Day 116 - It feels SO good

So you do the math: 


It was September 11 2011, I experienced the most painful breakup in my life. 
I stayed at home  until February 2013, at bed. Sleeping. Eating. Becoming Jabba the Hut. Hidden from the outside and outsiders.

I decide to start Pronokal on February 18th 2013 and remained secluded at home because of obvoius reasons. 

Four months later, I decide to travel and go visit all my friends and family in Argentina after 2 years of absence (I mean,TOTAL absence. Not even a picture on FB or a Whatsapp Message). 

All 9 days I was greeted with compliments, with loving commentaries, with similar experiences shared, with more appreciation comments, congratulations aplause, ovations, seriously, I am not even exaggerating. 

Sometimes I even felt ashamed of so many kudos given, but then I remembered my mom told me that I have to make the compliments a part of my self esteem. 

Still working on that. 

But let me tell you... It feels SOOO good!


It feels so good, you want this to become a part of your daily life, and all those comments made me stick to my diet even stronger. 

Day 117 - I have sinned

Yes... In my mind, I have sinned. But somehow I felt I had to do it. It's my fat girl part of my brain that made me do it. 

Ok, so here's what happened. As you read on my past post AIRPORTS I handled excellently the chocolates in the "departure-from-Mexico" part. 

HOWEVER

On the Chocolates in the "Departure-from-Argentina" part... I just couldn't handle it. I bought boxes and boxes of chocolates (for my family of course and as giveaway souvenirs) a total of 150 USD JUST in chocolates. I know, it's insane.

BUT

In the back of my fat girl brain part, somewhere, I bought a couple of Milka chocolates for me... "for when I finish the treatment" I told myself. 

I found myself repeating that, as I stashed some bars for me, JUST LIKE THE GOLLUM IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS... the only thing I did not do, was whispering to myself: My Precious!

I have half of my brain saying: yeees yeeess keep them, and half the other brain shouting: ARE YOU NUTS? YOU HAVE DIABETES, YOU CAN'T EAT NORMAL CHOCOLATE!!

It has been a constant fight with myself since then. I have them hidden, but I KNOW they are there...waiting for me... or not. 

I refuse to throw them away. I won't do it. 

Don't judge me. 


Gollum Chocolate: 

MY PRECIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Day 118 - Sumo Wrestler Butt

It has been a while since I have seen myself infront of a mirror. At home, I am a vampire. No mirrors at all OR just face mirrors on the bathroom. 

On this trip, I had a CLOSET with two HUGE mirrors on the doors!!! and at SOME time I had to look at myself... full body... full body. 

It's terribly wrong to say this, but I despise my body eventhough I am loosing weight. 

And then I saw my Butt. 

OOOOHH LORDY LORD LORD.... MY GOSH! IT WAS DREADFUL. 

Imagine a melted huge candle.. that was my ass. Or picture a Sumo wrestler's butt. Yup, that's me. 

So, NOT ONLY I WILL HAVE TO LOOSE 10 More KILOS, BUT, I WILL ALSO NEED A PLAN B FOR THAT LOOSEN SKIN, because I am thinking excercise won't do the trick anymore and I am not have any more surgerys. 

If anyone knows, any onther alternative in which I can put back the skin where it once belonged, please PLEAAAAASE let me know!


(Don't even think about it! there is no picture for this post!)

Day 119 - Experience Talking

Ok, here's what happened. 

I met for lunch -of course- with an old colleague of mine. She was impressed (and scared) of my weigh loss. 

I told her I was okay, and that I was perfectly supervised by every kind of doctor. 

And so the story began...

Several years ago, she lost about 100 pound approximately. Doing a supervised diet with a reknown doctor, who used her as his example of success story for his diet. So proud of her. 

She then told me, she got scared of gaining the weigh all over again once she stopped dieting. 

She became Anorexic and Bulimic.

She lost so much weigh and muscle, her heart was at risk. She had to eat special meals in order to recuperate a normal weigh, and then she went up, and down, and up and down the scale numbers. 

I listened as we ate. And I was SO secure about my diet that I didn't payed so much attention. Until this week. 

