Just poppin' in for a bit. The holidays have been non-stop busy!
I plan to start another round - sometime in January. I know I would never have managed to stay on P2 during these holidays. My weight isn't pretty - I don't know if there's any hope for me. Yet I will keep trying.
So a couple of articles (on obesity) got my attention a bit. Not necessarily because I think the articles "found" something. Rather, the article got my attention just because the subject matter floats around obesity & hypothalamus. If I had to flip a coin, I would call it "heads" - that the whole problem with excess eating starts in the brain - some how - one way or another.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071227183853.htm excerpt:
This article talks about brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) ... says this is critical in mediating satiety in adult mice. Mice in which the BDNF gene was deleted in two of the primary appetite-regulating regions of the brain ate more and became significantly heavier than their counterparts.
http://www.drmirkin.com/public/ezine123007.html
I suppose the scientists all know about this BDNF because here's another article on BDNF.
Exercise causes the brain to produce a substance called Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor (BNDF) that strengthen old synapses and causes new one to grow (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2007). Researchers used MRIs of their human subjects to show that an exercise program of an hour a day, four days a week for three months caused new neurons to grow in the hippocampus. Several previous studies showed that exercise enlarges the hippocampus in rats and doubles or even triples the rate of the formation of new nerves.
Whelp. This is all of that I have to say today. Hope everyone feels hope about the coming year.
Amy
Monday, December 31, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Starting P3
Today's weight 163.7
This weight may sound pathetic to others - but I'm happy with it!
Due to things going on, I decided to start my break for a P3 now. I didn't inject today. In fact, because of TOM, I've only injected one time in the past 4 days. But I'll start P3 on Thurs.
One reason I am stopping now is that I've been invited to two dinners that I hadn't planned on. The first one is Thursday night. The other reason I'm breaking now is that I've totally screwed up this round & at this point it doesn't seem likely that I'll get it right! It's disgusting how much I've fell off the P2 wagon.
I do have something positive to say today. For some reason I didn't feel like eating anything except for my P2 food today. This is positive because it's not how I've been feeling during this P2 round. I don't ever feel like this. Gosh, maybe I'll even feel like only P2 food tomorrow too. Another reason this is a big deal is that my boss gave me brownies today as a Christmas gift. These are gluten-free, and she baked them herself. I haven't eaten any (yet), & perhaps BF will eat them.
I bought a new tea last night & tried it this morning. It's called 'Weightless' tea by Traditional Medicinals. I was wondering if this new tea is the reason I'm haven't wanted every scrap of food on the planet - like I often do. The box doesn't purport to balance appetite though.
A funny thing at work today. I'm signed up to receive Google alerts with my employer's name as the keyword. So whenever my employer's name is in the news, I get an email alert from Google with the link(s) to the news articles. I do this because I know the news will tell me what's going on at work faster than my employer will tell me! lol.
Anyway, I receive these alerts daily - If the article is interesting, I cut & paste it to an email & send it to my coworker friend who works in a different building. Well this morning I emailed an article to my friend - and by 4pm someone ELSE was mass emailing it, which included me as one of the recipients. The email that I started in the morning, has been running around the company, and came back to me from another girl I know, complete with my own editorial comments as though they were her own. rotf! Life is funny!
Peace out!
This weight may sound pathetic to others - but I'm happy with it!
Due to things going on, I decided to start my break for a P3 now. I didn't inject today. In fact, because of TOM, I've only injected one time in the past 4 days. But I'll start P3 on Thurs.
One reason I am stopping now is that I've been invited to two dinners that I hadn't planned on. The first one is Thursday night. The other reason I'm breaking now is that I've totally screwed up this round & at this point it doesn't seem likely that I'll get it right! It's disgusting how much I've fell off the P2 wagon.
I do have something positive to say today. For some reason I didn't feel like eating anything except for my P2 food today. This is positive because it's not how I've been feeling during this P2 round. I don't ever feel like this. Gosh, maybe I'll even feel like only P2 food tomorrow too. Another reason this is a big deal is that my boss gave me brownies today as a Christmas gift. These are gluten-free, and she baked them herself. I haven't eaten any (yet), & perhaps BF will eat them.
