Saturday, March 26, 2011

Lost 25 lbs as of Today

Heck yes! I feel great today. I am wearing jeans that I used to have to always wear a hoodie with because of my muffin top, with just a T-shirt, and they are even baggy and I have to keep pulling them up. That feels awesome! Way better than feeling like an elephant all the time.

There are a few new things that I have learned that have helped me get here and made this diet much easier.

#1: Chelsea gave me a new book called "The HCG Victory Tool Kit" by James Walker. It is a great book with loads of info about why the diet works, what you can eat, and what you can do to lose the most weight while you are doing this diet.

#2: The book gave info on some things that we did not know on our previous HCG diet. Such as you can eat EGGS! AND COTTAGE CHEESE! I cannot tell you how much easier the diet has been with these two add ons. I make dressings and dips with the cottage cheese, and Chelsea and I want to even make a Carb Free Lasagna! mmmmm. Eggs are so amazing, and quick and easy too. I just make a few in my egg cooker and eat them as my lunch protien, and in salads, yummy. It even tastes a little bit like Ice cream when I eat it all by itself in this little Gelato cup with a gelato spoon that I have kept around. It is all about fooling your mind right?


http://mylifemybody.com/2010/07/cottage-cheese-benefits-five-things-you-should-know/

This link gives great info on the benefits of cottage cheese along with some great low fat ideas.

#3: Chelsea also introduced me to Dessert Delights Extra Sugarfree Gum. The most amazing gum ever!!!. There are three kinds I have been able to find: Key Lime Pie, Starlight Mint Ice Cream and Strawberry Shortcake. The best thing about them is that they really do taste like what they say they are! I don't gain when I eat even like 5 sticks throughout the day. When I am craving ice cream at 10 pm I just eat some of the Starlight mint gum, and I am in heaven. I highly reccomend picking some of these up and keeping them handy for cravings.

#4: Carolynn (my cousin) told me about making your own flavored drinks using mineral water. I have been adding different juices and stevia to my Perrier water and even though it is not diet coke or Dr. Pepper, it tastes great. My favorite so far is mixing vanilla liquid stevia with Lemon Juice, like a sparkling sweet lemonade.

#5: JOSH. He has been so awesome thought this whole thing. He tries not to ever eat in front of me, and told me that while I am doing this diet I don't need to make him food so that it would be easier for me. So sweet. He also didn't mind this week when I spent $8.60 on just a steak from Juniper Takeout. He is amazing, and I love him so much. He keeps giving me positive feedback about how I am looking too, which helps a ton.

Other things going on besides the diet....

I got to babysit for the girl who used to be my visiting teacher last night while they went on a date. I had so much fun with their 18 month old little boy. We played with balls, and playdo, and colored, and he showed me all of his toys. Seriously, I want a baby so much. I didn't even want to put him to bed because I was enjoying everything. His laugh, how excited he got while we were playing with his toys, man I just love kids.

I have been reading a lot lately. I finished "Water for Elephants" last week. It is a movie that is coming out soon about the Circus in 1930. (Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullin will be the lead with Reese Witherspoon) So stoked. I just finished Nicholas Sparks latest called "Safe Haven". It was really good too if you like his style.

We are trying out a Free month of Netflicks on the XBOX 360. We watched "Fire in the Sky" last night and I couldn't sleep for hours, that movie scared the crap out of me when I was little too. I am looking forward to watching some of the old movies I saw on there with Josh.

When I was an my Grandma Redd's house last weekend, she made this soup that looked and smelled so amazing. It is her hamburger soup, so I asked for the Recipe to see if I could make an HCG version. Here is what Chelsea and I came up with.

HCG Hamburger Soup

3 oz Hamburger
1/4 onion chopped in square pieces
1/2 Large tomato or 1 small tomato cut in cubes
3/4 cup Cauliflour heads with no stems
2 tsp Tomato paste
Water
Oregano
Celery Seed
Basil

Brown your hamburger with the onion slices in a small frying pan. Once browned spoon it into a small saucepan and add enough water to cover the hamburger and about a half and inch more to cover the vegetables you will add. While the water comes to a boil chop up your vegitables and add them to the pan. Stir in dashes of the spices and tomato paste. Boil the soup until the cauliflour is as soft as you want it to be. Remove from heat and salt to taste.

