Fast Day 2

Well Fast Day 2 was a couple of days ago and it went well. I think I had a total of 270 calories for that day. It was harder on day 2 then it was on day 1. My goal is still in mind, and I want to lose the 20kg my Dr. has recommended that I lose. Its hard to find low cal food that taste good. And knowing what you can and can't eat. Cutting carbs is the hardest part for me, but with strong will power it can be achieved.

Fast Day 1

Well yesterday was my first fast day. And I gotta say, I did pretty well. I only ingested a total of 160 calories. 500 being the max limit for yesterday. I woke up and was so determined that I didn't even think of food. Green tea for breakfast, and string cheese at 430pm. I then had a bowl of soup totalling 46 calories. Throughout the day if I got even the slightest bit peckish I would have a sugar free barley sugar. They work wonders. I just have to remember to drink water like its going out of style.

Today was my birthday, so I didn't stick to staying under a calorie count I wanted, but I made healthier choices then I typically would have. My next fast day is on Thursday. I have to find some recipes for low-cal food.

Day 3

I think I'm only going to post daily for the first week, then I will post on "Fasting" days only. Tomorrow is my first fast day and I have no idea what I am going to eat. I know that I will be drinking water all morning, and possibly some green tea. I may buy some barley sugars just to have that little bit of sugar input with not so many calories. It is for sure going to be a wonderful adventure. Just got to make sure that I stay busy and keep my mind off of things. Doing school work is a wonderful distraction and keeps me busy.

I must remember to add in the exercise tomorrow. I keep putting it off, due to having a cold and then the weather is just too cold outside today to go for a walk. I was going to drive to the beach and go for a run but the winds with the ocean breeze would be freezing. I know you warm up when you run, but ugh! Don't wanna.

Day 2 of the Diet

So yesterday I joined a support group on Facebook that is focused around this diet. I got some good advice, like trying to pick your 2 busiest days of the week... which I don't really have any. But I'm going to go with Monday and Thursday. Keeping it under 500calories is going to be a challenge on those 2 days, but soups are a wonderful substitute for actual chewable food, and it is low in calories. So bring on the soup! Fingers crossed this actually work. Its bad enough having to deal with infertility due to the PCOS (and yes I've had a baby, but it took 7 years and a lot of fertility treatment), and hair growth in delightfully annoying places, and acne (thankfully not to bad), but the weight gain is the worst. You have to work twice as hard to lose even a kg.

I use www.myfitnesspal.com to count my calories. Sometimes its a little off on the calories they have written down, but you can improvise.

Breakfast: 4 cardboard bars again, aka Wheat Bix.

Trying to Lose Weight with the 5:2 Diet

Fingers crossed this works.

I will be starting this diet next week, once I get some more information about it. I have PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), which can cause weight gain, among other things. I have reached 86kg (190lbs) and am completely miserable about it. I weight 190lbs when I was pregnant, and now not pregnant I weight that much once again.

I saw my Dr. yesterday and he is the one that recommended this diet, along with exercise for a minimum of 20min a day. Cutting carbs, and any other unhealthy thing he could think up. I have to keep a diary of everything I eat that day. It sounds really challenging, especially the giving up carbs thing, but I think I can do it. If I want to lose weight then this way will hopefully work. I've tried just about everything else.

Good luck to me.

Oct 21 2016:

Weight:  86kg.

Food Eaten: 
Breakfast: 4 wheat bix... Cardboard YUM

Lunch: A whole orange, some watermelon along with a pineapple with mint fresh squeezed juice (YUM).

Dinner: 3 slices of left over homemade pizza.

Snack: Pfuffernuise

Erica Stevens - Author

I just got done re-reading Erica Stevens "Captured" Series. I love this series. You know when you start reading the first one "Captive" it reminds me of that movie, that I believe is called "Day Walkers"... you know the one with Ethan Hawk, and vampires rule the world, and humans are hunted for their blood! Well, the book Captive reminds me of that in the beginning, but as it progresses turns into something else completely.

Its set in the future, where Vampires have come out of the woodworks and take control. They don't want to live in the shadows anymore, they pretty much want the humans to live in them instead, the shadows that is. So the humans that don't want to be treated as food retreat into the forrest, and fight for survival. The humans "rebels" that are captured are taken into the vampire city and auctioned off, as food, to be blood slaves, or bled dry to feed the masses. So as you can tell, if I've written this in a non-confusing way, a human is captured and a vampire purchases her.

I loved this series, I can't wait for the fourth and final one to come out, I believe in July

Here is the synopsis for Captured:

Captured, taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria's biggest fear is not the imminent death facing her, but that she will be chosen as a blood slave for a member of the ruling vampire race. No matter what becomes of her though, Aria knows that she must keep her identity hidden from the monsters imprisoning her. She has already been branded a member of the rebellion, but the vampires do not know the true depth of her involvement with it, and they must never know.

Though hoping for death, Aria's world is turned upside down when a vampire named Braith steps forward to claim her. He delays her execution, but Aria knows it's only a matter of time before he drains her, and destroys her. Especially once she learns his true identity as a prince within the royal family; the same royal family that started the war that ultimately brought down humankind, reducing them to nothing more than servants and slaves.

Aria is determined to hate the prince, determined not to give into him in anyway, but his strange kindness, and surprising gentleness astonish her. Torn between her loyalties to the rebellion, and her growing love for her greatest enemy, Aria struggles to decide between everything she has ever known, and a love she never dreamed of finding. You can buy the kindle edition right now for free at amazon.com

Shit Day at Work.

Just going to write a quick post about people that lie. Not necessarily tell a lie, but lie when they think they hear something they didn't. Don't you just LOVE it when that happens?! I'm still pissed at it... so here is what happened according to the fucked up lying party.

ME: I was a work yesterday and as one of the customers was leaving they asked me if I could get a balloon for their child. I said of course, I will be right back. So I go to the back and I grab the balloon, which wasn't blown up, and I asked them "would you like me to blow the balloon up for you?", they responded, "No, thats OK, we'll take care of it". So I said "OK, you guys have a great day."

LIARS: Now this is what the other couple heard and apparently saw. "Could I get a balloon for our son." So like I said before I go to the back and grab it and come back in. Now this couple apparently saw me and heard me say, "here you go, blow it up yourself!" and apparently, I threw the thing at them.

Ummmm... NO!!! I may be abrupt, brash, stubborn and opinionated, but I know to NEVER treat customers that way! If they had said Yes could you please blow it up for me, I would've... no worries. But... I would never throw something at a customer and pretty much be a straight up bitch to them!

The worst part, instead of filing a complaint with the boss, they went home and told my co-worker. Yes I get frustrated, as everyone does, but I NEVER take it out on the customer.