Looking Towards The Future

Weight: 298.8                      Total: - 24.2

Another 1/2 pound GONE! I'm not surprised, but very happy! Low carb does the trick
every time! Definitely had a "Happy Dance" moment, not sure why. It's not a goal day,
just another day closer, I guess!

I was watching some success videos last night, and there is a bread I want to try, It's
called Flat Out Flatbread. There are a ton of lower carb recipes on the internet, and while
my family is enjoying pizza, I could be enjoying my own version of it.

I will probably have another low carb day. I'm only days away from a spike on the
scale due to my cycle, and I don't ever want to see the 3's again! If you don't agree
with my logic, too bad!

I would have been happier to get more veggies in yesterday, but I wasn't expecting
to get a side job. It was a grab and go meal, and to boot it was McYuckies!

Last night my daughter, China, and I spent sometime looking for some makeover ideas.
The plan is, everyone says we look so much alike that we are going to get identical
makeovers when I reach goal, to get that one picture to see how much we really do.

Here are a few of our hair ideas:

I also searched information for laser skin resurfacing. The outcomes are great but it
seems a lot more painful than I thought. It also costs a lot more than I thought. I'm
going to do some more searching on it, and I need to find a good cosmetic surgeon.

Some of the results are amazing, taking 10-30 years off of your face. I know it's
completely vain, and I should be ashamed of myself.  

I slept in this morning, and my time is cut short! Ah the joy's of motherhood. Have an
awesome day!

HUGGZZ


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Complimentary Meal
2 hard boiled eggs

Complimentary Meal
2 McDoubles without bun or ketchup, but extra pickles

Reward Meal
3 oz flank steak
3/4 cup of spinach

Sabotaged By Salad Dressing

Weight: 299.3                  Total: -23.7

It is so nice to put a two at the beginning of my weight! I was so worried that I would
weigh this morning and have gained back into the 3's. I will see a spike this week, for
it is about that time of the month again...BOO!

I think I'm going to do 2 more low carb days before the weekend, in hopes that I can
lose a little more and that it doesn't go past that line. It is such a relief, I never want to
see that number again, unless it's on a bank deposit slip!

Read your labels! I realized yesterday that the salad dressing I have been using for years,
had 11 g of carbs per serving. I could have sworn it was like 4 g. I didn't even realize it,
but I was sabotaging some of my days with this condiment! WOW!

I obviously still lost, but it may have been more if I had been reading ALL of my labels.
I don't even know what possessed me to look last night. I'm glad I did though. It has
taught me to be more vigilant. Knowledge is power.

I really wish I could watch a whole movie without dosing off during it. Last night we
watched Little Orphan Annie, and I fell asleep while they were in the movie theater, and
woke up to them singing about getting her. I hadn't seen the movie since I was a kid
myself, so I couldn't remember what had happened to make him decide to keep her.

Then we watched one of the older Riddick movies, I again dosed off and came back
at the end, and had no idea what was going on. I've never paid attention to it when it
was playing before and want to see the older ones before seeing the newer one.

There maybe a new gym coming to your town. An inventive idea, Downsized Fitness,
a gym where only overweight people are allowed to join! Prospective members have to
be 50 lbs overweight and a BMI above 30%.  I LOVE IT! Right now I believe they are
only in Chicago, but since they are successful, it maybe a trending thing soon!

If you'd like to know more, or are in the Chicago area here's a link!
Downsize Fitness

I have a ton of stuff to do today and tomorrow, because I know I won't be doing much
around here during the weekend. I'm going to finish this up and get started!

Have an awesome day my friends!

HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
1 scrambled egg with cheese
3 Jimmy Dean maple sausage links

Complimentary Meal
3 oz flank steak with Texas Pete and ranch
1/2 of a turkey and provolone sub-in-a-tub (salad)-sweet vidalia

Reward Meal
1/4 sub-in-a-tub Turkey and provolone-ranch (add beets, cukes, and fried onions)
4oz flank steak
Assorted melon chunks and strawberries
1 cupcake...yum yum!

Another Goal Met! Hello Facebook Friends!

Weight: 299.3           Total: 23.7 lbs

I have made it to the "twosies!" Wow, it took 7 long, but not hard weeks! I am not even
close to finish, but it is time to share my accomplishments, with my friends.

