Day 7 - 2 lb loss
Day 8 - 0.5 lb loss :(
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Day 6 & Scentsy
So only down 0.5 lbs this am. Not sure why but am a total of 5 lbs down. Perhaps the late nite snack of an apple prevented the extra loss....who knows.
I had to get some groceries today and cook up more chicken and beef for the next 3 days. I made Garlic Roasted chicken and Italian meatballs. The chicken was ok....next time won't put crushed melba toast & spices on it but rather just some simple spices and sliced garlic. I didn't like the lemon juice being in the marinade or at least less of it as it brought too many memories of previous meals during the previous times I did this diet. The meatballs are an easy backup meal too.
So on a completely different note. Scentsy has launched a new brand called Grace Adele and it's purses/clutches/wallets and jewlery. Looks nice too. Here's the link to the catalogue: Grace Adele. The new Fall/Winter catalogue gets released to consultants in August and will be available to order from in September. One of the seasonal scents that was brought back is Cinnamon Bear....I love it...it's just like those red cinnamon hearts but for the nose not the mouth.
I have Baked Apple Pie warming in the kitchen right now. Thought that was a better choice than garlic. Downstairs there is Orange Dreamsicle warming and it's just like the Orange Creamsicle dessert. Man oh man it's good!! Anyways, I got my first customer order in today and the new scent bars I ordered were: baked apple pie, orange dreamsicle, lemons & berries, and cran/mango. I also got 6 scentsy circles for my car and maybe give one or two away.
That's it for now...hoping for a 2 lb loss tomorrow am.
I had to get some groceries today and cook up more chicken and beef for the next 3 days. I made Garlic Roasted chicken and Italian meatballs. The chicken was ok....next time won't put crushed melba toast & spices on it but rather just some simple spices and sliced garlic. I didn't like the lemon juice being in the marinade or at least less of it as it brought too many memories of previous meals during the previous times I did this diet. The meatballs are an easy backup meal too.
So on a completely different note. Scentsy has launched a new brand called Grace Adele and it's purses/clutches/wallets and jewlery. Looks nice too. Here's the link to the catalogue: Grace Adele. The new Fall/Winter catalogue gets released to consultants in August and will be available to order from in September. One of the seasonal scents that was brought back is Cinnamon Bear....I love it...it's just like those red cinnamon hearts but for the nose not the mouth.
I have Baked Apple Pie warming in the kitchen right now. Thought that was a better choice than garlic. Downstairs there is Orange Dreamsicle warming and it's just like the Orange Creamsicle dessert. Man oh man it's good!! Anyways, I got my first customer order in today and the new scent bars I ordered were: baked apple pie, orange dreamsicle, lemons & berries, and cran/mango. I also got 6 scentsy circles for my car and maybe give one or two away.
That's it for now...hoping for a 2 lb loss tomorrow am.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Day 5
I'm down 4.5 lbs since first weigh in last Sat am. Not too shabby eh? I had an orange for snack, then chicken with celery & strawberries for lunch and chili for dinner with an apple for 8:49pm snack. Raw celery makes my tongue numb. I only took 1 caffeine tab this am only because when I thought about taking it in the afternoon I got side tracked and then it was too late in the day to take it.
I'm feeling ok but yesterday am was a hard one, more dopey than anything and quiet too. A friend at work sent me an email last night asking if I was ok and I answered with yes but still getting used to the decreased calories and lack of caffeine. Might take a day or two more.
I'm feeling ok but yesterday am was a hard one, more dopey than anything and quiet too. A friend at work sent me an email last night asking if I was ok and I answered with yes but still getting used to the decreased calories and lack of caffeine. Might take a day or two more.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Day 3 done
I gained 5 lbs from the past 2 gorge days so today's weight didn't count but tomorrow am's will. Oh mannnnnn.....
I had the chili for lunch today with strawberries and one piece of melba toast. Tasted alright. This evening I cooked up 3 chicken breasts in a concoction, a modification of a recipe if you will.
Here it is for those who are adventurous.
Chinese Chicken Salad (without the salad part)
100 g chicken breast
cabbage (I didn't use it)
3 tbsp Bragg's liquid amino acids (like a soy sauce from health food store)
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp minced green onion (I just chopped it small)
1 clove garlic, crushed and minced
Fresh grated ginger or a dash of powdered (I didn't use it, didn't have it)
Pinch of red pepper flakes
Stevia to taste (didn't use it)
S & P to taste
Brown chicken with lemon juice, 1 tbsp Bragg's, garlic and onion. Slice cabbage into fine strips (I didn't do that). Steam lightly until cooked (still didn't do this). Drain off excess liquid. Add chicken and chili. Sprinkle with additional Bragg's.