I bought a new tea last night & tried it this morning. It's called 'Weightless' tea by Traditional Medicinals. I was wondering if this new tea is the reason I'm haven't wanted every scrap of food on the planet - like I often do. The box doesn't purport to balance appetite though.
A funny thing at work today. I'm signed up to receive Google alerts with my employer's name as the keyword. So whenever my employer's name is in the news, I get an email alert from Google with the link(s) to the news articles. I do this because I know the news will tell me what's going on at work faster than my employer will tell me! lol.
Anyway, I receive these alerts daily - If the article is interesting, I cut & paste it to an email & send it to my coworker friend who works in a different building. Well this morning I emailed an article to my friend - and by 4pm someone ELSE was mass emailing it, which included me as one of the recipients. The email that I started in the morning, has been running around the company, and came back to me from another girl I know, complete with my own editorial comments as though they were her own. rotf! Life is funny!
Peace out!
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Sunday
I'm at BF's & Aunt Flo is pretty much keeping me under water. I forgot my bottle of meds, so I used BF's Aleve - which relieves pain but knocks me out & bloats me. I get the same reaction with aspirin too - I seem to only do well with ibuprofen. I slept 11 hours last night - it's after 1 pm & am still trying to wake up. The Aleve reaction usually wears off after 8 hrs - should be OK by this evening. Meanwhile, I'm doing major coffee, ginseng, yerba mate to try to come alive. It hasn't helped that I left my thyroid meds at home either.
I haven't injected yesterday or today.
Yesterday wasn't a good day foodwise. I ate my regular food. Plus. I had big bowl of BF's home made venison chilli with saltines, a bunch of dates, popcorn & some other stuff I can't remember right now. I drank at least a gallon & barely peed at all.
No deviations yet today & will work hard to keep it that way. Had some spicy asperagus soup with orange roughy, and apple.
Hope everyone is having a good Sunday.
I haven't injected yesterday or today.
Yesterday wasn't a good day foodwise. I ate my regular food. Plus. I had big bowl of BF's home made venison chilli with saltines, a bunch of dates, popcorn & some other stuff I can't remember right now. I drank at least a gallon & barely peed at all.
No deviations yet today & will work hard to keep it that way. Had some spicy asperagus soup with orange roughy, and apple.
Hope everyone is having a good Sunday.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Thursday night.
Thanks everyone, for checking in on me & all the nice comments. I'm doing OK.
It doesn't seem that I am losing anything. But I'm still doing OK because I've been 100% on-plan since last Saturday. I'm a bit grumpy & think this is because I can that feel Aunt Flo is in the neighborhood & she will be here any minute. I've had to work long hours ... at least it helps to keep my mind off of food.
This morning I was 164.4, but I hadn't 'gone' in 3 days ... so, perhaps my 'real' weight is a bit lower. Maybe.
OMG, you would not believe the food I've passed up this week. Party food. Such as crab cakes, chocolates, white choc & craisin cookies, gingerman cookies, wraps w/Mexican filling, on & on & ON. I only ate a few items from the veggie tray & one small unbreaded chicken tender on a skewer. I definitely want to eat. But I haven't eating off-plan.
Here's something I just learned. Coffee raises blood sugar levels. Here's what one URL says:
http://tinyurl.com/2fnrzo (ecerpts follow)
Both The Zone and Dr. Atkins frown on coffee because it can negatively affect blood sugar, which will affect the body's ability to burn fat.
*
Caffeine does this by enhancing the effect of two hormones (adrenaline and glucagon). These two hormones release stored sugar from the liver resulting in high blood sugar. And what happens when blood sugar levels are increased?
*
This results in large amounts of insulin being dumped into your ..... It [insulin] needs to do something with the excess glucose (sugar). The easiest thing for insulin to do with it is to store it in your body as fat. Simply put: coffee can affect your blood sugar which could interfere with the body's ability to burn fat.
*end excerpts*
I was wondering if this is why my weight is not moving. Maybe I was drinking less coffee in the first round. I will have a hard time going without coffee as I sip it all day long - diluted 1 part coffee to 3 parts water. I'm trying to find out if ginseng tea would also raise blood sugar levels ... I assume so. I'm looking round for an herbal tea to try to switch to that.
