps lol.

I am not the same weight, but I seem to be about the same size and shape as I was way back in the day (except my boobs are bigger, but I have no complaints about that). I'm a little excited :) And I may or may not have had pics taken in both those outfits and then texted them to Ryan since one of his initial complaints when we started with the whole divorce process was the size that I was. Assume that I did ;)

I really want to show Joe, but I'm more looking forward to showing up at the airport down 20-30 lbs and seeing his reaction. So I'll wait for that. I think he'll be pleasantly surprised :)

BTW, since I started working out when Aile was 6 months old, I am down 50 lbs.

Back on the wagon

So...I jumped back on the wagon. But....not soon enough I guess.

157.8

that's a gain of .4 ounces.

Crappy!

Why am I going without candy/desserts again?

It totally isn't working for me.

My Confession

I have been avoiding posting on here. Because you're all going to hate me and think i'm cheating. I kind of am, I guess. So here goes:

159.0 as of this morning.

Probably you don't remember that my last post was for 168...and now that you do you want to know how in the heck I did that. Um, it's called hCG...it's a fairly radical diet which involves taking hormones, erego the cheating aspect. It's all over the internet, you may have already heard about it before. And the part you're going to hate me for most is I gained all 3 of the pounds back that I had lost the week I posted 168 so I was up to 171.4 again. Which means I have lost 12.4 pounds in 10 days. Without exercising. *Gulp* Yeah, I haven't even posted this and I can feel the seething rage.

But I look better than I have in years, people. YEARS. Nothing's saggy, my belly is practically flat, my butt has fallen off. I look good. Know when the last time was I thought that about myself? Uh, me neither. And this is only the beginning of it...I do this for 43 days and then go into maintenance mode for another 3 weeks. After some initially impressive drops I've leveled out to where I'm losing .8 lb a day. A DAY!!! So, when it's all said and done if the weight loss continues at it's current level, I should reach my goal weight of 140 - in a six week period. Cross your fingers for me after you stop hating me...

So. I'm out of the contest. No way is anybody going to beat me on this, and that's not fair. My money stays in but I'm saying my final weigh in is 168, which is the lowest I got on my own. Fair enough?

And one last thing...please read the research behind this diet before you tell me how unhealthy it is. I read it before I did it. My parents read it and are doing it with me too. We're all losing weight and it feels so good.

157.4

weeks weight loss: 0 lbs

After this last week I will gladly take that.

Looking forward to a new week.