Now I didn't exactly do that cause I didn't read the instructions correctly, haha. I just put the chicken into a frying pan with all liquids and seasonings and let simmer until chicken was cooked. Drained liquid and ate chicken. Pretty easy to do and didn't taste too bad, pretty good actually.
I would have made a cucumber salad but was missing some ingredients, as usual. haha. Perhaps tomorrow....it's a Spicy Thai Cucumber Salad. I've found that the majority of these recipes have fresh garlic in them. Now I don't know about you, but garlic on a daily basis + no wearing of scented lotion + but can wear deoderant = can be a skeptical situation....a smelly one at that. I know my mom would let me know if there's a garlicky type odour emitting from my pores but those at work are much to polite to say anything. Since my job is quite physical maybe I'll delve into the scented lotion, Satsuma body butter I think. Gotta think of others right?
I had the chili for lunch today with strawberries and one piece of melba toast. Tasted alright. This evening I cooked up 3 chicken breasts in a concoction, a modification of a recipe if you will.
Here it is for those who are adventurous.
Chinese Chicken Salad (without the salad part)
100 g chicken breast
cabbage (I didn't use it)
3 tbsp Bragg's liquid amino acids (like a soy sauce from health food store)
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp minced green onion (I just chopped it small)
1 clove garlic, crushed and minced
Fresh grated ginger or a dash of powdered (I didn't use it, didn't have it)
Pinch of red pepper flakes
Stevia to taste (didn't use it)
S & P to taste
Brown chicken with lemon juice, 1 tbsp Bragg's, garlic and onion. Slice cabbage into fine strips (I didn't do that). Steam lightly until cooked (still didn't do this). Drain off excess liquid. Add chicken and chili. Sprinkle with additional Bragg's.
Now I didn't exactly do that cause I didn't read the instructions correctly, haha. I just put the chicken into a frying pan with all liquids and seasonings and let simmer until chicken was cooked. Drained liquid and ate chicken. Pretty easy to do and didn't taste too bad, pretty good actually.
I would have made a cucumber salad but was missing some ingredients, as usual. haha. Perhaps tomorrow....it's a Spicy Thai Cucumber Salad. I've found that the majority of these recipes have fresh garlic in them. Now I don't know about you, but garlic on a daily basis + no wearing of scented lotion + but can wear deoderant = can be a skeptical situation....a smelly one at that. I know my mom would let me know if there's a garlicky type odour emitting from my pores but those at work are much to polite to say anything. Since my job is quite physical maybe I'll delve into the scented lotion, Satsuma body butter I think. Gotta think of others right?
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Now garlic bread....that's some good stuff
Today is day 2 of my hcg diet. It's gorge day #2 as well and I'm eating freshly warmed up garlic bread. And as my dad says "it's patario". That's right, patario. That term goes back to the 1950's. My neice and nephew also use the term so it's going into it's 3rd generation of use.
Yesterday am I injected the first time and the first poke hurt. So had to try a different location on same thigh....less pain second time but still stung. This am I did it again but up a little higher on same thigh and no feeling at all. Sometimes it takes 3 tries. ha!
I've gorged on less food than the other times I've done this diet. But what I did have was bacon, eggs, pancakes yesterday for breaky, then boston pizza for lunch, a skinny cow fudgesicle, part bag of Ariba chips (orange bag of course), 1/2 loaf of garlic bread (I'm eating other 1/2 now), and I think that's it. Today finished the chips in the am, had a 12" subway sandwich w/2 cookies and a coke, and now garlic bread. Oh ya, and at the grocery store I picked up 2 individual sized ice creams so ate one already. During these 2 days it's important to get in ur fruits/veggies as a fiber source (if ya get what i'm saying). It's easy to forget when you're devouring the 'bad' foods.
I plan on doing 30 days rather than 23. I'm goaling for 30 lbs lost (is goaling a word?). I'm going to Disneyland in October and by the time the maintenance phase is done, I'll be in D'land 14 days later. I'm cutting it close but I figure, pending I don't cheat, that the closer the end of the diet is to my vacation, there's less time to be bad (eating wise, I mean).
