Day 1 continued

Waiting for a teenager to get off the internet is like waiting for the first drop of ketchup from a new bottle.
The party was fun as usual. The dinner was the same thing as usual. Ham, baked potato, salad, roll and desert. Again I stuffed myself to uncomfortabeness. (if that's even a word)
I saw Dr. Hinkle today, we talked about the different pills that I take and he seemed to think that I would be able to quit taking them. It is up to me if I want to stop now or latter. I'll stop one now because I'm sure I won't be eating anything that I shouldn't after tommorrow. He gave me my first injection along with some B12, in my hip, I didn't even feel the medicine going in. I could totally give myself the injections. I go back in tommorrow to see Monica, the nurse, for the next injection and weight check. Today I weighed 216. The heaviest I have ever weighed. (boohoo)

HCG day 1

Today is the official 1st day of the HCG diet. It's the 1st high fat day. I went to work at Entrada Country Club this morning at 7:30. I am the hostess for the restaurant so I figured I could get lots of fat at work. I started with a cup of decaf green tea and then a cup of hot chocolate then a cup of Sierra Mist. I ate 2 cheese and bacon biscuits and had some hard candy I brought to work to share with everyone. I ate a thin mint and then fixed a warm brownie and stuck 2 candy cane kisses in it and ate that. Just before lunch time I had a bowl of beef and baked potato soup and then topped it all off with a chocolate lave cake with vanilla ice cream. The cooks at work are shaking their heads and can't believe that I can eat all that. Me either. When I left work I went to the grocery store and bought a half gallon of eggnog and drank half of that undiluted. Ugh. I feel so full and I really want to throw it all up but I know I won't. I haven't even got to dinner yet. We are just on our way out now to a Christmas Dinner at our church. I'll catch you up when we get back.

Diet eve

This is my 2nd post that was supposed to go online yesterday. Marium called me this morning and said that I will start my HCG diet on Saturday.
She said that for the first 2 days I am to eat (gorge on) a high fat content diet of hamburgers, fries, milk shakes, cookies, candy bars, bread & butter and so on.
Are you for real! I asked her why I would want to do that and she said it will kick start my metabolism or something like that, I’ll understand better as I read more and get going on this. When you don’t eat much your body holds onto fat and we want it to let go of the fat so eat away. So, the first thing I think about is a Big Mac. I haven’t had one of those in years. I was at a health fair a few years ago and the only thing I really remember about it was a booth that had a row of test tubes filled with fat from different foods. Some had a little bit in and others had more but the Big Mac had 2 tubes full of fat and it made me sick to think of all that fat going into my stomach. Don’t get me wrong, they taste wonderful and I still want one but this time it’s actually okay to eat one and not fell bad. Halleluiah brother! MacDonald’s, here I come. We’re talking large fries and large chocolate shake and maybe even a cherry turnover, oh yeah. That’s just lunch. Breakfast will be a huge glass of cold eggnog, undiluted, or maybe chocolate milk, I’m feeling kind of kinky and then dinner! Where should I go. How about Outback no… Chili’s, they have this creamy dish of pasta that is out of this world. Oh man, I’m drooling all over my computer.
Do you know that the Lin’s ad this week has Hershey’s candy cane kisses on sale for $2.79 a bag. (I bought 2) One of the first things my husband said when I told him about doing this diet was “Do I get to eat all your candy now?” “Not for two days!” I told him. I’m eating it as fast as I can, I never thought eating candy could be such a chore.
Marium had me come in for a Micro Fit Test today. I think she really just wanted to see how much hurt I could take before going down. She took those darn pictures of me and had them on the web site before I could edit them. Then she wanted to see how many times I could take off and put on my shoes and socks. Then she wanted to see how many stairs I could climb in three minutes, but I got her on that one. That was the only area where I was actually in shape because I have been walking to work the last five weeks. Then came the crunches, are you kidding me! You want me to use what muscles? It was a struggle to do one, I barely made two. I did a little better with the push-ups (4). Am I pathetic or what, I shouldn’t even be alive. I bet I sleep good tonight though.

I took this from Sarah's blog

Do it yourself! Copy and paste the list into your blog and bold or highlight the items you have done. Here we go....+
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own?
I've done 50 things. You?

HCG Diet

I got a phone call from a good friend of mine who happens to work at Green Valley Spa here in St. George. She told me I won an hcg diet from the What Women Want Expo free of charge and all that I have to do is blog about it every day. This is what I wrote the very first night I heard about winning it.
I am a 48 year old mother of 7 and grandmother of 4.33 grandchildren. I am 5'9" and weigh 214 lbs. To the average person I am big and overpowering. There is nothing I can do about my height and I have tried to get my weight down but for some reason I just keep getting heavier. When I was in high school I weighed 148 and was 5'10". After I had each one of my first 3children I got back down to 150 lbs. I had a job in a school kitchen and during the 9 months of school I could and usually did gain 5 lbs. but would lose it again during the summer. Then 7 years later when I decided to have another child I gained 30 lbs with her and after she was born the weight just never went fully away. I was at 170 lbs. when I got pregnant again and again I gained 30 lbs. It was harder than ever to lose weight after that. I followed a doctor’s diet plan and lost 25 lbs but it didn't take long and it was back. I started a new job and the stress from that helped me lose weight again but as soon as I got comfortable the weight started coming back. I was able to use the exercise facility where I worked and that helped me maintain my weight at 180 lbs. for a while but then even with exercising I started to gain again. I left that job just over a year ago and since I quit exercising I have gained weight again and am now up to 214 lbs. I hurt everywhere. My back because my stomach is so big and I arch my back to balance myself. My knees hurt from the extra weight. My feet hurt from all the pressure on them, (I think I have flat feet now) I have very low energy and whenever I bend over I have to hold my breath until I stand up again. I have to sit down to put my socks on because I have no balance when I lift one foot off the ground. I have to lay down to zip up my pants. See where I'm going with this? My sister has done this diet and lost 40 lbs. in 40 days. We basically have the same genes so I'm thinking if it worked for her it has to work for me. People used to say that I looked a lot younger than I was but they don't say it so much any more. I feel like I'm 60 years old. I really would like to get fit and be able to stay that way. My sister has been taken off all her medications because of the hcg diet, my hope is to be able to do the same.
You will have to go to their web site to see the before pictures of me. www.mygreenvalleyspa.com

New Residents to St. George

My dad and stepmother just moved to St. George. Well not just, they've been here for maybe a couple of month's. Their new home is in Bloomington Hills, just south of St. George. It was kind of a fixer upper and they have done just
that. I didn't see what it looked like when they bought it but it sure is cute now.
They painted using the fall colors that are so popular right now. They moved the old wagon into the front yard
and a playhouse out of the back yard. They have planted fruit trees and grape vines in the back yard. Dad is going to make the garage the music room and build a roof over the side drive for a carport. The tree you see in the picture is the palm tree Dad bought just after they moved in. He is so proud of it, hense the picture. They now have a few more palms in the front yard