Oh oh oh, after I got over being sick I started…  TURBO FIRE!  lol it’s kicking my butt so far and I’m on the prep schedule only. but you know what?  I will have a sexy butt once I’m done with the 9 week prep schedule, move on to the 20 week regular schedule, AND!!!!!  Do the turbo fire chalean extreme hybrid 20 week program. I’ve got almost a full year of working out laid out in front of me, and years of work to put into knocking the fat off my body, and I know I can do it. I will do it.

BTW Chelene, I love you, you may not think your workout is for a 300+ lady but, I’m doing it, it may be modified but I’m putting my heart and soul into my workouts and I love your energy.

So the workout tonight, it was supposed to be Fire 45 EZ, which I’ve done before, but I accidentally put in Fire 45..   not easy, after 5 minutes I’m thinking, this isn’t what I remember, but I decided just to go for it and I made it through the workout. I will try to stick with the schedule otherwise but that was funny, lol.  At any rate, time to get back to prepping for my presentation tomorrow, yay me? lol <3 school and I <3 my little girl.  I’m working on self-love, but at least I love myself enough to put in this hard work to be healthier and enjoy life more.

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This weekend, I PROMISE an update! Meanwhile, my ticker is up to date and shows my amazing 23.8 lb loss on medifast so far, and I have lost almost 41 lbs from my highest weight………. I just realized I’m almost 1/4 of the way through my journey, THAT’S A LOT!!!!!

Well, I will update this post later on with more actual content, meanwhile, it’s a school day for the little girl and I, cya!

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As you can tell, I’m still doing great, still older, wiser, my skin looks better/healthier. Not sure about how that’s translating to my outward appearance but I’m just going to keep at it and know that my insides are thanking me for how much better they’re already feeling. I know I hurt a lil less all over so that’s great.

School is going great so far. I had dinner at the in-laws last night and one of them joked at my no dessert/ice cream choice that I’m trying to lose weight for a wedding (my husband’s cousin’s wedding in CA). Not true, I don’t lose weight for events (that’s honestly the worst thing you can do for your weight loss efforts), I’m trying to get healthy, looking nice for the trip will just be a bonus. It’ll be an Arabic wedding and it’ll be nice to see the family. It’d be awesome if I get a job on the west coast like I’m hoping, but I’m not counting on it. If I lived on the west coast we could certainly see them all more often.

At any rate, I needta get ready for school/work, ttyl!

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I’m glad the weight loss thing is part of my life, I keep feeling smaller every day and keep sneaking peeks at the ever declining scale daily (wish I could stop doing that!). Oh well, at least I am seeing losses every day, and I’m glad I’ve made it to 10 days so far, woot!

Anyways, school beckons me and this yummy oatmeal. om nom nom.

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So what is it looking like right now? Well, if you peeked at my ticker on the about me page that I posted..   I’m down to 325.8, woot!  It’s actually coming off, even with cake day in there. I can almost taste my first 5% goal… 323And it tastes good.  299 feels not too far around the bend and I know I’ll hit it before the year is up for sure.

Tonight for my birthday after meal MF meal (which I call desserts, hehe), I blended up a nice soft serve chocolate mint thingie and it was very yummy. The food is actually pretty good if your sense of taste isn’t too marred by salt. And seriously people, lay off the salt already, MF keeps you from 1000-1500mg sodium and is super heart healthy, just do the program and only add spices, not salty stuff. Trust me!

So how do I feel 1 week in?   I feel good, full of energy, I even ran up a flight of stairs, which is odd for me. I was a lil out of breath but no more than usual, just felt weird to have such energy and I know how little calories I’m eating.

Oh well, it’s working and I will continue to do it until my weight is gone. I’m in it until the finish line. And then, well, I’ll transition to healthy eating (which is being helped out in the learning department by my lean & green meals).

so, yay me!  now back to this genetics reading…..

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I also had birthday cake, but the kids wouldn’t eat theirs unless I took a bite!  I didn’t feel pressured to, it’s just one of those things, I’m fully on plan today and did not come out of ketosis, go whipped icing and your low sugar amounts and my very small portion size. Now I’m not advocating that people have birthday cake all the time, but it’s not going to kill you, however, I won’t have it again until maybe the next birthday.

So, still in ketosis, still avoiding the re-headache stage, still dropping the lbs. Yes I keep peeking, damnit, oh well.  My scale obsession needs to stop, someone take this thing away from me until my birthday, which is my first weigh in day, lol.

I might write in tomorrow, we’ll see. I don’t mean to make an update every day, but I just kinda like to talk to someone about this even if no one reads it, that someone could be the me of the future! Someday I’ll get to the point where I read these and remember what the first days of medifast were like. (btw I smiley a lot!)

Back to reading about human genetics and the laundry!

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Well, okay it could also be that the medifast meals have all my nutrients that I need and beforehand I doubt I was getting what I needed in the junk I was consuming. It’s hard with a life so busy to even eat much less eat nutritiously. So here I am, day 5, first weekend day with no work or school on this plan and I have zero headaches, zero cravings, zero hunger, wow. I kept reading that it would happen just wasn’t sure if I was to believe it but, omg it’s true!

Well, off to the birthday lunch, I’m happy that they can have my cake.

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I actually had what they call mint chocolate soft serve tonight, it was a HUGE portion (to me now that is) since I always have my 5th medifast meal as dessert. lol

At work I did a ton of physical exertion and really had some energy, at home I felt pooped, but at least I didn’t feel exhausted during the day like I did on Tuesday.  Odd thing is?  My cravings for the bad foods is really starting to diminish, as in they’re almost completely gone. Weird thing huh?  Oh well, I’m looking forward to the end of this first medifast week (weigh-in day is my birthday!).  Now if only I could keep myself off the scale until then……

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This morning I got to have chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. yummy!

I hope my energy picks up soon, I’ll make it at any rate.  Just a reminder to myself, they said I’d be low on energy at the beginning so this isn’t anything unexpected.  By Monday I’ll definitely have more energy.

Time to go to work and get the little girl off to school!

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My Daughter is very excited for me and is all for the new mommy that she gets when I’m overhauled my diet after the weight is gone.  Also, she loved dinner tonight, Rosemary chicken with lemon asparagus sauteed in olive oil.   Yummy!

Day 1 is in the history books, lets bring on day 2!  Also..  I’m starting at 340, so we’ll see what happens.

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