Getting Back at it

Well it's been a little while since I last posted but to tell you the truth not much has been going on with me.  I have been back to work now just a little over a month and so far so good. The good is I have really only been eating what I bring I have not gone out to buy much in the way of bad food and the only time I got food out was Greek and it was just chicken on the salad I told them I didn't want the rice or the potato and they just gave me more salad so that was really not bad at all other than what ever they put on the chicken before cooking it and I had no dressing on my salad. I have been getting a lot more urges to eat snack foods but I have been able to stay away for the most parts, I have bought a few things from my Dr.'s office to get me through the day if I have a bad craving but it's been ok, One bad thing is I have been drinking more coffee about 4-5 a day and I was drinking only 1-3 before at home now I am not really too sure if that is what has been making me retain water or what but since my last weigh in I have lost weight- (FAT) but I also gained or (RETAINED WATER) so when you look at my actual weight number I am breaking even now I am not going to say that I have been 100% perfect because I have been having some salty food and I know that will make me retain water as well but I am just hoping that I can get over this break because I have been bouncing around 192 -194 for the past few weigh in's and I only weigh in every other week so for a month I really have not moved much in terms of weight loss so I am feeling a bit stuck.

I have just started back a running this past week because I have found that with being back at work by the time I come home I am not wanting to go to the gym after I cook dinner and get the kiddies ready with homework and bath's so I started to run I get everyone all ready and then my husband just has to listen out for the baby while I go for my run, so far so good I ran for about 22 minutes and when I tracked it on map my run it said I did about 2.2k I'm not a runner by any means so I don't know if that’s good or bad, all I know is that I want to try to get further and further every time I go out and if not further maybe make it home sooner then I will change up my route when I get better LOL.

Like I said in my last post since I am playing in Mas this year I am hoping to lose at least 20lbs before then but I only have 6 weeks left  I am not too sure about that any more but I at least want to be out of the 190's I'll keep that as my goal for now.

Thanks for reading

XOXO

Summer Here I come

Well it's been two weeks since I have been back in my office and back hard at work well as hard as my job is going to get LOL but any way that hard work I do at work was really not my issue it was going to be with how I controlled my snacking and bad habits that can creep up when you do nothing but is all day at a desk. Well it turns out that it was not all that bad I did have a few slip ups here and there but when it came down to it I went for my weigh in this weekend and I was down 5lbs and it was all fat and man I was so happy since two weeks ago I was up 5lbs but it was a mix of fat and water so now for the next two weeks I have to be on plan 100%  and get my water back down to where it should be as well as lose a few extra pounds. My goal for summer is to lose another 20lbs at least but I say summer but my date that is important to me is August 4th so I really only have 5 more weigh in's left I am not too sure if that is even going to be really possible,. to tell you the truth I know it is really 100% possible it only works out to be a loss of 4lbs per weigh in but its going to be a matter of mind over matter type thing and just really pushing my self as hard as i can both in the gym as well as in my plan I can not afford to mess up in the next few weeks.

For those of you who don't know what August 4th is well it's Caribana 2012 in Toronto and this year with all my success in my weight loss I am going to play in the Mas and its going to be greaat I'm going to add a little picture in this blog if I can and just to let you know its not the one I'll be in my will look like a full swim suit not two piece but will still have all the great extras and I can't wait and thus I need to get in tip top shape.

Thanks for reading.

XOXO 

Last weigh in for March 2012

Ok so this weeks weigh in came and went and ......................... : ( I didn't make my goal that I was so 100% sure I was going to make. However Dr. Poon has told me that I did lose fat but gained a lot of water. So to be honest I did have a few drinks on the weekend as it was my friend's birthday but at this time I have TOM over to visit and that can also play a role in the water gain as well. As Dr. Poon said no damage done lol, so now I have to work extra hard this next two weeks to burn off all the extra water i gained and I was told just to drink a lot more so I will try that and hope it works. Having this stupid 2 lbs hanging over my head is killing me I just want to see 199.9999999 so bad LOL.
Well not much more to say so I guess this is going to be a shore blog.
Thanks for reading :) XOXO

Almost there

Well yesterday was weigh in day and................ I didn't make the 7lb goal :( but not all bad I did lose 4.5lbs and that was a mix of Fat and Water so I am still on track and very happy and that leaves me with even more excitement for my next weigh in because that means that I am going to 100% be under 200 and finally have reach that wondrous Onderland as I only have 2.1lbs left to get there. I am so nervous more than anything now since it is such a big milestone I am worried I will mess it up or something like I have always done in the past either by falling off track completely or going a day long bender and crash and burn. But what I am hoping is because I already know all of this I am already know how bad my destructive past was that I will be able to move on past this and run right on through.

