Week 3- day 6

Ahhhhhh! It's been a stressful week. Luckily I've been able to stay on my diet. Sunday was Easter. They gave us an "alterate" dinner in case we wanted to eat food for the holiday. I wasn't going to take advantage of this, but at the end of the day decided I really wanted some real food. I had about 4oz of meat. I ate that instead of my last shake of the day. Last week I lost 5.5 lbs for a total of 19 lbs. The people that weigh us in were shocked. They said that usually when people loose so much the first week, the second week is a small number. My luck it'll be this week. Sorry, I know that's a crappy attitude, but I keep waiting for the ball to drop. I realize it can't go at this pace forever, so at some point I'm going to have a bad week. With as stressful as this week has been I figure it'll be this week. I started working out last week. I'm surprised at how much I can do. I thought it would hurt my abdomen more than it does. I remember my body taking alot longer to heal after I had Austin. I guess that's because I didn't give myself the time I needed to heal after I had him. With the twins I hurt so bad I didn't have a choice but to let myself heal. They built a "wellness center" at work, so I can go down on my lunch hour and work with weights. It works out really well because then I don't think about the food that I normally would be eating. It also gets me out of my department and away from some of the drama that's been unfolding. I have changed my routine a little bit. Instead of doing a shake in the morning and afternoon, I now do a shake in the morning and at night, and eat my soup in the afternoon. It's easier to mix at work. I really like the shakes done in the blender, which I don't have at work. I got into my skinny jeans over the weekend. That felt really good. I also got on pants that are a size smaller than my skinny jeans. They don't look very pretty, but at least I got them up, buttoned, and zipped. Another 10 lbs and they'll fit great. Something to look forward to. Ok, I guess I've been boring enough for now. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Friday.

Week two- day 3

Today is Sunday, the third day of my second week. I weighed in on Friday. I lost 11.5 lbs last week for a total of 14.5 lbs total since I signed up to do this. Somehow I lost 3 lbs between signing up and actually starting. I really only count the 11.5 lbs, since that's from the program. I took pictures the day I started, and then again yesterday morning. I couldn't believe the difference. You wouldn't think one week would make that big of a difference. Maybe one day I'll get brave enough to post them. At this point I won't even show then to my husband. LOL. My parents come home from Texas today. They haven't seen me or the kids since they left 3 months ago. The twins were not even two weeks old when they left. I think they'll be surprised at how big they've grown. Before I got pregnant with the boys I had lost weight. I had gone from 253 lbs to 218 lbs., so I'm not too far from my low weight now. The day I had the twins I weighed in at 288 lbs. I was HUGE. I was so afraid I was going to hit 300 lbs. Twins or no twins, no one wants to see the scales hit 300. It feels good to know that I lost almost all of my weight from the babies. I hope to loose much more. I guess time will only tell.

Week one- day 6

Today is Day 6 and things are still going pretty good. I've lost 10.5 lbs since Friday. Yay! I know it won't continue to come off this fast, but it sure feels good now. The diet is pretty easy to stick with so far. Next week may be harder. My boss thought the second week was harder than the first. I guess I'll find out. I find that right before it's time to eat again I get a little fuzzy in the head. Not really hungry, but like my sugar drops. It's a weird sensation. It makes sure I never forget to eat. I get weighed in "officially" on Friday morning. I'm excited. I ran into a co-worker today that is in week 9. She looks really good. Nine weeks puts me at sometime in May. I would love to look good for Memorial day weekend. So here's to Hopeful Expectations!

Week one- Day three

I really meant to get on here the first day and just didn't have time. It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. For those of you who don't know, Optifast is a meal replacement diet where you have either shakes, bars, or soup. I have to see the doctor regularly, get weighed in every week and can only eat what they give me. This is day three of week one. There is twelve weeks of only their food and then I can start adding in regular food very slowly. I've very excited. I can already tell a difference. I know it's mostly water weight that I've lost, but it still feels good to feel skinnier. (This is the part I dread!) I weighed in Friday at 238lbs. I'm 5'5", so this makes me obese. My BMI is about 39. I have not weighed myself this weekend, even though I REALLY wanted to. I'll wait until I get to work tomorrow as their scales are very close to the doctor's office's scales. I thought I would post a pick so that you could see what I look like now. I would post a full body one, but I'm just not that brave yet. LOL. Talk to you guys later!