Good news...

Well, I have been on Phentermine for a little over a month.  I have lost 20lbs.  WOOOHOOO!  I need to keep motivated.  I have been watching my calories like crazy.  Last week I did not walk at all.    I know that is bad but I have been crazy busy.  I am going to make it my goal to walk this week.  It's a little hard because my daughter wants all of my attention./  She is almost 2 so she demands it.  LOL! 

Here is to another week.  My goal for the week is 1 lb.  I know I can do it. 

BUMMED!

Ok, so I weighed today.  I did not lose any weight.  I am weighing on a Publix scale so I am not sure how accurate it is.  And I weighed at a different publix today.  This just stinks.  I am not even sure I am hitting my 1200 calories a day.  I am drinking well over 12 glasses of water.  I did not walk as much this week.  It has been rainy.  I don't understand how others on this medication are losing so much weight per week.  How could I not lose even one pound. 

Maybe I am being a little hard on myself.  I am just upset.

YEEEHAAAW!

I have lost 10 lbs in two weeks.  This is fantastic.  It is going to make me more motivated for the week ahead.   I am looking forward to my walk tonight.

Save the TaTa's

Today was amazing.  My team exceeded our goal of raising over $2000 for breast cancer research.  The weather was wonderful.  It was an all around great day.  I am so proud of the work our team did.  I got my exercise and helped save the tata's all in one day.  LOL!

I still have not weighed myself.  Hopefully I will by the end of the day.

The day before the walk

So tomorrow is the breast cancer walk.  I did not raise as much money as I would have liked.  I can't wait for the walk.  I put in a lot of time and effort.  It should be beautiful tomorrow. 

My mom took Madison for the night.  This is her first overnight stay.  This is the first time I have been away from her sice her birth.  I feel lost without her.  My husband took me out to dinner tonight.  I completely blew my diet for weeks to come.  LOL!  We went to the melting pot.  OMG!  The chocolate was to die for.  I could have just eaten the chocolate and been fine. It was a very nice dinner.  I was toddler free. 

Tomorrow is weigh in.  I do not think I did as well this week as last week.  Although I have been watching my calories all week.  I have had at .least  16 glasses of water a day every day. 

Hopefully next week will be better.

Friday

Well, I could not wait.  I had to weigh myself.  I was at Publix and decided to jump on the scale.  I have lost 5lbs.  I know that is pretty good.  I was kinda expecting to lose a little more.  I have been drinking 70oz of water a day.  I have been walking with my daughter for 30-60 minutes 5-7 days a week.  Maybe it was because I was dehydrated.  I work in a Lab.  It is considered a "dirty environment."  So, you can not have food or drinks with you.  I would go all day without drinking anything. 

Anyway, 5lbs. is a start.  Only 45 more to go.  I am completely motivated now. 

good day

Today was a grat day.  I think I may have gotten an hour or two of sleep last night.  I don't really remember. 

I stay full of energy all day.  I still have dry mouth.  But not as bad as the first 2 days.  I am drining 72oz of water a day though.  I am sure that is helping. 

I am going for a walk with my daughter tonight.  I have noticed that I am beating my time around the track.  I think I need to keep it that way.  I need to make it into a game so I don't get bored. 

I am getting really anxious about getting on the scale on Saterday.  I really hope I have lost weight, but I just don't know.  I will probably be discouraged if I do not lose any. 

I am going to try to get around the track 3 times tonight.

Great day!

Today is the third day on this medicine.  I was a little nervous today because I am an avid starbucks drinker.  I did not know how the espresso would inreract with the medicine.  It didn't do anything  to me.  I had great energy all day.  I cut down the size I was getting at starbucks.  I used to get the biggie.   Now I get the smallest one. 

I am looking forward to a walk tonight with my little one in the stroller.  Providing it doesn't rain.

Day 2

The first day went great. I had so much energy all day.  Bad part was all of that energy lasted all night.  So, I did not sleep a wink.  But I am not tired.  I took another pill today at 7am. We will see what today brings.  I hope that I have that same amount of energy.  I got so many things done yesterday.  I went on a cleaning spree. LOL! 

So far so good!

Start Day!!!

Today is the first day I am starting Phentermine.  I am really excited.  I do not know alot about this medication, but from what I read it seems to work pretty well.  I have decided to start a low calorie diet and I have been walking with my daughter in the stroller 4-5 times a week for an hour.  I hope with all of that this medicine will aide in my weightloss.

I have battled my weight all of my life.  It runs in my family.  I have always had to work really really hard to stay at a healthy weight.  Right now I am not at a healthy weight.  I got pregnant in March of 2006 and I was a little over weight then.  I was 176 lb.  I gained 34 lbs while pregnant.  It was really hard for me.  I hate gaining weight.  I had my daighter in December of 2006.  I was really hoping that she was a 34lb baby.  LOL! But she was not.  She was a little over 7 lbs.  At my 6 week checkup I started Depo.  For birth control.  That is where the problems started.  It did noting but screw up my hormones and make me gain more weight.  This is the biggest I have ever been. 

I am not happy.  I refuse to take my daughter to the pool.  I will not get into a bathing suit.  I won't even wear shorts.  I will wear jeans in 100 degree weather.  I am limiting my self because of my weight.  I won't do this or that because I am fat.  I can not do that anymore to myself or to my family.

So, today is the day!  Today is the day of a new start for myself.