The part of this diet I don't enjoy is the meal planning and the cooking which pretty much sums up the whole process. I just finished making 4 portions of chili, a modified recipe of course and I've weighed the chicken but still need to cook 3-4 portions of that but not sure what to do with it. Gotta make it a bit more appetizing than just frying it with s&p. Will look at recipes shortly.
What I learned about myself during the last time I did this diet (early this year) was to not treat this food as something enjoyable but rather something to just survive on. If I was hoping for the food to be enjoyable I'd be disappointed every time and then cheating would be in order. This food is just to eat for the calories and nothing else but of course it can't taste horrible either. OH!! annnnnd I'm cutting out coffee during this time as well. I know, I know, gonna be tough to not have my regular two cups in the am BUT I can't have sugar/cream and I can't drink it black so I'll be popping a wake up tab every morning to curb the caffeine headaches I'm anticipating. The wake up tabs have 100 mg caffeine/tab and 1 cup of coffee has 150 mg/cup so no harm no fowl.
So that's my first update on this diet, round 4. Here's to a successful time around and to size 12 jeans!
Yesterday am I injected the first time and the first poke hurt. So had to try a different location on same thigh....less pain second time but still stung. This am I did it again but up a little higher on same thigh and no feeling at all. Sometimes it takes 3 tries. ha!
I've gorged on less food than the other times I've done this diet. But what I did have was bacon, eggs, pancakes yesterday for breaky, then boston pizza for lunch, a skinny cow fudgesicle, part bag of Ariba chips (orange bag of course), 1/2 loaf of garlic bread (I'm eating other 1/2 now), and I think that's it. Today finished the chips in the am, had a 12" subway sandwich w/2 cookies and a coke, and now garlic bread. Oh ya, and at the grocery store I picked up 2 individual sized ice creams so ate one already. During these 2 days it's important to get in ur fruits/veggies as a fiber source (if ya get what i'm saying). It's easy to forget when you're devouring the 'bad' foods.
I plan on doing 30 days rather than 23. I'm goaling for 30 lbs lost (is goaling a word?). I'm going to Disneyland in October and by the time the maintenance phase is done, I'll be in D'land 14 days later. I'm cutting it close but I figure, pending I don't cheat, that the closer the end of the diet is to my vacation, there's less time to be bad (eating wise, I mean).
The part of this diet I don't enjoy is the meal planning and the cooking which pretty much sums up the whole process. I just finished making 4 portions of chili, a modified recipe of course and I've weighed the chicken but still need to cook 3-4 portions of that but not sure what to do with it. Gotta make it a bit more appetizing than just frying it with s&p. Will look at recipes shortly.
What I learned about myself during the last time I did this diet (early this year) was to not treat this food as something enjoyable but rather something to just survive on. If I was hoping for the food to be enjoyable I'd be disappointed every time and then cheating would be in order. This food is just to eat for the calories and nothing else but of course it can't taste horrible either. OH!! annnnnd I'm cutting out coffee during this time as well. I know, I know, gonna be tough to not have my regular two cups in the am BUT I can't have sugar/cream and I can't drink it black so I'll be popping a wake up tab every morning to curb the caffeine headaches I'm anticipating. The wake up tabs have 100 mg caffeine/tab and 1 cup of coffee has 150 mg/cup so no harm no fowl.
So that's my first update on this diet, round 4. Here's to a successful time around and to size 12 jeans!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
My Scentsy Fascination
click here: My Scentsy Consultant page
Yesterday I signed up as a Scentsy consultant for two reasons.
#1. to make pocket cash
#2. to provide my friends/co-workers/family with ease of ordering the product from someone they trust
I really love this product. I like how you can walk away from the heating wax knowing there's no risk that's caused by a flame because it's flameless. A lightbulb is what heats the wax and emits the scent throughout the room/house.
My favourite scents (so far) are, in no particular order:
Yesterday I signed up as a Scentsy consultant for two reasons.
#1. to make pocket cash
#2. to provide my friends/co-workers/family with ease of ordering the product from someone they trust
I really love this product. I like how you can walk away from the heating wax knowing there's no risk that's caused by a flame because it's flameless. A lightbulb is what heats the wax and emits the scent throughout the room/house.
My favourite scents (so far) are, in no particular order:
- Cucumber Lime
- Hemingway
- Baked Apple Pie
- Cinnamon Bun
- Cherry Limeade
- Black Raspberry Vanilla
- Sunkissed Citrus
- Sweet Pea & Vanilla
- Cerise (scent of the month)
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