On another note my sister has offically joined me on the same program I am on and yesterday was her first offical weigh in she is very happy and all exceited about this new journey and as soon as I get her to give me her blogger address I will post it here for others to follow as well. :)

Also after our weigh in Dr. Poon told us about this metabolic testing thing that we could do at the office he was offering it to my sister at first but then I told him that I had never done it either so he set us both up to do it at the same time. This testing was supposed to tell us if we had a slow normal or fast metabolism we would have to sit with a mask on our face for 10min and just breath normally so we did this after making a joke saying we already know were fat so does that not mean our metabolism would already be slow? The lady that was performing the test told us that it's not the case she said most people land in the normal range and other are slow she said it is very rare that they get people with fast. Anyway we took he test and yep we both have are you ready for this..... fast metabolisms what??????? How is this possible? I always told my husband that mine was slow that is why I could never lose weight and after talking with the lady she in fact told us that our weigh gain is mostly all from pregnancy's and since we never worked at trying I mean really trying to lose the weight before that is why we kept all the weight on and stayed fat lol so as she put it this is all good news as long as we stick to the diet and do slight exercise we should have no issues losing weight LOL ya will see about that. Oh wait it's already working LOL
One more thing that text told me was that I should with exercise I should be able to reach my final goal in 17 weeks wow I am so happy 17 weeks will bring me to July summer baby and man I can't wait to have a hot bod for summer LOL ROTFL.

Back to blogging

Well it's been so long since I have sat down and written a blog I really feel bad but I have been keeping my own personal journal as well as keeping vlogs but I have been slacking on the vlog to be honest. One good things is that I have kept right on track with the eating and working out and for me that is huge if I had stop logging my food and doing everything before I would have quit my program by now and I haven't. In fact I have met some huge goal along the way I have said good bye to the 230's 220's and the 210's and right now I am very close to Onderland as it is so greatly worded LOL and for me that is a big number I have only seen 198 one other time way back in 2002 and that was only for about 4 months and then I have since always been above 200 ever after.
So at my last weigh in in the office Dr. Poon has asked me to give him a 5 day eating diary so this is what has prompted me to get back to the computer and track everything it has also got me super worried since I have never been asked this by any other Dr. along my program and I have only had a few very small gains along the way one of which was during christmas and the other was due to water gain from meds so I hope he does not think I am cheating or something but he has also given me a huge goal for my next two weeks of 7lbs now that has me worried since I have not lost 7lbs since I started now part of me says I can so do this but I don't know if it is because I want this so bad because that would put me to 199.9 and I think that is why the Dr. set 7lbs as the goal but who knows.
I have been pushing my self hard at the gym but I have not been since i hurt my ankle so I have to get my butt back to the gym for this next week 100% or I am not going to lose anything, I am also going to start running with my sister this week we are starting tomorrow since we are planning on running a 5k in the warrior dash this summer so we better start training now or we will be in last place for sure LOL. So I hope with the combination of the gym and running with my sis I hope to knock the 7lbs out of the park. ;)

