tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91947365905702856692024-03-13T16:11:57.552-04:00BetterNotBiggerBrideMy journey with weight loss.betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-73024990166686479402011-02-07T13:16:00.000-05:002011-02-07T13:16:11.147-05:00Day whatever<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok so I've been MIA for a while. At the end of last week I started feeling crappier and crappier. My arms felt like they weighed 100 lbs each and every part of me hurt. I was lightheaded and dizzy. Thursday night Ken woke me up at 11:30pm and was like "are you ok?" besides being annoyed that he woke me up I had no idea what he was talking about. He said "your legs are shaking so bad" and they were. My whole body was shaking. We got up and I had a slice of cheese and a handful of cashews and started to feel a little better. The next morning I was really shaky and weak. So instead of just the milk for the day I decided to eat vegetables and a little bit of meat for some protein. Of course I ended up in the potty so that sucked but I felt better otherwise. Friday night Ken called the Sahdkins place and told them what was happening and the girl just kept telling him that I needed to drink more tea with honey. Well neither he or I was satisfied with that answer and decided that with my insulin issues this just wasn't good for me. So I took off my balls and decided to forge on...on my own. So now I will be attempting to do this on my own, slow and steady and balanced according to my Drs plan. I still feel pretty good right now because I've been eating smaller portions of healthy food but not taking in the crap and messing up the detox I did. I stepped on the scale this morning and it was 253 so I gained a little back but I guess that's understandable since I started eating actual food again. So I'm down 10 from when I started still not bad. I'm going to keep journaling and weigh every Monday morning to track my progress. So I won't be skinny for my wedding but at least I'll feel better!</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-2366107350421212852011-02-02T16:25:00.000-05:002011-02-02T16:25:06.516-05:00Day 16<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well today we had a snow day so I've been home with both the girls and another kid. That's enough to make anyone want to eat AND drink! But I've behaved and drank my tea. Today I'm eating baby spinach leaves, cucumbers with green onions and garlic and herb seasoning; and peaches. Nice to have some variety now. Haven't decided what to make for dinner yet. </span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-50489893601543098212011-02-01T12:47:00.000-05:002011-02-01T12:47:51.122-05:00Day 15<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or at least I think it is. Looks like I haven't posted since Sat. The weekend was fairly uneventful, I got to eat vegetables and fruit over the weekend. Now I am able to eat a bigger variety of fruits and vegetables. So I opted for cabbage, broccoli and watermelon. Ken went bought me some fresh stuff and I made a little salad with the broccoli and cabbage and I chopped up some green onion (that's a free one) and but some garlic & herb seasoning on it. It was pretty good. I wish I could steam the vegetables though, it would taste so much better. I didn't cheat at all over the weekend. Shockingly enough my pants are actually starting to not dig holes in my stomach so that's nice. lol </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monday and today are milk days. Mon I was really hungry I kept forgetting to rub my balls, it gets hard because at work I loose track of time. They have a little timer thing I may get that next time. My coworker brought in these delicious looking brownies yesterday I wanted one so bad. I kept having to talk myself out of it. I swear there is a devil Sonya on one shoulder and an angel Sonya on the other sometimes. I made dinner pork chops and potatoes. I don't care for pork but man I miss potatoes. I <3 potatoes so much! Today hasn't been bad. Brownies are all gone so I don't have to think about those anymore...wheww and I've been better about the ball rubbing. Not sure what I'll make for dinner tonight...maybe Italian sausage. Oh that reminds me...last night Ken sat on the floor with his dinner, I looked at him weird and said "what are you doing on the floor?" he said he didn't want to make it any harder for me and he felt bad sitting next to me with food in my face. Isn't he great? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm taking the vitamin supplements now. Good Heavens there are so many I hate taking all this medication but supposedly it will give me anything I'm missing and all kinds of energy. Not sure when that'll kick in... cause I could take a freaking nap right now. The Soy milk is actually starting to grow on me. Whodathunk?</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-17414100443912749662011-01-30T10:47:00.000-05:002011-01-30T10:47:16.545-05:00Second ten days of ball placement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gPJg3Dhbp3xDjlExAZ120isWb-PLxN4fVfodUIFPTgKFw5Nw-UpgtP6bIJRB6-2JvdIlg-IbG4QzdLKlMAVUfdyj1ecat5Mc0HWQoopTBmUT0hdNQFTrFOtsr8rElEVaxvpVorOIh_I/s1600/CIMG0152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gPJg3Dhbp3xDjlExAZ120isWb-PLxN4fVfodUIFPTgKFw5Nw-UpgtP6bIJRB6-2JvdIlg-IbG4QzdLKlMAVUfdyj1ecat5Mc0HWQoopTBmUT0hdNQFTrFOtsr8rElEVaxvpVorOIh_I/s320/CIMG0152.