TOM Is Not Helping!!

BREAK
Starting Weight on 06/13/2012: 167.2
Yesterday's Wt: 166.2
Today's Wt: 165.2
Today's LOSS/GAIN: -1.0lb
R4 Total Loss to Date: -2.0lbs

After posting yesterday, I realized how severely dehydrated I was.  I knew since Saturday because I began feeling the symptoms but chalked up to being tired from my dog barking at the neighbors all night and morning.  Looking back I now see that my water intake was horrible until I got home from work, that's when I was drinking my water.  I don't have air conditioning in my car so as soon as I get in to drive home from work, I would start to feel drained.  So I stayed home from work again today.  Last night I drank a Powerade Zero.  I nearly chugged the whole thing because my body was craving it.  I drank some more water afterwards.  This morning I had one cup of coffee and started on another Powerade Zero and water. The dehydration was also adding to my back pain because my kidneys were working overtime.  So TOM and dehydration don't mix well.  I feel much better now.  So I should be good to go back to work in the morning.  I need to pack my Powerade Zero with me.  Since TOM was also wreaking havoc for me, I didn't take my dose this morning and may have to wait a bit.  I don't think the sublingual works too well for me.  I just don't feel it does the same job as the injections.  Then again, I keep forgetting my afternoon dose.  Since I've only taken 4 doses, I will still have 28 days worth.  I just give TOM a few more days and start back up.  Or I may have to wait until after the 23rd which I have a tournament to participate in.  Ugh, such decisions!!  I will be eating Paleo/P3 style for these few days.  As I stated before, I don't think the drops or sublingual are working for me.  The only reason I've lost some weight is because I'm finally losing the water retention I get from TOM and my cravings are starting to subside.  I make a trip to Costco this morning to get a few things since my coupons arrived and I had to time to look at them.  There wasn't much to really choose from but I still got a few things.  I also got a rotisserie chicken since it was already getting close to lunch time and I hadn't eaten.  I also picked up some asparagus and baby bellos.  The apples are overpriced or at least I don't remember paying that much for them last time. I came straight home and made no trip to Wal*Mart which was on my original plan as well as Albertson's but decided against both those stores for today.  I already ate some chicken and I'm still drinking my Powerade Zero and water.  Hopefully I get better and more energetic so I can get some things done around here.  I'll start off slowly, just one load of laundry. I don't want to overexert myself, LOL.

R3P3D4 Happy Mother's Day!!

Round 3 Phase 3 Day 4
Starting Weight on 03/26/2012: 174.8
Yesterday's Wt: 162.4
Today's Wt: 162.4
Today's LOSS/GAIN: +/- 0.0
R3 Total Loss to Date: -12.4

Wow, I'm shocked that I awoke to same weight from yesterday seeing I had a carb filled day.  After my last binge at 4pm on my "crackers" and some hummus, I did not eat the rest of the evening.  However, I did go out last night and had 3 beers.  I ran into people I hadn't seen in years or even since high school and it felt weird.  A couple of guys that I ran into were previous coworkers and that was even stranger!!!  We only stayed a couple of hours and if I had stayed any longer, who knows who I would have ran into!  I got home and went actually fell asleep pretty quickly, guess I was still tired even though I had taken a 2 hour nap.

This morning I got up early to get my shopping done.  I went to the Wal*Mart closest to my home and got some razors, Mother's Day cards, and other items that I had coupons for, of course.  It was great seeing the total at $40 and then after coupons, I paid only $20.  That's how I like it.  I also returned a Blender bottle that I bought because I found them at Sam's for much less so I got me a refund. Man, everyone decided to checkout at the same time.  It was funny to see all the men scrambling to get flowers, cards and other items for either their wives or mothers or both.  I drove to the next Wal*Mart by my home and bought some of the same things since I have a gazillion coupons.  I had to argue with the cashier because an item rang up incorrectly and then she charged twice for an item.  She swore she was correct and she wasn't.  I just paid and went directly to the customer service desk where they corrected priced the item and refunded me the extra item I had been charged for.  Then I went to another Wal*Mart for some items.  I was happy that 2 out of the 3 Wal*Marts I visited this morning, had the Starbucks refreshers.  I have coupons for a free one.  I had to walk back into one of the stores because they only had 2 cans and I can only get one per transaction.  I gave my daughter one flavor so hopefully she'll report back with good news.  I then went to Costco to return the towels I had bought only to walk out spending more than what I was refunded, darn.  I bought my daughter some sushi they sell there.  All I wanted to buy while I was there was some Dawn because I had a coupon for it and some spinach.  Never happens that way.  I bought some Irish butter, my "crackers", the sushi, half & half, and miraculously I remembered the spinach after almost walking to the register.  I also filled up my tank for the week because tomorrow I plan on driving to the Westside of town to our local Sprouts store.  I hate that we only have one and it's on the other side of town.  They have a good special this week but I don't get their ad except online.  I need to keep buying the potato chips since I still have lots of coupons for them and I'll have plenty for the BBQ.  After I fueled up, I drove to my mother's to drop off about10 bags of Cheetos for my daughter, the sushi and the card for my mother.  I just realized that I forgot to take her a box of cereal that I had here for her.  After that trip I came straight home because I had the dairy products in my vehicle and it was getting warm out. I wanted to make a return at Big Lots and I should have stopped by the one by my mother's home, as I drove by, it was slow, oh well.   I arrived home at noon and put everything away and finally got around to making something for me to eat.  I couldn't decide what I wanted so I made an omelet with asparagus and spinach cooked in butter and olive oil.  I sprinkled some bacon bits on it because I had no ham or any "meat" to throw in there.  I finally get to cook those chicken thighs I have defrosting in the fridge and hopefully make some room in there.  Would you believe, I'm actually craving a salad?  I still have 2 heads of Romaine, tons of cucumber and radishes.  Since I had coupons, I also bought some Ken's salad dressing in 3 different flavors.  Two of the flavors have less that 1 gram of carbs.

