The "D" word...

Bear with me... this explains a lot for the beginning of this "D" journey...

Yep it is finally here the "D" word... I have had all I can take! ( hahahaha This could be used as torture right...) "what's the d word... oh my gosh what is going on with them?" Wow I never really thought of how many D word possibilities there were until now... but seeing how I just read a friends blog about doing unto others as I would want done to me, I will not leave you in suspense any longer... the D word being referred to in this blog is diet.... there; I said it. And I will say it again... Diet... I am not afraid!

Today was my first officail day to start this calorie shifting diet. I am really excited about it. I don't typically get excited about diets nor do I jump on the bandwagon and try the next new diet out there. I read up on them and do some studying if they even sound like they are worth my time (I hate to study; so I do as much as my brain will allow). The last one I did was after the birth/death of our 3rd daughter (by this time I weighed 194 lbs... yes that for me was the limit!!! I was the biggest I had ever been BY FAR!) I had had 3 children within a year and a half (and all mid term or further mind you so they were not unnoticable pregnancies... they each left their marks...lots of them, ugghhhh not to mention a milk supply for each child who would never nurse where most mommys lose some weight; I instead had to bind it and dry it up only to hold on to more weight). So I read about this 1500 callorie jump start diet and did it for maybe 3-4 months... I cannot really remember (the pregnancies left that mark too... bad memory). Anywho... I lost about 25-30 lbs ont hat one and that took me down to about 165 lbs and a size 14 pants. That was encouraging, but then I plateaued. I stopped losing weight with that diet and got discouraged and started manipulating the meal plan and putting a 200 cal peice of chocolate for a 200 calorie peice of food and what have you, so needless to say It kind of stopped there.

Well that was well over a year and a half ago (numerous lbs, and 2 pants sizes ago). Now I keep running across this other diet in random sparatic places called "calorie shifting". It to me sounds ideal because I HATE eating.. I mean I enjoy great food but the idea of eating and eating and eating just to eat b/c you have to all day is overwhelming to me. I usually grab Diet DP in the morning (if I get anything down at all) and then by noon realize I have not eaten anything and then it is too close to lunch to make a quick snack so I just wait until Bear's lunch time and fix him a lunch and snack on the prep foods... usually a piece of fruit and some crackers... something in that region and have a glass of water. Then his nap comes and I am way too consumed with house work to even care about the fact that a person should really eat something every so often... so then the next thing you know it is 4:00 and time to start dinner prep... ( i love to cook by the way so I am always making extravagant meals when time permits... other nights it is something light and simple but always homemade...) so the aroma is making me yearn for food so I sample this and that and then am full after about 4 bites of my sit-down meal. Then comes the next day same story... Sorry; All that to say this diet is perfect because it calls for a little of this and a little of that but you can have as much as you want as long as you do not get full. EXPLANATION: I have an 11 day menu that the computer generated from a list of foods I GOT TO CHOOSE from. It gives you 4 meals a day and for meal no#1 today was bacon and macadamia nuts... I can totally live with this.. Just simple foods that I am not having to prepare big elaborate expensive foods most diets call for. It is also easy b/c I can make bacon, eggs, and whole grain waffles with fruit for the boys and I can just eat the bacon and grab a handful of macadamia nuts and be on my way... YESSSSS!!! Finally a ME friendly diet.

So it is said that if stuck to properly on the quick version (there is also a casual version of this diet which I will probably mellow out on once I learn this one and get to a good weight) you can loose 9 lbs in 11 days. I know that sounds dumb or even unhealthy but I am willing to try it out and I have read a lot about it and even Johnny says it sounds good. There have been a couple other people that have read about it also and feel like it is a good diet. So I will let you all know the progress. My goal is 130 at the most. I was 125 for a very long time before marriage and babies and all that jazz... so I am desperate.. I know I will not have the same body as before... some things have shifted and I keep kicking them out of the way so I can walk (hehehehe) but WHATEVER I am learning to live with it... uggghhhhh... but that does not mean I can't be the weight I want. I am 5'2" and am slightly big boned (thanks to the German and Czech blood in my genetic make up) so I may just have to settle for 135 but that is better than where I am now. I am going to strive for a healthier me either way.

Lessons learned...

I have learned one thing on this first day though...if nothing else happens on this diet I will definitely gain some killer butt, thigh, leg muscles from all the squatting I have done from all the glasses of water I have to drink passing right through... I thought it was bad when I was pregnant... HA! (Sorry Mollie I know reading this is making you have to go if you made it this far on the blog hehehehe). So keep reading and I will keep you posted on how everything turns out. My MIL (mother-in-law) is starting it with me as well so this will be fun.

Small laughable side note....

She and I both started our monthlys today which means a HUGE craving for chocolate and sweets not to mention an extra 5 lbs on the scale when you have to do your very first weigh in. Ha! I guess over all we will at least show we lost 5 lbs at the end of the 11 days... hahahhaaha!