More than a little mad

Well today was my weigh in at the office and I was down 2.6lbs but lost 5lbs of fat so I am very happy with that.
But as I started talking with the Dr. he told me that my office I go to each week will be closing and moving to a new location and not just down the street or two blocks or anything they are moving to pickering now that is way far from where they aare at now. My Dr. told me that I can go to the new office with him and I can change my weigh in to one time a month and just come on a saturday at the end of the month each month. But I was not very happy with that as i need the weigh in that is what helps me get through my hard times I always just say oh no I cant have that I have to weigh in two days from now or something like that and if I moved it to once a month that would just not be good for me. So my other options are to go to a new office that is closer to me one would be in Brampton or the other is in Thornhill now the Brampton office would be my best bet its only about a minute difference than the wilson office that is closing but my Dr.will not be going to that office. So my only option is to get a new Dr. I mean I am not about to drive 40-45min to get to an office and weigh in no way.
So my next weigh in will be my last at my old office and as of that I will have to find a new Dr. and that is going to be a hard thing or me I don't want to get some jerk or hard ass but I don't want to get a softy either. I feel so blah right now and kind of mad.
One good thing that is going to come of this is that the new office has a support group and I am going to attend this and see what it's all about, I have only ever gone to meetings when I was on Weight Watchers and I loved my meetings so maybe that will be how this turns out, I hope (*fingers crossed*)
Well thanks for listening
XOXO

New Year new me

Ok so how many blogs and vlogs are going to start with those 4 words? Well for me this has never been more true. Although I started my journey at the end of last year I still have the most part of my weight to lose this year. By the end of 2011 I had already lost 40lbs, 31.8 of those lbs were lost since October when I started  the Dr. Poon so I think that's pretty good. Today was my first weigh in for 2012 and I lost 4lbs now there is a good and a bad the good is the scale now says 218.6 and that means I am now out of the 20's and I'm happy to see that, but my problem is I lost 5lbs of water weight and gained 2.8lbs of fat ??? What say that again? Man oh man that sucks but the Dr. was happy he said it's ok to gain over Christmas, I mean I was not thinking I was going to have any kind of loss for my first weigh in for the new year just because of Christmas and New Year but hey what can I say. So now I'm sitting here and I am thinking about my goals and my resolutions and this is what I have come up with I still have about 60-70 lbs that I want to lose so that is goal number #1 for my New Year new me I need to lose all of it by the end of the year. #2 I really really want to run a 5k I have started with a couch to 5k app on my iPhone and I really like it so again by the end of the year I want to be able to run a 5k. #3 for me is something I always strive to do but I just add it in every year I want to be the best mom and wife I can be and part of that will have to do with losing the weight so I can be here a lot longer for my 4 great kids and wonderful hubby.
Well cheers to the New Year and cheers to me.
Hope everyone had a great year and is heading in the right direction to have an even better New Year.
XOXO

Christmas and my update

Ok so I have not been keeping up with my blog I think it's because of my new found love for m Vlog its been good because I have been able to watch other people move along in their weight loss journey and it's been fun.
So I am trying to get my blog back updated, I missed my Birthday weigh in that was on Dec 08 and I hit my 30lb loss I even went over it I made 31.8lb so I was super happy about that so my official weigh in that day was 221.8 that mean I only have 22lbs to lose to be in One-derland I can't wait for that day to come I don't thin I could ever be More happy then when that day hits. I think that since it took me 8 weeks to lose 31LBS I think that it will take me about another 8 weeks to lose 22 just because I know I am not going to have any more 11lb losses or 8lb losses so I'm going to try for mid feb and see what happens.
No that being said I also have to account for the gains that I may or may not have for example last weeks weight in I weighed in at 222.6lbs and that is a gain of 0.8lbs not much of anything but Dr. Stephen was very happy about that because he said I lost 2.8lbs of fat but was up 2 something of water so he called it a loss but in my eyes I see it as a gain on the scale. This is where I find that scale at the Dr.s much better because after stepping on my scale at home and crying because of a gain I got there and it was a great loss so I'm thinking about getting one from the office. The Dr. also said that he would not be mad at a gain at this time of year he would even be  happy because he says he knows people are going to sneak a little big of treats from Santa so not too worry lol.
Anyway so this weekend was Christmas and I 100% cheated this weekend Saturday Sunday and even Monday today is Tuesday the 27th and I am back to normal but I did a sneak peek at the scale and I don't know why I wanted to torture myself but I did it anyway and ya I was up a lot so I am back on track as of today no more bad food and I hope I can flush everything out of my system before next week Thursday.
I went to a family Christmas party and I had all my aunts and cousins who have not seen me in a bit complement me on how good I look and even ask how much I have lost that felt so good I just want to keep that good feeling and lose the rest of what I want to lose that way I will feel good for the rest of my life. ;)

Dr. Poon weigh in #3

Ok well it's a few day's late but I have just been so busy that I didn't get a chance to sit down until tonight so here it is.

