Another diet strategy...UPDATED!!

So I communicated with Jared (Capricorn) a few days ago.

He advised me on a different kind of diet that consisted of Lemon/water and Cayenne Pepper/water.


I don't know if he remembers telling me about this "diet" before. It was sometime last year. When he told me then, I was like, "What? For 2 weeks? No food?...I'm going to die of starvation!"


Then I started thinking about the Cayenne Pepper and how it might burn coming out the other end if that is all I'm having to "eat" for the next 2 weeks.

So...my scared ass didn't try it. Instead I sat around and chomped on anything I could get my hands on. (Not the best diet strategy, I must say)

So when I asked him again about it and he gave me more specifics I was able to understand exactly how to do it.

Alright. I'm ready.

I have my "ingredients".....Water...

... Cayenne Pepper......(for my "soup")

And I've already pre-squeezed my lemon juice into the bottle with the water. I'll carry these around with me while I work. (my lips are puckering already)


Take a good look people. This is officially my last meal for the next...um...let's try for 2 weeks.


I'm not promising anything.


I'm still a little worried about coming out of this thing hooked up to an IV due to malnutrition but I'm not stupid. If I feel faint...I'll eat an oyster cracker and stay on track.

How's that for motivation?!

Also, I'm still working on kicking Honkeie2's ass in this little competition cause he punk has YET to post a scale pic.

Get on it, dude!!

Here's my current weight. Sorry for the crazy looking pic. I took it this morning and it's hard to stand on the scale evenly while trying to take a pic of the numbers without tilting over. Also, my digital camera battery won't charge...unless it's the charger. I'm working on it so I took the pic with my cell phone:



My current weight is 169.0 lbs.

I'm down about 2 lbs from my last weight post on Tuesday.



Let's hope I'm not dying the next time I post.



Wish me luck.

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In other news. Dom has started writing in his blog again. Check it out.

From what I read.. I think he has a message in there for you Jared.

He's been talking about wanting to go to work already for quite a while. Angel and I have been talking about letting him get a job. He'll be 14 in April and he's been doing SUPER at school and doing his work. The only problem we have is his mouth, but he's a teenager and I know that is something we will have to deal with (that includes all of the kids).

We decided to let him work. I will open a bank account for Dom and he can have his own money.

There's other subjects that we've talked about but they are not in the final stages yet.

Like: Child support money, a car...etc.

We'll see. He's getting older and we are waiting to see a certain level of maturity before we can go on with Plans B, C, D.... in Dom's life.

Miah and Devyn?

They're still young.

I do have plans for Devyn though. He's going to be my athlete. I'm going to be the Chunky Soup Momma. I'm going to be right by his side at everything he does.

Miah...DIVA. She's my princess...and getting more and more like her momma everyday. We crack up at the same times for the same things. I'm still trying to figure out what she's destined to do. She refuses to learn how to ride a bike.

Anyway. I'm rambling. I had some cancellations for therapy today so I had some time to kill. Now it's killed...gotta go to work!

Have a good day everyone!

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UPDATE!!

OKAY...

Are you wondering how my 1st day went??

Here's a hint.........................................FAIL!!!

I totally was rocking the lemon juice and water all day until I picked up Dom from school at 2. Then I had to wait an hour before my next patient and I was sitting at home with all those cereal boxes staring at me.

Stupid cereal boxes!!

They were going DOWN!!

Then Angel got home from work and brought Salads.

So yesterday is officially scrapped.

This is going to be harder than I thought.

I need to call on the powers of The Force or Mr. Miyagi OR SOMEONE to help me through this. Who knew the urge to eat was going to be that overpowering?

Today...I stick with it.

Hopefully....

I know Jared, ...I know no one is making me do it. I just want to try it....see how long I will last and if I lose any pounds in the process. I think I may actually be losing brain power. eeek.

Obviously, I need to try harder.

My babies!

First things first.

Here's my current weight. I took it this morning because when I got home from Houston, I STILL had to take care of someone else's unfinished business. It's like I never left at all!!


ANYWHOOO...

Ta Da!

According to the scale: I am down 3 lbs since the last weigh-in.

Current weight: 172.2

I know you all are wondering exactly how I STILL lost weight even though I was on "vacation".

Let's just say...there wasn't much food consumed during those 4 days.

