Day 72 - Doctor´s appointment

So today I went to my check up routine. Overall it was good.

He gave me another kind of Omega Pills, I will be trying them, hope I won't feel bad this time. 

He is still pointing out I have to weigh 54 kilos. I think it's a very low weigh for me. Still I am on 73 kilos.. so it's a looong way to go yet. 

I will be on phase one for the next three weeks, but they will be the last weeks on this stage. The last week of may I will be entering Phase 2: Meat!

I just cant wait! even as I'm writing, my mouth is watering!

Day 71 - Weigh In

Another 2.6 Pounds less for this week. 

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 29 - 162.0

Total pounds lost in 70 days:  32.8 pounds. (14.800 kilos)

Day 70 - ¿Happy? Birthday

I went to a birthday today, tacos, hotdogs popcorn, cotton candy and cake... delicious cake. 
I really tried to be strong but there was a time when I really considered breaking it. I mean, REALLY considering it. Then the voice of my concience -my sister-in-law- told me: " If you break it, you won't get on track again...ever. 

She talked from experience. So after a few nopales and zuccini and soup and orange drink, I pulled myself together and went by that day. 

Memo to me: DONT GO OUT YET!

Day 69 - Clothes

I am starting to use the clothes I had on my closet for the last two years. It is exciting to remember what nice clothes I have and I had forgotten. 

My Jeans are looking "baggy" style, even though they are "tight", I have lost so many pounds they dont look good anymore. I guess I will be going on June for a new pair of Jeans. 

Feeling nervous. 

Day 67 -

Day 66 - Tips to avoid Food Cravings

Here are some tips to avoid food cravings I found on a website. 

TIPS

Day 65 - Alpha Beta Gamma Kappa... OMEGA 3, 6 & 9

So it seems the recurring stomach ache is caused by the Omega supplement. 
I stopped taking ALL the supplements since friday and on Monday I started taking them again. Once I took the Omega the pain began. Today I did not ingested it and I felt just fine. 

I will stop taking it until next week's doctor appointment and let him know this, lets see what he says. 

Note: Pronokal has never had any side effect complaints. 

Day 64 - Weigh In

Hold...hold on just a second, I'm too asleep to remember EXACTLY the weigh I just saw on the scale... I'm going back again, just to make sure....

Yes, It was correct. JUST when I thought I was going down slower...

BAM!!!

3.8 pounds less. Today I am excited! I have entered the "minus 30 pounds loss".

These are the results for today

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 22 - 164.6

Total pounds lost in 63 days:  30.2 pounds. (13.69 kilos)

Day 63 - Bad Medicine

Yes, the terrible cramps came from the ingestion of all the supplements at once in a small period of time.

I am starting again today and I will be taking them much more solwer with a longer period of time between each. 

Let's see how that goes.

Day 62 - Sleepless in Seattle

I did not sleep at all today, and at 3 am and 7 am I had a soup and a milkshake. I feel like I am breaking the diet, however I'm not, I'm just giving my body an extra for keeping awake, so I don't feel bad later. 

Let's see how the weigh in goes on Monday.

Day 61 - Still Aching

So I went to the Pronokal Headquarters for some supplements I ran out of. I decided to ask one of the doctors there about these stomach aches/cramps I have been getting at night on the last few days. 

She said Pronokal products do not produce any side effect, but MAYBE the supplements are too tough for my stomach: 

- Take one pill every 3 minutes according to your doctors directions, do not ingest them all at once. 

It sounded fair enough for I had separated all my 15 pills into 4 daily takes. All at once, some times, I would take 4 pills some times 5 or 6. 

Today I did not took the supplements, was at the movies at 10 pm and had to cope with the pain for 30 minutes. REALLY UNCONFORTABLE FEELING.

Tomorrow I will be  digesting all the pills spaced with a 3-5 min period of time lapse, and see how it goes. 

Day 60 - Two Months

Today it's my second month. It seems forever but after I saw the results yesterday on a picture, I guess it is worth it all the way. 

Yay!