I know that I haven't posted in a few days. Working nights has really screwed with my
sleep, and besides barely being able to walk (everything hurts), I stagger around like a
zombie most of the time.

It has messed up my rhythm, metabolism, and appetite. Two days ago, I actually had 2
reward meals and then yesterday was low carb. I was only able to eat approximately 500
calories. Way too low!

I will make an effort today to eat more, but still stay low on the carbs. In no way am I
promoting that low of a caloric intake. Eat! I just fell asleep an missed lunch, but
proceeded to eat what I had planned for dinner.

If you are just joining me on this adventure of being "Half The Girl," I have been
following The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet, for the most part. I have started to plateau,
and have implemented low carbohydrates days into my weeks.

At 280 lbs, I plan to go into a maintenance level, and commit mostly to quitting smoking.
This goal was set so that if I gain 10 pounds in the process, it will not devastate me.

I try to log my food intakes here, so you can see how I eat, and see that losing weight
does not mean being deprived. This way of eating is not for everyone.

This diet may be for you IF:
-you have insulin problems
-crave pastas, sugars, and starches
-find it near impossible to keep a caloric ceiling
-feel deprived of the good stuff, while trying to achieve weight loss
-want a diet that you can LIVE with, not just drop and gain back

I'm up for any questions or support, as I make a super-human attempt at being half the
girl I was in those wedding pictures! I still have 138 lbs to go, with hopes that I will be
close to goal by next June.

I feel I need to again post about the changes that I have noticed beside losing weight,
and dropping pant sizes also. Some of these things have been altered with the new job
schedule, but on the whole are still true.

-extreme energy and endurance
-sleeping through the night
-able to easily keep a caloric ceiling
-blood sugar stabilized
-I do not feel deprived
-I have control over my eating habits
-naturally became a morning person, I have never been that!
-little to no pain, which had become chronic
-hair and nails growing healthy, stronger, and thicker
-depression...G-O-N-E!

If you feel the desire to join me, I suggest getting the book The Carbohydrate Addict's
Diet by Dr. Rachael F. Heller, Dr. Richard F. Heller . I got mine from Amazon.com for $4,
including shipping and handling. It has been the best four dollars I have ever spent!

Also, my exercise for the last few days have been replaced, by a ridiculous work load in
the Health and Beauty Aids section for our local Walmart! I am always the lucky one, to
get the hardest job. The one no one wants. Do I have a sign that says "Challenge Me" on
my forehead?

You do not have to exercise, to lose weight on this plan. I am just determined not to be 
"skinny fat." I will undoubtedly have to have skin surgery to lose the excess, and I want 
to look good naked, not just in clothes. My goal is to be healthy and active, but what is 
the point of getting that far, and not looking the best you can under the circumstance? 

On the days that I am there I am in charge of stocking anything from cosmetics, to
shampoo, to toothpaste. It is only 11 isles that I have been thrown into completing in
8 hours, oh, and with very little training to boot! If you want a clear picture of what
my job entails, go to your local Walmart, and walk from the nail polish to the sanitary
napkins.

I was so overwhelmed last night, that I started crying and was about to walk out. Thank
G'd I had a manager, that just smiled when I tried to hand her my badge, and told me she
had felt the exact same way when she took over HBA, and that I was doing a wonderful
job.

I now know that if I had handed my badge to any other manager, they would have just
let me go. There's some shady management at this store, and glad that I still have this
job. Any who, I got two managers pissed at me because I ratted them out, as to them
not training me and dumping me by myself.

They can be pissed all they want, but I am there to stay. For once I am comfortable
with cameras being on me all the time. It very well may insure that I keep my job.

If you are interested in more info about this way of eating I am providing links to
earlier posts and also their official website. If you look for reviews, you will not
see a ton of good reviews for it. I still don't understand why, because it has totally
changed my life and my focus on food.

Official Website: The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet
Getting Started: August 29, 2013...323 lbs
Buy the book: Buy it used for $.01 plus shipping!
Support group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245919655427576/

People refuse to believe you can eat cake, and still lose weight. You of course can not
be a glutton continuously, but if you balance your reward meals, you will be healthy
and achieve a loss.

Not all of my reward meals are balanced, but on the whole I try, and I am eating so
much healthier than I probably ever have. It is mostly due to not craving the crap that
I have craved in the past.

