Day 31 - Doctor's appointment

Today I went to my routince control check at the doctor´s office. Below I will be posting the results of weight and measurements. 

I had a few questions and NO I cannot do excercise just yet. And this time, OMEGA 3, 4 & 9 was added to my daily dosage of pills. This will help the metabolism speed up a little. 

Also, another doctor joined us, the Psychologist (I'm sorry I can't recall her name). She told me super interesting facts about body perception, for example, once you have drastically lost so much weight, it takes up to 9 months to accept your new figure. This, because for so many years we get used to being fat/obese you get used to measuring dimensions of doors to pass by or chairs to sit on, that your mind takes a while to accept you are not the same dimension as before. 

That's why I look the difference on my body, but not a big difference on it, although it is a fact I have lost a lot of weight and measurements. 

Anyways, let's go to the facts after 30 days: 

* Weight is specified in KILOS
** Measurements in centimeters

Date:		18-Feb	27-Feb	20-Mar	TOTAL LOST
Weight		86.4	83	79.2	7.2
Waist		119	103	95	24
Arm		36	34	35	1
Hip		114	111	110	4
Abdomen		119	103	95	24
Chest		112	110	105	7
Thight		61	60	59	2
Chin		47	47	46	1

Well, I guess I am happy about these results, but then again, I do not want to get all happy and stuff cause if I get too excited I know I will stop doing this diet. 

SO: YAY!!.

Day 30 - Give "piece" a chance

Piece of Chocolate Cake


So I decided to give the chocolate cake another chance. This time, instead of cooking it on the microwave, I did it on the oven, in a mini cupcake mold. 

So the texture came out different. Not goosh, but a plastic like texture. 
I added sweet n low. 

I cannot start to explain the taste in my mouth. OK, so the sweetner made it a lot more bitter, but the cake was not a cake, it was plastic. 

Although I have not given up on this cake, I will not try it anytime soon.

I will ask for recipes on this. Maybe next time it will be better. 

Oh, of course, I ate it. 

Here's a pic

Day 29 - Weigh In

Good morning sunshine...

WALKED towards the scale, expecting the worst. 

2.6 Pounds. 

WHAT THE HELL!!!?!?!?!? This is not what I expected. Specially when I´m only eating 5 envelopes and very few vegetables. Well, not " few" strictly the ones allowed. Not even 20 grams extra.

On thursday I have a doctor's appointment. We'll see how many KILOS I'm down according to his scale and if I got down to my one month goal. 

Phooey. 

So the results for today are: 

Februray 18 - 194.8

March 11 - 179.2

28 days - 15.6 pounds. (7.076 kilograms)


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Day 28 - Tupperware

Ok. So today it was not a "good idea" day. I went to see a friend and because I was going to be out all day (at least that was the idea), I cooked two sachets of nuggets and nopales, I placed the nicely on a new hellokitty lunchbox, I prepared the orange dring with lots of ice in an ice Hello Kitty thermus and packed a sachet of chicken noodle soup. 

The idea was to be with my friend all day at work, so we were there, talking and doing our nails. But something bothered me. This smell I just couldn't get where it was coming from. 

Really Disgusting. 

Then I remembered. THE TUPPERWARE!!!!! Not a good idea.

I closed in near it. OH MY LORD!!! what was that??? I didn't even wanted to open it. And I had to eat something!!

I refuse to eat THAT. Not a good idea.

So then, everything changed and I had to return home. I opened the tupperware and threw the food away.

I did a cup-a-chicken-noodle-soup and ate it. 

Memo to me: DO NOT EVERRR EVERR AGAIN use that tupperware. ALWAYS take soup or drink when going outside. 

Tomorrow: Weigh in. I'm really looking forward to loose 5 pounds.  No less. 
Having high expectations and NO frustration tolerance. 


**Hope this tip helps anyone doing Pronokal. 

Day 27 - Day-O

Day light come and me wanna go home. 

As much as I wanted to run home to bed, I bravely stayed at the mall. Yes, I went out to the mall and ate at a restaurant... with LOTS of food.. steak and a buffet.. mashed potatoes...

But I was brave enough to ask the waiter to heat up my salsa, got my nuggets out, poured the salsa, prepared my orange drink and eat some nopales and zuccinni, while I watched my dad eat in front of me!

