Day 97 - Meet the supplements: "The Melman Cocktail"

"MELMAN COCKTAIL"

Now that I am taking "A Melman Cocktail" I decided to post all the supplements and medicines I am ingesting daily. 

Remember: not everybody needs to take the same supplements and not everybody needs to take the same ammount, it totally depends on your doctor's personal and individual prescription, this is just MY case which I'm sharing. 

1.- Victoza (Liraglutide) Medicine for diabetes II control - 1.2 Injected.
2.- Dabex XR (Metphormine) - Medicine for diabetes II control - 1 Pill.
3.- Zyloprim - Medicine to lower Uric Acid - 1 Pill.
4.- Omega III - 1 Pill.
5.- Vitamins - 1 Pill.
6.- Sodium - 2 Pills.
7.- Calcium - 1 Pill.
8.- Magnesium - 3 Pills.
9.- Corpotasin (Potasium) - 1 Pill.
10.- Bio Tone NTS - 4 Pills before going to bed.
11.- Nexium Mups - 1 pill (this is only for the next 14 days to avoid gastrits...¿ya think?)

These are my daily dosages. 

** Please do not auto prescribe yourself, always ask your doctor and NEVER take medicines without medical supervision!!!. 

Day 96 - Meat acceptance

So. I have been eating meat for two days. These are the feelings once I finish eating: 

• I am chewing slower... a LOT more slower than I used to.

• Right after eating, I get this mild stomach ache, like my body is assimilating the animal in me (LOL).

• I feel full instantly. 

• I have a saciety feeling all through the day.

• After my meal, I do not feel the need to eat desperatly like last week. 

I just remembered, the doctor told me to always eat first the salad before the meat, so I could be more full, but serioulsy, I haven't had the need to do that. Besides, I HATE salad!.. Except Ceasar Salad and the Morton's Ice Berg Salad! 

Also, I have realized I havent gobbled up my nopales as I used to last week. I can leave some on the plate for dinner. That's a good thing for me, cause I always devoured my food... everything..eventhough I wasn't hungry anymore. 

- Doctor, what can I do if I get another anxiety attack?

- Eat a cucumber with lemon. 

I'll keep that in mind. 

Day 95 - Phase 2-A

So finally. I have entered the Phase 2-A. 
(according to the Dr.this phase has a duration of 28 days in which I can loose up to 12-16 pounds!... INSANE!)

Since yesterday I've been able to eat meat. only 100-150 grams. 

So I started with beef, the one that comes in tacos, obviously, without the tortilla. I did not weight it because my scale had no battery, but I asked for three small tacos and OBVIOUSLY, my nopales. 

I will only eat the restaurant take-out this week, for it is very expensive and I cannot keep spending on restaurants AND pronokal envelopes. I simply cannot afford it, so I will make a promise to go to the supermarket and buy the vegetables for me to eat. Also the animal protein.

What can I eat? 

Besides the envelopes, I can only have ONE meal that includes meat. My envlope ration has been cut from 6 to 5 because one has been replaced with the animal protein. 

Let me remind you I am eating 6 envelopes (which is NOT normal) because  I have diabetes II and it was an exception doctors made for me. The usual average envelopes allowed are 5. 

Well, they gave me several lists of foods AND brands I am ONLY allowed to eat, these are the lists: 

RED MEATS: All red meat EXCEPT the greasy cuts (Sirloin, T-Bone, Rib Eye etc). .. Awww I LOVE RIB EYE!! -Snifff-.

WHITE MEATS: Chicken breast or grinded chicken breast & Pork EXCEPT: Pork chops, Pork Ribs etc.

TUNA: Only SOME canned tuna is allowed (Mexican brands specified) NOT RED TUNA, the one from the sushi. The list also contains the brands that are NOT allowed, because of it's high percentage of carbohydrates. Brands may vary from country to country.

FISH: Most of the white fish, and white crustaceans like shrimp, lobster Octopus, squid and oysters NOT SALMON or RED TUNA.


