The Day Fell On the Forty-seventh

I weigh 195 lbs. How much weight loss is that? Twenty-somethin'. The only Medifast food I have left happens to be....banana pudding and Tomato-basil soup. Er, those are nope. Bananas and tomatoes are two foods I don't particularly care for.

I walk my mile every day in my living room with Leslie Sansone. I don't get high anymore....I don't HAVE to. MY pain level is none.

Yes, I am scared. I dont have $350.00 to buy more Medifast food. :( I have no doubt I would be extremely successful and meet my goal weight of 175lbs.

Guess I have to do it "hard way" now.

Smoketh She Shall...Not?

I used smoke marijuana before I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I used it for recreation. It helped me sleep. It helped my moods. It wasn't until after I felt pain that I really understood that this plant has amazing medicinal properties. I tried to go without...and I couldn't walk without severe pain. I was reduced to crying and writhing on the couch, wishing with all my might that the burning molten lava feeling in my legs would just STOP. So I smoked a bowl, and the pain stopped.

It's day 28. My scale reads 202 lbs. I realized this morning I'm now smoking my mmj in the evenings but...I don't think I need to every night. I walk a mile every day and I'm ok. I have no food cravings. I think perhaps the bowl I smoke is out of habit. I think I'll forgo my evening ritual tonight and report back tomorrow.

Medifast Cream of Broccoli soup is thumbs up. Try it, you'll like it. Don't gag over the smell at first before you microwave it, I promise it will get better. 

And On the Twent-fifth Day...

Day 21: I weigh 203 lbs. That happens to be fifteen lbs in three weeks. Even better?

I CAN SEE IT. My arms are thinner. My tummy is less round. I fit better into this computer chair. I'm seeing birthmarks I haven't seen since 2006! One thing I didn't realize...stretch marks happen when you get skinny too.

My energy is up, as long as I remember to eat those Medifast meals regularly. I notice the water has quite a bit to do with it as well, I drink over 100 ounces of water a day.

I am able to walk a mile (in my living room with Leslie Sansone) once a day. I get all sweaty and I freaking love it.

As far as the Medifast meals...some of the more delicious ones I've run out of. The Chicken and Rice, delicious. The Vegetable Chili, yum. (I add Siracha sauce to these to make them less bland.) The chocolate pudding is better very very cold, put it in the freezer.

I'm a little concerned...it's almost Shark Week (period time!) I normally fluctuate by about five lbs that week...not sure if I'm going to weigh myself or not.

The Day Was The Fourteenth

I've lost ten lbs.since beginning! Oh yeah, I did.
I feel good. My pain is less. I don't crave things I shouldn't have. I have energy, I get up in the mornings and go for a walk!
Medifast pancakes, let's discuss. I love them, but was having a difficult time cooking them. The problem? I was SHAKING too much. The package isn't kidding when it says "shake five times" in the shaker. At first I was shaking too much, so the pancake was just not working. I wised up, shook it minimally, and the pancake now is GREAT!

All The Numbers Are Getting Confusing

I began my 30 Day "Challenge" on the first of the month, so I wouldn't have to think too hard about what day I was on. I have MS, and some days I can barely remember to state my own name, much less if it's day five or seven.
Yesterday I did not do as well as I'd hoped. I'm still on plan, no cheating, but I get so busy. I've got these kids, and an ex-husband or two, and it's summer vacation. Long story short, end of the evening and I am craving something....I haven't craved anything really yet, so I recognized it as...what? I didn't eat the Medifast meals when I was supposed to. Yep, I had skipped two and gone straight to my evening Lean and Green. And the water I am religiously drinking? Not enough of that either. But I recognized what my body was doing! I didn't lose track! I glugged down some water, and rather than eating another meal/snack at 10:00pm I went to bed. I woke up this morning ready to commit.
Today is the seventh of August. SCALE DAY!!! I'll admit, I was apprehensive. I started my period, and I know from years of watching that water weight that I usually fluctuate about five lbs, gone at the end of the week. What would I do if the scale said I didn't lose any weight?? Was it going to derail my progress if I wasn't happy with the number?? Should I even try??
I tried. Here's the routine. Go to the bathroom, pee, take out the tampon (it could weigh enough of an ounce to tip me over, don't judge), take off ALL of my clothes, exhale, step on scale.
208
208! That's six lbs in seven days!

Breakfast of Chubbies

While on the Medifast plan it is "suggested" I eat within one hour of waking up.
I am barely AWAKE an hour after I get up, so this goal has been extremely difficult for me. Luckily, there are bags of "Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Cereal Crunch". I'm lactose intolerant, so no milk anyways, but in order to get something in my body within an hour I eat a bag of this. At first, yeah, it tastes a little....mediciny...but you get used to it.

Day Five (Because Starting a Blog Is a Long Process)

Medifast Day 5. The point of this program is to eat five "meals" a day, and then a Lean and Green. I'm not going to explain it, it's complicated and I'd hate to get things wrong and ruin the company's reputation. Again, Day 5 and I'm doing well. I pee ALL THE TIME because I drink half my weight in ounces of water every day. Sometimes I drink my water as I'm peeing, that's how fluid I am, yo.
Day 1 I weighed myself as 214. I'm almost 5'2", I wear a 16/18 pants size. Barely. I will not weigh myself again until Day 7.
I have lots of energy, which is surprising, because with MS I get fatigue pretty easily. I also haven't had to medicate more than once today, so my pain is tolerable. I'll still have to smoke a bowl of indica later this evening in order to sleep pain-free, but so far, cake.

No cake, I meant.