A neverending Buffet!

At first, the smell was driving me nuts, but after my 5th taste of nuggets, I calmed down and then the craving went away. I actually did not finished all my nopales and then the hunger and craving, went away.

I guess I am in the Ketosis Zone right now. And Im looooving it!!!

Day 26 - No

No I will not be posting anything today !

Day 25 - Food Glorious Food

I am NOT missing right now andy food. I have discovered the great flavour of cauliflower, and I can have 3 cups of it! YAY! 

Feeling a stomach ache every time I finish eating. Haven´t discovered the reason why. 

In 5 days, it will be a MONTH gone by. It is incredible how fast time goes away. 

Plans for this weekend: 

I am daring to go out for a whole day to a new shopping mall. I will take my lunch and several envelopes just in case. 

I'll inform how it went. 

Day 24 - Karma Chameleon

Today there is nothing trascendental to tell. Well, except to share another inspirational story I just heard about. 

Kudos Georgie Boy. 


BEFORE: 

TODAY: 

Day 23 - Forever in Blue Jeans

Today was my first afternoon out. and the first time I could wear my blue jeans back again. 
I was showered with compliments. 

AND IT FELT GOOD!!!

Although I did not wanted to believe it so much, I only have lost 13 pounds. Not even close to my 65 goal. I know I am very hard on myself but I cannot allow myself to feel good, otherwise -I know myself- I will abort the diet. And that's not the case. Not this time. 

Being on the monotone diet of milkshakes, soups and drinks (and nuggets) I have nothing more to add regarding food, BUT, today I met with my friend and a friend of hers, who also did the diet a year ago. 

I learned new tricks: 

1. Always carry TWO extra envelopes when going out. 
2. Try to have a funnel to add the envelope to the bottled water
3. NEVER USE CREAM during the treatmeant - this breaks out of ketosis. Do not ask me why. 
4. Use a girdle

They avidly trie to convince me to go to the gym. I remember that on this diet one cannot do excersie because of the low calorie count, BUT THEN I remembered the doctor told me I should walk for 20 minutes daily. I am still reluctant on going to the gym. Seriously, I do not like it.

Maybe I could try in a few weeks. 

Day 22 - Sweet dreams are made of this

I have been experiencing TERRIBLE nightmares. 

Always the same recurring ones. I find myself eating something I am not allowed and I suffer, but I mean, LITERALLY suffer in the dream, because I had broken out of Ketosis. 

In one, I looked down on a plate with two -scrumptious- quesadillas, and they both had 2 bite marks. I literally cried (in the dream) because I could not remember at what time I had bitten those. Woke up really agitated. 

Today, I dreamt I ate a deliciuos vintage chocolate lollipop, somehow I was with a family Dr., talking to him, and sucking on...no..not sucking CHEWING! the chocolate, and then he said:

"You're not being a good girl!"
"Yes I am" I said, "Why do you say that? 
"Because you are eating a chocolate and your Ketosis has gone!"

I ran into a bathroom and spit what I had inside my mouth rigth to my hand, then tried to throw up, but he told me: "There's no use, it's already in your stomach"

Of course, I woke up almost sweating and with an anguish I couldn't understand until I was full y awake. 

The Diet Dr. explained to me this would be frequent and it is ABSOLUTELY normal, the brain and body are experiencing losses and that's how they cope. 


...Seriously...

Day 22 - Weigh in

Woke up. 
Jumped out of bed.
Ran towards the scale.

Say

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT???

TWO POUNDS?!?!?!?

No. no no no no.

No no no no no. This can't be. 

Got off the scale. 

Got up again. 

The same 182.8 lbs. 

So the results for today are: 

Februray 18 - 194.8

March 11 - 182.8

21 days - 12 pounds. (5.44 kilograms)

So frustrated. I thought I would be going faster!, The Dr. said I would loose almost 18 pounds a month. That's the goal. 

I heard today every body is different and goes at it's own pace. But this time, I don't care. I want to go faster. I wonder if my metabolism has something to do with it. 

I'll ask my friend how many pounds she lost the first month!

I can't handle frustration!!!

Day 21 - Lollipop

The title is just for fun! (and I LOVE the song)

Today, I will be posting food pictures. I wishI had more, but I will be updating this post soon!

