Weight Loss Musings

Well, I survived the first week and then some. Today is something like day 12 and I’m doing fine.

I wasn’t so sure after the first few days! Day 3 I had a really bad headache in the evening which fortunately went away by morning. I suspect dehydration, even though I’d bee drinking water as directed. I seem to need more. So day 4 I woke up reasonably okay but my midafternoon was nauseous and stayed that way most of the time for the next few days. It was more annoying than anything. I could eat some, but not all of my meals and really wondered how I’d ever make it. Fortunately my body finally seemed to get the idea and I started feeling more normal eventually.

I can think of so many possible reasons for my reaction to be so dramatic. My immune system is generally overreactive, so it might have been a reaction to one of the weird chemicals in the food. Or it might just be a reaction to all the toxins in my body. I’ve pretty much settled on a combination of my immune system overreacting and my digestive system just not coping. I couldn’t have managed it for too terribly much longer, though.

This past week was much more manageable.

Weigh-in on Tuesday. Week 1 down 8 pounds! And 2.75 inches. I’d been following along on my scale at home and actually thought it might be even a bit more, but I really can’t argue with those sorts of results. The scale has been a lot slower to move this week, so it’ll be interesting to see where it ends up on Tuesday.

Tonight we went out to dinner. So nice. Steak and salad and broccoli. Made even better by having it cooked by someone else. Can’t figure out what other dinners out we can manage, but that one’s likely to happen again!

So here’s to another Monday and another week of weight loss!

Day 2. Still not impressed with the taste of the drinks, but in general all is well. Still headachey, though. I can’t decide if it’s the diet itself, or some sort of allergic reaction to something. Hopefully I’ll adjust sooner rather than later.

Day 1 is complete! I didn’t love the food, but it wasn’t horrible. I’m feeling very headachey now, but that may not even be diet related. I’m glad to be started at least!

Okay, let’s face it, I’ve been overweight many years, so it really started quite a long time ago, but this particular adventure started a few weeks ago when my husband came home from his doctor with a business card that said ‘Ideal Protein’ on it. We’d talked about weight loss off and on, but this seemed like the motivation he needed, and my immediate response was that I wanted to go with him.

I started internet searching right away and couldn’t get much about the doctor, but found all sorts of information about the diet and it became clear that a lot of people found it to be successful, so we were favorably inclined right away. I realized pretty quickly, though, that it wasn’t one of those diets where you could take a day off here and there, which meant the upcoming holidays might be an issue. We decided it would be better to wait and start after Thanksgiving, giving us at least one normal holiday to enjoy before we started changing everything. That was all well and good, but now I’ve spent so much time preparing I feel like I’ve waited forever and it’s hardly real that we’re finally going to get started.

Anyway, it took us a couple of weeks to get to the presentation at the doctor’s office, but by then we were ready to sign up on the spot. Still, that was a couple of weeks ago and we’ve been waiting ever since. We finally went for an initial personal consultation today, weighing, measuring, meeting out coach, and tomorrow we begin. I’m sure it’s going to be quite the adventure.

Of course, every internet search I did from the very beginning took me to 3fatchicks.com pretty quickly, so it didn’t take me long to start reading the forum posts. It’s very encouraging to see so much success, and I feel like I’ve learned a lot to prepare me for all of this. A little bit odd, too, to keep reading about so much dieting while I went right along eating like I always have been. Still, at this point I feel like I know a bit about what to expect and it seems like it should be manageable.

Fingers crossed that it all goes okay!

Hello World! The day to begin is finally almost here! I’m usually pretty bad about keeping blogs, but I feel like it might be nice to keep track of my weight loss journey, so I’m going to give it a go. Plus, I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit recently and feel like I have a lot of things stored up to say. I guess we’ll see!