3 more pounds this week!

I weighed in on Thursday and I have lost 3 more pounds!  Nothing has really changed, I have just been following the diet and exercising 4 times per week for at least 30 minutes.  I guess I had a good week, but there were no real deviations from the routine.  I found a very low carb pancake recipe, since I have been craving pancakes:

1 cup almond flour/meal
1/4 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 T oil (i used olive oil since it's one of my healthy oils I'm supposed to get every day)

Stir together ingredients and cook on medium in skillet that has been sprayed with Pam or other non-stick cooking spray.  Add sugar free syrup, berries, vanilla extract if you like.  They are very good!

oops, two weeks have gone by!

Sorry I have not posted for a couple of weeks.  Things have been crazy at home and at work. 
I have had two weigh ins since my last post.   In total, I have lost a total of 18 pounds of fat!  My water has varied a bit (last week it was up so much due to my period that i actually gained .9 pounds overall, but my fat was down 10 lbs!) but I am mostly focusing on fat loss.   Today on my scale I weighed (it's Thursday, and I am down 19 lbs.  woohoo!  Almost 20 lbs. 
I have been sticking to the diet, exercising 4 times per week for 30 to 45 minutes per day (and eating more protein based on my exercise level) and losing every week.

I am eating a couple of medi-weight loss foods.  Protein shakes and protein bars.  You can eat all of your own food, but I find these quick and easy ways to get protein in (and also tasty) when I'm bored or in a hurry.  I have also found that keeping beef jerky or pork rinds in the car for when I am really hungry on the drive home (i have an hour commute) works well.  I just make sure to count the calories for the protein. 

That's all for today!  Everyone have a good week!

Weigh in Day Week 4

Okay, so today is weigh in day.  Tonight at 5:45.  I have been stringently following the diet.  Eating more when I exercise, staying away from fruit this week, making sure to eat enough calories every day.  So, hopefully my work will show on the scale.  I'm really nervous.  I don't know why, since I have stuck to it like glue, I just feel unlucky after last week.  Will write after this afternoon and report how things went!

Supplements, etc.

I think I forgot to post about the supplements that are offered on the Medi Weight Loss program.  Every day I take one mega Vitamin (but it does not contain iron, i noticed), 3 Fat Burners, 2 Calcium Pills, and 3 doses of Prescription appetite suppressants.   I forget the name of them and since it is 6 am I am too lazy to go look it up.  I shall go look it up later.  They are in the amphetamine class, however.  I also take Omega 3's- not required but suggested by my nutritionist.  She stated that not only are they good for brain function, but that some people on a very low calorie diet can lose some hair, and the Omega 3's would help prevent that.  I was sold.  Medi sells them for less than 15.00 per bottle (a month's supply).  They are enteric coated, but occasionally I notice a fishy taste if I burp later in the day.  ew.



I was provided with all of the supplements in a bag, with a water bottle (which is a very good one) when I came for my first visit.  After these run out I have to buy them myself.  They also give you a journal to keep track of your daily intake of protein and other foods, which I believe is very important.  It helps keep me on track and enabled me to go back and see what I did wrong this last week. 


I also get a B-12 shot an a B=6 shot every weekly visit/weigh-in, and go back for a second B-12 shot 48 hours later (Tuesday afternoon and then Friday early morning).  This helps with my energy level quite a bit.  I thought I'd explain this part of the diet beause it is an important part of the program in addition to the diet itself.


Hope everyone has a great week!  Please feel free to ask any questions.

Damn it!

I went to weigh in today and I only lost a pound...of WATER.  No fat loss.  I talked to the nutritionist and she looked at my journal and she told me I had been on a starvation diet, and my body had shut down.  There were a few days I just couldn't get all 500 calories of lean protein in...a couple of days I only got 400.  Add to that fact that I was supposed to be EATING EVEN MORE on the days I was exercising!!!!
 No one EVER told me that.  Damn I was pissed.  A whole week wasted.  Money down the drain, effort, time.  The nutritionist told me that for every 1/2 hour of exercise that I was doing,  I was supposed to be eating another 100 calories of lean protein.  For every 45 minutes, 200 extra lean protein calories!!!!  I have, on some days, been eating 300 less calories than I should!  So, my body went into shut down mode.  if I had known this, I would have eaten more.  I wasn't that hungry, but I would have made myself eat.  So anyway...

The nutritionist instructed me to stop eating fruit this week to reduce carbs and eat two servings of veggies only per day.  She also told me to switch from eating nuts for my healthy fat to having olive oil instead.  She also told me to make sure to eat all of my calories, and that eating a bit more is better than eating too little.  So,  I am very frustrated and angry this week but wiser.   I do partly blame Medi because they never told me I had to eat the calories I burned doing exercise!


Menu for today:

Breakfast:  Protein shake  100 calories  20 grams of protein
Lunch:  Protein bar 100 calories and 10 grams of protein, greek yogurt (plain) with splenda 100 cal and 18 grams of protein

Dinner:  2 servings of green beans, 1 4oz. 97% lean hamburger patty (i forget the protein)  136 calories
Greek yogurt flavored with Splenda 100 calories 18 gms of protein

Total calories: 576

No way am I going under it again.  Today I am too full to eat more, so no way am I exercising.
This is going to suck.

Variety

I have got to find some variety in my diet.  This weekend I will experiment with some of the recipes that Medi has given me.  Basically I have been eating the same things for the last couple of weeks- just adding veggies, almonds (for healthy fat) and protein bars or olive oil.  I'm not bored yet- I'm a pretty simple eater, but I can see that I might become bored if I don't add some variety to my diet routine.  Lately I have just been so busy with my job and one hour commute each way, appointments after work, exercise, etc. that I just don't have time to plan.  I'll post some recipes next time.

Weigh in Week 2

Today at 5:30 I went for my 2nd weigh in.  I was disappointed to find I had lost only 1.5 lbs, but the physician explained to me that I had actually lost 3 lbs of fat, and that my water weight was up from last week.  She said the thing that really counts is fat loss, because water weight is highly variable.  This is kind of what happened last week.  I lost 6.2 lbs, but 7.8 lbs of fat.   So, I will focus on the fat loss and not worry about the rest.  The doc also explained that since my appointments are at the end of the day and I am drinking water (lots) all day, I am always going to have more water weight at the end of the day.

So, total fat loss= 10.8 lbs.