Can't wait until tomorrow - Weigh in day. 

Chicken Nuggets "quenelles", 

suggested by my friends mom, who is an EXCELLENT chef!
I made a tomato sauce just adding water on the blender and once is liquified, I added powder onion and garlic and dehydrated parsley and salt. All the ingredients cooked on a pan, no oil just until the tomato turns from light pink to red. 
Uhh delicious. 

Also, Zuccinni. 

Same quenelles, just added green tomato sauce. 

The zuccinni has olive oil

This is the Orange drink (mineralized water added)

Day 20 - Dysmorphophobia (Or: "you are beautiful, no matter what they say")

According to wikipedia: 

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD, also body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome; originally dysmorphophobia) is a type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person is concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of their physical features.[1][2] The person thinks they have a defect in either one feature or several features of their body, which causes psychological distress that causes clinically significant distress or impairs occupational or social functioning. Often BDD co-occurs with emotional depression and anxiety, social withdrawal or social isolation.[3]

I once heard this word from a doctor, a friend of my father. I "accidentaly" read a mail she sent to him, concerned about me. I was shocked. It took me several years to accept this fact. 

Yes. I am dismorphic. I admit it. Totally. I hate my body (even though I have gone through several cosmetic -non sucssesful- procedures like liposuction 10 years ago amongst other surgeries) I don´t have a good perception of myself, in fact, I don't have a perception at all. Just hate my body.

As I saw yesterday the full body pictures from me on February 18th -when I began the diet- I just could not believe how obese I was (am). A "seven month triplets pregnancy" could describe it better. I just cannot believe how I got away with that and not noticing or at least taking it to a conscient level. I'm impressed.  
Being morbidly obese, is not funny. The funny thing is I got fatter like a pregnant woman, so people would think I was pregnant instead of obese. And the worst thing, is that I was ok with that. I could get away with my obesity and prefer to say I was pregnant. 
It's really horrible now that I think about it. But it's all because of the Dysmorphia and not being OK with the shape of  my body. 

I decided I will post pictures at the end of the tratment. My first image taken and the last one, just for dramatic purposes, but until then, these images can say more than words can say:

Day 19 - As Time goes by

It's amazing how time goes by. It's the end of the third week and I'm feeeling just ok. 
Having this week, a strict regime of soup, milkshakes and nuggets (and LOTS of zuccini, sparragus and nopales) I feel like I just got to this weeks finish line.

My friend told me I had to play with the recipes and allowed vegetables. For example, Instead of making "flat" nuggets, make them round, cook them on the oven and then add some tomato sauce, making them taste like meat-a-balls. It sound delicious. Now I have to go and buy tomatoes!!

But to tell you the truth, the salsas have made this food even better. Greentomtao salsa have joined me in almost every meal and it's so good. Its a liitle bit hot, for I add chili and it's more spicy. 

Today's inspiring story: 

O-M-G!!!

Snooki slimdown! Unbelievable how she did it. She looks great! 43 pounds it's just incredible, specially after giving birth. 

Day 18 - Bread and Butter

Just listen while you read.

I thought this can put a little bit of "spice" to your reading. 

So. Ok. I had to go to an event I couldn't say no to. So I bravely took my chicken noodle soup sachet, my milk maltshake and my orange water. 

I really really REALLY thought I could do it. On the event, I opened the bottled water and shaked the orange powder like a polariod. I drank it cold. It was nice. 

Then, at lunch time, we were all going to have lunch on the ONLYE THE MOST LOVED restaurant by me. And I said: SUUUURE, no problem, I'll eat veggies. 

Yeah right. 

I wanted to cry. I opened my soup sachet and drank it fast, I ate the veggies and had the milk shake. But I suffered. I sincerely wasn't ready for it. Everyhting looked SCRUMPTIOUS!!! and I remembered how I binged in that restaurant. Ate until I was sick to my stomach. Now, I only felt melancholy. 

SO for the next weeks, no going out to restaurants, simply too hard handle. I mean, it can be done, but it's too much masochism. 

People are starting to notice and acknowledge it. Not I. 

Day 17 - Low Low Low

It seems my Blood sugar levels are going down, slowly, but going down. Today's level 85

I am not alarmed cause the endocrynologyst told me the range would be 130-70 so I am still safe. 
However I cannot help being a li-ttle-bit-scared. This is the lowest I've had it since ever, or at least for the past 4 years. 

