The days keep getting longer

So not only is Katie sick with the flu, yes it is my best guess since they aren't even bothering to test people anymore, but now Jacob has come down with it. And people are going back to school way to soon.....they will just get others sick. They said 24 hours without a fever, they meant it, no fever people, even 99.8 is a fever!!!!

So anyway, enough of my rant, sometime when you have more kids you are bit more sensitive to this, it's bad enough trying to keep them from their siblings, but when you are fighting others, whoosh!!!

Day 5 of the diet, I am consistently losing 1 pound a day and I am not hungry so I guess the HCG is doing it's job. Right now I'm grilling my mini hamburgers and some asparagus for dinner. I have started trying to hold off on eating till noon, then I have a protishake, which is really good, along with 6 strawberries. It is very filling, I don't need to eat again until 3. I then have my veggies, then around 5:30 I have dinner. Around 7 - 7:30 I will eat my last fruit for the night. Last night I had an apple with some cinnamon on it, it was like a pie, without the crust!!!

So far all is going well, and I'm not getting sick even though the kids are, plus I walked 2 miles today and did some situps. Can't wait for that belly button ring!!!

Later all

Hunger Pangs

So when I decided to do this diet, they warned that if you did not overeat enough the first 2 days you would be hungry on days 3 and 4. I thought I had done a pretty good job, dinner at Mortons, eggs, bagels, cream cheese, potatoes, etc. And yesterday I felt really good, no real hunger, just wanted to eat!!!! That was until 8pm. I was starving, I had eaten all of my food for the day and I couldn't stand it. It was too early to go to bed, so I tried to ignore the fact that my belly was growling. Not unbearable, I was just hungry. Okay, so Katie has the flu so that was a good diversion, one of our tenants died from the flu, in the apartment, that was a really good diversion, so I was ok. I figured when I woke up all would be right in the world again. Hold on, not so much. I was still hungry, not starving, but my stomach was growling, and all I got for breakfast was tea, really, just tea!!! Oh my goodness, if it is going to be like this for 49 days I want my money back. The only saving grace.....I got on the scale and I had lost 3 pounds. Yup, just like that 3 pounds. So I ate my 1/2 grapefruit, gather my 2 chicken tenders and 1/2 of a cucumber and headed off to my hair appt. I was talking to the hairdresser, who knows about the diet and will start on Friday, and said, look, I'm hungry, not starving but definitely hungry. She put the color in my hair, I noshed on 1/2 of my food, and read my book. Low and behold she came to get me and it suddenly donned on me......I'm not hungry, not at all. Wow that was quick. And 4 hours later still not hungry.

Now I did go to the grocery to get pudding, dinner, etc for the family, and goodness I want some pudding, but not because I'm hungry, just because I want to eat it!!! So I guess the HCG is working, cause trust me if I was still hungry I would admit it!!! Hey maybe I'll lose another 3 pounds today........naw, that would be too much

Day 3 of the Diet and a day at the zoo!!

Today, Jacob and I got to go with Katie's class to the zoo. I was the chaperone. It is actually really fun to go with them. All of the kids are really well behaved and cause no trouble. My group was evenly boys and girls!! The boys crack me up, mostly because they blithely go where the girls lead!! Guess they are being trained as husbands!! Jacob was just excited because he got to ride a school bus, a real treat for a homeschooler, not so much for me. They are loud and bumpy, I could do with out. We had a great time and hopefully Jacob learned something, like polar bears are not primates!!!

So today also marked day 3 of the diet and the real start in my estimation. Days 1 and 2 you are taking the HCG, but you are actually gorging yourself in prep for day 3. The news so far is good, I actually have had NO hunger pains at all. The bigger issue in my estimation is that I want to eat because I can't eat. I had my strawberries (6) for a morning snack, then 2 pieces of grilled chicken tenderloins and a sliced cucumber for lunch. Right now I'm eating my afternoon snack of a sliced apple. I think dinner is going to be lobster and brussel sprouts. I have been a bit lethargic, not tired lethargic, but that could be from staying up late (and dancing at parent prom) getting up early and walking all over the zoo 3 times. I fixed that with a cup of tea. I'm having another one now. I think that might be my treat to myself through all of this, cups of tea!!!

My opinion so far....great, I am definitely not hungry, not overly tired, but we will wait and see what the scale shows for the final verdict.

Good day all, talk to you soon.

About me

So this is my first foray into blogging. Excuse any mistakes I make. What will this blog cover....my life. I'm a homeschooler, well I only homeschool 1 child now, but I have 4 and all of them survived my attempts at education. They actually did pretty well. My oldest son is in college at Case Western in Cleveland. The next 2 go to private catholic school and the youngest... you guessed it, still homeschooled. This will be about my trials and tribulations and life in general or whatever happens to be on my mind for that day.

So what's on my mind today? The new diet I will start tomorrow. Now before I get people shouting about how awful this is, let me explain. I am 46 years old. I have NEVER had a problem with my weight, except when I was pregnant (darling daughter and I gained 200 pounds, but that is another story). When I got married I weighed 100 pounds, and I NEVER dieted, I ate what I wanted, when I wanted. About 10 years ago, we moved from overseas back home and the weight started creeping on. I fought it tooth and nail. When I reached 10 pounds over I joined weight watchers, and lost NO weight. Great, then I did nutrisystem, and lost 2 pounds, whoopee. Finally I hired a trainer and nutritionist, and I gained 5 pounds and it was not 5 pounds of muscle, the body comp proved that, so finally it got up to I needed to lose 30 pounds just to be at a reasonable weight, not my pre children 100.

But first things first, I had hormone problems, so I went to this wonderful establishment, who naturally balanced my hormones, I felt like a new me, and my husband liked me again, because I wasn't mean. Before that someone was going to die, the only question was who!!!! While there I noticed they had a weight loss regimen. Now I'm skeptical, so if you tell me you guarantee I will lose 30 pounds in 40 days, I'm not buying it. I did research, and people who used this option, did report these kinds of weight loss. Hmmmm, but there were a lot of haters also, ok, mostly people who had never tried the protocol, but still.... Then I met a lady who had done the protocol and lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks, I'm going to the Cayman's in December, I would like to put a bathing suit on and NOT embarrass my children and husband, so what the heck, I dove in head first. So tomorrow I start my VLCD (very low calorie diet 500 cals) along with HCG. Do some research yourself on HCG.

Before you get your knickers in a knot, I know that the HCG does not cause the weight loss duuuuhhhh, if you eat 500 calories you will lose weight, but you will also be STARVING and TIRED. Supposedly, the HCG mitigates this. I'll let you know. The scary part, before I start the actual 500 calories, I spend 2 days overeating, how scary is that, gain weight to lose weight??? I'll let you know how that works also!!!

Let me know what you think.... maybe I'm crazy, but if this works, maybe you should get crazy too!!.