ugh...

Oh man do I feel SICK...I've had a sick tummy ALL night. I'm wondering if since those sugar cookies have an egg in them if I have salmonella poisoning??? I don't in the LEAST feel like eating...definatley NOT a symptom you want when you're "LOADING"...ugh!

As my rep said, LOADING will cause me to gain but she said I shouldn't be concerned as I should lose it pretty quickly...weigh 163 today.

Day 1 LOADING eating

Cheeseburger & fries from McDonald's
EXTREMELY BIG Regular Peanut Butter Galaxy from Maggie Moos
Chicken Kiev for dinner
Hot Chocolate & Large Chocolate Chipper cookie from Bread Co
A sugar cookie cause Heather made it!!! :)
And 3 more sugar cookies cause I might as well eat EVERYTHING that I want when I'm "Loading"!!! LOL

My HCG journal

Well - as you can tell from the name of this blog...I've been "STRIVING" to be fit & trim for quite some time now. Seems like nothing is working. I've never been one to follow fads or "do" diets but with ALL my friends (you know who you are :) that have finished it and are currently doing it...I thought I'd give it a try.

Have you heard of the HCG protocol? I ordered mine from The Ultimate HCG Pro I have friend upon friend who have lost 17-40 pounds on their first round of HCG.

I got mine today and started it this afternoon. My weight this morning was 162.2 - I plan to follow the protocol and should be done with Phase 1 on Sept 22 then I'll have my 3 VLCDays and 3 weeks of maintenance. My goal is to lose 15-20 pounds.

I will try to update but for now there's not much to say except that the "loading" is SINFUL!!! LOL

I'm still trudging away...

Well - it's been an on again off again thing with me trying to loose this 10-12 pounds. It seems I eat really well and then make Oreo Truffles (for those of you that have not had those...OH MY they are SCRUMPDELIYICIOUS!!!)Then I walk, walk, walk and don't, don't, don't...ugh!!! I'm still using Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds. In fact, my husband bought me an older video of hers where they walk 3 miles, this one is my FAVORITE!!! The other day I wanted to see what it would be like to do the walking program on the mini trampoline...I did a mile just like the day before that but my legs were pulsating inside so I determined this MUST be a good thing. Therefore, I've been walking 1.5 miles on the mini trampoline to the Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds 3 mile video. It's been really good, fun, and my calves are beginning to show some muscle tone-age...which is SUPER sweet!!! Now for the thighs, butt and tummy to get toned...that's what I'm talking about!!! Enjoy the beautiful weather we're having this awesome springy month!!! Go Cards!!!

A new digital scale

Even though I went to the Dr. last week and her scale registered me at 154 like my home scale does...I went out and bought one of those new digital scales. Either that thing is wrong or the other two scales are wrong cause I'm REALLY liking the numbers on this new scale!!! My husband brought up a 20lb weight to check it's accuracy and it weighed 20lb 2 oz - that's close enough to me. Therefore I'm going with the new scales reading of 148.5 - which is 6lbs lighter than the doctors scale and which means I only have 2.5lbs to go to get to my goal weight of 146 (according to Spark People) - woo hoo - I'm going to try to walk at least 1.5 miles each day that I walk this week...I've had the last 2 days off from walking so I've got to keep myself in the groove so I don't quit all together...it's SO easy to do that!!!

Are you still there???

I know it's been a while since I was last on here but I'm doing good. I've been making myself walk at least a mile each day and I'm currently not eating desserts so I'm currently down to 152 which is OH SO cool!!! The unfortunate part is it doesn't quite feel like I've lost that much yet according to my clothes. They do feel better on my though.

I joined Sparkpeople.com a few weeks ago - their emails drive me CRAZY so I just unsubscribed to those but I was able to get a better idea for a goal weight ~ they recommend it to be 146 so that means I only have 6 lbs to go...how cool is that!?!

If you happen upon my site, I pray God's blessing over you and the possible weight you are wanting to lose.

Have a great day & don't forget that God loves you ~ NO MATTER WHAT!!!

so much for sticking with it...

Well - Life has been a bit challenging for us lately and while that may seem like some kind of "cop-out" it's not your every day kind of challenging...it's your life changing kind of challenging. With that being said...I've stopped exercising and eating right/good...my mother in laws scale as of Tuesday still says I weigh 153 which I think is GREAT if it's true but my clothes don't fit nearly as well as they were fitting so I'm not sure. My goal is to get back on the band wagon when some of these challenges have passed.