So let's see how this week goes wit the soup/juice/nuggets diet goes. I'll try new flavors with the vegetables. 

08:00 am -  Chocolate Milkshake

10:00 am - Chicken noodle soup

13:00 pm - Nuggets with tomatillo salsa (tomatillo is green tomato) Uh! this was SO delicious. I also added some zuccinni. 

I'm scared I will be getting bored of eating so few vegetables. I mean, I can eat like 12 different, BUT I only like 5. I am hoping the condiments will make          ti easier. 

But now I am not scared of liking or not liking the food. I chose all of the sachets I like, now I have to work on my eating skills and leaving behing my gulping skills. Make the food last longer than 64 seconds. you know? CHEW. (LOL!)

17:00 pm - Orange Drink. I have to admit I'm scared. I'm scared that the taste won't be the one I'm expecting. We'll see.

It Was Good! It was actually a nice flavor, and even more, since I stopped eating Orange Juice once I was diagnosed with diabetes II. I loved the flavor.  

We'll see how i goes from now and until March 20, when I have the new Dr's appointment. 

Day 16 - Hakuna Matata

Yes, it seems I will have no worries anymore (I hope). 

So I went to get 15 more boxes. Only Soups, orange drink and nuggets. 

This time I asked. 

Yes, I can do "salsas" with the approved vegetables - Which is SOOOO good cause this can give a whole new flavor to the food. 

Yes i Can add Dijon Mustard. Oh! By the way it has to be the NO SUGAR added. I bought the wrong one. As usual. 

And then I went to the supermarket and actually looked around EVERYWHERE. I was only limiting myself to strictly vegetables area, but today I had to look for the stupid Dijon. 

I went through the freezed food, the chocolates, te candy the sodas, and, yes, I went through the halls with no problem at all. 

I'm not feeling hungry. I discovered I only have cravings. 

HUGE CRAVINGS. 
TERRIBLE CRAVINGS!!

And because I was used to immediate gratification, I used to stuff my mouth with everything I wanted. And I mean EVERYTHING into my reach, even if it meant Vanilla Frosting (like Godie Hawn in "Death Becomes Her").

So I will be posting some pictures of Pronokal success stories (no, not mine yet) cause they are inspiring. So my friend says. And they totally are. 

Although sometimes I wonder if this is REALLY a final result. 

Day 15 - Thankyou Disillusionment

So today I jumped out of bed to weight in. 

Oh! disillusionment. 

Although it's 2 1/2 pounds, and they ar good, I was expecting to loose MORE pounds, maybe just like last week. 

I don't want to get obsesed with the weight, I have always said that. AND I have to be grateful for the glucose levels, which I registered in 88.

So I'll keep on with the high hopes and won't let this put me down. 

¿DRY SKIN? 

I have been feeling my skin dry. I do not know if this is a side effect, cause I have been consuming lots pf Potasium, Magnesium, Calcium, Sodium and Vitamins (from Pronokal obviously), but it's so dry. Specially my face. 

Also, I have been having breakouts, I'm like a pubert teen. 

Day 14 - Honey, oh Sugar Sugar

It think this is the first time my glucose levels are at 90. 

At first I thought it was because I had not eaten in 10 hours. But I was sleeping! Sunday are the only days I can rest a while longer.

Although I have been feeding myslef with soups and milkshakes, I feel good. 
A little bit famished at nights but nothing a good vegetable couldn't take away. 

I will be posting a video according to the title. I just thought it would be fun while you read :)

Day 13 - Oh! Loneliness and Cheeseburgers

Love that Comic Guy's  quote from the Simpsons.

It's true, loneliness and cheeseburgers come hand in hand. 

I want a cheeseburger. ¿or do I? 

Been so hungry today. So, besides soups and shakes, I've been stuffing my face with sparragus nopales and cucumbers!

Lately All my food is GREEN!!!

Tuesday I will be going back for some more variety flavors. 

Day 12 - Coping, just Coping

So today´s menu is basically the same as yesterday's. Don't have too much to add, but I went out to do some chores and the restaurant smells... THE SMELLLSSSS!! Those are the worst, but what I do is take a huge whiff and remember how good everything was, and how good everything will be once this is over. 

