Day 6 VLCD TOM is in town!

Round 1
Date started – October 8th, 2007
Starting Weight – 267
Weight today - 259.5
Weight loss today – 1.5 lbs
Weight loss yesterday – 0 lbs
Weight loss since beginning – 7.5 lbs


Well today was better for weight loss! I lost 1.5 lbs! Yay! The only negative is that TOM is here. I have cramps like you wouldn't believe, and I'm really tired. Since I only have 40 days to be on this diet for this round, I decided to keep taking the hcg throughout this time. I always have bad cramps on my first day, but today has been bad.

I'm really finding that drinking tea is helping me. I don't like the licorice taste of Stevia, so I'm using Splenda. I know.. it's bad! But it's been my saving grace. If I start to stall, I'll have to order Zsweet.

I found it really hard to get 500 calories down today. It's not that I wasn't hungry, you just have to eat so much of your chosen vegetable to get enough calories! I'm also staying off oranges for the time being to see if that's hurting my weight loss.

I'm not overly optimistic about tomorrow's results, because of TOM, but I'm hopeful! Wish me luck.

Until tomorrow,

Cheryl

Discouraging day VLCD 5

Round 1
Date started - October 8th, 2007
Starting Weight - 267 lbs
Weight today - 261 lbs
Weight loss today - 0 lbs
Weight loss yesterday - 1.5 lbs
Weight loss since beginning - 6 lbs



Well, I've decided to blog. I don't know if anyone will read this, or if I'll just babble incessantly, but I think I need somewhere to talk. This is day 5 of VLCD and I feel discouraged today. I stepped on the scale, and I didn't lose anything. I knew these days would come, but I think I thought they'd come later. I haven't cheated one tiny bit. My husband says I'm obsessive weighing everything, but this is too important to me to mess it up.

I saw a magazine on the store shelf yesterday and it said, "Lose 85 pounds by Christmas" and I wondered if every diet is just the same. I wondered if this is just another time where I'll get my hopes up, and they'll be dashed, and I'll never be thin or at least "normal".

It's almost dinner time, and I don't have a clue what I'm going to eat. How can I be getting bored with the food already? I promised myself that I would do this to the best of my ability for 40 days, and no matter how much I get sick of the food, I will.

I'm the friend that listens to everyone, but doesn't unload on anyone. Maybe that's why I've decided to blog. Maybe this will be my "friend", where I can whine and complain, and no one will judge me for it.

Anyway, if you're reading this, sorry about the gloomy post! I'll try to do better.

Cheryl