If I want Taco Bell or a pretzel burger from Wendy's, a piece of pie, or whatever, I eat
it in the time allowed and get that out of the way. If I do decided to indulge, I try to
include a salad, an apple, and/or veggies to off set the sodium intake a little, but that is
just me.

When I first started I ate like a pig at my reward meals, but by the second week I had to
push myself most days to eat 1200 calories. I have found that tracking my food allows
me to make better choices as far as nutrition goes and keeps me accountable to eat
enough, but not too much!

I am still embarrassingly morbidly obese. I don't mind though, because I now have a
plan that I can live with. I will not be like this forever, for once in my life there is a
light at the end of the tunnel for my weight battle. A battle I had almost given up on!

Thank you everyone for reading! Thank you for all the +1s, and shares! It means a lot
to me that I have people reading everyday, and following my progress.

Look out world...here I come!

HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meals
2 hard boiled eggs

Reward Meal
Baked chicken leg quarter
1 cup cooked spinach with butter
1/2 cup green beans

Beyond Exhausted

Weight: 300.5                Total: 22.5

I got a ton of exercise last night, for sure. I feel it in every part of my body! Stocking
Walmart shelves is a very physical job! I was so very glad when they moved me from
grocery to health and beauty aids.

My comfy no-slip shoes, are not so comfy. They were fine for the first 4 hours, it
was just down hill from there. I have multiple blisters, tonight is going to be fun, fun,
fun!!!

I also saw a classic People of Walmart moment. These girls were dressed in the most
appalling outfits, that several guys from the grocery side visited our isles just to get a
good look. I just can not explain, but they had thigh high boots, short shorts, and afro
wigs, with blouses that had their boobs hanging out.

I don't have much time to write, because I need to get dinner started.
Have a great night.

Hopefully I won't be as exhausted tomorrow, or be rushed!

Huggzz
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Complimentary Meal

3 fried eggs
3 pieces smoke ham (lunch meat)
shredded cheese

Reward Meal
Spinach salad with cukes, tomato, fried onions- ranch
apple
1/2 Dannon blueberry yogurt
1/2 cheesesteak sub (from Jersey Mike's...YUM)
1/2 small bag of BBQ chips

The Grave Yard Shift

Weight: 300.5         Total: 22.5

                        (less than a pound to mini goal...oh scale why must you toy with me?)


I was very low on my food intake yesterday. I went to bed very early to adjust my schedule
for working 3rd shift, starting tonight. I was really looking forward to the baked chicken,
that was being made, but I knew I needed to wake up around 3 am. So I threw together a
low carb dinner to make sure I wasn't skipping completely. I did not feel like I was starving
either.

My plan is to go back to bed around 2:30 this afternoon and hopefully wake up around 8
pm. Fingers crossed, it will be a successful idea. Otherwise I may need to hop up on
some of that liquid cardboard they call coffee at work!

I have less than a pound to go before unveiling my blog to my personal friends! A tad
nervous, not sure what kind of responses I will get. I have lost a lot of weight for only
being on this way of eating for 6 weeks and a few days. So far it averages out to almost
3.5 lbs a week.

In just 15 pounds, I will most likely go into maintenance mode for a few weeks. I'm
already smaller than what I was 2 years ago, even though I weigh more. I love the
feeling of being light on my feet. Hustling about is so much less effort. I can't imagine
what I'll feel like at goal, at this rate I'll feel like I'm going to blow away!

My mother hasn't seen me for about a month and a half, I can't wait. We don't talk
much, but she has always obsessed about my weight. Probably because she feels
guilty, or maybe she just obsesses about everything. The latter is probably spot on!

What would really be cool, is to hide out until I hit goal! Then it'd be like a morph in to
someone completely different! Ha Ha! Oh my, I'm just thinking way too much into this.
Lack of sleep, I guess?!

Have a GRRREAT day!!
HUGGZZ

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Complimentary Meal
2 Hard boiled eggs

Complimentary Meal
Beef jerky

Reward Meal
Spinach salad with cukes, tomato, shredded cheese, fried onions- sweet vidalia
1 cup frozen spinach with 1 tbsp unsalted butter.
1 stalk celery with cream cheese

Preparing For The Holidays

Weight: 301.9                       Total: 21.1

At least it held, and didn't go up. Even if it had, it'd be okay. Yesterday I followed a
normal Carbohydrate Addict's meal, and today once again I will go low carb. I am
also feeling better. Except for a stubborn headache that wouldn't go away yesterday.
I drank some wine at dinner, and it finally left...Ha! Ha! take THAT!