At this point, I plan to stop injections on the 21st, & resume my VLCD without reloading on the 26th. Subject to change of course!
It doesn't seem that I am losing anything. But I'm still doing OK because I've been 100% on-plan since last Saturday. I'm a bit grumpy & think this is because I can that feel Aunt Flo is in the neighborhood & she will be here any minute. I've had to work long hours ... at least it helps to keep my mind off of food.
This morning I was 164.4, but I hadn't 'gone' in 3 days ... so, perhaps my 'real' weight is a bit lower. Maybe.
OMG, you would not believe the food I've passed up this week. Party food. Such as crab cakes, chocolates, white choc & craisin cookies, gingerman cookies, wraps w/Mexican filling, on & on & ON. I only ate a few items from the veggie tray & one small unbreaded chicken tender on a skewer. I definitely want to eat. But I haven't eating off-plan.
Here's something I just learned. Coffee raises blood sugar levels. Here's what one URL says:
http://tinyurl.com/2fnrzo (ecerpts follow)
Both The Zone and Dr. Atkins frown on coffee because it can negatively affect blood sugar, which will affect the body's ability to burn fat.
*
Caffeine does this by enhancing the effect of two hormones (adrenaline and glucagon). These two hormones release stored sugar from the liver resulting in high blood sugar. And what happens when blood sugar levels are increased?
*
This results in large amounts of insulin being dumped into your ..... It [insulin] needs to do something with the excess glucose (sugar). The easiest thing for insulin to do with it is to store it in your body as fat. Simply put: coffee can affect your blood sugar which could interfere with the body's ability to burn fat.
*end excerpts*
I was wondering if this is why my weight is not moving. Maybe I was drinking less coffee in the first round. I will have a hard time going without coffee as I sip it all day long - diluted 1 part coffee to 3 parts water. I'm trying to find out if ginseng tea would also raise blood sugar levels ... I assume so. I'm looking round for an herbal tea to try to switch to that.
At this point, I plan to stop injections on the 21st, & resume my VLCD without reloading on the 26th. Subject to change of course!
Thursday night.
Thanks everyone, for checking in on me & all the nice comments. I'm doing OK.
It doesn't seem that I am losing anything. But I'm still doing OK because I've been 100% on-plan for the past since Saturday. I'm a bit grumpy & think this is because I can that feel Aunt Flo is in the neighborhood & she will be here any minute. I've had to work long hours ... at least it helps to keep my mind off of food.
This morning I was 164.4, but I hadn't 'gone' in 3 days ... so, perhaps my 'real' weight is a bit lower. Maybe.
OMG, you would not believe the food I've passed up this week. Party food. Such as crab cakes, chocolates, white choc & craisin cookies, gingerman cookies, wraps w/Mexican filling, on & on & ON. I only ate a few items from the veggie tray & one small unbreaded chicken tender on a skewer. I definitely want to eat. But I haven't eating off-plan.
Here's something I just learned. Coffee raises blood sugar levels. Here's what one URL says:
http://tinyurl.com/2fnrzo (ecerpts follow)
Both The Zone and Dr. Atkins frown on coffee because it can negatively affect blood sugar, which will affect the body's ability to burn fat.
*
Caffeine does this by enhancing the effect of two hormones (adrenaline and glucagon). These two hormones release stored sugar from the liver resulting in high blood sugar. And what happens when blood sugar levels are increased?
*
This results in large amounts of insulin being dumped into your ..... It [insulin] needs to do something with the excess glucose (sugar). The easiest thing for insulin to do with it is to store it in your body as fat. Simply put: coffee can affect your blood sugar which could interfere with the body's ability to burn fat.
*end excerpts*
I was wondering if this is why my weight is not moving. Maybe I was drinking less coffee in the first round. I will have a hard time going without coffee as I sip it all day long - diluted 1 part coffee to 3 parts water. I'm trying to find out if ginseng tea would also raise blood sugar levels ... I assume so. I'm looking round for an herbal tea to try to switch to that.