On thursday I went in for my two week weigh in this will be my 3rd weigh n on the Dr. Poon program and I think that I have been doing very well. My goal for this weight in was to lose 5lbs this is because I want to lose 10lbs before my birthday and that is in another two weeks exactly on my next two week weigh in where I will need to lose another 5lbs and hit that glorious 30lbs goal by my 30th birthday :) So I got on the scale and I was down 4.2lbs for this two week weigh in, now it's not my personal 5lb goal but it's still at least 2lbs per week and that is a healthy weight loss. But that does leave me with a 5.6lb goal to reach within my next two weeks.

I told my Dr. that my goal for next week was going to be 6lbs he laughed at me and said I don't think so, ummm pardon me?? First off don't tell me I can't do something that I am trying my hardest to achieve, I don't have a large support system around me and you would think that at least the Dr. who is supposed to be helping along this journey would be more positive. So I said that I'm not the kind of person not toe speak my mind. it was funny too because my mom's jaw almost ht the floor she never likes it when i am abrupt with people and spit out the truth. But when I did he did a right quick turn around he of course tried very hard to pull his foot out but I still left with not a very good feeling and impression of him I am starting to really not like him.

Anyway after my visit I got home and told my husband about my weight loss and he was so happy for me he even pointed out to me that both my jacket and tights were starting to fall of and were really baggy that made me feel so good to know that my husband is starting to see all my changes.
Also on the same note I went out with my sister the next day as she needed to go shopping so we went to Old Navy that is a store that I can not shop in as they only go up to size 18 in the pants an 2x in the top. The last time I went shopping with my husband I had to buy a size 24pant and 3x top so you understand why I could not shot there. So my sister was trying on clothes left right and centre and she wanted me to tryy on a few things too and......... every thing fit the size 18 pants non stretchy jeans went up zipped up and buttoned WOW I was shocked also the 2x long sleeve tee was get this TOO big I had to get the 1x man oh man I could not have been happier.

So this just goes to show that I am making changes and they are for the better :) man I am so happy I can't wait for my birthday.

Second weigh in is in the books

Ok so two weeks has come and gone and boy oh boy that was fast a few days seemed to run into the other I was crazy busy.

I started to go back to the gym as much as I could but really only ended up getting it done 3 times but 3 is better than none I did two weeks ago.

Like I said in my last posts I was really nervous as I had a few days when I cheated and didn't know if I would be able to pull it all back together in time. So it turns out I did today was my weigh in and I lost a total of 8.4lbs that is 0.6lbs of water and 7.4lbs of FAT so I am very happy with that my total is now 20.2lbs loss and that is only in 4 weeks WOW.

Any who don't have much more to update other than that oh and my wedding anniversary is this weekend hope the hubby has something good planed.

Thanks for reading
XOXO

Just a quick note

Ok so I just wanted to put up a little post here today for one thing I need to vent a little and I also want to share how things have been going.

So since my weigh in last Thursday I have been doing ok other than me weigh in night my whole family went out for dinner and we went to a buffet I was doing really good to start with but I ended up eating something that was very salty and didn't mean too but after that it was like all bets were off and I even went to the goodie table and I know I should have went the other way but hell it was a buffet. So I counted that night as a right off. Then came Halloween weekend oooo spooky I know, but I did so good I only had good OP food and I never even looked twice at all the candy. Even till today I still have not had even 1 and for me that's huge news. But all in all I am back to eating only proper OP food and I am feeling good and I am already back in ketosis and happy about that.

Ok so let me get to me little venting. So I hate it when you tell a friend that you are on a new healthy life style change and they have to either put it down or ask a million questions. I got both today I told a friend and she would not stop asking me what I am doing until I told her. So I said it's something called the Dr. Poon plan and she had this look on her face like I was about to kill my self, and then she was like OmG why would you do that to your self???? Before I even had a chance to answer she went on to say I know soooo many people at my work who are on it and they are like 5 times the size of you and they say it's crazy hard and they have gained everything back after stopping. She then said I would never do any diet where they tell you fruit is bad for you.

