It's been a while!

I've been busy so I haven't updated in a while.  We're both doing well, both his a stall last week but now we're back at it.  I was stuck at the same weight for about 3 days and mom was the same.  I've lost almost 20 pounds and Mom is around 16.  Very exciting!  Only 22 days left of the shots!  Hopefully I can get another 20 pounds of in that time frame.  If not, I'll have to do a second round.  We'll see! 

I'm really excited about all the interest Mom and I have gotten from doing this diet.  It sounds like a terrible, miserable diet but really it's not!  It is amazing the kinds of meals you can come up with that are around 100-200 calories for a FULL meal.  If anyone decides they want to try this diet I would be more than willing to help you out! 

You know what I love?

When my pants are too loose!!

8 Days of hCG

A full week of injections is complete.  Total weight loss for the 2 weeks we've been doing the diet is 14 pounds, 10 during detox and 4 during injections.  I thought it would be more on injections but oh well 4 is nice!!  Yesterday was my worst day.  I don't know if I was sick, tired, or just sick and tired but I was very weak and lightheaded all day.  All I could really do was sleep.  Now, that could have very well been from working 4 nights in a row, 4 very rough nights at that.  Either way, I'm better today and back at work and not the least bit dizzy or sick feeling. 

I'm trying to figure out the best way to approaching my eating schedule since I work nights and it's definitely all screwed up.  When I work, I eat my 3 meals at night, but when I'm off it's hard to figure out when to eat since I already ate the whole night before.  Since I only work one night and then off one day tomorrow, I ate lunch at home and will eat dinner and a snack at work.  Mom made chicken, spinach and strawberry salad with strawberry vinegarette for lunch which was pretty tasty.  For dinner she made a version of shrimp spring rolls, kind of like seasoned shrimp wrapped in cabbage leaves.  I'm excited to eat those but I'm trying to hold off until I'm really hungry so I don't suffer the rest of the night.  Both meals are super low calorie.  Both of us are continually amazed at how delicious of meals we can make with so few calories!  We're getting creative!  I don't know what I'd do without Mom though, she always has something delicious made up when I've had to sleep all day.  And it's good to have a partner during this crazy thing! 

Really can't wait til it's over... I really want some goldfish!

Blaaaah!

This is my first day home awake instead of sleeping while on the 500 calorie diet.  So far I've only been at work all night and very busy so I didn't have that much trouble wanting to eat like a crazy person.  But now I'm home and can't go anywhere all I can think about is snacking on some stupid goldfish.  Why goldfish?  Geez!  I'm at a total weight loss of 14 lbs and mom is at 12.5, I need to keep it up!  I just want some goldfish.  Or maybe a cookie?  I'm going to lose my mind.  Going to chug chug chug some water to make myself feel full.  My body hates me! 


Oh good Mom's home and she can help me before I go nuts.  Yay!

Days 3 and 4

Sunday was the official start of the 500 calorie diet.  It was the 3rd day of hCG shots as well.  Sunday wasn't hard, I worked so I'm eating at night instead.  Monday night however, terrible.  I am so hungry but didn't bring enough.  I am at 363 calories so I'll go home and make a big ol omelet before bed.  I think I'm legitimately hungry.  Also, I feel extra exhausted and I'm not sure if it's related to being my 3rd night of work with not enough sleep yesterday, or not having enough food.  I guess I can't really make a good judgement on that until I'm off work for a few days. 

Yesterday morning when I got home from work I was drawing up my shot and Lukas was sitting at the counter watching.  When I pulled the syringe out of the vile Lukas's eyes got huge and he yelled, "Mommy don't stick me in the penis!!"  All I could do was laugh at the silly kid.  27 days until his 3rd birthday!  Can't believe it!  <3

Well... Loading sucks.

Who knew that stuffing yourself with high cal and high fat foods all day would make you completely miserable?  I've been sick to my stomach most of the day, terribly lethargic and just plain uncomfortable.  Not at all what I thought today would be and we have to do it tomorrow?? Ugh!  There were so many more things on my list that I wanted to eat but goodness, I really want nothing to do with all that now.  Here's what I ate today.


Homemade blueberry pancakes
Popcorn at Target
Tried to eat some Dairy Queen at the mall but didn't have much
Some caramels
Rest of the popcorn
Fettuccine alfredo, bread and oil and salad at Genarro's
Piece of ice cream cake.