Also, today I tasted the Watermelon drink with much more water and ICE. It was so much better. I finally had a flavoured drink. Tomorrow I'll probably add some carbonated water (Peñafiel) and see how that works out. 

Envelopes are running out fast. I'll have to go for more on Tuesday.  

PS: My friend keeps telling me I could have some meat and maybe Riccotta cheese with cocoa w/no sugar added to feel as if it was mousse. 

But no. 

I refuse to eat anything else but the diet envelopes...can't do whatever I want. It has to be like it has to be.  

Day 11 - Chocolate WIthrawal

07:00 - Chocolate maltshake

10:00 - chicken noodle soup

13:00 - zucchini potato cream

16:00 - Chicken noodle soup sparragous

19:00 - Nopales

22:00 - Chocolate Malt shake 

Oh my lord, I am feeling so bad, I know is the withrawal, I am feeling extremely sensible and hungy SO hungry it actually hurts. 

Yesterday I did not ate at the specific hours I guess that is what triggered the extreme hunger at the middle of the nght 

Tonight I did not felt like that. I cried though.

Day 10 - I'm not gonna make it....!

Today I have a Dr's appointment. I'm excited to get new products. 

07:00 am - Vanilla Maltshake

10:00 am - Zuccinni and a Hot Cake. 

Oh yes, I threw away the Hot Cake. I jist could not handle the smell. ¿WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? 

16:00 pm - Chicken noodle soup

19:00 pm - Chicken Nuggets

22:00 pm - Nopales

23:00 pm - Chocolate Cake. 
Don´t get me wrong, I have THE BEST intentions to do this, but this cake was also horrendous. 
Even after I added cinnamon. It tasted like IRON!

So, i went to visit the Dr. He said I was going A O.K.!! Among other sizes, I dropped a 16 cms from my waist. 

I am now in the highest form of Ketosis.

I will be sending him a list of my spare envelopes so he can tell other patients and we can exchange them. 

He said it doesn't matter if I stay only with ON E flavour, but seriously, who can live with 6 choclate maltshakes a day? 

I need to try more food so I don't get tierd of this. 
It seems everyting's going good. I'm not letting this one go. This will be the last diet I will ever go to in my life. 

This I promise. 

2:00 am - I am SO HUNGRY!! I can't stand it, all I want to do is eat, run for a Hot Dog run for a Burger a Sandwich.. OMG!! never felt this way. Still, knowing that I can't it 's the only thing that makes this sacrifice worth it. 
My mouth actually hurts.. I'm salivating like a rabid dog. 

I think I will have a soup and see if this feeling calms down. 

And so it did. 

4:00 am - Still can´t sleep. The idea of a binge is haunting me. Badly. I'll try to sleep. 

Day 9 - Quick recap

I'll be quick. I am defenitely trying to exchange this extra envelopes I have. 

Here's todays diet: 

07:00 am - Maltshake

10:00 am - Chicken noodle soup

13:00 pm - Chicken nuggets

16:00 pm - Choclate Maltshake

19:00 pm - Zucchini

Went to bed early, feeling TOO tired and sleepy. 

Day 8 - And the winner is:

Scale day

And so, I woke up and jumped on to the weigh scale. 

Last monday: 194.8 lbs
Today:          185.4 lbs

YEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!

Almost ten pound less!

So this diet is working A OK. 

Today I will be brief for I ate EVERYTHING I liked!

08:00 am - Chocolate Maltshake

10:00 am - Chicken noodle soup

13:00 pm - Chicken noodle soup (yes again! heh heh) with zucchinni and 2 tbs of olive oil

16:00 pm - Chicken nuggets and pickles

19:00 pm - Chocolate dessert. I know I hate it but I only have 2 to go. 

22:00 pm - Maltshake VAnilla

Today It was the first day I felt very hungry, even my intestines were growling. Hard. So i ate the nuggets half hour before. But it was OK after that. 

On wednesday I will be going to the Dr. Let see how that goes!. 

Day 7 - And on the 7th day...

I entered on Ketosis. Yes, finally...or so I say. Still need to byt the Keto-stix to proove it. 

So here's today's menu: 

10:00 - Chocolate Malt shake. 