Ok so first off I have had anyone tell me fruit is bad for me I was told just to not have it on phase 1 to help clean my system.
two who said  I was on a diet? Not me I said I am doing a new healthy life style because I fully know that when i reach my goal and trust me I will I am not about to go back to my old ways or yes I will gain it all back I expect to do this for the long road and along the way learn tips on how to add in new items along the way. We just have to face it we were not meant to eat the way we used to eat and I never plan on going back. I am not saying I am never gong to have junk food ever again but if and when I do I will be able to make better choices and I will make sure not to eat the whole pack of what ever it is. :)

Any way thanks for reading just had to vent
XOXO

Dr. Poon weigh in #1

Ok so today was my official two week weigh in and for me that is the first weigh in ever with the Dr. and yes I was very nervous, I did ok for the past two weeks but I was having a hard time with breakfast and changing things up a little.

Anyway so lets get to the good news so my total weight loss for this weigh in was 11.8lbs now first of all let me say my eye almost fell out of my head, I have never seen this kind of weight loss before on any other health plan I have followed other than on TV on The Biggest Loser haha and I was sure happy. I also know that 4.4lbs of this weight loss is water but that still leaves me 7.4lbs of pure and total FAT :) either way I am very happy and hop that I can get another weight loss like that in the next two weeks.

So now for the bad news I had a bunch of stuff and running around that I had to do today as well as some family dentist appointments to attend, well I didn't get everything finished on time and cooking was going to be too late for the kids so my husband took us all out to dinner. First of all I have not eaten out for two weeks and have not learned what I can eat and can not eat fully on this plan yet. But anyway we went, and the kids wanted to go to this buffet that is close to our house, I almost freaked out I had no clue what I was going to eat to stay on plan. At first I was doing good but then this sweet chicken threw my whole plan off, after that you can say the rest of the night was a right off.

I don't know why I do this to my self my husband said to me not to worry one day is not going to ruin everything. I really want to believe him but for a man who does not have one ounce of fat on his body and is ripped with muscle and has never had to watch what he eats I can't really count on what he says. All I know is that for the next two weeks before my next weigh in I have to be 100% perfect when it comes to eating because if I don't lose anything or worse if i gain i only have my self to blame. (oh and my husband too) LOL

Phase One on Dr. Poon

Well this has been a heck of a week (well a little over a week) and I have had my ups and downs. The one good thing is I have not been hungry like I thought I was going to be I can eat as much as I need to in order to be full as long as I am eating the right thing.
One problem I am having is have to cook "old food" for the rest of my family and then me eating something very different, that has been hard. For example the kids wanted french fry's/onion rings and burgers so I had to make that for them the other day and it just smelt so yummy to me, I just wanted to eat one. But I knew in my heart if I ate one I would not be able to stop there so I held my self back and made my self a salad.
Then it happened again on Saturday we had spent most of the day out and I woke up late to start off with and didn't get to eat my usual egg white omelet, we had to leave as soon as I got up. Then after getting everything done of course the kids and my Hubby were all hungry and wanted a old family fave Burger King so off we went and they all got there usual and we went home. As they were all sitting around the table eating I was in the kitchen making my dinner and by the way I was starving by then. It took all my will power not to sneak over to the table and eat a few fry's but I didn't.
I am very proud of my self because since I have started this weight loss journey I have not cheated even one time. :) (**pats self on back **) By now on almost every other thing I have tried I would have given up and cheated once or twice. This just tells me that I am in this for the long haul and I can do it.
So I guess you can say I have grown a little this week and for me that's huge, little by little I am going to be able to do this and I will be happy with my self again because I did it for my self.
So I have 4 days left until I have reached my official 2 week mark and my first weigh in ever on this plan I'm doing good and can't wait to get my print out from the Dr. I will say I am happy to have a way to gauge if I am doing well or not with the ketone strips it has been helping me for example this past week at the start of the week the strips were very purple and then they went back to white I found out I was not eating enough or drinking enough water so I love my strips they are a great help.

