u had food left in your digestive system yesterday.. Now its all GONE. the first week is the hardest and the smells are very difficult. Drink water all day. always have the bottle in your hand. :carrot:

hey everyone!
So i was trying to stick to the diet for Easter, but instead i had a two day binge, saturday and sunday :( I am back on track! Looking forward to having a good week.

I'm BACK!!!!!!...

My 11 week old was in the hospital almost a whole week. Needless to say I ate in the Hospital's Cafeteria, had Starbucks 3x a day and from the stress I ate like there was no tomorrow. I gained weight and now I have not had time to go get new beads but here I am...I need to get back on and fast!

I'm thinking of doing the diet without the beads until next Thurs...since that's the only day that I might be able to go and have them replaced.

if your order them will they come faster?

Sorry to hear about your baby.. I thought you just left us. Try to order them or move them to a new spot.... :(

I have to wait to get paid on Monday...unfortunately, I was not wise AT ALL with the las paycheck and even though I have some in the ank I really don't want to touch it. Sooo, I'll start tomorrow without them and put them on Tues or Thurs...I can't see any harm until then, right? I mean I still have the old ones one...but the point probably went Null. I don't know where I should put them so I'll wait a little.

maybe try to move them up a little and rub the whole area LOL

Oh, MJ! Is your baby ok? We recently had a trip to the ER with our 4 month old. Terrifying. He's fine, but it is so stressful. I don't blame you one BIT for needing to eat and drink off diet. That kind of stress is awful.

If it makes you feel better, I actually started the diet without beads and still lost weight. I needed to make sure that some of the meds and that my body, in general, wasn't going to panic when I started. Crohns runs in my family and can sometimes cause issues.

All that to say, even without the beads, it was fine. I just chose a point behind my ear and rubbed it as instructed. Worked great.

Again, hope your baby is doing much, much better and that you get some rest.

I went off diet last night. We had a special dinner with friends that I couldn't miss and couldn't eat normally. I remembered some of you saying that even having a few little cheats caused you to gain weight, and that you sort of wished you'd just eaten whatever.

So..... i did!

Granted, it wasn't that much food or that high in calories. When I weighed myself this morning, I was only up 2-3 lbs. Not nearly as bad as I expected. Two more milk days for me and then two veggie days.

Side note: I went to the mall to look at bathing suits this morning. That was JUST the scare tactic I needed!!

I'm trying my new signature....

I need a good week after eating on Easter. I did not go crazy and the scale was still up.

Ok, so tomorrow I'll officially start a milk day...I think I just worked myself to be in the zone again. You would think because of all the stress I would have lost weight...

Kerri, give me an update of what I missed with you? How was it last week for you? and Easter? Any new dishes?

No new dishes other than the miracle rice --its just too much work washing it to be worth it.
I ate meat on easter so my scale is up. I get weighed tonight. I also got TOM lol.. a few days early so it will all have to fix itself this week. I have 5 more days until its officially a month. Need to make my 15 pounds.

Thank you Grace!!!
Victoria is doing much better. Still taking antibiotic but better. She had a fever and it went up even more by the time I got to the Drs. Her white blood count was 25 (normal is 11) so they sent her to the Hospital. X-rays, Catheters, Blood work, Cultures, Spinal Tap, more bloodwork....and a whole lot of stress it went from "She has a Pneumonia and UTI" to "she only has UTI". The last day they wanted to continue probing her and I asked them to have the head of radiology just take a look for a 4th opinion about the Pneumonia since she never showed any signs...well I was correct. No Pneumonia! Soooooo, now that my muscle spasms, impaired vision, stiff neck, and hair falling out is almost over (form the stress) I'm ready to jump on the wagon...again!

But yes, it's a scary thing!

I hope your baby is doing well. Victoria is my 3rd (I have a 5 & 3yr at home) and they were also acting up but because I was not home. Sooooo, yeah....

Got weighedab I am down a little after Easter. Need to make up for it and have a good week.