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-15780206499190189702011-01-30T10:41:00.000-05:002011-01-30T10:41:00.093-05:00Day 12<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm getting behind on my posts...so this is from Saturday. I stuck with the diet most of the day. My mind was preoccupied and I kept forgetting to rotate the balls. So I ended up really hungry. I got really upset and went in my room and cried. Ken came in and rubbed my back. I finally calmed down but admittedly I was very unhappy. I got up later and was cleaning the kitchen (Ashley is sick) and I had a little bit of the tater tot casserole I made for dinner. It was really good but once again last night my stomach cramped bad and I ended up in the bathroom again this morning.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The actual doing of the diet is not really hard it's the mental part of it. Well my mental part of it. It's hard to make dinner for my family and not eat it with them. It's hard not going out to lunch with my coworkers. It's hard to not be able to go out with friends because there is always food involved. But I have to stick with it. I have to loose this weight. It's not about being unhappy for a few months from not eating it's about living the rest of my life happy and healthy for my family. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-67639074034643349862011-01-29T10:05:00.000-05:002011-01-29T10:11:52.796-05:00Day 11<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So yesterday was day 11. The first 10 days were complete. When I got up in the morning I stepped on my scale and according to that I had lost 10 lbs. Went through the day just fine. After work I had my appt at the Sahtkins place. When I got there I stepped on the scare it it reflected only 9 lb loss. So ok, I know that 9 or 10lb loss in 10 days is amazing but I'm still disappointed because this thing promises a 5% - 10% of your body weight lost in the first 10 days. Well I didn't get to either and other than the ho ho I did everything exactly as they said. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So after I get off the scale the lady replaces my balls with new ones that are lower behind my ear lobe. The last ones were to detox my stomach and liver. These ones detox the small and large intestine. As she's doing it she says "so what did you eat that you weren't supposed to?" so I told her about the ho ho incident. She says "eww a ho ho, of all the things you ate some processed sugary junk, so what else did you eat?" "nothing everything else I did exact" "oh ok, well 9lbs is great!" she clearly didn't believe me, which made me a cross between upset and angry. So she tells me about the next 10 days. The balls now have to be rubbed every hour and a half and then at 4 and 7. She went over the additional fruits and vegetables I can have and that I need to walk every day now. Ok, so I'm walking out and she's in front of me and we get to the lobby where there are about 8 or so people at and she yells "SONYA LOST 9LBS IN 10 DAYS WOOOHOO!!!" everyone turns and stares at me, a few clap. Now I know in hindsight that she was probably trying to make me feel good and motivate the people in the lobby but anyone who knows me knows that made me instantly ANGRY. I absolutely loathe that sort of attention and people starring at me. I wanted to trip the skinny bitch!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So as I'm driving I'm trying to concentrate on the fact that I just lost 9 or so lbs in a short time but all I could think about was I've been busting my ass, eating nothing basically and that's all! Now I know that I feel better and I sleep better and my stomach doesn't hurt all the time but still. So I'm pleased and disappointed all at the same time. Weird I know.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I get home and Ken is all excited waiting to talk about how fabulous I am and I'm not really feeling it. Anyways he picked up a pizza for him and the girls. I'm starving so I ask Ken to give me a bite and he says no it won't do me any good. WRONG! Now I want it. I don't like being told no. He leaves later to get a coffee and I'm cleaning up the kitchen and put something in the frig away and I see the pizza box and grab a slice and eat it. I wasn't sneaking it, I knew he would know there was one gone and ask me. I don't really freaking care at this point. It was so damn good. Not cheap greasy pizza. Later were watching a movie and he goes and gets the pizza and says "did you eat a slice?" YEP! He said nothing. That was smart. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This morning around 5am I woke up with horrible stomach cramps and had to go potty. It was ugly and I shouldn't have eaten the pizza but whatever it is what it is. I'll start over and hope for the best. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also got the supplements yesterday, I have to take a ton of them which I'm not very happy about but they say I'll have lots more energy. Yesterday's cost $125. $75 for the 2 minute office visit and $50 for the supplements. Ouch. Glad Ken is paying and not me.</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-81930398755023479952011-01-26T19:37:00.000-05:002011-01-26T19:37:42.493-05:00Picture of my left ball ;)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmQMpK8RTug7ZDNlwInKthJU9gxZWsbaeHckeEWMwdXNJQs-gK0uCc-G3llb59iKcA0k-HFOncJgd4MwRgH8g_BDeYGVKspMPzdUWrGOD5e59u1y9S-UCbvAY803c4v1hI2jPOMfX4lA/s1600/CIMG0150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmQMpK8RTug7ZDNlwInKthJU9gxZWsbaeHckeEWMwdXNJQs-gK0uCc-G3llb59iKcA0k-HFOncJgd4MwRgH8g_BDeYGVKspMPzdUWrGOD5e59u1y9S-UCbvAY803c4v1hI2jPOMfX4lA/s320/CIMG0150.