Time to go clean, or at least think really hard about it.  I also need to write out my game plan for tomorrow's shopping trip!

R3P3D3 Carb Monster Awakened

Round 3 Phase 3 Day3
Starting Weight on 03/26/2012: 174.8
Yesterday's Wt: 160.2
Today's Wt:162.4
Today's LOSS/GAIN: +2.1lbs
R3 Total Loss to Date: -12.4lbs

Wow, now why can't I lose weight as fast as I can put it on, LOL? It's all TOM, I tell ya!!  Yesterday, I ate 3 Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches, yes the ones that are all melted and refrozen from Costco.  I also had that pasta salad yesterday but it wasn't much.  It was just enough to awaken the carb monster inside that was hibernating.  Today wasn't any better.  Every Saturday, a coworker takes boxes of Mexican pastries for us.  I have been able to avoid them while on P2, but today was a completely different story.  I don't plan on eating the rest of the evening or night (sure, I'm trying to talk myself into that).  A friend of mine wants to go out tonight to a local club close by but TOM is horrible today.  It is the worst day of TOM as always is on my second day of TOM.  I'm shocked I didn't make a mess of myself like I did last month.  It was so bad last month that it went through my pants and I had to come home because I was walking around like a school girl with my jacket wrapped around my waist, LOL!!  Today, I was prepared by wearing a tampon rather than a pad but of course, I left the extra ones at home instead of putting them in my purse.  I'm so dumb lately, so absentminded and forgetful, thanks TOM!!

Technically today should have been a correction day but you can see I've already thrown that idea out the window.  Tomorrow, since it's Mother's Day, I plan on doing an egg and chicken thigh day since I have no plans.  We'll just have to wait to see how that goes.  Results pending until Monday.

WARNING!!: DO NOT READ ON IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH!!
I have been pooping like a rabbit the last few days and I know it's not from dehydration so today, I finally had the BM anaconda.  Guess P2 was reeking havoc on my bowels.  Oh, I have been eating a few dried plums before bed not for the effect but because I love them and I had bought some at Sam's.  I'm gonna guess the combination of the dried plums and the timing of TOM is what resulted in my huge BM, LOL!!

Hey, can you believe I didn't go shopping at all today?  Yeah, I'm shocked too!!

R3P2D45V39 How Dare He!

Round 3 Phase 2 Day 45 VLCD39
0.25ml (125iu) HCG SQ injection #38
Starting Weight on 03/26/2012: 174.8
Yesterday's Wt: 159.4
Today's Wt: 158.6
Today's LOSS/GAIN: -0.8lb
R3 Total Loss to Date: -16.2lbs


Wow, I can't believe there was a drop!! I've been stair stepping all week so this was a complete shock.  I got to sleep in today since I didn't have to go to work but I got up early anyway because my cats were fighting.  I wanted to water my palm trees before I went to my meeting anyway so they just woke me up a bit earlier than I wanted to. I was having some intense carb cravings last night and I kept eating some pita chips and melba toast.  I know TOM is very, very near.  I finally drank some apple cider vinegar water and that calmed me down.  I seriously thought I was going to see a gain and be back in the 160's. One of my teammates saw me and she said I had lost a lot since the last time she saw me and that was only about a month ago!!  Talk about making me feel better.  I explained to her that the scale isn't very friendly but I can tell its the inches that are coming off.  I wore a pair of Dickies that I bought about a month ago and this time, there was no muffin top.  Whoo hoo!! Oh, that reminds me, yesterday at work, one of the guys actually told me that I have lost too much weight.  I was like WTF?!? He asked me if I was going to lose any more and I said yes, another 30 pounds if possible.  He was like no, you're gonna look all anorexic.  I explained to him if I could lose another 30 pounds, I would be at my high school weight and I was still a chucky kid at that weight. I also explained to him that if I went my the government guidelines for my height, I would still have to lose another 60 pounds.  Now I know that would be impossible.

After my meeting, I drove to Costco since it was still early and I bought some Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches that I had a coupon for, of course.  I bought a clothes steamer too, that was completely unnecessary but I did.  I filled my tank since I was there but I should have drove to Sam's because it was about a nickel less but I had the ice cream already so I just fueled up there.  I didn't need to refuel completely but I wanted to have a full tank for the week.  I immediately drove to my mother's house to drop off some of the ice cream (I don't like cookies n cream that much) and when I opened the box, they were all melted!!  WTF!!!  Apparently I got a box that had been left out or their freezers aren't working.  I had to drive like a mad woman all the way home so I could put the vanilla ones in my freezer.  Talk about losing my appetite or cravings for that ice cream.  I will indulge in one during my PI oh, that's later this week, LOL. Of course now I'm debating if I should just continue on since I'm already used to VLCD and I'll be switching to sublingual.  If I do I will have to freeze all my avocadoes and feed my dog and cats the kefir or else it's all going to waste and that's a lot of cash in the trash.  Now to ponder what to do.