At this point, I plan to stop injections on the 21st, & resume my VLCD without reloading on the 26th. Subject to change of course!
It doesn't seem that I am losing anything. But I'm still doing OK because I've been 100% on-plan for the past since Saturday. I'm a bit grumpy & think this is because I can that feel Aunt Flo is in the neighborhood & she will be here any minute. I've had to work long hours ... at least it helps to keep my mind off of food.
This morning I was 164.4, but I hadn't 'gone' in 3 days ... so, perhaps my 'real' weight is a bit lower. Maybe.
OMG, you would not believe the food I've passed up this week. Party food. Such as crab cakes, chocolates, white choc & craisin cookies, gingerman cookies, wraps w/Mexican filling, on & on & ON. I only ate a few items from the veggie tray & one small unbreaded chicken tender on a skewer. I definitely want to eat. But I haven't eating off-plan.
Here's something I just learned. Coffee raises blood sugar levels. Here's what one URL says:
http://tinyurl.com/2fnrzo (ecerpts follow)
Both The Zone and Dr. Atkins frown on coffee because it can negatively affect blood sugar, which will affect the body's ability to burn fat.
*
Caffeine does this by enhancing the effect of two hormones (adrenaline and glucagon). These two hormones release stored sugar from the liver resulting in high blood sugar. And what happens when blood sugar levels are increased?
*
This results in large amounts of insulin being dumped into your ..... It [insulin] needs to do something with the excess glucose (sugar). The easiest thing for insulin to do with it is to store it in your body as fat. Simply put: coffee can affect your blood sugar which could interfere with the body's ability to burn fat.
*end excerpts*
I was wondering if this is why my weight is not moving. Maybe I was drinking less coffee in the first round. I will have a hard time going without coffee as I sip it all day long - diluted 1 part coffee to 3 parts water. I'm trying to find out if ginseng tea would also raise blood sugar levels ... I assume so. I'm looking round for an herbal tea to try to switch to that.
At this point, I plan to stop injections on the 21st, & resume my VLCD without reloading on the 26th. Subject to change of course!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Measurements
181.0 - R2 Start Weight
164.6 - Last weight
164.4 - Today’s Weight
16.6 - Total lost this round
I'm at a stall, but I'm OK about that. I wonder if I should care more, and fear my motivation is waning. Despite the stall, it's kinda interesting that my pants are noticeably looser. So I decided to measure:
Measurements:
............... Prior ....... End ....................... Lost ........ Total
............to HCG........ of R1 ..... Today ...... Since R1 ..... Lost
Weight ....195.0 ..... 167.2 ........ 164.4 ....... 2.8 lbs ~~~~~ 32.6
Calf ...... 15.5 ......... 15.00 ........15.0 ....... 0.00 ~~~~~~ 0.50
Thigh ... 26.75 ........ 24.50 ....... 23.0 ...... -1.50 ~~~~~~~ 3.75
Hips ..... 46.00 ....... 43.50 ....... 42.0 ...... -1.50 ~~~~~~~ 3.50
Waist ... 43.00 ....... 38.00 ....... 38.0 ........ 0.00 ~~~~~~ 5.00
Breast ... 45.50 ...... 40.00 ...... 40.00 ........ 0.00 ~~~~~~ 5.50
Arm ...... 13.00 ...... 12.00 ....... 12.00 ...... 0.00 ~~~~~~ 1.00
This is funny as it is so like my natural shape. A ruler. The total lost is 18.75 inches! Woo HOO for that. But also, it's a bit odd that I lost three inches from less than 3 lbs. I'm confident the measurements are not an error. I think I know why this happened.
This morning I was feeling as though I was barely hanging in there for hunger & that I would only do this one more week. I started eating more protein than what the program calls for (hence the stall). Tonight I'm feeling better & not so hungry. I'm thinking I might be able to get back on plan.
Incidentally, I'm getting cold again. I warm up again when I eat & that lasts a couple of hours. I'm testing theories about this & about the hunger. I have hope that I'll get answers about these things.