This weeks menu: 

MONDAY: Beef from tacos (without tortilla) and grilled nopales

Tuesday: Chicken breast grilled -like in tacos- (without tortilla) and grilled nopales. 

Wednesday: Chicken breast - Beef - Pork grilled -like in tacos- (without tortilla) and grilled nopales. 

Thursday: Broiled white fish with chili. Nevermind the rice. I left it on the plate. YES, I ate the tomato. 

Friday: TACO BLISS!!. So I was getting a little fed up of the taco-meat, but then, as I was reading the menu I received the other day from the restaurant, I read: You can change your taco with LETTUCE instead of tortilla. OH MY LORD! That extra crunch the lettuse gave to the meat combination was absolutely DELICIOUS! I'm so happy. The nopales are always implied with the tacos.

Saturday and Sunday : The same menu as yesterday. I need to change the menu. I am getting tired of the same taco flavors.

Day 94 - Measurements.

So Today I will share weight AND measurements:

Here are the facts after 90 days: 

* Weight is specified in KILOS
** Measurements in centimeters

*** Here's a converter if you need: http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm

Date:	18-Feb	27-Feb	20-Mar	20-May	TOTAL LOST 90 Dys
Weight	86.4	83	79.2	71	15.4
Waist	119	103	95	91	28
Arm	36	34	35	34	2
Hip	114	111	110	104	10
Abdomen	119	103	95	91	28
Chest	112	110	105	103	9
Thigh	61	60	59	54	7

Day 93 - Doctors appointment (Including nutritional psychologist)

So.... Today was a great day! I went to the diet Dr. and talked to the psychologist. I told her: 

- I've been so anxious I had to eat more envelopes, I just couldn't help it!

- And why didn't you break the diet...let's say with a hamburger?

- I don't know. I guess I didn't wanted to break the ketosis

- Yes, but the ketosis is not a policeman that stands infront of you taking the food away... you have to give yourself credit for not breaking it. OK, maybe you ate more envelopes, which are not allowed, but still you had the strengh not to go into a Burger King and binge. 

- I know.. still.. I feel awful. 

- Well don't. You need to learn how to recognize those feelings and to acknowledge yourself for having so much control on the diet. 

So. I felt better. She was right. I could handle this diet. 

Then. I went to the Dr's office. He wasn't happy when I told him I had an "envelope binge"... he immediately made me a Ketosis test. "You're in the verge of breaking the Ketosis". 

I was disspointed at myself. But somehow I knew I was in trouble. But it was time for damage control and I was ready to embrace it. 

He added some more supplements that -he said- it would help my ketosis stay in "the zone" and now in Phase 2-A.

Here comes the meat!

Day 92 - Weigh In (EARLY Weigh in)

Februray 18 - 194.8

May 18 - 160.0

Total pounds lost in 90 days:  34.8 pounds. (15.785 kilos)

I'm SO paranoid I had to weigh in a day earlier. 
So compared to last week, I lost 1.4 pounds, but compared to 2 weeks ago, I lost 0.4 pounds. 

This feels so strange. I want to believe it's because I have been feeling anxious and NOT because I broke ketosis in ANY way. 

The Dr. told me he would make me a Ketosis test next appointment. That would be next tuesday. I am SEROIUSLY HOPING the nopales are not guilty on this, for I have been still eating them. 

I was going to start con cauliflower last wednesday, I bought 10 to have a weeks stock... but the vegetable had inner life. Yes, it had green maggots. I almost fainted and of course, I am disgusted to even think of buying it again, so I'm stuck with the nopales for now. 

It feels dissapointing not loosing weigh continously, I feel impotence in front of the food and I feel I am being manipulated by it not having ANY strengh in self control.

Just a few hours ago, at 1 am, I felt this DESPERATE need to eat, but I mean, It almost hurted!, so I had an extra soup and an extra maltshake. 

I'll talk to the Dr on tuesday and see what's going on with me. 

Day 91 - Fill 'er up...with WATER!

So I have decided to try these three days (before the Dr.s appointment) to do five envelopes and vegetables. And the rest of the day in between meals fill my stomach with water. 

