day 9

so i thought i would just do a little update, since i'm bored waiting to go to work.

its day 9, i've lost a total of 10.2lbs this round so far. so thats good, at least a pound a day. it was almost 2 everyday until mondayish, which is upsetting but oh well, it is what it is.
i'm already sick of the food we eat, almost gagging when i eat plain chicken and steak. its annoying. but today i lost 1.2, after tuesday i gained .8, and yesterday only lost .2! so hopefully i'm back on track.

i'm trying to drink at least 3-4 of my nalgene bottles, which is 32oz, so thats going good so far.

so we will see how this weekend goes...hopefully good!!

little update

so i started another round of drops. today is the 4th day and i've lost 7.4 so far!
its very exciting.
this time me, my mom, and my grandma and grandpa are doing it. its sooo exciting to hear how they are doing.
mom has lost 4.8 or so, sofar, and grandpa has lost 5 and grandma has lost 3.5, but theres was as of yesterday morning. they call mom every morning and tell her what they did. haha

but just thought i'd let ya know how we are doing. and this time, or at least by hawaii, if i get down to a certain number, my mom is paying for my entire airplane ticket :) so thats some damn good motivation!!

hmm

so we finally got internet at our apartment. so it will be alot easier to update this.

so i gained 7lbs on my gorge days, sucks. but i've lost around 14lbs. i got pretty dang sick last weekend, so i wasn't eating anything cuz i would puke it up. i was only drinking sprite, then finally ate some toast and was able to keep it down. i just started in the last few days eating again ha.

but just thought i would write a little something. lola is snoring SUPER loud right now. so i'm gonna go.

update

so my mother informed me that i needed to update this. so i am ha.
i have been off the drops for about 2 weeks i believe, and my weight has stayed basically the same. i'm not weighing myself everyday so i'm not sure what it is now. as long as i stay at 30lbs lost then i'm happy :)
i am going to be starting my GORGE days for my second round of drops on friday, then start the low calories on monday. i am hoping to lose 30lbs again this round, maybe i'll end up doing one more round after this one, we will just have to see. i'm just happy i can go on the zip line while we are in hawaii.
i sure have loved being back at zumba! i missed it. i was crazy when we went on monday, cuz it was so humid out or something, but it was so hot in zumba! i was literally DRIPPING sweat! but it was an awesome workout.
i'm excited to get back on the drops, and weighing myself everyday again and losing weight so i can write about it on here :) cuz its so exciting! but i am kinda scared cuz i don't wanna cheat, it got really hard the last few weeks last time, just got sick of the food and stuff.
OH MY GOD!!! my mom and got our "before" pictures from our hypnosis lady we went to her in novemeber. she took like all around pictures, i could not believe my eyes when i saw myself! i was NASTY!!! hahaha. I will have to do them side by side, cuz man oh man that would be very interesting, to say the least.
well i'll write more next week after i gorge myself, and believe me i am going to this time, i got a list of things i want to eat!!! i'm kinda excited for it. here i come bad food. thank god we will hopefully have friday off so i don't have to eat all the nasty/bad food in front of everyone at work after they have seen how much weight i have lost, haha.

go mom!!

so i know i just wrote on here yesterday, but i had to let you know how my mom did today on her weigh in.
well first off i lost .8 this morning, and me and her always text eachother in the morning and say how we did.
so she tells me "well first i got on the scale and i only lost .2, so i got off, took a deep breath, let it out, and got back on the scale and i lost a pound!" so she is now at her 20lbs mark for this round of our drops!! i believe she wants to lose 10 more? acutally she is at 20.2 now, which is sooo awesome.
i only need to lose .6 more to get to 30.
i think we are both a little worried to going to phase 3 of our drops, which is no drops, and upping your calories and you start to work out again. we are only doing this for 3 weeks then starting another round of drops. so we are a little scared about keeping the weight off, not putting it back on when we up our calories and such. but i so can't wait to do zumba again, even if its only for 3 weeks, i love it so much :) i think getting back into the routine of exercising might be hard, since we have been not doing it for so long, well not that long, but ya know.
so hopefully i can hit my goal tomorrow, but we will see.
just had to write about my mom, cuz i'm really proud of her, we have FINALLY found something that works for us :)
ohh and our hypnosis lady we went to weight loss (not sure if it really worked doing that) but my mom called her cuz she took pics of us in November, so now i really will have before pictures when i first started trying to lose weight, so i will post those, no doubt about it