Such a good soup on a cold day.

Anyways, I am off to run errands. Hope things are going well and I apologize for not writing as often as I would like.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Restaurants HCG Friendly

So while I was down this past weekend I ate out twice. How? By eating at HCG friendly restaurants. Apollo Burger will serve a lettuce wrapped burger! This is not on the menu, but they say they do it all the time. You can also add onions and extra tomato. They will also add cheese if you are on maitenence. Delicious and fast if you want a drive thru.

I also went on a date with Josh to Applebees. Now, applebees caters to chubby people. One of my favorite stand up routines is by Robert Kelly about Applebees because it is the truth. If you want to laugh your bum off, watch it below.
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So anyways, I got the 7 oz steak with steamed veggies. I did not eath the carrots, but the zuchinni was divine. I also asked the manager for saltines. JUST ONE packet please. He looked at me funny, but Chelsea and I both believe that if they bring you 5 packets of crackers this diet is much more difficult. :)

We went and saw "Battle LA" this weekend too. It was a really good guy movie. Kinda Indenpendence Day-ish but really good. We shaved lady as well and she is freezing up here in the rain. I steal Andrea's pictures she posts of my dogs off Facebook because I am too lazy to upload my own, so when she posts a pic I will get one of the shaved lady on here. She is so tiny now without all that furr.

I had a blast running errands with my mom and sisters. I miss them all so much. Especially Mellie. She is having a baby in September!!! So crazy! I am way excited for her. I can't wait to find out if she is having a boy or a girl so I can start buying it stuff. I love being an aunt. Jake, cohen and Carly have been so much fun, it will be awesome to have another kidlet to join the fray.

Well I am off to a PI party since today is 3/14. I will however be eating some very delicious strawberries instead of the pie, but it is all good. Pie sounds delicious though. Funny dream I had the other day. I was living with Chelsea and Jeremy and while they were out I took out all these chips and 3 kinds of donuts and soda, candy and was just eating away like crazy. They pull up and I see them coming out the window and I stash everything away as fast as I can, lick my lips of any donut (I know it is spelled doughnut) powder and give them a smile. Yes, I dream of the food I am not eating and they are truly great dreams.....

Thursday, March 10, 2011

So my boss took our staff out to lunch today at Beehive Grill here in Logan. I was stressing cuz I had never been there before and wondered what the heck I was going to eat since I am on the diet. Luckily they had a hambuger. So I got it with no sauce, took off the bun and the pickle, and scooted the fries to the other end of the plate. If you think my coworkers were't looking at me funny then, you should have seen them when I cut the hamburger in half, ate ONE half along with the tomato and lettuce that came on the burger, then put my fork down. I asked for a box and took the fries to Josh, and I ate the other half of the burger with asperagus, a tomato, and a plum as my dinner.

I hate feeling wierd about eating "skinny" while everyone else is eating like you normally would when you go out to eat. It is just uncomfortable. I am fat, why are you looking at me funny when you know I SHOULD be eating like this. Although it is also wierd and uncomfortable when you go out to eat as a fat person and eat what you want, and feel like people are looking at you with disapproving eyes. When I was gorging for the diet I went to IHOP and ate a ton, and you would swear my skinny little waitress thought I was going to eat her too along with my 4th cup of hot chocolate. Same thing happened at Coldstone. Are fat people not allowed banana icecream with grahm crakers? Its not like I got tripple chocolate brownie with all the fix ins. Fat people just can't win when it comes to food. In all contexts except eating contests.



"Yes I am going to eat all of this pasta. Quit looking at me skinny!"

Other news, I am coming to Salt Lake tomorrow to see my precious Penny and I am so excited. Josh also wants to go to "Battle LA" so we will see how that is. I am also thinking of cutting my hair. I am sick of blowdrying it forever in the morning. I also had no appetite at all today. Even thinking of food made my mouth salivate like I was going to ralph. Nasty.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

A McCormick Seasonings recipe came in the mail yesterday and I decided to do a HCG version of it, it tastes like something like a stew or Goolosh.

