Day 2

So today was a bit of a struggle. The pot luck had worse food then I thought. It was 4 kinds of dips with chips and bread. So I had some dip, chips and bread but stayed away from the dessert table. So I will still consider it a win because I didn't have any cake even thou it looked really good.

Breaky was 2 ham, cheese egg bites
lunch chips, bread and dips
supper was horrible and left me unsatisfied and looking for food all night. The family was having pasta so I made hamburger with cheese to put on top. So I just had some hamburger and cheese and it tasted like crap.
Then I had some trail mix, almonds, pineapple and watermelon dipped in chocolate.
I did have only 2 med coffee today instead of 4 xrlrg. So I could have done better but I could have also done a lot worse.

Day 1

    So the first day was pretty good. I stuck to the plan amazingly. I had 3 egg, cheese omelette  for breakfast. Beef cheese soup I made yesterday and froze. I had a cheese string for snack while I was making dinner. I had med coffee from timmie's. I had 2 bottles of water, 2 green teas, and 3 coffee's from home. Dinner was ham roast, mashed potatoes and 2 pce of pineapple. I feel like crap thou part of it I have started a cold this morning with a sore throat and the other part is I'm going through withdrawals. I'm de carbing and I know this from the many times I have done Atkins  This time is different because I'm not going 100% carb free. I can still have fruit and dried fruit. When I start thinking about all the candy in the house I grab a handful of almonds and feel much better. I suspect 2 more days before the heavy carbs are out of my system and I start feeling great. I will especially be happy to get rid of the blood sugar spikes and dips. I passed out last week due to having some marshmallows  It brought my blood sugar up high then crashed fast and I passed out. Luckily it only lasted 30mins.

  Back to work Monday and I am going to be visiting Hamilton for the day. Unfortunately lunch is a pot luck I've decided aslong as I stay away from dessert like items I will consider it a success. Breakfast is going to be 2 egg and ham bites, lunch is the potluck, supper is going to be a frozen stir fry dinner I made yesterday. I'm going to bring 2 cheese strings and pepperoni's for snack just incase. I'm going to get a coffee on the way to Hamilton for the day but that will be the only one tomorrow. I'm going to bring a pop, water and some green tea bags with me. I will post tomorrow night how I've done.

Ok really this time

    So the last start didn't go so well. A lot has changed since that post thou. I have been diagnosed bi-polar and I am on new meds to help with the mood swings. They have caused some weight gain but not as much as the none stop eating has.

    I was at a managers meeting last week and one of the big bosses was there and he was talking about a book he read called the "Wheat Belly". He had lost 50 lbs by giving up gluten products specificity bread and bagels. He sent us a copy of the book because he felt it was that important. I started reading it and was very surprised at how scientist has changed wheat. It started out at harvesting once a year and growing 6ft tall. Scientist have added enough hormones to make it harvest twice a yr and to mature while only growing to 2ft. It makes it much easier for farmers but now us consumers are eating all those hormones.

   I tracked my eating for a week and found out that any time I had lots of breads, gluten fill items I felt like crap after. I would feel tired, foggy and just crappy. I felt the same after pigging out on Halloween candy I felt tired, weak and miserable. So that really made me aware on how food was making me feel. I always complained about feeling tired and now I had a magic solution  If I want to feel better I need to go low carb and low gluten to feel great. It's hard sometimes because I love bread I love the smell and the taste.  I want to feel better, I want to have more energy.

 So my plan is to eliminate all bread and bread like products from my diet. I'm going to start drinking more fluid especially water and teas. I'm not going to give up my coffee but I'm going to lower my milk intake and the amount of coffee I drink. A normal day I drink 3 xrlg from Tim Hortons, my goal is 1 med a day. At home in my coffee I'm going to add coconut milk which is lower calories and fat then reg milk. I have created some meals for the week.  

New Start today

I went last night and went to Obesity Help and found some really motivating people. Started this morning out with a piece of cake. Not the best idea but I made it yesterday because I want to learn to decorate cakes and it was setting on the stove when I was making the babies breakfast. It was really moist and delicious and it was a small piece. Then I got my act together and had a protein shake with strawberries, a sm pce of banana and some all bran buds to try and help the constipation caused by the protein. I wanted to walk to Value Village today with the baby but he doesn't like wind and it's windy out. So plan B is wait till daddy is putting him to bed and then take my older son out for some fresh air. I'm not sure what lunch is going to be I'm going to look thru my protein recipes and see if I have any items to make something. I used the rest of my protein powder for breakfast.

Things I've done to lose it.

I've done most things to lose the weight but keeping it off is the issue. I've had the most success with Gastric Bypass Oct 07. I lost 100lbs getting to 190 my lowest weight since I was about 12. I kept it off for about 2 yrs but I was so dissapointed with never making it to my goal of 150 I gave up. I never saw that I looked pretty good at 190. I still saw myself at 300 when I looked in the mirror. Even thou I was down to size 14 in my jeans I still saw the same body from when I was wearing a size 28. It wasn't until I got back to 280 when I was pregnant and was looking threw some pics I saw that I looked decent and wished that I could be back there again. I would so do it differently this time.

 I've never had success with weight watchers. Everytime I have joined I ended up gaining weight and giving up before getting any results. Atkins has worked but I haven't been able to maintain eating that way for long periods of time. Herbal Magic I didn't have any success with and on and on. What to do next???????