Any way I'll post again in 4 days with my great results **fingers crossed**

One Day at a time

Well I am not too sure how often I plan on updating my blog I was thinking only every time I go to a weigh in but that may end up being down the road as for now I am just going to blog as I need to.

Today is about my 4th day on the Dr. Poon diet and it has been ok so far nothing too crazy hard and I'm not starving like I though I was going to be. Although I am already bored and that is not very good at all. I don't want to turn into a salad queen and I don't want to fall of track and eat what I am not supposed to.

I also just wanted to put out there that I know I shouldn't weigh my self every day but I just wanted to see if I am doing what I am supposed too and good news I'm down I'm not going to post the number right now because I am only going to enter it when I get weighed in at Dr. Poon's office.

So I guess from here I better take it one day at a time because if I think too far ahead I am going to stress myself out I find when ever I try to follow a diet or make any small life change all I can do is focus on it and stress about it making my self crazy and now all I think about every day is food. Man oh man I hope I can do this.

Thanks for reading :)

Day One Dr. Poon Diet

Hey all,

Well today was my first office visit at the Dr. Poon office and let me tell you I was a bag of nerves it helped a bit that I was with my mom as we are on this journey together but not that much since she was more nervous than I was haha. We were both a bit stressed because everything we have been reading says that it is a very hard diet and that in your first visit this does not mean they will take you on as a client.

So first off when we got there we had to complete a 3 page consent form that said if you don't stick with the program you'll get kicked out of the program as soon as we seen that we both looked at each other and said wow, and not wow bad but wow good we need to have some one be tight with us so we stick it out. The consent/contract also says that I can't disclose the specifics of the program but I'll try to explain as much as I can along my journey.

So after all the papers were done we were taken to another part of the office to wait again but this time it was to do the deed and get on the dreaded scale that by the way you have to get on bare foot and its cold metal  (Note to self always wear clean socks haha) after you get on the scale they take a measurement of you neck don't ask why I'm really not too sure and then the little box spits out a bunch of numbers that made me want to cry oh and turns out I shrunk : ) Any way needless to say all my number are bad and I really need to be there.

Then after all that we got to meet a Dr. he was great and answered most of our questions and gave us our little handouts and told us to follow it to the best that we can for the next two weeks. My mom and I again both looked at each other and said is that it? The Dr. said yep that's it as long as you follow the plan it will work. He even told us not to stop in the store in the office for the first 2 weeks and said our first goal is to lose 15lbs as my mom and I left the office we were talking to each other and said hell if we knew we were going to be eating most of the foods as we did before just cutting out a few things here and there we would have done this a long time ago.

But we also did think to our selves is this a test? Because I thought that the first visit did not mean that we were taken into the program? So our plan for the next two weeks is stick to the plan as much as we can and do our best and see what happens.

We have our next appointment booked for two weeks and I will post again. : )

First Post Ever

Well this is my first post ever first blog ever. I am going to tell you a little bit about me and why I started this. I am a 29 year old mom of 4 great kids I'm married and entering a phase of my life where I see that I need to make some changes.
I'm going to start by saying my blog is going to be all about my weight loss journy and just my thoughts as I take my steps. I just want to put that out there because I find some times that you start reading blogs and think they are about one thing and they end up being another.
I have an appointment in the next few days to see a weight loss Dr. his name is Dr. Poon I am sure many of you know who he is and what he is all about I myself just found out about him and what he is about. I have my first appointment with this Dr. soon and I have been told it is to see if he is even going to take me on as a client or not. I am also going in with my mother who I am sure he will take on for sure as she has many underlinging medical conditions as from what I understand you must have sever conditions to be taken on. I myself have a few health issues but not as many as my mother does but I am sure I will if I don't get this problem under control from now.
My whole family on my mother's side is large and it seems that we have all just been going from one diet to another. I myself have been on Nutrisystem, Weight watchers, Atkins, Jenny Craig just to name a few and not to mention all the crazy bad stuff I have put my self through so here I set out on my new journey with myfingers crossed that I can do it this time around.
I have been starting to go to the gym a few days out of the week at least 3 but I try for more I figure start small and the little changes can make a big difference.
Well I'm going to leave it at that for now and I will let you know what happens at my appointment  :)