Day 59 - Stomach Ache

Having terrible stomach cramps. Couriously they start at 8 pm... then it goes away but it really hurts. 

I amguesing it's the mineral water. It appens every time I gulp mineral water down. 

Memo to me: Drink more water. 

Day 57 - Weigh in

Another 2.2 Pounds less for this week. 

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 15 - 168.4

Total pounds lost in 56 days:  26.4 pounds. ( 12.067 kilos)

Day 56 - The Itchy and Scratchy show

Early morning today, I have been feeling itchy all around my face and shoulders. 
I have no idea why, since I haven't used any cream at all. 

I am still paranoid about the nopales from that restaurant. 

I'll have it checked tomorrow. 

Today I have been feeling particularly hungry, I crave everything and want to abort the diet. 

I am angry about the exercise. I know I have to do it. It's just so difficult. 

Day 55 - Cupcakes and Strawberries

I have NO idea why I am feeling this urge to buy food for other people. 
Not any food. 
Cupcakes and Strawberries. 

It's crazy I know, but it's like I need to do it. I smell the cupcakes and the chocolate flavored ones are really looking yum. 
It's not that I'm masochistic, I really do not know why I am I doing this. 

Although I can handle it, it's just crazy.

Day 54 - Paranoid

I have been craving for the restaurant nopales. Badly. and I have returned to the old habits again. Instead of buying natural ones on the supermarket, I go and splurge on the restaurant ones.

I did this on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 

Now I'm feeling extremely paranoid, cause I found a piece of melted cheese between two of the nopales.  I did not ate it but my mind began to wander with "what if's": 

- What if it has more grease? 
- What if this brings me out of Ketosis?
- What if I gain weigh?

So Paranoid. Still I will pay ANYTHING for that delicious restaurant flavour. 

I have NO expectations at all for the weigh in on monday. 

That's how paranoid I am.  

Day 53 - Anyone Hungry? NOT ME!!!

So today I left home early, it's the first time in months I dared to use jeans with out a cover, meaning no blazer or sweater or anything else. Just my blouse. 

AND

It's the first time in more than one year I went to a friends house to have lunch (well, to see her eat lunch along with her family which INCLUDED CHOCOLATE CAKE).

Her house is two hours away from here. And I did a horrible mistake. 

I did not take enough envelopes. 

It was an unplanned visit, and I was already half way there, so I thought there would be veggies I could eat with my organe drink. 

There wasn't. 

But I did not felt hungry AT ALL. 

Ketosis mode: ON

Of course, I came running back home and had my veggies and soup, but I felt good going out and being again with tridimentional people. 

I fell good. 

Day 52 - Exercise

So I went to the diet doctor and he only reassured to me I had to exercise. 

Have no choice if I want to speed the process. 

Tomorrow I will go and see where can I do this. 

By the way, I am in TOTAL Ketosis. I am not hungry at all, and not feeling any anxiety like I used to. 

Day 51 - Weigh In

Frustration and more frustration. I just cannot help it. I just want to go FASTER!


2.2 Pounds less for this week. 

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 08 - 170.4

Total pounds lost in 49 days:  24.4 pounds. ( 11.067 kilos)

Day 50 - Serenity Now!

Today I finally went to the endocrynologyst. I have always said that going to the doctor and taking your lab results is like a college exam, you don't know if you are going to fail monumentally or pass with an A+.

It seems I approved. Besides my Uric Acid, which is up by two points, everything is excellent, including the glucose levels. 

Im happy. I guess. 

No. I am NOT happy. Yes, I accept the fact health is the most important thing, but now I have reached that point in the diet I just want to get over with. I am getting bored and fed up (no pun intended).

My first question to the Dr. was: ¿Is it true I will be loosing the 8 kilos -16 pounds- every month as the diet Dr. told me?

- No, that statistic works only for men. Women loose weight slower and it depends, ¿have you been excercising?

- ....no.....

- Well, there you go, you need to exercise AT LEAST three times a week for 20/30 minutes, and then your metabolism will go faster (he said this to me as he wrote on his computer report: Sedentary. 

