Originally Posted by teacherlady79 (Post 3797683)

:D
That is awesome! I can't even begin to explain how impressed I am--and how inspirational you are!

Originally Posted by teacherlady79 (Post 3797472)

Bleh. Just ready for this week to be over.

Don't know what my deal is, but the last 2 days I've had difficulty forcing myself to drink my water. Which is weird, because this hasn't been an issue for me for months.

Also, I've had on/off stomach ickiness going on. For no apparent reason, my stomach will just feel "off." Not totally nauseated feeling (though sometimes), but just icky feeling. And the water sloshing around in my belly doesn't help. :barf:

I didn't feel good on Wednesday, but still forced myself to go workout. Usually that makes me feel better, but it just made me feel dizzy and icky this time. My blood pressure has always been totally normal (low-normal when I was skinny), and it has gone down to low-normal since I've started the program. My sister (a nurse) told me that there's really no such thing as blood pressure that's too low, unless you're passing out or not breathing, lol. Mine's been running about 94/53 to 108/68 lately. I think it's what's making me dizzy, and I just need to be more careful when standing up, etc. Better too low than too high, I guess.

Mostly, I think I'm just grumpy because I haven't felt "normal" all week and I'm just really wishing I could hurry up and lose the last 10 lbs and be DONE--but it's taking FOREVER. :mad:

Originally Posted by SandyKC0SWJ (Post 3797673)

I am doing a happy dance today. Yesterday, I did a practice walk for the half marathon and completed it in 3 hours and 29 minutes. 3.5hrs was my goal. And today I was WI and I signed the 90 lb board!!!!! I am in disbelief that I have been able to lose the weight and find enjoyment in exercise. If you had asked me a year ago if I would ever say that, I would have told you a firm "**** No".

Edit***I also love the fact that every time I have someone new weigh me in, they have to ask someone else if that is really me sitting out there because they don't recognize me from my starting photo!! :)

Originally Posted by born2btxgrl (Post 3797752)

Have you totally cut down on water because of this? It could explain some of the dizziness. Otherwise I would say you probably getting a cold or something and your body is demanding all your resources - which means you would have to take more caloric intake in to even things out. Basically your body is in a type of starvation mode. I'm obviously not a doctor, but those are the only things I can think of.

Originally Posted by SandyKC0SWJ (Post 3797673)

I am doing a happy dance today. Yesterday, I did a practice walk for the half marathon and completed it in 3 hours and 29 minutes. 3.5hrs was my goal. And today I was WI and I signed the 90 lb board!!!!! I am in disbelief that I have been able to lose the weight and find enjoyment in exercise. If you had asked me a year ago if I would ever say that, I would have told you a firm "**** No".

Edit***I also love the fact that every time I have someone new weigh me in, they have to ask someone else if that is really me sitting out there because they don't recognize me from my starting photo!! :)

Originally Posted by teacherlady79 (Post 3794930)

I've been going to yoga at Prairie Life Fitness at Midtown Crossing. Stacia (who also teaches at One Tree Yoga and the yoga place in the old market) teaches the beginning class on Monday nights, and Thea teaches the I-II class on Fridays. They are both excellent teachers!

Originally Posted by SandyKC0SWJ (Post 3797673)

I am doing a happy dance today. Yesterday, I did a practice walk for the half marathon and completed it in 3 hours and 29 minutes. 3.5hrs was my goal. And today I was WI and I signed the 90 lb board!!!!! I am in disbelief that I have been able to lose the weight and find enjoyment in exercise. If you had asked me a year ago if I would ever say that, I would have told you a firm "**** No".

Edit***I also love the fact that every time I have someone new weigh me in, they have to ask someone else if that is really me sitting out there because they don't recognize me from my starting photo!! :)

Originally Posted by Razorbackbritt (Post 3796847)

Please give us the list of hard cheese. At my center, they know I use shredded mild cheddar, parmesean, and mozzerella. They told me the mozz wasn't totally ok, so to use it sparingly (like when I make the cauliflower pizza).

Originally Posted by teacherlady79 (Post 3797817)

I keep making myself drink the water, too. Even when I felt my worst (Wed), I still drank close to 90 or 100oz of water (I usually average 75-100oz/day).

I don't feel like I'm getting sick, but I am really tired, too. I wondered about the starvation mode thing, but I've been a little lax since last saturday and have been averaging more calories per day than I'm supposed to. I'm going to weigh in on Saturday and just go from there.

They moved me to the green menu on Saturday, but I'm wondering if the metabalance might be a better switch for me--if maybe I'd be less likely to stray from the menu due to hunger if I have a menu that spreads my meals out and adds a few extra calories but is still "on plan." I was fine on the beige menu, but I've noticed more hunger on the green one--I haven't had a 100% OP day yet because of it.

I would also like to up my exercise (depending on my schedule availability) now that the weather is getting warmer.

Originally Posted by Razorbackbritt (Post 3798150)

Update on metaprotein:

I am LOVING this menu. I don't miss the carb serving, just the fruit. But I can deal with that for being able to eat cheese at every meal and a slice of bacon or heavy cream (for sauces). Amazing. I'll be sad to see it go at the end of the two weeks.

But it is kinda making me tired. I remember feeling sluggish on Atkins (which this is very similar to) and I'm sure its the change in food making me feel tired all day. But its ok. It hasn't affected my work out, I just had to push past the tired feeling 10-15 minutes in.

My home scale also showed I was down 1.5 pounds this morning. Can't wait to weigh in Tuesday and see this plateau broken! My center said I needed to lose at least 3 pounds to consider it broken....so 2 pounds to go to break it!

Originally Posted by Rzrbackcandi (Post 3796873)

I went out to the ballpark to watch my nephew play some baseball. I had just left the center and since I'm able to have meal replacement bars, I bought a box. I also bought more liquid HNS. So I grabbed a bar and the mix - went to the concession stand.... the smell of frito pies, hot dogs, nachos, sunflower seeds and popcorn! OMG! But I stepped up with my $1 and asked for a bottle of water. My sister in law was laughing at me but she's so proud of me. After the ball game, they were all going to dinner. I told them I already ate mine and I was going home. :carrot:

Originally Posted by leigh529 (Post 3797636)

Teacherlady - I had the same debate at Christmas over the Kindle or Nook.

Originally Posted by SandyKC0SWJ (Post 3797673)

I am doing a happy dance today. Yesterday, I did a practice walk for the half marathon and completed it in 3 hours and 29 minutes. 3.5hrs was my goal. And today I was WI and I signed the 90 lb board!!!!! I am in disbelief that I have been able to lose the weight and find enjoyment in exercise. If you had asked me a year ago if I would ever say that, I would have told you a firm "**** No".

Edit***I also love the fact that every time I have someone new weigh me in, they have to ask someone else if that is really me sitting out there because they don't recognize me from my starting photo!! :)