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LIW +12

Here is my menu – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: Coffee with Half and Half and a Banana
MidMorning Snack: Apple
Lunch: 3 egg omelet with swiss cheese in butter
MidAfternoon Snack: Cottage Cheese and a fresh peach
Dinner: London Broil with horseradish and mayo dipping sauce, Large spring mix salad with tomatoes, cucumbers and mushrooms with homemade balsamic vinegar/evoo dressing – oh yeah, I had some wine too!!!

A total of 1800 cals divided: 91 fat grams (45%), 110 carb grams (22%), 107 protein grams (25%), and 19 grams of alcohol (7%)

Ah Yes! It’s Good To Be Home!

Ok, technically, I have been home since Friday afternoon, but I am sure you can imagine it’s taken me this long to get back into the swing of things at home. Seriously, there was so much to do to get caught up I haven’t had two minutes to rub together to get to my blog. But today marks the day of the start of my routines again.

Ah yes, routines! The backbone of my life. What I live and breathe for. Ok, I know, I crack myself up.

LIW

Sunday, March 16 was the last time I weighed myself in California. I started getting things ready then, which included packing up my scale. That day I weighed 170.4 – I pretty much stayed around that weight the entire time I was in California.

Saturday, March 22 was the next time I weighed myself, here at my home and when I got on the scale, I about FREAKED. It had gone up to 178 – in just 6 days. Ok, so I calmed myself down and chalked it up to traveling and the dang KFC I ate on Thursday night in honor of my daughter who was such a trooper on the plane ride home I would get her anything she wanted. Some very kind soul out there reminded me of my own words “do you know that a gallon of water weighs 8 pounds?” (Thanks Regina)

Not only was that 16 lbs above my LIW of round 4, but that was 2.6 above LIW from my round 3!!! When I told this to JPS, she laughed, and then said, where is it? I don’t see it? You look the same as when you left??? And I am like, I don’t know? Clothes still are fitting the same. I felt bloated, but seriously, 16 lbs worth? NOT!

Anyhoo, I wasn’t gonna worry about it ya know? It’s nothing but a thing and these were extenuating circumstances, and I knew that once I got back into my ‘routine’ things would find their way back to normal.

There is a lot to be said about stress = cortisol = weight gain. My trip was stressful. Not a bad stress, but a very busy stress. Life in California is totally on a faster pace then here in South Carolina, and quite frankly, I am too old for that lifestyle anymore. I would rather live out my life with rocking chairs on wrap around porches, sipping iced tea. Oh yeah, the southern life!

I digress.

So, Saturday I was 16 lbs over LIW – Today I am 12 – something to be said about being home and doing things right. I am seriously enjoying my fresh, raw foods again. Sure I enjoyed eating things in Cali that I can’t get here, but now it’s time to focus on being healthy and eating right.

THANKS TO ALL

I cannot express the thanks I have for each of you, my readers. I really let the ball drop while I was in Cali, yet I come back and look at my stats, and you folks have been so loyal to continue visiting me even when I didn’t post. Wow, that gives me warm fuzzies. Give me a few days to get back into the swing and I will be a posting maniac. As you can imagine, I have TONS of things to say!

A blanket THANK YOU to all my commenter’s as well! I will get back to replying to each and everyone of you starting tomorrow!

Until then, peeps! Have a good one!!!

LIW – 162.0 lbs (02/17/08)
Today’s Weight – 163.8 lbs

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Here is my menu for yesterday. This is what I had:

I knew yesterday was supposed to be a day of my last 24 hours of VLCD – but it didn’t quite turn out that way. With traveling and all, it just wasn’t easy. I have a healthy respect for you that try to do VLCD while traveling. There is just too much going on.

In any case, this is what I ate: Coffee with cream, a couple of eggs with some onions cooked with butter flavored Pam for breakfast. Apple and peanut butter for snack. Ground beef for lunch. Dinner was a green salad with all the fixins (mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, eggs, onions, bacon bits) with blue cheese dressing and a hamburger patty with a bit of Heinz 57.

A total of around 1354 calories divided this way: 77 Fat, 51Carbs, 104 Protein

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On My Way!

Today I leave for Cali – didn’t sleep well. For all my EFT tapping I did to get over the anxiety of flying, it pretty much hit me last night. But all is well. My fear of making my daughter scared out weighs my fear of flying so I will remain calm for her.

The hotel we are at gave us an upgrade, why, I don’t know, but we enjoyed it. My daughter had a good time going from room to room. She says, mommy, they have a refrigerator! Mommy, they have a microwave. MOMMY! They even have a clicker! OMG! Do you think my daughter is a bit sheltered??? This suite is absolutely lovely. Too bad we only were here for the night!

For some reason or another she insisted on Shoney’s last night. How could I resist??? We don’t eat out much, so I complied. Surprising, I don’t think I did too bad based on the fact that I was still on the last 24 hours of VLCD. For some reason or another I feel that the HCG leaves my body faster than other people, and by the last 24 hours I am hungry. Over the past two breaks on that 3rd 24 hours, I have always increased my protein to satisfy the hunger with no problem, but yesterday I just went a bit further with the salad.

All is well tho. No worries. Traveling will always do it to a person, no doubt. After I get a good nights rest (probably not until THURSDAY night) things will be back to normal and all will be better. So I will NOT stress about the weight but be sensible about my eating.

We have to leave the hotel at 6:30am, so I am going to finish this off. Take care people, and I will attempt to update tomorrow from CALI!

I can’t believe, I will be there in about 12 hours from right now!

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Mary – HA! I actually thought about taking a picture of my purty toes, but I decided against it, I was like, who wants to see my purty toes??? ROFL – I will update, don’t you worry!!!

Lili – there is nothing like being pampered ya know? The good thing about Cali? I have lots of friends there in the salon business, so I will be getting gussied up, massaged, getting facials, all kinds of stuff and probably a new do! Take care my sweet!

Monica – Yeah! I got my ‘fix’ before I left! WOO HOO FOR ME! I just love it when a plan pulls together! Thanks for the well wishes.

Shelly – Yeah, it will be an experience to say the least about the plane seats. This should prove to be interesting. I am hoping they are gonna let me keep my liter water bottle on the plane, I swear, a 5 hour flight with only one liter of water??? OMG! That’s just not right!

Ed & Jenn – girl, sorry about last night, I was in a mood after ‘that’ happened. But you know what? It’s nothing but a thang, but when are people gonna realize that you don’t want to torque the Bizanator? That’s just wrong. I will handle, no worries.

Wendy – AH GIRL! You came out of hiding! I sure do miss you. If you wanna chat, you know my email. I am always there for you. Hopefully you can get back into the swing of things. Don’t let the man get you down ok?

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