Diet Food Shopping Adventure

As with any diet there is the food aspect. The important part. What will you eat?!

500 calories a day. Everyday for four long weeks. It's not just the calories, its only certain foods at assigned times.

I went for my weekly trip to the grocery. Armed with my print out... and very strong will power to avoid the Little Debbie section.

I realized that my only satisfaction is going to be in the form of tea. I do not enjoy hot tea. I prefer sugar in my cold tea nonetheless I will take any variation of flavor I can get so I stocked up.

Among my tea I can have coffee. Black. One melba toast a day. Salad. Select veggies. Grapefruit. Strawberries. And 4 oz of chicken or veal or non oily fish twice a day. No oil. Do you know how hard it is to cook without any oils? No dressings either.

I stocked up on chicken, and a ceramic skillet. Mrs. Dash.

I am ready. I can do this.

I will go tomorrow afternoon and get my first round of shots. I binge on fat for 48 hours...and off to bland land for me.

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Ugly Numbers

On the scale.
At the Medi-Spa.
Bad bad ugly numbers.

I guess the eatting everything I like, and want, and eatting out at all my favorite places in preperation for this has paid off. I'm fat. Those were the ugliest numbers I've ever seen. I had my consult yesterday. It went well. The numbers on the scale set me into a state of self hatred, and lack of hope. To add to the trauma my blood pressure is apparently so bad I'm bordering a stroke. Nice. They put you on a scale that measures your bmi, how much of you is actual fat, and how much each of your limbs weighs. Not so sexy. More fun than all that it gives you a really big un-obtainable number you should loose. Pounds. Gawd. I'll never make it to that number. Good numbers were the prices of the program. $35 for the visit. $275 for four weeks of hcg shots.$10 for lipo-dissolve shots whenever I feel like getting them. Easy right? I'm okay with those dollars. Sooo... even though I'm not giving you my numbers I will say that I should loose 68lbs to fit into the ideal weight. I hope to loose 50 total. I like my curves in most places. So tomorrow I will be talking about the "plan" and the grocery store trip. It's captivating!

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Well Hello There....

It's been forever since I've posted. I pretty much gave up on the 'ol blog.
But I'm coming back for a limited time only!
Excited?!
You should be.

Today is Thursday. Tomorrow will be Friday January 7th, 2011. What's so important about that you say?! Well I have my consultation with the Medi-spa to begin the HCG diet.

Let me be very clear, this is in no way my resolution. This has nothing, and I mean nothing to do with it being a new year and a new me, and all these promises we make and break.
It just so happens I didn't want to miss out on Christmas treats, and it happens to fall into our budget for me to have this opportunity to do it right now.

So I will be blogging my pain, frustrations, hunger, hate for lack of food, and success as well as the things I will be learning about myself, my terrible eating habits, and my personal growth with you during my journey (I mean battle) to thin, (well okay smaller).

Told you that you should be excited. Ha. Ha. If for nothing else, to see all the amazing ways I can jazz up 500 calories of chicken breast a day. (first though, jerky)

Five

Five years with this face
Five years of adventure
Five years of learning and growing
Five years of feeling defeated by someone much smaller than myself
Five years of early mornings, and late nights
Five years of little socks

Happy Big #5 to Miss Neely!

Spend your Latte $ on this:

Go here to Scotti's blog HERE and please help. It's a great cause...and you get some free loot too.

Too cute:

Today at the office the M. D. Anderson Holiday 2010 Card catalog came.
I love how we order our holiday cards from them and a portion of the funds go towards the research. Plus who doesn't love kids drawings?!

Well in the back of the book they had these:

If it's less than $1, it probably suxs

and my weekend in bullets:

Fri after work:
*go home and begin the great gear up for fall scrub down- I deep cleaned my house starting with the kid room, her bathroom, hands and knees on the floors here, laundry, and then hours upon hours in my bathroom with a toothbrush and a bottle of CLR.
*work on washing clothes and all the decor pillows and towels between scrubs
* love my hubby for mowing the lawn and finishing laying the rocks for my patio/ rock garden
*poop the heck out

Saturday:
*Hubby worked so I got up and went to Wal-mart to buy spray paint
I very quickly learned my lesson upon returning to my house and attempting to spray paint my outdoor furniture, and some picture frames. If the can of spray paint is $.94 a can it will NOT stick to the surface you are painting, no matter what that surface is unless it is your skin. Awful. At this point I'm dripping it sweat and looking a hot mess from the stinking humidity, so I had to abandon that project and suck up the fact that I had three cans of useless spray paint on my hands.
*head back inside and scrub away at the main living parts of the house. hands and knees again in the kitchen.
*go outside and pick weeds from the dying flower bed just so I feel like I've got an excuse to hold off on getting out the vacuum for a little while longer.
*hang really great champagne colored sheer curtains all around my second patio to create an "intimate" space/ faux screened porch look.
*sweep forever said patio
*return to the indoors to hang my empty frame collage on the big blank wall we've been looking at for three years now. I'm satisfied with the results, they always look so cute online, but I'm afraid in life mine looks cheesy perhaps? I'm afraid I just like it because I put all that work into it.
*finally vacuum the floors
*dishes and folding laundry at various times of the day
*go to the movies with my husband to see Dinner for Schmucks...laughed sooo much
*come home and crashed!

Sunday:
*are you bored yet with my weekend? Well I must say I was pooped out.
*wake up real early, and go paint all that stinking half painted outdoor furniture sitting in the back yard.
*joined weight watcher, and started counting points right away.
*think about how thankful I am that my husband went to get me some Krylon Fusion paint. Worth the extra dollars!
* chill out and watch Crazy Heart- fairly lame movie, but it had Ryan Bingham in it, and we really like him.
*go have lunch at the small time farmers market/ grocery store
* go to ikea and battle the crowd for crappy bar stools because they were out of stock of the ones I wanted
* work on my window covering for the kitchen window
* put the dried furniture on my new patio/ rock garden, and feel a bit of joy
* go to our friends for dinner, movie and game night
*cut husbands hair- he's so handsome now
*crash again.

Thank goodness it's Monday now and I got to spend my day at the office catching up on my rest! I wish.

What did you accomplish this weekend?