OH well... if I want to loose the weight I am expecteing weekly, I will have to go to the gym. I will ask my friend if I can go with her that way I'll feel more pressured to go. 

Hate it. 
Hate the diet
Hate being fat
Hate everything right now. 

Yes I have issues with the gym. Since I was 18. 

SERENITY NOW!!!!

Day 49 - Trapped in her own body

So today I was zapping on TV. 1000 channels and NOTHING to watch. Until I saw the Discovery Channel. 

I don't know if today was the "killer Pounds" Marathon, but the title caught my eye and I left the channel there. 

OH

MY

GOSH!

I think I shouldn't have done that!!

I will not go int details, BUT, amongst the 5 shows I saw, the last one was the most impressive. 

There was a lady (Dominique Lanoise) who was 600 pounds and desperately requested for a Bypass surgery. She was desperate for one because she had been in bed for the last two years and could not move. 

She struggled, doctors helped her to loose weight, but it was too difficult for her -I could totally relate to this- after 10 months she finally looses 125 pounds which made her available for the operation. The doctor said to her, she would be going to the hospital on the following weeks. 

On those few weeks (and I STILL do not know why), she gained again the 120 pounds already lost!! 

The health doctor looked up for another doctor who could make the operation on her 625 pound body. And they operated. 

After the operation, she would not stop eating, and she died two weeks later. 

I was so moved with that story. So hurtful. She ate to death literally. She just could not stop. 

And that made me reconsider. 

I have been waiting for the diet to end so I can eat everything I like, and I even pictured myself bingeing. 

After these shows,  I decided I want to live a long healthy life, and this effort I am doing is incredible and I should appreciate it. I MUST learn how to eat and I MUST understand food can also lead you to your own death. 

Scary, but it was a wake up call. 


Video HERE

Day 48 - Another Doctor's Point of View

Today I went to buy more food. 

I asked this new doctor ¿how realistic is the 16 pounds a month weigh loss? She commented it was "too optimistic", people's body are different and weigh loss vary from person to person. 

- So, I won't be loosing the corresponding 16 pounds this month?

- You will probably loose 10 to 12 pounds, and that's GOOD. You are doing fine. 

So I finally understood, I won't be loosing that ammount of pounds this month, but still loose more. I feel this explanation was good because then I will not feel that frustrated every time I weigh myself. 


Not.

Day 47 - Tip of the day (A.K.A: - Memo to me)

Day 46 - (mute)

Today there is nothing really to tell. As boring as my life.

Just posting to keep a daily track 

Day 45 - Not hungry

I have stopped feeling hungry and anxious. I even made sandwiches for my cousin!!! and didn't even feel tempted. At all. 

The motivation is kicking in. 

I tried the bread again, I wanted to do it like tortilla chips, but..

IT'S LIKE PLASTIC!!!

So it didn't worked out. 

Sadly I still have lots and lots of envelopes I just do not like. I will try taking them to the doctors office and see if people wants them. I'll exchange them or  sell them for half the price!!

LOL!

Day 44 - Thirsty

Feeling peculiarly thirsty since last night. I have been drinking lots of water, but not "lots of water" cause they say too much is dangerous. But I have this feeling of dryness in my mouth like I'm in the desert. 

Not a nice sensation at all. 

Day 43 - Weigh in

So today I had NO expectations at all.
Just went towards the scale and got up. 
I had no idea how much I had lost after I looked at the scale numbers. 

2.6 pounds less. Ok I guess. I have surpassed the 20 pound barrier.

Let´s do some math: 

Supposedly, I should be loosing 4 pounds per week, which means I should have lost by today 24 pounds. 

Not the case. 

I know I am very strict on this matter, but when the Dr. says I should be loosing 16 pounds a month.... it just doesn't add up! That's the frustration. Still I am going down...

The numbers for today are: 

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 01 - 172.6

Total pounds lost in 42 days:  22.2 pounds. (10.069 kilos)

Lost 1/3 of my extra weigh.