It's a matter of control and control only. Lets see how today goes. 

UPDATE: Couldn't fill my anxiety with water. Kept eating my 6 envelopes, and 2 extra... Iwill talk to the Dr about this. 

Day 90 - 3 hour wait

Today is my 3 months anniversary, I thought I would never make it, I still think I won't make it to the end, although I am convinced I will end this stupid diet and be the last for the rest of my life, sometimes it seems so hard... I MEAN SOOO HARD.

So today, to avoid diet bingeing, I made a promise to myself. Hold on 3 hours between each meal, that way I will not binge. 

So far, so good. I guess. 

I do not know why am so anxious. I think I'm going down with this diet, up to the point where I am actually thinking I will not be loosing any weight this week either. So dissapointed at myself. 

Day 89 - Out of Control

I am absolutely OUT OF CONTROL!!! Feeling hungry at night, like famished, like I need more, like I want to break the diet. 

But no. 

I will not. I will get to the end of it, but still, I have found myself feeling a huge void, as if I had stpped eating and then hunger strikes. Although I have been eating the same for the last two weeks, these past days have made me question my eating habits. 

It's like I'm out of control, or at least the feeling is. I have been eating a couple more envelopes than the usual (6).

I will tell this to my doctor next tuesday's appointment. 

Still...out of control state of mind.

Day 88 - I know...

I know I haven't written for a while, but these past weeks I have been like crazy, I have been going out and doing stuff I was afraid to do before. 

Although it's hard and I have been eating one -or two- extra envelopes because of the anxiety going out gives me, it feels absolutely great when EVERYBODY tells you how good you look and haw gorgeous you look and how much weight I have lost. 

It's an EGO trip, I know, but sometimes it feels SOOO good. 

I guess going out is a mind over matter thing...or as Ross would say: UNAGI.

Day 87 - Met a Pronokal withrawer

So today I was doing a chore, and I met a Pronokal withrawer. 

Because of a coincidence, we started talking about diet and what we were doing, and we both were doing Pronokal. 

He told me he only did it for a month, then he had an accident and then everything went downhill from there. He had lost 20 pounds in ONE MONTH, but gained 10 pounds because he stayed at home recuperating. 

- I ate 12 doughnuts at once... a dozen of jumbo doughnuts. (he said almost laughing)

I just couldn't believe it, I felt bad for him. All the effort, all the money, and getting beaten by doughnuts. 

But then he said to me something I had not payed attention to, or at least, not given that importance. 

Water. 

-The Most Important Thing About this Diet is water - he said- you have to drink AT LEAST two liters. Then you are halfway through. You need to help the grease leave your body. 

I have been neglecting the water. I know, I'm the worst. I will try and do that extra effort with the water theme. 

Day 86 - Weigh in

Phooey!

I just knew it. 161.2 Gained some weight. I'm cutting down on the delicious restaurant nopales and will start cooking at home again. 

Phooey!

Day 85 - I've got a feeling

I have been feeling bloated lately... I have this feeling tomorrow's weigh in is not going to be a succesful one. I have been keeping the regime impecable, but it's just this terrible feeling I have. 

Haven't been reporting too much on the blog, but there's really nothing to report nowadays. 

Day 84 - ANXIETY MAYHEM

So I can now accept I have been having anxiety attacks for the last two weeks. Besides work and personal problems I did not had scheduled, I have been working 24 hour days and barely sleeping or day sleeping, loosing control on almost everything. 

This is the reason I stopped writing for the last days, I just couldn't focus on writing about the diet. 

Day 79 - Weigh In

So this week I lost  1.6 Pounds . 

Februray 18 - 194.8

April 29 - 160.4

Total pounds lost in 77 days:  34.4 pounds. (15.603 kilos)

I had the feeling I'd lost fewer pounds compared to the other weeks, but I assume it's because I stopped taking the Omega III. 

I will start taking the other Omega III formula the Dr. gave me TODAY!. 

The pill is HUGE and soooo Yellow. 

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