164.6 - Last weight
164.4 - Today’s Weight
16.6 - Total lost this round
I'm at a stall, but I'm OK about that. I wonder if I should care more, and fear my motivation is waning. Despite the stall, it's kinda interesting that my pants are noticeably looser. So I decided to measure:
Measurements:
............... Prior ....... End ....................... Lost ........ Total
............to HCG........ of R1 ..... Today ...... Since R1 ..... Lost
Weight ....195.0 ..... 167.2 ........ 164.4 ....... 2.8 lbs ~~~~~ 32.6
Calf ...... 15.5 ......... 15.00 ........15.0 ....... 0.00 ~~~~~~ 0.50
Thigh ... 26.75 ........ 24.50 ....... 23.0 ...... -1.50 ~~~~~~~ 3.75
Hips ..... 46.00 ....... 43.50 ....... 42.0 ...... -1.50 ~~~~~~~ 3.50
Waist ... 43.00 ....... 38.00 ....... 38.0 ........ 0.00 ~~~~~~ 5.00
Breast ... 45.50 ...... 40.00 ...... 40.00 ........ 0.00 ~~~~~~ 5.50
Arm ...... 13.00 ...... 12.00 ....... 12.00 ...... 0.00 ~~~~~~ 1.00
This is funny as it is so like my natural shape. A ruler. The total lost is 18.75 inches! Woo HOO for that. But also, it's a bit odd that I lost three inches from less than 3 lbs. I'm confident the measurements are not an error. I think I know why this happened.
This morning I was feeling as though I was barely hanging in there for hunger & that I would only do this one more week. I started eating more protein than what the program calls for (hence the stall). Tonight I'm feeling better & not so hungry. I'm thinking I might be able to get back on plan.
Incidentally, I'm getting cold again. I warm up again when I eat & that lasts a couple of hours. I'm testing theories about this & about the hunger. I have hope that I'll get answers about these things.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Saturday!
I'm trying to do everything today that I can't do during the week. Laundry, groceries, food prep, phone calls & try to get the Christmas cards out. Sorry I'm not participating in the card exchange. I already have difficulty with doing other things I have to do.
I just finished chopping celery in mass production (processor) & portions were packaged with a chicken broth liquid for the freezer. Also, I've finished weighing chicken portions, and baking. Once cooled, I'll wrap the individual portions for the freezer. This will help save LOTS of time for my future food prep! Won't need to do much cooking for a while! YAY.
I will need to go off-plan for one or two days. Should I stop injections for that? It's very possible that there will only be one day with a holiday meal event. I'll be going to a restaurant & I'll shoot for a salad that is close to plan. But for one or two days, what would you guys do?
My sister sent me a wonderful CD by Josh Groban. A very pure and strong voice. Oh, and his picture on that CD. What a HOTTIE! In his mid 20's, dark curly hair. I'm fanning myself here. LOL. My sister heard him on Oprah as one of her favorite things. http://tinyurl.com/36x723
Tomorrow, I will be working. We have so many meetings next week & I won't be able to get it all done then. The thing about employers is that the top dogs do not care if we have to work on weekends. It will feel good to catch up so I won't have to stress next week. We do not want that 'S' word, do we? LOL.
Happy weekend everyone!
I just finished chopping celery in mass production (processor) & portions were packaged with a chicken broth liquid for the freezer. Also, I've finished weighing chicken portions, and baking. Once cooled, I'll wrap the individual portions for the freezer. This will help save LOTS of time for my future food prep! Won't need to do much cooking for a while! YAY.
I will need to go off-plan for one or two days. Should I stop injections for that? It's very possible that there will only be one day with a holiday meal event. I'll be going to a restaurant & I'll shoot for a salad that is close to plan. But for one or two days, what would you guys do?
My sister sent me a wonderful CD by Josh Groban. A very pure and strong voice. Oh, and his picture on that CD. What a HOTTIE! In his mid 20's, dark curly hair. I'm fanning myself here. LOL. My sister heard him on Oprah as one of her favorite things. http://tinyurl.com/36x723
Tomorrow, I will be working. We have so many meetings next week & I won't be able to get it all done then. The thing about employers is that the top dogs do not care if we have to work on weekends. It will feel good to catch up so I won't have to stress next week. We do not want that 'S' word, do we? LOL.
Happy weekend everyone!
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