Really, doesn't seem like that much.  I feel so sick!!  My body is definitely pissed off at me.  I just want to go to bed!!

Day ONE of hCG!!! (And Happy birthday, Mama!)

Woke up, peed, weighed ourselves, hCG injection!!


Couldn't even feel the needle and mom did her own.  I'm proud of her!  I thought she would be all squeamish and freaking out but nope!  Did well.  Now she's making super delicious homemade blueberry pancakes (beause they are fattening and delicious!!)  Later Lukas and I are going to Target to pick up some things and some junky food to snack on today.  Mom want's some Dove chocolate, I want some caramels.  We're going to Genarros for dinner and I'm going to get some alfredo!  So excited for that.  And Dairy Queen ice cream cake!!!  Woohoo what a day today shall be.

Day 6 of detox.

My weight loss- 11.1 lbs
Mom's weight loss-10.5 lbs.


Tonight was Katie's birthday dinner. We had steak and mashed potatoes (just a tiny bit) and asparagus. And then angel food cake. I have a stomach ache now, guess I had too much.  Hope this doesn't make me gain but really I had nothing else to eat today since I was sleeping. I hope to get a good weight in the morning. 


Tomorrow we meet with Melissa to pick up our first round of hCG injections that we'll start Friday morning. Friday and Saturday we binge (or load) on fats. Kind of grossing me out thinking about it now that we've been eating healthy again for a week. We'll see. Still really want some pizza!! Mom's most excited for her ice cream cake!!

Nothing tastes as good as skinny looks...

Lie!  Today was Alix's last day on 10W so people brought cupcakes and cake and whatever else I can't have.  Unfortunately I stared at the cupcakes too long and gave in to the icing.  It's the amazing funfetti kind and I just couldn't help it!!  However, I did not eat the cupcake, just the icing!!  Cake isn't my favorite so I was able to stop at that.  Ohhh but that icing!

Anyway, weight loss so far is 8.3 pounds.  I'm impressed. Mom has lost about 7.  She made some good tilapia coated with egg whites and crunched up melba toast for dinner.  Very yummy!  It's amazing how creative we're able to be.  We also got the big box of Miracle noodles I ordered last week.  They are shirataki noodles and have 0 calories, 0 carbs, really 0 everything except some fiber.  We got fettucini, angel hair and some rice.  I'm excited to try that stuff out because I'm missing pasta! 

So we have 3 more days of detox, then Friday we pig out.  I really want some pizza and cookies!!  Strange what you crave when you can't have it.  I keep thinking of that garden veggie pizza from Papa John's with some of that garlic butter sauce.  Oh yum!!!  3 more days.

Hungry or hungry out of habit?

I'm trying to decide which one I am.  My stomach isn't growling so it must be habit of just eating all the time.  I haven't eaten dinner yet but I probably will around 9:30 since I'm at work.  I'm going to have some shrimp and melba rounds, which is actually really good together!  I also made homemade tomato soup earlier today and will have that for a snack later tonight.  I brought an apple as well to snack on at some point.  Hopefully I'll make it without being too hungry.  I'm ready for some coffee!!

Amazing omelet!!

Egg white omelet with spinach, diced tomatoes and mushrooms.


Total calories?  70!!!  And so delicious.


Progress so far:  I've lost 7.5 lbs with 42.5 to go.  Doing well I'd say!

Ugh!

I feel like I'm going through sugar withdrawl... if there is a such thing. Its very uncomfortable!!


Just went to Earth Fare and bought a bunch of nummies.


Mom's tummy isn't agreeing with the NutriClean detox stuff. I don't feel too bad. Hopefully hers gets better.


She made shrimp cerviche for dinner, I didn't care for it although I did tell her I probably wouldn't based on the ingredients. I just ate the shrimp and cucumbers out of it with some Melba rounds and it was pretty good. Less than 200 calories for dinner.  Going to make some "apple cobbler" for dessert tonight. Its a sliced up apple sprinkled with stevia and mashed melba toast crumbs mixed with cinnamin sprinkled on top and heated up. Delish!


Already planning what I want on loading days haha... pizza, a bag of caramels, popcorn, ice cream cake, mac and cheese, sushi, alfredo, more pizza... I'm torturing myself right now!

Whoa!