13:00 - Chicken noodle soup with zuccini

16:00 - Chicken Nuggets with cucumbers

19:00 - Chocolate Maltshake

So this was Sunday. I did not follwed my own schedule with the specific food.

I'm rebelling to the horrible taste, and I will not, I repeat, I WILL NOT eat what I don't like. 
I thought of this because, if I keep on eating things I don't like (I know myself) I will stop this diet. And that is not the point. 

I was reading this diet is similar to the Atkins diet. Im curious, I will read more on this subject. 

OH MY LORD! My sister-in-law just told me this diet makes you stupid for the first month!!!

I don't know the facts, but it all started when we were watching Oscar Night, and I found myself forgetting all the actresses and actors names!! I still cannot believe this! But it is true, I couldn't remember any name, I was like:

- Yes, did you know Sandra Bullocks' ex was engaged also to... to.. to.. ¿? what was her name? -looking at my brother- this...this lady... with all the tatoos.. the artist.. she... VON.. Von something.. HELP MEE!!"

- Kat Von-D?

- YESSS!!! Thankyou brother!

Really frustrating, but she told me it is because the body has to get used to the ingest of carbs and sugar, so the body is using all the good things it can get (including the brain) feeding on the extra fat. 

I'm (definitely) going to look up this side effect. 

- "Don´t worry, we will get you a helmet" my sweet brother and sis-in-law told me. 

Sarcasm! But I laughed histerically!
  

Day 6 - ...

...

07:00 - Vanilla Maltshake. Today the strang "Melox" flavor kicked again. I don't know if it was because I brushed my teeth with a new toothpaste and the flouride taste collided with the drink. Still drank it. 

10:00 - Bread. No. nooooooo no no no no no no. Not even with the loads of cinnamon and artificial sweetner. It's a horrible flavor. Gagged. Spitted out what I had in my mouth. I'm so sorry for the 3 envelopes I have still. 

I was reading on this guys blog (the one that wrote for the first nine days and then stopped, in his final entries, he wrote: "I will ONLY buy soups and drinks next time". 

I'm about to do that next week. Seriously.

13:00 - Flour Tortilla  ¿Hot Cake? with mushrooms - I accidentally baked the wrong flour. Of course I noticed it once I was gagging at the end!! I was too asleep to realize I was making this huge mistake. 

Don't get me wrong. Some of the meals are good. Like the soup, and maltshakes, but some of the other, just leaves you plain medicine after taste which I am not really enjoying. 
I am thinking I should pay a visit to the doctor on monday. I need to get more meals with different flavours. 

The big question would be: ¿What should I do with the spare envelopes I did not consume? 

16:00 - NOW Flour Tortilla and pickles. I don't know if it's ME with the nausea but this time I forced myself to eat everything. Mind power...

19:00 - Strawberry drink. I chug it down FAST! NOw I'm just trying to get over these envelopes!

22:00 - Vanilla Pudding- Same as the strawberery drink.
Not feeling hungry AT ALL!

Day 5 - STOP THE BREAD-NESS!!

"It's not for lack of bread, like the Greatful Dead....darling"

Hair Musical 

08:00 - Maltshake, chocolate maltshake, nice to meet you. Love you. 

10:00 - Crepe with mushrooms - These kind of meals, I likey likey. 

13:00 - Zuccini (ONE - small) & Chicken noodle soup. Today I discovered I like very much the Zuccini, it was only stir fried and it actually had a great flavor. The soup, it just donesn't last enough! 

16:00- B...bbbbrr....bbbrrread!! with tomatos. I have really developed a gag factor for the "breads", really, I don't like them anymore. I just couldn't eat it. Just ate the tomato and a lemon flavored ice. 

I have a Plan B for the next bread: cinammon and artificial sweetner. That is my ONLY HOPE for the next week. I still have NINE NIIIINEEEE "9" envelopes! I want to cry SO much" Bad purchase. 

Today my Dr. answered my email. It looks like I cannot take ANY medication, it has to be a special medication (for allergies) ONLY approved by him -Allegra- because the other medication I wanted to take had "corticosteroids" and it could break the Ketosis. 

I guess I can handle a little allergy... I guess.