Had a talk with Dad last night, and he agreed with my thought process. If I continue
with this weight loss rate, I should be hitting my "quit weight" around the holidays. If
it happens before Christmas, we're going to wait til the first of the year.

We want to make sure it's not at a stressful time of year. I love Christmas and the last
thing I want is to be is grumpy, or short with people. I always try to do a lot of baking
and projects with the kids, and I have a few lined up already.

Here are a couple, if you're that kinda person also.

Fall table decorations

Homemade Christmas Ornaments

I'm not a very artsy person, but I try, and these seem simple enough. We also make
goody boxes for all the people we know, especially for the ones who have everything!

This going to be a short one. I have a ton of things to do since I have to be at work at
9 am. The kids need to be dressed and ready for school, I for work, and I need to at
least stretch this morning (still no Pilates because of my arm...BOO).

Good day friends!
Huggzz
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Complimentary Meal
3 cups sauteed cabbage and green beans with sesame oil
3-4 oz cheeseburger steak

Reward Meal
Spinach salad with cukes, tomato, beets, shredded cheese, wheat crackers
 - sweet vidalia dressing
1 piece Papa Murphy's pepperoni pizza
1 pack Nutty Bars
1/2 Dannon low fat cherry yogurt
1/2 cup applesauce
2 glasses of cabernet

3 cups of black coffee, 1 1/2 gallons water

A Trip To The Feeding Troth

Weight: 301.9            Total: -21.1 lbs  (I have lost more than a car tire!)

I usually stay away from buffets, but my favorite steak comes from one of the worst,
Golden Corral. Years ago, I donned it "The Feeding Troth." Where 4-500 pound people
come to shovel in plate after plate, with grease dripping from their chops, and gluttony
reigns.

I'm not picking on fat people, hell I'm fat too! I do however, even as a fat person, know
to stay away from traps like this. In full you will see how my life has changed with this
way of eating.

I ate NOTHING with more than 4 carbs per serving. I had my fill of green beans,
cabbage, buffalo wings, spinach salad with the low carb choices, steamed cauliflower,
and a plain burger no bun no sauce. I had initially went for the steak, but they didn't
have it on the lunch anymore! A grand total of 21 carbs for that meal!

The other goodies only whispered to me, and I brushed them off without a second
thought. So easy to turn away from food, when I know they make me ill, compromise
my life, and make me FAT! By "know" means, not told by someone, but can feel
the difference!

I slid in right under my sodium intake for the day, so I made it my reward meal!

I also got caught in a time warp with two old ladies named Marsha and Lois. It was
a pleasant unexpected surprise. After we had started a conversation in line, they offered
to share their coupon with us, then asked for Jude and I to sit with them.

We talked about friends we had lost, our bad food habits, and Dolly Parton. I really do
enjoy the company of older people. I grew up with my grandparents being in the Masons
and Easter Star. So all my BEST friends, were older ages of 60-90. At a very young age
I was able to carry, this what everyone says, a very intelligent conversation compared to
others my age.

By the time I was 18, all of my dearest friends were gone. Mr. and Mrs. Spain, who
would bring me fresh honey and my favorite coconut cake. I still haven't found a cake
comparable to hers!

Then my very best friend Col.Tank, who shot himself when I was about 11 because he
was stricken with cancer, and he couldn't take the pain anymore. I've prayed for him
many times throughout the years, that G'd would give him mercy, I so would love to
see him again!

I can't forget Jimmy. Blinded from a gun shot wound in World War II, he was always
so funny! Only today can I appreciate what he gave up for me to be free and what he
did to save G'd's people during that time! He would only need to hear my voice, and
would yell "Is that my favorite little girl I hear?!"

Well, I fell asleep early last night and since I had promised to do dishes, everyone
was gracious enough to leave them for me! How sweet of them! I must go clean
this atrocity.

I bid you good day and many blessings throughout your endeavors!
HUGGZZ
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Complimentary Meal
2 Hard boiled eggs

Reward Meal
*Golden Corral

2 cups black coffee, 1 1/2 gallons of water