71 Days of Ideal Protein

After a lovely weekend away at a friends cottage, I started having MAJOR abdominal stomach cramps where everything would constrict and I'd have to stop and bend over or clutch my stomach. It was horrible! 

I started to worry that maybe the diet was the problem, or my appendix, ....or what! !?

It's not like I'm taking an weird pills..and today I just finished 71 Days on this diet. it's very healthy and focuses on eatting good veggies and lean protein.

I went to my favorite walk in clinic doctor on Tuesday after my husband told me that if the pain was still there by Tuesday night he was driving me to the hospital and we were skipping his softball game. I couldn't bare the thought of him missing softball and so j made the time to go to the clinic.

Doctor said it was probably my appendix, or food poisoning. He told me to get an ultrasound to rule out the appendix. So that's what I did yesterday. Low and behold today was the first day I didn't have major cramps. It still feels a little "off" but overall I'm feeling much better. So hopefully the doctor won't call me back with anything else and we can chalk it up to something I ate.

Anyways I've made it to day 71. yay!!! Also I hit 200,000km on my car and failed at dying my own hair with a box that cost me $4.99 (guess I should get a better brand 😊).

I look at my picture and see changes in my face. Yet inside my mind I keep screaming, "is there really a skinnier girl in there!!!?"

I can't picture it, can't imagine it, can't fathom it. I hope I make it!

I'm not wanting to be skinny as a stick, what I really want is to have a healthy amount of body fat. And what I really really want is to be able to have my own kids at a healthy body weight. ...sometime before I hit 50. haha still a ways to go.

Being able to swap some clothes with my sister would be pretty awesome as well. And oh ya, looking forward to sitting in chairs and crossing my legs unawkardly (is that even a word?)

Anyways, as I said last post...takes 12 weeks for others to notice weight loss, I'm almost there. Can't wait.

Do you see any change?

I can't believe it's been almost just over 2 months since I started this journey. It's been 9 weeks and 2 days.
I started this journey at a whopping 280lbs. I am now at 248lbs. I realized the other day I was unintentionally lying to people...and myself! I totally did the math wrong. When I had only lost 26lbs I thought I had lost 36.... Well in reality I've just passed that 30lb mark. I felt so bad that I had miscalculated, and kind of discouraged. But somehow, thinking I had lost more, was so motivating at first!

I saw this chart. Can't wait to get to the 12 week mark.


I have a small confession to make... I literally check a few times a day on this Ideal Protein Group on Facebook to see other people's results. I'm not caught up in being like them, but I'm needing the support and reminder that this is actually working. I don't look at myself in the mirror often, and when I do I usually run by it quickly.

My struggle hasn't been with the temptation to cheat and eat foods I am not allowed, but with the inside emotional stuff that's coming out. I think a lot about other things that I need to do, like the laundry, finances, vacuuming, fileing paper work, writing reports, calling people back and the endless amount of emails that seem to inundate my life. Sometimes I get paralyzed by the "To-Do" list and how I feel like I'm not keeping up. Maybe it's because I'm focusing so much on what I put into my body that I'm not getting as much done or maybe it's just me putting too many high expectations on myself.

I have to remind myself to take a step back, savour the moment, don't waste a day. Find the good in people and be grateful.