19:00 - Chicken nuggets and toatoes. SAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
No, I'm NOT hungry, not at all, seroiusly, I'm even feeling nauseaus. No. Seroisuly. TAke this plate away from me.
and as I refused to eat, I remembered my friend telling me never to skip a meal, so I tried to swallow the two portions. I really struggled to eat those ones, eventought they are my favorite. 

Not feeling hungry at al. 

22:00 - Chocolate dessert. Is sitting there on the fridge. I am mentalizing myself to go and chug it down. Still, not hungry. 

Night 4 - I cannot sleep. Here are some pictures

NOT PICTURES OF ME! silly silly!...Food pictures!: 

It's funny how I have been looking for other PRONOKAL experiences, and just found ONE from Mexico. A guy called Ferchu.. it was interesting on the first four days, then he started being so detailed and then on the 9th day, he stopped blogging.
Really a shame. We could all have learned a bit more from his day by day experience. But this is what I will do, I will keep posting for the next four months and keeping track of my advance. 

So as I promised, here are the images I have with a brief explanation: 

NO Breads (Provenzal and natural) images, but I promise I will add them as soon as I find them!

Day 4 - I wanna drink water all night... (and party every day!)

07:00 - Strawberry Drink - Concentrate...use your sinus to AVOID THE TASTE.. I pinched my nose and swallowed as fast as I could. Pheww. Water please. 

10:00 - Crepes with a pinch of cinnamon and Sween N low - Ate it fast. IT was good, but the aftertaste on every meal is getting a liitle bit disgusting. 

13:00 - THE BREADDD THE BREADDDD - I tried to change flavors, I added oregano before cooking and added cooked tomatoes... 

DIS-GUS-TING! YUK!

I could not eat it. I ate the tomatoe and yesterday, my friend told me that in case of anxiety, I could freeze water with ONE lemon and sweet N low, and make a popsicle. 

The popsicle was tasteless but it helped me with the hunger. 
More water please. 

16:00 - Vanilla Pudding -  Seriously, I could have not made the WORST descicion on picking these puddings. I'm suffering them. I made it a little bit more liquidy, so I could drink it without tasting it. 

Water please. 

19:00 -  Chicken Nuggets and nopales - My fave. This time the nuggets were cooked on the oven. Crispier and the nopales were grilled. Good one. STILL after eating the nuggets, there is a strange flavour, just like the other products, like medicine like. I guess it's the protein thingy. 

Water please 

22:00 - Vanilla Pudding AGAIN?!?!?! Oh no no no no no no no no. I'm changing it for a malt shake. 

More water thankyou. 

I am feeling particularly thirsty. VERY thirsty. Is it the Ketosis? Don't know. 

Blood sugar levels are going down. Slowly but surely

Monday: 175
Today: 131

Stomach has reduced itself considerably. 

Im going to get more water... I'm feeling hot. is it hot in here?  

Good night.

Day 3 - Feeling like Snow White's 7 dwarfs

Yes, I feel sleepy, hungry, grumpy, & dopey! 

I don't know why I feel extremely tired, most of all sleepy. 

10:00 am - Chocolate Malt shake  AND Chocolate pudding 
Today I was awaken by my assistant telling me I had already missed the 7 am meal. I abruptly woke up piled up all my pills (supplements) injected myself, took my glucose levels, and took the metphormine. Logged in on my diary app and quickly entered all the information. 

I'm not a morning person, especially at eating. I only found myself starving and bingeing at mornings, when I ate a LOT at nights. 
So I did not felt hungry at all, however, I knew I had to eat. I could not skip meals. 

I drank the shake and GULPED the pudding. Today I didn't felt that horrid flavor, but then again maybe it was because of my morning allergies, so I gulped as much as I could before gagging and then I drank water. Basically I forced myself to eat it. 

13:00 pm - Chicken noodle soup and Pickles. I do not remember when I fell asleep again between 10:00 and 13:00, all I know is my assistant woke me up -again- to have lunch. I drank the soup again at lightspeed and chewed and chewed the pickles, which were good. It has been a while since I ate pickles. 

The afternoon runned smoothly. 

16:00 pm - Provenzal Bread with tomatoes. 
Yesterday's bread was AWFUL, so I remembered my friends words: Try putting some condiments on it will give a different flavor to the food. And I did. 

OREGANOOOOOO!

It helped a bit but still the Provenzal bread had this leftover flavor... ugh!.