almost done

so i got only a few more days left. stopping taking the drops saturday, so saturday sunday and monday i will just be doing 500 calories, then tuesday i will up my calories and start adding fats into my diet. i'm super excited cuz i've been getting sick of eating the same stuff. which is making it hard. had to do an apple day yesterday cuz i gained .8 one day then the next i gained .4, so after my apple day (which i was more hungry doing it this time than last time) but i lost 1.4 this morning so i was happy. that brings my total loss to 28.6 now. i really really wanna hit 30 by the time i'm done with the 500 calories at least. and mom is i think .8 away from hitting 20! I know we can both it, and its super exciting.
And we both decided that since we found out we can go 3 weeks and then start the drops again, that is what we are going to both do. So we will start it again on May 8th...well our gorge days. and you better believe that i got a list going of FAT FRIED things that i'm going to be eating!
My birthday is next week, i'm going out to eat for it, getting a burger, going to split it with amber and i figured i'll probably have a few fries and i'll get a salad. I'm pretty excited cuz it sounds super good.
well that is all for right now :)

day 25?

so i just had to write this because i'm so happy!
yesterday i had lost only .2, which is still good, don't get me wrong.
but this morning i got on the scale, and i lost 1.4! so i was freakin out lol and i was like wait is that right? so i got back on the scale, and sure enough it was right!
and after about almost 2 weeks of my moms weight going down then up and staying the same, she went to weigh herself and i hear her slippers running across the wood floor down to me and she lost 1.4 too!!! its soo exciting! 2.6 more pounds and I've lost 10% of my weight! Which might not seem like alot, but it is.
Its crazy to pick up AJ's dog that weighs 30lbs, and to think that since November, that is what I've lost! and mind you, she is heavy! hahah. Its nice to beable to put it into prespective.
Well we start moving Friday hopefully, so gotta make sure i get my meals in and stuff, sure i will though :)
i know i updated monday but i just had to after this.
and also, i'm so excited cuz when we go to hawaii i wanted to do the zip line, well before starting this i was too heavy to do it, but now i can officialy say we are going to do it! i've been under the weight limit but i just thought about it more. super excited!
and my grandparents got here lastnight and we haven't told them we are losing weight, they knew right away! so that was a big motivator too, and a lady at work came up to me yesterday and said she just wanted to let me know that i'm looking really good.
I love it when people tell me stuff like that. Ok i'm done rambeling... :)

3 weeks

So this past week I have stalled. With either gaining or losing hardely anything on days to even gaining. But I didn't let that get me down.
I've also had trouble GOING to the bathroom, so yesterday my mom read on the epsom salt that you can use it as a laxitive, so I did it, and that stuff is nasty, but i just chugged it. and sure enough, it works!!
and this morning I lost 1.8!!!!
so in 22 days I have lost a total of 21.6! sooo awesome!
thats all I got for an update haha.

apple day

so today i'm going to do an apple day, where you eat only 6 apples through out the day. you do it when losing weight slows down. well i stayed the same today, so i'm going to do it. my mom did it on wednesday and the next day she lost 1.4lbs. they say to do it because the apples get rid of extra water weight that you have. and she also told me that it was hard to eat that many apples because you eat one every other hour. she had to literally make herself eat them. so i'm hoping for the best.

aj and kelsey started the low calorie part of the diet yesterday, they were both hungry lol but they stuck it out, well aj did. not sure if kelsey did but i'm pretty sure that she did. i was kinda surprised how much water aj was able to drink during the day, more than i do. and i told him i wouldn't be surprised if he lost 4lbs when he weighed in this morning. he got out of the bathroom and said he lost 3 he thinks, and went to his room to write it down, well then he came back and he acutally lost 3.8lbs!!!!! sooo exciting! i can't wait to see how he does. today he goes to work with the diet and the drops, so we will see how he does.

contest

so on this page on facebook they are doing a contest with before and after pics, and you can win $100. Not very many people had done it, so i figured why the hell not. So I thought i would post it on here :)

hard few days

So when I weighed in Monday, I lost .2, better than gaining I know. So yesterday I weigh in, and I gained that .2 back. So I'm thinking, wonderful, have I hit a wall or something? So yesterday I made myself drink 3 things of water, soo I drank 96oz of water, about. I got on the scale this morning and lost .8, so almost a pound. Which is awesome :) Today was my 16th day of weighing in, I think, and I've lost a total of 18.4! My mom said lastnight that when we both lose 10% of our original weight, we are going to do something to reward ourselves. Can't really think of anything to do together, she said she might just buy herself a purse, not sure what I should do, or get.
Thats my little update. Sorry I don't update on facebook or anything, I know some people will think I'm really dumb for taking the drops and losing the weight so fast, so I just don't post it on there. I figure if someone really wants to know how I'm doing, they will just check this out :) example: Emily hahaha.

and can I just tell you, we got Tilapia (fish) from costco, I've had it before but it had breading on it, duh, but this doesn't. And I was thinking, great this is NOT going to be good at all. I had it for the first time last week, and had it lastnight again, its SUPER SUPER good! Its amazing how much stuff you find is good when its really all you can eat lol.