Greek Style Skillet

3 oz extra lean ground beef
Chopped onion
Oregano
ground Cinnamon
Garlic pouder
1 tomato cut in small pieces
1 1/2 tsp tomato paste
1 tablespoon water
Canned Green Beans

Cook the ground beef and onion until the beef is no longer pink. Sprinkle oregano, cinnamon, and garlic power and mix well. Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste and 1 tablespoon of water. Add green beans and cook until beans and tomatoes are heated through.

It was satisfying. I have not wanted to eat hardley anything though. It sucks, but it is good too. Nothing sounds good, and I have to make myself eat and gag it down.

Funny story though, at work yesterday one of the boys brought Pizza for everyone because it is spring break! Sat the Pizzas right behind me and I had to smell the awesomeness the whole afternoon. So I come home to eat my HCG meal, and Nate, Josh's brother comes home with pizza for us. !!! I swear, food just sucks. Also, my boss who NEVER takes us out to lunch wants to take us to lunch tomorrow because it is Spring Break. Most likely to firehouse too. I will just go and eat some iceberg lettuce and tomatoes.

I need to start an HCG/ healthy meal restaurant for people who are really trying to eat healthy. Why don't they have fast "healthy" food either? I do love to cook, but I miss just being able to grab something at McDonalds or Wendy's. So lame.

Funny Story #2: I had to get a new license because I am now 26 and it expired. So I am taking the eye exam and have a difficult time reading the letters on the screen you stick your face into. The man at the counter said if I had missed one more letter I would have had to go and get contacts before he would pass me. So yeah, how is that for feeling old, and the gray hairs are coming in like weeds. I dont' even have kids!



Things are good. We fixed our car and are most likely going to purchase a new dryer. However we somehow still have money in the bank even after that and all our bills paid. This is me working at $9 and josh working part time. I say that is pretty freaking amazing.

Monday, March 7, 2011

I'm Back




I wanted to annouce that due to certain people asking me to start blogging again, I have decided to start blogging again. This will mainly be about books I read and recipes. I am doing that HCG diet again because I wanted to loose some weight, and hey, I know it works so why not?

First an update for those of you whom I don't talk to everyday. I graduated in 2010 with my Balchelors in Elementary Education. We moved to Logan in June for Josh to stay at his internship and begin the Master's Program.

We got another dog in August named "Lady" because she looks like lady. "Oh miss Laaadiiee Ma'am". I am so freakin hilarious. Then our land lord let us know that we were only alloud one pet. Lame Sauce. So we have joint custody of Penny who is currently living with my mother.

I began working as an administrative assistant cuz there are no teaching jobs in logan and I love it. I work with 8 guys and 1 girl which is so much better than the drama of teaching with 30 women in 1 school. Plus, I get to wear all of my favorite articles of clothing: skater shoes, hoodies, jeans, hats, beanies, heck I could probablly wear my pajamas and no one would care. I do wish they allowed fip flops but this is Logan. I haven't worn flip flops since August.Bummer...

We went on an amazing sailing trip in August to the BVI with my fam and Josh learned to love snorkeling.

Other than that not much going on. We celebrated our 5th year anniversary in February. Still no babies, but dogs are a great substitue for now.

Books I reccomend: If you still have not read the Hunger Games series, GET ON IT!!! They are amazing! I recetly read "Crank" and it totally tripped me out. I do not want to ever do Meth because of that book. I am going to be starting a book club up here soon and I will let you know of some more books that are worth the read.

As for HCG recipes, I will keep posting them. I am on Phase 2 again where it is really restrictive, but still yummy.

Here's one I had for dinner today...

BunLess Burger

3 oz Extra Lean Hamburger
Sliced Red onion Rings (not the breaded kind)
1 sliced tomato
2 pieces of bib lettuce
S&P to taste

Grill your burger in a sauce pan
Rinse and slice your veggies while the meat is cooking
Have one "bun" be one piece of the bib lettuce folded to the size of your hamburger patty. Place the cooked hamburger patty on the lettuce

While the pan is still hot grill your red onion slices in the leftover hamburger juces
Lay the cooked onions on top of your patty and top with tomoatoes and the other folded lettuce leaf

Delicious and nutritious.

Off to watch some Glee. Thanks for getting me into that show Dayne and Bree. I find myslef singing all the songs in my head at work. I really need to sing for you sometime Dayne, cuz I am amazing. :)