The fear became real. And I am now scared if this would happen to me. I mean, it's a real fear... there it is. 

Obesity has become an epidemic, and thus Bulimia and Anorexia. 

There's the fear of gaining weigh again.....and the fear has storaged in my brain. 

Day 120 - Scared like hell

On this trip, I became VERY aware of how easy it is to break a diet, to binge, to loose control over oneself. 

And that made me scared. 

VERY SCARED. 

I am absolutely terrified on the fact when I finished consuming the envelopes. What if I can't control myself? What will I do? Where do I go from there? What if I rebound again? What if I gain all the weigh again? What if I cannot handle a binge? 

These questions kept boggling my mind over and over. They still are. 

I will need A LOT OF EXTRA HELP once I get to my normal weigh again. 

Day 121 - Ketosis Mode: STILL ON

Before my trip, the doctor requested me to make (specifically June 18th) a Ketosis test -he provided me with a special Keto-stix and I had to pee on it. 

The result had to be a deep purple stain.. I did it two days later. 

I was terrified my Ketosis was gone. 

Fortunately, it hadn't. 

Day 122 - The day Mc Donalds came back to my life

It was father's day, and OF COURSE, I was ALONE beacuse EVERYBODY was celebrating their respective fathers and mine was back at home.

So I went to a movie, to see Brad Pitt. But I was starving, and I couldn't watch a zombie attack with out a full -animal protein- stomach. I needed beef. 

Because I didn't had the time and patience to sit inside a restaurant, I had the courage to go to a Mc Donalds. 

- Hello, welcome to Mc Donald's what can I get you?

- Um, yes... I would like a quarter pounder... JUST the meat. 

- Ok, Just the burger? no fries? no soda?

- NO. Just The meat, no fries, no soda. 

- ...riiiiight... just the burger?

- NO. Just the meat.

(eye contact looking extremely confused)

- ... so....

- YES... NO FRIES, NO SODA, the burger, I need it with NO cheese, NO condiments, NO Ketchup, NO mustard, NO special sauce and NO bread. 

The very nice manager made me a plate, with JUST the meat, a couple of tomatoes and lettuce. 

I felt.... a wonderful pleasure tasting again the DELICIOUS (well, I know is not the healthiest nor the MOST delicious but for me, it was at that moment) Mc Donald's taste again in my mouth. 

I devoured it (therefore, the lack of image).

But I went happy to watch my movie!

Day 123 - Emperess New Clothes

Two years ago, I went to Argentina and went MAD with a clothing brand. It's called: "Las Oreiro" (Clink for link) they have this GORGEOUS Dresses and jeans. 

I was a stubborn fat girl that wanted -badly- a pair of them. So I got the courage that time and went to try them. The jeans wouldn't go further up from my knees. 

I was SO offended, I actually wrote them on their FB page, telling them "How could you not respect the sizing law"? I'm so angry, I came all the way from Mexico to buy a pair of jeans and I couldn't fit them! They responded something about being legal and stuff but I was so angry, I didn't paid attention. 

I was angry, but also, I was OBESE. In my dismorphic mind I was "festively plump"

BUT THIS TIME... I WENT FOR REVENGE!

I took several pair of jeans and started trying them on. In Argentina the size chart differs from the American and Mexican chart, so I actually don't know what size I bought, I only know I bought a SMALLER size. 

I bought 4 pair of jeans this vacation, and I am really happy!!. I also bought a couple of shirts. I would have bought a dress, but they are WAY too expensive,(and way to small...still) so I guess maybe next time I'm on my ideal weight.

I even had the nerve, to buy one pair two sizes smaller...! Just for the future.

Here's an example of my past jeans and my new jeans:

Day 124 - It's a Party and I'll cry if I want to (You would cry too if it happened to you!)

One of the reasons of this vacation, was a kids party. I COMPLETELY forgot about all the goodies. 

When I got there, I saw TWO FULL TABLES OF CAKES (yes, I have the images) and I wanted to cry. I obviously took my malt shakes just in case I needed them, but something funny happened. 

When I arrived, I placed them on a freezer thinking it was a normal fridge, and they all became rock frozen. 