2 weeks down

So....After being on the diet and drops for 2 weeks, I have lost a total of 17.8lbs!! So exciting. I did my measurements when we first started, so I tried to do them again lastnight, definitly did them all wrong I think. Cuz I know I have lost some inches, but when I did it, it showed nothing different. So my mom is going to help me tonight, then I'll have new ones that are acutally right, cuz the first time I did it, I just kinda guessed where to measure at haha.
Today I only lost .2 but its better than gaining, so I will take it :)
AJ and his girlfriend Kelsey are starting the diet today, well today will be their gorging day, so they take the drops, but eat everything that they can. So hope they lose alot. We think AJ will lose a ton if he can stick with it.
This weekend I get to go see Zac Brown Band!! I'm soo excited, wish we could do their dinner thing for $50 but oh well, not this time.
Losing even just 17lbs, going up the stairs at work, if i have to for some reason, its so much easier its crazy! I go up them so much faster than I did before! Still maybe trying to catch my breath, but its much much easier!
So just a little update, I know Emily likes to see how I am doing, gotta keep her in line since she lives so far away!

first set back

so this morning i gained .2! i'm not upset about it, its already happened to my mom, and hell .2 isn't BIG. I was kind of waiting for it to happen after it happened to my mom. I didn't do anything different that I am aware of. So I'm just hoping for a bigger number tomorrow or Sunday. And hello! I've already lost 15.2lbs in under 2 weeks, so I'm as happy as could be.

oh so happy

so the past 2 days i had lost .6 and then .8 each day, which isn't bad after losing so much.
so today i got on the scale and i lost 1.6! thank goodness. so now i'm around like losing 14ish pounds. not positive, i dont wanna do the math yet.
but i'm super happy.
and erika at work and my boss were talking, he said wow thats all she lost? when she told him and then he said well she must be losing inches faster.

and i'm almost halfway to losing 50lbs so my mom will pay for half my plane ticket to hawaii in october!!!! man oh man i am so happy.

and me and mom decided when we weigh in for our be a loser contest we are going to get up and be there around 5 to weigh in, since they say your true weight is right after you get up. so thats good.

and now that emily got me addicted to pioneer woman, my dad wants me to make a dessert for him to take to work for a potluck tomorrow, so i'm going to make MONKEY BREAD. It looks super good and SUPER easy.

one week down

so i have lost a grand total of 11.6 pounds in a week
and i could not be happier.
lastnight for dinner i made like a chicken stir fry, and it was sooo good.
much better than just having chicken and a vegetable. think i will do that more often.
and a few times a week i will make an omlette cuz i had one saturday and it was really good to when i put onion in it and then salsa on top, gotta get more salsa thought.
and yesterday me and mom went to fashion bug cuz i have a card for there and i'm a premier member, so i got 40% off everything yesterday, so i got some smaller pants, that will hopefully fit when i'm done with this round of drops! and a really cute shirt and flip flops and a tanktop. and mom got a pair of capris and a tanktop and it was all only $55! i couldn't believe it. and since we spent $50 i got a card for $20 off if i spend $50 at the end of march. so heck yes i will be getting some more clothes!
i can't wait till i have to buy new pants, that will be such an achievment!

6th day of weigh in

So as of yesterday (friday) I had lost 8.8lbs since Monday! So all lastnight when i went to bed i was thinking please let me loose 1.2 in the morning so i would be at 10.
I woke up at 8 instead of 5 since today is my day of the week that i'm not taking the drops, so i was hoping that wouldn't affect the number, but didn't really see why it would. So i get on the scale, and i lost 2.2!!!! So now i have officially lost 11 pounds total!!! I'm soooo happy and excited!
I can't wait for our be a loser weigh in next week to see how much i have lost on their scale, since its always different then our one at home.
And when we were bowling after i was done with one frame, my mom goes christina your pants are way saggy in your butt. And I don't think they have always been like that. So that made me even happier!
Just thought i would give you an update!