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-76575044457505229582011-01-26T19:34:00.000-05:002011-01-26T19:34:21.852-05:00Day 9<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today was a food day so it was nice to have something to chew. I can chew sugar free gum but I have problems with my jaw locking so I only do that when absolutely necessary. Today was a fairly easy day. Made ravioli for the family, I miss pasta. lol I think that my cheating meltdown has actually helped me not want food as much so that's good. Ken went to the store and got me some more tea, Chai and Vanilla yumm can't wait to try them.</div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No cheating!</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-67506489708237678452011-01-25T22:42:00.000-05:002011-01-25T22:42:32.949-05:00Day 8<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 8 was pretty uneventful. Went to work, drank milk, rubbed the balls. It was a pretty good diet day. No cheating!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I made Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper for dinner today since Ken and the girls are always bugging me for it and I don't like it cause you may as well just take the salt container and pour it down your throat. Ken looks at me and says "wow it's alot saltier than I remember, guess because I'm used to eating home cooked meals now". Just proves MOM knows best!</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-62082937868847762112011-01-24T21:20:00.000-05:002011-01-24T21:20:11.823-05:00Day 7<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well it started out REALLY bad but got better. I have these dreams all the time about Ken telling me he can't marry me because of my weight or he can't bear to be intimate with me because I'm so hideous. Of course in real life he would never do or say anything like that. But my dreams are very real and I get pretty upset. I hadn't had one in a while but last night I did. It was an awful one, it involved another girl, etc... anyways in my hormonal nightmare state I woke up and got all upset. I stepped on the scale figuring I would have lost more weight and it would make me feel better. Well I didn't loose any more in the last 2 days and I lost it and ate a pack of ho ho's. Almost instantly I felt sick to my stomach and started crying. My body did not like that crappy food and I was so absolutely disgusted with myself for reacting the way I did. But you know I didn't get this fat by not being an emotional eater. I text Ken saying that I screwed up and he called and talked me down (it's a miracle this man hasn't run screaming from the hills). I pulled it together and went to work where there was more food...this time including donuts from the meeting. But I didn't even think about eating it because after how sick physically and emotionally I got earlier. I wasn't really hungry today and just drank my soy milk. My coworker next to me ate a very good smelling lunch today but it didn't bother me as much as it has before. So maybe my bad experience this morning actually has a silver lining. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So Day 7 and I cheated but learned a good lesson, hopefully it doesn't set me back too much. </span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-36152736360750516512011-01-23T20:30:00.000-05:002011-01-23T20:30:47.579-05:00Day 6<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well since I never got back yesterday I'll finish my Day 5 first...</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I watched a few Hallmark Channel movies in the morning so that kept my mind of eating anything bad. The day went pretty smooth. Lazy day hung out in my jammies the whole day :) The night was kinda hard, I was pretty hungry and then I took a shower before bed but I got very dizzy and overheated and weak. Ken grabbed me a glass of cold water and a few carrots. Didn't like the way that felt but considering how little I've been eating and the shower and the fact that Aunt Flow showed up and as usual is reeking havoc on my body. I felt better when I woke up this morning. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Oh and no cheating!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ok Day 6</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So my monthly unwanted visitor is NOT being nice to me today. I have been SUPER grumpy. And I have been hungry all day even with eating a ton of cabbage and apples. I went to the grocery store and yikes that was hell. I swear Satan was following me around saying "ohhh look at all this food. you're all by yourself. no one would ever know." But I would know and when Ken started up with his "Baby I'm so proud of you, you're doing awesome, blah blah blah" I would feel like a total shit head if I cheated. I put the scale away because I was getting obsessive compulsive and stepping on it every hour, like that does any good.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So Day 6 and still no cheating!</div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-63154912974279380342011-01-22T10:10:00.000-05:002011-01-22T10:10:04.793-05:00Day 5<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stepped on the scale this morning and it says 256 so that is 7lbs since Tues. I hope this scale is right, cause if this is the progress I'm gonna make, I may be able to stick with this crazy diet. I originally just typed "hard diet" but then erased it because other than Day 3 with the bad milk, it hasn't really been "hard", difficult at times but not overly "hard". I've been praying about it so I'm thinking I've had some help. Not too mention that Ken is literally an angel about it all. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Side note: Every other tv commercial is a food commercial. The other ones are diet commercials. Crazy! </span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-90287686896104961012011-01-21T22:35:00.001-05:002011-01-21T22:35:37.946-05:00Bought a scale today LOL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfD0bOYG51LNBS2wdBPlPOyqlLPVbFuHlaixEZPjZP8BRMCoxiyjEHQ58CXph3PdbsF7ZkVfkXzRslYHRAo5Hf1YUS_sdP9ZpqLPVOOF9oXcV4fs50VkaM0opPTOJ-2aGOuGquAR6n5lOy/s1600/funny-scale.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfD0bOYG51LNBS2wdBPlPOyqlLPVbFuHlaixEZPjZP8BRMCoxiyjEHQ58CXph3PdbsF7ZkVfkXzRslYHRAo5Hf1YUS_sdP9ZpqLPVOOF9oXcV4fs50VkaM0opPTOJ-2aGOuGquAR6n5lOy/s320/funny-scale.gif" width="320" /></a></div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-82255889580013844912011-01-21T21:07:00.000-05:002011-01-21T21:07:48.683-05:00Day 4<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well Day 4 was a helluva lot better than Day 3! The soy milk, while not awesome, was not bad. I put some honey and cinnamon in it and it was a lot easier to drink. Those stupid brownies at work will still were hollering at me but I held strong. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No cheating and I bought a scale today and I've lost 4 lbs. So that makes me feel optimistic. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh funny story: last night I'm laying in bed and Ken is laying there snoring and all I can think about are the 2 Twinkies in the pantry. I don't even LOVE Twinkies but I'm thinking...hmmm everyone is asleep I could go eat a Twinkie and no one would know. Then I think NO don't. Hmm I'm kinda thirsty. NO don't get out of bed. I was having a argument with my self over a damn Twinkie. NO! NO! NO! I finally fell asleep. Whew....this is hard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tomorrow Ken works in the morning and I'll be home alone...I'll probably be having some more of those arguments in my head. LOL </span></span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-90210595834778911482011-01-20T19:39:00.000-05:002011-01-20T19:39:36.289-05:00Day 2 cont.<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well I made it through the day but it was hard. I got a horrible headache again. There were sandwiches and chips and brownies at work today. I was so tempted because I was VERY hungry. But I didn't eat anything, just kept drinking my tea. I wasn't very good about the balls today, I was so busy I kept looking track of time. After work I stopped and at Kroger and bought some soy milk and some rice milk since I can use that as a substitute for whole milk. I tried them both, the soy tastes better but they are both drinkable. I checked the date on the whole milk and it's 1/24/11 but there was a big curd of crap stuck to the side so I'm guessing it's no good. Not sure I can try again, I may just stick with the soy. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still have a headache but I took some Excedrin and it's starting to get better. Iron Man is on tv so I'll just concentrate on Robert Downey Jr for a while ;) </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Side note: walking through a grocery store I never realized how much food is there! Holy Moly!</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-27225568687521946032011-01-20T13:07:00.001-05:002011-01-20T13:07:58.156-05:00Day 3<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Has been BAD!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got up late today, forgot to rub my balls, so was late with that. Was super hungry. I grabbed the milk that Ken bought last night and poured it into the mug thingy. I have been super hungry all morning but dreading the milk. Noon comes and I get the milk out of the frig, open it up and there are little while curd things on the top. GROSS! So I scoop them out figuring that must be normal it is fat milk afterall. Took a sip GAG, put some vanilla and cinnamon in, gag, more, gag, honey, gag. I downed like half at one time. HURL I feel like going in the bathroom and puking. It was so horrible, I pured it out couldn't do it. It tasted like it was spoiled or something. I talked to Ken and asked him if he looked at the date on the milk. nope of course not. Dear GOD I hope it is spoiled because if that's what it normally tastes like I will NOT be doing this. I just can't. My stomach is in knots right now. I started crying on the phone because I was pretty optimistic until now and I'm gonna start my period soon so you know I'm a hormonal mess not too mention my body is freaking out. <br />
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I hate today and want to go home and eat a fucking cheeseburger! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully I will post something positive later.</span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-7972814189448190982011-01-19T22:03:00.000-05:002011-01-19T22:03:30.953-05:00Day 2<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok now I'm current....</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wednesday, January 19th</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My day was pretty much the same as Day 1 but without the headache thankfully. I am a little crabbier I'm noticing. And right now as I'm typing this I'm hungry but I didn't have much of a dinner. Made BBQ Brats for the rest of the non-fat people in the house. Man I wanted a bite!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh and my lovely coworker (j/k she actually is lovely) brought in a bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and put them in the kitchen at work....those things were haunting me all day and they are still there. ughh</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I did snap once while making dinner I went to pull a pan out of the cabinet and AS USUAL everything fell out at me. Since Ashley does the dishes I flipped out on her. I apologized later but you know how annoying that is normally; now add the fact that in two days you've barely eaten anything and you're trying to cook dinner for other people....well SNAP!