Day 43

183 pounds this morning, yes! I jogged again this morning but I couldn’t go as far without getting tired, I think it’s this cold that I have come down with. I don’t get sick very often but when I do it’s a doosy. I did a lot of walking and running at work today. I felt like it was a good productive day. For lunch I had a chicken and tomato salad and an apple, I skipped dinner. When I got home from work I went straight to bed I hate being sick!

Day 42

Still 185 today, I’m stuck at this weight I guess. I even had a good exercise day today, I went jogging this morning and I did a lot of walking at work. Speaking of work if you learn from your mistakes I sure learned a lot today. I know I will do better tomorrow. That’s all I’m going to say about that. Now it’s late and I have got to get some sleep so this will be short and sweet.
Lunch was chicken and romaine and an apple and dinner was chicken and cucumbers slices and strawberries.

Day 41

185 again today. I really don’t want to stay at this weight, I want to get down at least 20 more pounds. I have been at this weight long enough now to feel fat again, but if I never lose another pound I’ll be okay. It was nice to lose pounds as fast as I did. I guess I have little patience. Oh, while I’m thinking about it, I went walking this morning and I just wore a light jacket because I thought I might get hot walking but I was actually getting colder so I thought I would jog a bit to warm up, maybe a block before I got tired and ended up going about a mile before getting tired. That was a mile farther than I thought I could jog. It felt so weird to not get exhausted by all that extra weight jiggling around. Before when I would jog my back would hurt and so I expected that again today but it never came, I still feel good. I am so happy right now, it’s amazing where I am in my life at this moment. A diet that works, a new job, a new car, a wonderful husband and wonderful children and grandchildren and friends like Marium, who care about me and my health. Marium, I love you.
The fish salad I had for lunch yesterday was so good I had to have it again today. For dinner I had chicken and broccoli.

Day 40

Just like a yoyo, 186 again today, I’d give up if I wasn’t so close to being done. I guess I get discouraged easily. Yesterday was such a good day too. Water today, water, water and more water. I’ve got to think water.
I woke up with a sore throat and a stuffy nose so I swabbed my throat with tea tree oil and hoped for the best. Tonight I’ve been coughing and it sounds like maybe it has gone to my lungs, oh I hope not I hate being sick. I’m going to swab again before bed with the tea tree oil and pray that it will be gone in the morning.
I do not like having days off. I wasn’t hungry but I wanted to eat every time I went into the kitchen. I kept drinking water when I would think I was hungry and that helped some. I even raked up the back yard today to get me out of the house for a while. I need to get my peas planted earlier this year. Last year it got hot sooner than it normally does and they didn’t do well at all. It was probably 60* today, it felt nice.
For lunch and dinner I ate the rest of the parmesan chicken, it tasted better cold, wasn’t as salty.

Day 39

I’m back to 184 pounds today. Yoyo, yoyo. Boring. Maybe I’m getting immune to the HCG. I’m guessing that’s why 40 injections is the max in any 6 week period. When I talked with Marium yesterday about going on the South Beach Diet she thought there are too many grains in it and that I should watch out for that and to do phase 1 for 3 weeks instead of just 2.
Today was a better day at work. I felt more productive. I’m really going to love it there.
I fixed fish for lunch today and mixed it with chopped celery and crumbled up melba and a little salt and pepper and it was mighty tasty. Yum, yum. For dinner I fixed parmesan chicken but it was too salty. I think the recipe was wrong, I’ll try it again and adjust it a bit and strawberries for dessert. Surprise, surprise.

Day 38

What a shock! I weighed 186 again this morning, how depressing.:( The only thing I can think the cause would be is not drinking enough water. Since I have started drinking so much of this new jasmine tea I know I haven’t had as much plain water. So I really tried to increase it today. I think that I lost fat around my bladder which gave it more room to expand because when I pee now I pee a lot which means my bladder is holding more than it used to. I don’t mean to gross you out but all these little things I find are so exciting to me. Especially when I thought I had a bladder problem which now I know was just a fat problem and not my bladder at all. Whew!
So my first day at work was okay. There is a lot that I need to learn by just repeatetiveness (sp) so it will take a few days to get it down, the other stuff is just cleaning like you would anywhere. Tomorrow I’ll learn how to place orders and make reports.
I took chicken and tomatoes for lunch and for dinner I had chicken and onions. Tomorrow will be a better day.

Day 37

184 today, it’s coming down again. Wednesday is my last injection and Saturday is my last 500 calorie day, let’s hope I can lose more weight by then. Today is Sunday and I don’t get an injection and tomorrow I start my new job, yay! It will be very interesting to see how it all goes tomorrow. I will make a gallon of tea to take with me and I’ll have to make a lunch too.
Today for lunch I had chicken and green leaf lettuce with melba toast and for dinner I had beef and tomatoes and strawberries for dessert.