Day 22

Finally 2 more pounds, I weighed 192 this morning. I feel better, I was getting a little nervous there thinking this might be it. I hope not, I’ve got 18 more injections, I’m more than ½ way. If I can do this anyone can do it. I was the worlds worst dieter, two days and bingo, I’m stuffing my mouth with whatever will go in it. I still can’t believe how easy the HCG diet is.

I went back to work at Entrada today and did great. I wasn’t hungry, wasn’t tempted, great day. I applied for a 2nd job at The Inn at Entrada either housekeeping or front desk. These days you’ve got to take what you can find and if it’s at Entrada it’s at home, I love it there. The members are great the employees are great and the bosses are the best ever.

Day 21

Still 194 today I guess I’ll do an apple day. The hardest part is waiting ‘til noon to start the apples. If you need to do this you better get small apples because after you eat 2 large ones you really don’t feel like eating anymore. I haven’t been very thirsty either.

I was looking for cream of wheat to fix my girls for dinner tonight (they’ve been playing out in the cold and that’s what they wanted to eat) and I found a bag of mint M&M’s…I ignored them, wasn’t even tempted. I wonder what I’ll do when I’m done with the diet and the HCG is out of my system. Will the cravings come back or not, will I want to eat even if I’m not hungry? I can’t believe the amount of time I have spent in kitchen since the diet started and I haven’t eaten everything in sight. I’m finding myself wanting to cook dinner for the family now, before I hated it, probably because self consciously I was overweight and didn’t like it and knew that bad eating habits were the reason…who really knows.

Day 20

I still weigh 194 so that proves it… you cannot cheat even a little or you don’t lose weight. Never ever.
We had a very merry Christmas here today.
This is Molly in her new hat and sweater. I'm glad she was able to stay for Christmas.Taylor and Josie each got 50 bucks.
Dad likes Words of Wisdom so he got the perfect gift.
I got a big table book on horses. Notice the tea, that’s breakfast. Josie got a fun bag from her sister Taylor.
Taylor took the tree down and had the living room all back to normal by noon. She is such a sweetheart.
I had fish and cucumbers for lunch and fish and radishes for dinner.
You know what I noticed today? My feet don’t hurt anymore and the more I thought about it I haven’t noticed them hurt for quite a while now so I got to checking and my thumbs don’t hurt and the end of my crooked finger on my left had where rheumatoid arthritis has been very painful is hardly noticeable anymore, my back hardly aches and I’m not feeling a need to take my afternoon naps anymore.
Tomorrow will be even better.

Day 19

Today I still weighed 194 so I must have been pretty accurate with my figuring on the other scales. It’s sad though, I wish I were losing faster. Now that my wild weekend is over I can get back to walking the neighborhood in the mornings. That can only help, right? I can get to some classes at the spa too. I’d like to try yoga, I’ve never been very good at it but hey, something is better than nothing.

Okay, before I go any further I have to confess. I snitched a bite of bread pudding tonight. I made ham and potatoes for our dinner tonight and I made bread pudding for dessert and I really had no intension of tasting it, I’ve been so good up til now but my daughter just about fainted when she tasted it and I couldn’t believe her that it was that good so I did it, I cheated. I’ll walk extra fast tomorrow to make up for it and that’s all I had, I promise. Other that that I had chicken and celery sticks for lunch and chicken and salad for dinner and a baked apple for dessert.

Merry Christmas from all of us!

Day 18

I weighed 194 again today, according to my sister’s scale. Tomorrow I can weigh on my own and see for sure where I am. I feel good though. I got up early with my sister and we had a good talk this morning before anyone else got up. For breakfast I had tea and ½ a grapefruit. We got on the road about 11 am, it was snowing in Bountiful and Salt Lake but once we got around the point of the mountain it was blue sky and sunshine until Beaver and then we got clouds but no more bad weather the rest of the trip.

For lunch I had chicken and cabbage and melba toast. When we got home for dinner I had Tilapia, broccoli and melba toast and for dessert later I had strawberries.

Tomorrow I need to go to GV Spa and get my injection and weigh in maybe hit a class or two, maybe. It will be Christmas Eve and I need to get a lot of shopping done, ahg, last minute shopper this year.

I’m fixing ham dinner tomorrow for our Christmas Eve party I’m pretty positive now I’ll be able to get through with zero problems.

Day17

I weighed in at 194, again on my brother-in-laws scale, I'll double check it when I get home. We left Burley this morning around 11am and got to I-84 south and it was closed due to white out conditions. We went back to Declo and took the frontage road all the way to Malta, blasting through snow drifts but it wasn't any better so we drove back to the junction and went to Pocatello and down I-15. We got to Bountiful and decided to spend the night here with my sister.
I did good this morning, I got up and fixed everyone sausage patties, hashbrowns and eggs. It is really kind of irritating me that I have no cravings anymore, that used to be one of my favorite breakfasts. I had tea. We were on the road at lunchtime and I forgot about it until my husband said that he was hungry so I fixed him some cheese and crackers and I had my chicken and cabbage salad. When we got to my sisters home I fixed them sandwiches and soup and I had fish and tomatoes. I'll fix a baked apple for dessert and go to bed, I'm pooped.

Day 16

I weighed 195 this morning on my brother-in-law's scale. I won't know for sure how accurate his is until I get home to double check with mine. It is cold here in Idaho, it's like in the teen's but Winchester hills near St. George has more snow than they do here... well they did have more it's probably melted by now.
Today was a good day. I had my tea for breakfast as usual and a grapefruit half about mid morning. I worked all morning on ham and potatoes for lunch for the family and had energy to clean Bub's kitchen too. When it came time to eat I fixed my chicken with broccoli and melba toast and was just as satisfied as if I had been eating the ham. For a mid afternoon snack I boiled an apple, mashed it and sprinkled cinnamon on it. I call that my mashed potatoes. For dinner everyone had spaghetti and garlic bread and I had tilapia salad and melba toast. Yum, Yum. right now I feel so full I could burst.