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything on track, no cheating. I did forget to rub my balls at 9, so I did it at 9:30. Maybe that's why I'm so hungry. Hmmm</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tomorrow is my first "milk day" so not looking forward to it even though all I hear is that they are the easiest. </span></span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-9751451025465241532011-01-19T21:53:00.000-05:002011-01-19T21:53:06.254-05:00The Cost<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I forgot to let ya'll know the cost. It's pricey... the first visit was $150 and each next visit is $75. The vitamins they want you to take (but are optional) are $50.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So gotta be serious...that's too much money to waste.</span></span>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-55721317887804978202011-01-19T21:43:00.000-05:002011-01-19T21:44:58.710-05:00Day 1<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tuesday, January 18th</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I woke up and first thing I did as required was "rub my balls" lol it's become the joke around here the last few days. I got up got ready, got the girls ready, made myself a cup of tea w/honey and packed my cabbage & apple lunch. I drank 2 more cups of tea by noon and then I had lunch apple and then I salt & peppered the cabbage - not too bad actually I would have thought raw cabbage would be blahhhh but it's better than lettuce and has more substance to it. I continued to rub my balls every two hours and then when I left work and got home I ate more cabbage & apples while making the rest of the fam dinner. In all honesty I didn't feel hungry all day but man that dinner smelled sooooo good. I ended up having the headache from HELL and had to take an Excedrin Migraine and went to bed. Luckily that most wonderful man of mine rubbed my neck and head until I fell asleep. I'm so blessed :)</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I did everything exact on day 1...no cheating!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. They said that every time you cheat "putting anything other than approved stuff in your mouth" sets you back one full day of progress. SO not worth it!</span></div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194736590570285669.post-28487426166697236312011-01-19T21:32:00.000-05:002011-01-19T21:44:29.168-05:00The Decision<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok, I'm a few days behind so I'll start from the begining. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monday, January 17th: I made the decision to do something drastic about my weight. My back has been really hurting me (I had back surgery in Dec '09) I feel like crap physically & emotionally all the time. And I REALLY didn't want to be a fat bride when I marry the most wonderful man in the world. Ken has been telling me for months about this diet thing he hears on the Christian radio station he listens to. So I decided to research it and I read up on it and read all the reviews. It's pretty drastic but if it works the results will be amazing and well worth it. <a href="http://www.sadkhin.com/">Sadkhin Complex</a> In all honesty the website is totally cheesy and not informative at all. So I goggled it and read personal reviews about it to find out what it entails. I called and made an appointment for that night and Ken and I went and learned about it and I decided to sign up. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the gist of it:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are these 2 stainless steel balls that are adhered on pressure points behind the ears. Every two hours you press on them and do 40 rotations. This is supposed to relieve hunger pains and help detox two of your organs. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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The first 10 days you are on a strict detox. So for 2 days you eat twice a day consisting of only raw cabbage, carrots & green apples. You drink 6 to 9 cups of tea with honey (2-3 tsp per cup) per day. Then the next two days you only drink the tea and then 2.5 cups of WHOLE milk. Which frankly makes me want to GAG! But they gave me a recipe where I can use vanilla extract and cinnamon to make it taste better - supposedly! No food on these days. So you alternate two days fruit & vegetable and two days milk. Sounds difficult, huh?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the first 10 days you go in and they reposition the steel balls to a different pressure point, give you more of a fruit & vegetable selection and you begin vitamins. Also at this time you are supposed to begin walking daily 30 to 40 min. Oh and you can only eat twice a day between 12 and 6.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This process repeats until you reach your goal weight. Then you begin a maintenance program when they start introducing other foods like fish and such.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They say if followed exactly you can loose up to 10% of your body weight in the first 10 days. I weighed in at 263lbs so that could be 27lbs in 10 days. Wouldnt that be something?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wish me luck!</span></div>betternotbiggerbridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15212096229898842069noreply@blogger.com1