Truthfully. I am planning on taking another trip to Houston in a couple of months. I think I am going to try to visit my friend Lisa every chance I get.

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Valentines Day is coming up and I am already on the ball. I've already purchased some Valentines for Miah and Devyn. Dom is a little too big for Valentines. I will take him to get something special for someone when he is ready. Right now, at 13, I don't think he is passing out invitations with candy attached to them anymore. BTW, he is still posting on his blog (when he gets a chance) check it out.

Check out what I got:

Miah's:

Devyn's:

Alright Jared. I know what you are going to say.....SKULLS? AGAIN?

That's right, baby. Skulls again. Miah loves them.

Also... (J) This is for you too. I know how you like to rag on me about me bragging about my babies and then 2 seconds later...bitch about them.

My "babies" are now 6 months old.

They are huge.

Angel with the girls.

Venus and Serena

These dogs are wild. They are too playful.

This is their "play" mode. It's loud and vicious and people driving by probably think that we are fighting dogs.

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Also, one of the blogs I like to read is from Maternal Mirth.

THIS POST from her is hilarious and I crack up everytime I read it!

Workin out. Part 2

HEY HONKEIE2....IT'S ON!!!

Alright.

Here's my progress since I started working out say....2 weeks ago.
This is my current weight: 175.4

Now, as I said in my last post that my starting weight was 185 lbs.

According to my scale...I have lost about this many pounds: 10.0

Whoo hoooo!

Okay..okay..so I'm far from having some stranger snag me off of the street and throw me on the runway to begin my reign in Tyra's old position...but still...it's a start.

So, I'm challenging HONKEIE2 to a little friendly competition.

A weight lost competition.

Something to help continue the motivation.

I haven't gotten together with him to discuss anything just yet but I will soon, maybe.

(Of course I don't think he knows it yet until I tell him to come over and read this post...AND since this IS a competition I don't think I will actually mention it to him. So if he takes his time coming over to read...I will go ahead and use the "Head Start Due to Opponent Procrastination*" card)

Here are some (suggested) rules:

1. You must post your weight at the end of each week on Sunday (if possible).

2. No excuses. (especially none about why you aren't losing weight or haven't been able to workout) Just get the shit done. Whatever it is.

3. You must pick one thing a week to give up for the whole week. This means sodas, candy, all sweets, anything that could possible ruin your diet. (Keep in mind we are going for 7 consecutive days. If you end up messing up then you must only count the # of consecutive days you were able to follow this rule).

EX: Say I choose to give up soda. I mustn't drink any for the whole week. If I end up drinking one on Thursday and we started this on Monday...then I was only able to not drink soda for 3 days and therefore should consider myself unfit to mother my own children. ...............or......uhhhh.... maybe not to that extreme but there should be some punishment involved.

4. No CHEATING! That means if you are going to say that for the whole week you aren't going to eat any junk food or sugar etc...then you MUST stick to it.

Uh...ok...I don't know where else to go from there. Kinks to be worked out later and punishments will be distributed....Suggestions are welcome!


Now...

In the last post I also mentioned that Jenn was coming and we were going to Mexico.

We went.

We got to the first bar (this is at 11 am) and we ended up letting some man pay for another person to sketch a caricature of Jenn, Myself and another girlie who went with us from my work. He offered us a deal we couldn't refuse. He said he would pay $20 and we paid $5 and we get to keep the picture.

HELL YEAH!

We did it!

Here's the pic:



Jenn is the top left, I'm on the right and my co-worker is on the bottom left.

Now, if this little poster was hanging outside and we were standing near it...I'm not sure we would be recognized.

Except maybe Jenn. It looks like her. She's got a big ass and she has big boobs. The nose is the same shape it's hilarious..we love it.

Me, I was made to look like Beyonce. I don't look anything like Beyonce in real life but obviously the artist knew how to play his cards right. Notice the not so subtle boob jobs we all got. Nice and perky. Thanks buddy.

My co-worker looks like Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched..in the picture he drew. Not in real life. The funny thing is she mentioned that she has gotten a caricature of herself before and they always drew her with big teeth (cause she has big teeth like a rabbit) and no boobs (cause she really doesn't have any). This guy gave her boobs and made her day!

Also...just to let you know...none of us were remotely dressed in anything showing off our mid-drifts (where the hell did our waists go?) nor were we using our breasts to hold up our chins at all that day.