Mom lost 2 pounds when she weighed herself this morning and I when I weighed myself when I woke up I lost 3 pounds since Thursday morning when I got my most accurate weight!!!  AWESOME!!  Going to be posting a few snack and recipe ideas later but right now I'm being beat up by my psycho 2 year old.

Day 1 Continued

Kind of hard for me to count this as Day 1 since it technically started last night for me since I worked night shift.  Anyway, here's what Mom and I did this morning when I got home from work.  We had to take all of our vitamins and detox stuff, which were basically little liquid shots (but actually delicious!)

1 shot of calcium (tasted like orange juice)
1 shot of multivitamin  (tasted like lemon lime)
8 ounces of NutriCleanse detox stuff  (tasted like pink kool-aid!)
2 calcium pills

Mom said she felt like a drug addict taking all that stuff.  Kinda funny!

I failed to weigh myself when I woke up this evening, but I'm sure I haven't lost anything yet.  I think Sunday morning I'll do my real first weigh in and measurements and post all that (yikes). 

Mom made some delish tilapia for dinner with some spicey diced tomatoes and oven roasted onions, had some applesauce on the side.

Total calories for dinner:
3.5 oz Tilapia- 100 calories
1/2 cup applesauce-  50 calories
1/4 cup tomatoes- 10 calories
1/4 onion-  0 calories

A 160 calorie meal!  But we have to eat 1000-1200 during the first 7 days and I am starving!  I brought an apple and leftover tilapia for a snack later and hopefully will be able to get some other veggies down in the cafeteria later.  Fat chance!  We'll see.     Oh yeah and had to take the multivitamin shot after dinner, 2 fiber pills and 2 calcium pills.

Day 1

Hello!


Today Mom and I visited Low Country Plastic Surgery for our little consultation about the diet.  Learned a ton of good info!  Tomorrow we'll start "Pre phase 1" as I call it, or detox.  We were given 2 lisds of "allowed" and "not allowed" foods for the next 40+ days.  My little adventure will be ending on August 30th... Long way to go!  For the first 7 days, we are allowed 1000-1200 calories of the allowed foods.  Not so bad.  We'll also be taking some fiber supplements and some other cleanse that cleans the liver and such.  Tomorrow, for my own personal benefit, I'll be taking before pics and doing measurements to track progress.


On July 22 (Mama's birthday!) we binge and binge and binge until our hearts are content and then some, concentrating on high fat and high sugar foods.  We also begin the hCG injections that day.  On Monday, July 24 we start the VLCD (very low calorie diet) which is 500 calories a day plus the injections and calcium supplements.  From what I've read from people who have already done this, it's not that bad and they really aren't hungry!  That's promising because man I hate being hungry!


Our days will go as such:


Wake up, empty bladder, weigh in without any clothes on, hCG injection.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner trying to reach exactly 500 calories.


We've found tons of recipes so we don't get bored with the same kind of meals and lose interest, but I'm pretty motivated to lose 40+ pounds!! 


Mom scanned the 2 lists I was talking about and I'll post them so you can see.

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy62/jessicaheilig/allowed.jpg  (in case the picture doesn't show up big enough)

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy62/jessicaheilig/notallowed.jpg

First post... here we go.

Tomorrow will technically be Day 1 when we meet with the doctor in Mount Pleasant and come up with our plan and pick up our hCG injections.  Mom will also be doing the program with me and she is definitely freaking out way more than me, but she's doing half the time.  I'm ready for this!  Within the next day or so I'll be posting links and information about this diet.  It's just over 40 days long but you CAN lose 40 pounds in that time frame, which is what my intention is.  


Our phase 1 will begin on July 22, my lovely mother's 55th birthday.  The first 2 days is what they call "loading days."  On these days, you eat til you're sick on high fat and sugar foods... no problem for these 2 gals!  Cake, pizza, chips and cheese, ice cream, donuts.. a fat girl's heaven.  Day 3 is when phase 2 starts and we begin a 500 calorie a day diet along with the hCG injections.  I'll post more information later about what this all entails and how it works.  


Before you call us crazy, which I'm sure by now if you haven't heard of any of this you are violently shaking your head at us, I've been doing my research.   Not just online research, but this diet was also featured on the Dr. Oz show and he approves it.  I've read blogs and forums where real people have tried and been successful on the diet.  I'm excited and ready to see how this works!!  Wish us both luck...