I was desperate because I couldn't drink it!! and I wanted to drink it right that moment, the cravings were too much. So a lady there saw my desperation and told me to cut the box and place it on a cup. 

Seriously, how could I did not think about that myself? I HAD ICE CREAM!!!! CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM...

PRONOKAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM!!

I swear, I spent the next HOUR scraping that chocolate block. And I was VERY happy all throughout the party. 

oh yes... BEHOLD the calorie display...!: 

Day 125 - Meals Examples

I decided to take pictures of some of the animal protein I had on this vacation. Here they are: 

This was the first day meal: Chicken with tomato and onions. 

At first I was VERY scared because of the onions, but this was the only plate on the menu available for me, so I carefully and VERY patiently took all the chopped onions off each piece of chicken! It was good. 

                                                         

The next day, I had to have a BIFE, the Argentinian quality beef by choice: Bife de Chorizo, I don't know what part of the cow this is, but for me, it's THE BEST!. Always sided with lettuce and tomatoes. 

                                                         

This plate was specially complicated. ¿Who doesnt' likes the CRISPY EXTRA CRISPY Chicken skin? I mean.. it was hurtful leaving it on the plate beside the bones. But I could not do it, I just could not let myself eat that. I had some salad which was  starting to taste like plastic!

   

Some more "Bife de Chorizo"... Leaving the gresay parts behind (Which, as the chicken skin, is THE BEST PART of the meat)

Eating at a friends House: Of course, all my friends invited me to their homes, and made me special dinner. Besides a gorgeous fish (I couldn't take picture, I forgot) she made me one day, she cooked this incredible chicken breast with broiled peppers and salad. Tasted SO good!

Day 126 - Airports

Leaving or Arriving. 

The "control-yourself" test had begun. The duty free shops are FULL of chocolates, all the chocolates I used to ate when I traveled all the time. 

There's no bigger pleasure than traveling, and flying with a HUGE piece of Milka Chocolate on your hand, mouth, chin, cheeks, hair... (LOL.. just kidding! Not the hair...LOL!). 

I used to buy -and binge- on two/three MAXI BARS... and when I say "Maxi".. they're MAXI BARS!




I took a chocolate Maltshake to substitute the craving just in case I had one, but unfortunately, in Mexico´s airport, security has been enhanced to the extreme, so I could not go through security with that ammount of liquid. I had to drink it...in 8 minutes...in front of the police guard. 

I preferred doing that instead of throwing it away. And it actually helped! The craving stopped and I could go by all the chocolate stands with out trying to buy one. 

I had 10 hours of flight ahead of me. I went to my "happy place" to try to avoid the anxiety flying gives me and ignored the nice looking meal the guy next to me was eating... some kind of airplane chicken. I opened an Orange envelope and drank it. 

With two connections ahead, I was ready to face anything that came along for the next few vacation days.

...well.. almost everything: 

(Yes, he is Hugo from LOST!) LOL

Day 127 - Restrospective (read backwards from today until day 115)

I will be posting "BACKWARDS" from day 127 to day 115, meaning I'll be writing what went on during last weeks at vacation.

Day 128 - Weigh In

Got back from vacations!!

I can sincerely confess  I got up of bed with a bit of discouragement. Vacations were SUPER GREAT, and eventhough I did not succumbed to cravings of chocolates, pasta (all types) and bread, I had this sensation I ate too much meat. Of course, I was at the "Meat Country", so what could I expect?  Having -at least- ONE daily meat sweat!

I thought this excess meat eating (well, not a binge excess but there were days I ate two times a day meat instead of one) would make me gain weight. 

I got up on to the scale. I had not remembered what was my last record, so I stood up and calmly looked at the number and sat down to write it down. 
When i saw my last record, 

IT FELT GOOD! (suspiciously good)

It says here I lost 3.8 pounds. This diet keeps suprising me every week!
I guess maybe it was because all the walking I did. 

And the results for this week are: 

Februray 18 - 194.8

June 24 -  151.6

Total pounds lost in 128 days: 43.2 (19.595 kilos)