We all had a good time.

Now it's time to slap on the combat boots and get my ass to work busting off these pounds.

I've got a competition to win.

* This card is used for times when your "opponent" isn't updating frequently and you get to continue on with the competition. That, by the way, is a new rule I just made up. We're allowed to make them up as we go cause I say so....see, it's that easy.

Workin out. Part 1

That's where I've been.

I know you guys have been worried about me during my short leave of absence due to the flood of emails I have received offering to pay the ransom for my safe return.
You guys are awesome!!

(Actually, I never received ANY emails from ANYONE offering to pay ANYTHING for me. No one cares.)

PUNKS!

Naw, I haven't been on the computer much because I've been working out and working and it takes a lot of my time.
I (like many others) have made "losing weight" or "getting back in shape" my New Year's resolution.

Foolish? Maybe.
Crazy? Definitely.
Is it testing my will power? Hell Yes.
Is it working? ...uuhhhh...we'll see....

Alright, I was pretty ashamed to say this but at the end of 2008 I weighed 185 lbs.
I'm 5' 7".
I can only blame myself.
Lounging became a lifestyle. I was just plain old lazy most of the time.

I'd come home from work (which was hardly work at all) "tired". I don't know if maybe it's all of the driving and getting in and out of my car all of the time or maybe the continuous interaction with everyone all day all of the time. Either way, I'm hungry and I'm sleepy when I get home. Okay, the sad part is that I could be done with work by 2 and I would be hungry and sleepy. I've started developing this pattern within myself. Eat. Sleep. Shit.
Of course there's the occasional Shower and Work thrown in there but still. My basic pattern consisted of the 3.

So....I decided it was time.
Besides, when I take pictures with my friends...ummm...I would like there to be room in the pic for them too.

So here's how I started (Trust me, this is a gradual process):

First, I had to get motivated. The "idea" was already in my head but I had to use logic in order to incorporate my exercise in with my work.

Yeah, it took a while because I'm not on my meds anymore (that's my excuse) but then I remember that I am a Physical Therapist Assistant.
Duh!
One of the ways I provide therapy to my patients is in the form of exercise. I started exercising more with my patients and taking longer walks with them and leaving the paperwork for the end of the day.

I would like to say that I've been walking on my very expensive Bowflex Treadclimber and using those Bowflex dumbbells along with that bench we have but that would just be LIES! All lies.

I bought about 48 opti-meal shakes (they're like slim-fast) in various flavors.
I figured since I'm on the road and I don't eat breakfast or lunch at all I may as well get some nutrients.
Plus, I like the shakes cause they're shakes.

I also started eating less when I did eat. I used to load up the plate and then go back for more sealing my fate of lapsing into a food coma fo sho.
Now, I'm all about portion sizing. I don't measure or anything I just eat the same amount I would give my kids.
When I go to the grocery store I look at the labels. Mainly just to give other shoppers in the isles the impression that I am actually concerned about what I put in my body because I really don't exactly know what I'm looking at.
Either way, it works.

I also made the mistake of mentioning to DOM about the "2000 calorie diet" that's on all of the food labels.
I was eating at the time.
He jumped up and ran to see what I had on my plate and started checking the fridge and pantry for my ingredients. He actually started trying to calculate how many calories I was eating right then and there.
Talk about someone keeping an eye on you while you diet, huh?

I stopped eating junk food. Just stuff from home. Cheaper. Plus, my lazy ass is too lazy to cook so I guess I don't eat..
Angel feeds the kids since he's home.
I drink only water allllll day. My work car is littered with empty bottles of water. I just take them into the office and fill them up again.

I also bought a scale.
I know the kiss of death when I see it.
It's actually been one of my best motivators. I have it programmed with my starting weight/goal weight and height (thank goodness the height isn't changing...yet) and it lets me know how much I've lost/gained and what my BMI is.
Those days that I get on and it tells me that I've gained weight is a shocker.

Anyway, Since I've been planning this trip to Houston, I've been more motivated.

Starting weight: 185
Goal weight: 135 (ish)

Sorry to cut this short....there's more to this story but Jenn is on her way in from Corpus so we can head to Mexico to get some bottles. (hmmm...how many calories are in liquor? ...gotta check that out)
I haven't even showered yet...ewww

Part 2 will be coming shortly......