Big loss....huge gains!!!

I made it through my first week of the liquid diet, albeit a little bit shakey. When I left the initial meeting, I was adamant that I would only do the shakes and keep the program very rigid. (They now have all kinds of options that are part of the 'decision free' plan including bars and entrees. What kind of tough diet program is this?) Then I went home and tried the multigrain cereal sample they gave me. OMG! In a sea of shakes, this stuff is awesome! It's like really high fiber oatmeal with bits of apples, cranberries and currants. And filling??? So, for this week, I took home a box of those babies and they have really taken the edge off of the hunger. I have 4 shakes each day at 100 calories each and then 1 cereal which is like 250 and I am perfectly content.

The only time that I am challenged is when I am around really, really, good food! Like when the hubby, who hasn't cooked a meal in months that hasn't involved vegetables and/or tofu or some other non-meat entree, decides to cook a boiled dinner. WTF?????????? I was absolutely starving the other night when I cam home to the smells of that delicous melange of smoked shoulder, potatoes, vegetables and (for the Portuguese side) linguica and chourico. I wanted to cry!!

Really, I wanted to sit down and pile my plate high with cabbage, potatoes and carrots, cover them in butter and salt and pepper and mash them up just like I did when I was a kid and have every boiled dinner since. I wanted to spear a giant chunk of linguica and chourico and carve a slab of smoked shoulder and pile those bad boys on my plate and just chow!!!

Instead I pulled out a packet of cereal and poured it into a bowl heated it up with some water in the microwave. Scrumptious!!!

Oh, I forgot to say - I lost 10 lbs.!!!! My tighetst jeans or as I refer to them 'my spleen bruising jeans' are already getting loose!! I'm going to have to take some pics to chart my progress. The befores will be gross but it will definitely make the impact of how amazing the afters will be.

Ok, gotta go. Will check in again on Tuesday after the next weigh in. Unlesss I stop in to post pics.

Back...Again!!!

Ok, I'm back again and am vowing to keep up with posting at least twice a week. I do have lots of exciting and interesting things going on and my family is sick of hearing about it.

Since my last post I got a new tattoo, sang with a Neil Diamond tribute band, saw Neil Diamond live at Fenway, by myself, with an awesome ticket I scored for 50 bucks right outside the park, started a new liquid diet and much more.

I'm at work now, so I cant' really go on and on, but I will be keeping the site up to date with all kinds of interesting tidbits as well as weekly updates on the diet status. Knowing that I'm currently super-sized hotness, I'm hoping to be zeroing in on average-sized hotness by December and by Spring to be the very vision of hotness.

K - gotta run! Will keep you posted!