4th day

so just thought i would do an update. after my 4th time weighing in, this time i only lost .6 which is a little frustrating after losing 7.2 in 3 days. but now its 7.8, and i guess i can't really complain.
i'm doing everything the same, so i'm not sure, but i'm gonna try to drink more water today.
tonight we are going to see jeff foxworthy so that'll be alot of fun. just thought i would update everyone.

2nd day

so been on it for 2 days now. was a little hungry, but i dealt with it.
me and nick went bowling, and i got a 192! my highest score ever, so that made me happy.
i have been craving chicken strips, so after this is over, i'm definitly having some.
had to make the boys dinner, well heat some stuff up, that didn't bother me, but after my mom made texas toast, i really wanted that. it smelled soooo good. but i just smelled it haha.
so i get on the scale this morning and i lost another 2.4lbs!!!
that is a grand total of 6lbs in 2 day! its nuts! i'm so happy!
so now i'm sitting here on the morning of my 3rd day waiting to drink my tea and go to work.
this will be my first day on the diet while at work, so we will see if it makes me anymore hungry.
just thought i would let you all know how much i lost today. I won't update everyday, cuz that might get a little annoying. haha maybe 1-2 times a week :)

first day of 500 calories

sooo we did our first day of 500 calories. I was a little hungry during the day, but I expected to be after my load up days.
So for breakfast, I had a cup of tea. For a snack I had an orange, then lunch I had 2 saltine crackers, 3oz chicken and spinach. And I drank water. Not as much as I was supposed to, I just couldn't drink that much. Then for a snack on the way to taking Blink to the vet, I had some strawberries, which were super good! Then dinner I had 3oz chicken 2 crackers and broccoli.
I think the hardest thing is remembering not to drinking anything 20 mintues before or after taking the drops. Definitly have to watch the clock.

Aj and Nick of course had to eat their lunch in front of me which was hamburgers and homemade macaroni salad, and that smelled soooooo good! But i resisted!

Sooooo anyways, This morning I get up and get the scale out of my moms bathroom and she tells me she lost 3.2lbs!!!!!! So I'm like pllease lose at least 1! I get on the scale and I lost 3.6!!!!

I am sooo freaking happy! Can't wait to weigh in, in the morning!

started hcg today

These are our before pictures, Hopefully soon I will be posting weight loss pictures :)

So my mom and I heard about these hcg drops from a client a lady at her work does taxes for. and she has lost about 30lbs from doing it, and her friend has lost 40!! So we just HAD to know what they were, especially after a month of being on our biggest loser contest, I only lost 2lbs, and she stayed the same. Which don't get me wrong, I am glad I lost anything, but after working out everyday and cutting back calories and everything, 2lbs wasn't cutting for me, I felt like I had let the team down to be honest. So we look into these drops, you only eat 500 calories a day, and day the drops up to 6 times a day. And the most days you can do it for is 43 days, then you have to be on a 6 week break, so you can maintain the weight you are at. You can lose 1-2 pounds a day on this. So we are thinking YES!!!! And yeah 500 calories is nothing, but they tell you what to eat, and the drops open up something in your brain that makes you burn fat and sugar already stored in your body, so your actually getting about 1200 calories a day, just about 700 are coming from is already inside your body. So the first 2 days we take the drops and eat EVERYTHING in sight so we get fats and sugars in our body. I'm excited about this and I hope it works for us. I would like to be down at least 40lbs by August for Alan and Jussi's wedding.

Another thing, while on these drops, you cannot exercise, unless its just 15 minutes of moderate exercise, like walking or yoga or something. Which kinda sucks because I have fallen in LOVE with zumba, but i figure its just for a little over a month, and yes after the 6 weeks, if all goes well, i will probably do a 2ND round.

I just was not feeling motivated at all after only losing 2lbs. And if i am able to lose at least 10lbs by our weigh in, I will be soooo happy. People at work say they can see a difference in how stuff fits and how I look, but I just really don't see it. And its great if they do, but until I can, I just won't be happy.

I know some people thing I'm dumb for doing it, oh well. Its what I feel that I need to do. I'm not looking for negativity from this, I'm glad my mom is also doing it, so we will keep each other on track. Aj and his girlfriend might also do it.

Well just thought i would let everyone know. The sight we found info on was www.ultrahcgdrops.com but there are a ton of websites out there about it, if you want to read more about it, sure I didn't explain it well.