19:00 pm - Hot Cake. 

OH MY LORDY LORD! For three hours I couldn't stop thinking of food, hamburgers, sodas, chicken ohhh.. EVERYTHING. I tried to watch some TV shows, but watching "The Big Bang Theory" was torture!! They eat on every episode.. deliciuos chinese food! or anything else they can put on their mouths and savour it deliciously! I got my Hot Cake (mixed with cinnamon and artificial sweetener) and it tasted like heaven. Loved it!

22:00 pm - Chocolate (or vanilla I can't remember) Maltshake. Looking forward for that one. 


OH THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!

I took full body pictures to document the progress. 
WHERE DID I HIDE SO MUCH BODY FAT AND SKIN? 
Seriously, it looks like I have triplets inside me. 

That was monday. 

Today (2 days later) I can proudly say the stomach has gone 1/3 away.

Day 2 - Coping with Hunger

I know I sound melodramatic, but believe me, no I don't. 

I went to sleep very hungry, my intestins sounded like a Carnegie Hall concert, I felt dizzy and nauseated, I just wanted to sleep and make this feeling go away. 

07:00 am - And so I woke up early in the morning. It feels so strange having to document every move I make, inject Victoza, take metphormine, drink chocolate maltshake (which by the way it tasted WONDERFUL) take 3 supplements, log in the special application so I can send all the info to the doctor. oh and measure glucose levels. 
I feel like a chemistry laboratory subject!

Having abdominal cramps, I'm just laying on my bed trying to calm down cause STILL I don't know if I can take any kind of pills (memo to me: need to ask Dr. ASAP)

Todays menu seems good. we'll see how it goes at 10:00 am.

Food Pictures pending.

---> STOMACH ACHE!! <---

10:00 am - Chicken noodle soup. I DEVOURED it in -literally- 60 seconds! It was soooo goood, tasted delicious, defintely will buy again. Can´t wait to eat again!. LOL

The stomach ache hurts like all the food I have ingested is struggling to get out. I won't get all specific on this but you can imagine. 

13:00 pm - Provenzal Bread with tomatoes (2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil) and Nopales. It tasted good. Still devouring food, although trying to go slower. 
Supplements and more supplements. 

Woke up from a nap. I have this TERRIBLE HEADACHE i have to control due to the fact my Dr. hasn´t answered wether I can ingest Tylenol or Advil. 
Will try mental control. 

16:00 pm - Fruity strawberry drink. Not my favorite but had to have something to eat, so I chugged it down and then followed it with water. oh! and supplements. 

---> HEAD ACHE!! <---

So I decided today to get my Blood Pressure taken. I had a doctors appointment and I was running late, so I literally ran to the pharmacy to have it taken. 
Of course, nobody told me I had to be calm to have a successful sample.  

I got there running and of course my BP was high. I decided to ignore it and maybe buy a personal BP taker to do it at home, when I' calm and maybe take it a couple of times a day.

19:00 - Yes, still HUNGRY! I had the crepes with lots of mushrooms, it was delicious. I was satisfyed. 

So satisfyed I fell asleep (just like yesterday) still with the headache and had recurring dreams of food, this time: Chinese. 

I woke up with my mouth watering! and ran for my bread (Simple Bread) so I went to the kitchen and my food radar saw mushrooms. I got the plate and started eating them meanwhile the bread was heating up. 

Ok so this is what happened. When I realized i was eating the vegetables I wasn't supposed to (but could) I stopped. And began munching on the bread I could have. 
On the last few bites, a strange flavour kicked in. OH NO. I had to spit it out gagging a bit. Yuck. 

I need to have a plan to put different flavours on food, or else I won't make it. 
It says on the instructions, I can add POWDER and only POWDER condiments. 

22:00 pm - Bread (with not scheduled mushrooms). 

The taste on my mouth is still there. I cannot wash it away. This bread is a no no. 

Head ache comes and goes now. 

What's difficult about this diet, is once you bought the food boxes, you're stuck with them for 15 days, You cannot exchange them, you cannot buy some more different flavors. you have to eat them and until next Dr. appointment he will give you the signed order and UNTIL THEN you can buy some more products. 

So I will be stuck with the horrible puddings and bread until the end of next week. Ugh!.