LiLee's Journey to overall happiness
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Today’s Date: 5/1/2019
Today's Plan: bone broth fast
Weight Goal for the Month: 162lb
Today’s Weight: 166.2
Description/Photo of Meals: 2 coffee w/ heavy cream/unsweet vanilla almond milk/monk fruit, bone broth w/ bouillon, 4 marinated chicken thighs
Total calories:950-1000
Your thoughts/comments on the day: Yep... I had to eat. Starting at around 4 I just started feeling horrible. Straight up BAD. Shaky and started getting hot flashes. I wasn't actually hungry, but the feeling wasn't going away.
Maybe just bone broth would've gotten me through, but I made the decision to eat something b/c aint no challenge worth risking my health over.
I mean, maybe it's just one of those fasting/super low calorie fasting things that you just have to push through. I dunno, but it came on suddenly and freaked me out a bit.
Feeling better after eating and still lower than usual in calories so I'm not going to beat myself up about not making it a full week of just bone broth.
I am going to continue on with the bone broth only though and try my best to make it until Sunday.. then I'll have me a giant steak and whatever else for dinner
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GOOD IDEA! I say it all the time and I'll say it again - I have NEVER ONCE paid for it on the scale when I listened to my body and ate when I felt like I physically needed to...NOT. ONE. TIME.
WELL DONE! This should help hold you over a bit through Sunday! Good work babe
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misty- Thanks for that! I don't feel bad about eating at all. Yeah, it would've been nice to have been able to go the whole week, but almost 4 full days is the longest I've gone so far and that's pretty darn awesome in my book
It was suggested that maybe it was a lack of electrolytes. Not sure, but going to add more potassium, etc to my broth and hope that feeling doesn't happen again. Also going to make sure to chug down more water too!0 -
Yes, we should listen to our body so that we will not fall off the wagon completely. Looking at your calories, it still not that much. Great job on the 4 days 👍1
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Don't forget the magnesium! A nice epsom salt bath does the trick for me, along with transdermal magnesium oil for those busy days. The water washes the electrolytes away.1
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Yep, I'm going to be adding in more electrolytes to my broth today. I was only adding it once during the day but I guess I need more, especially since I also do need to drink more water too.
Dizzy again this morning but not as strong. I did drink more yesterday, but still not nearly enough. Need too force myself to drink more.
Hopefully no weird things happen today. If something does though, just going to call it and stop the bone broth experiment.
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Oh dear ---sorry for your issues. And I agree 100% you must, no matter what, listen to your body. I have eaten before when I was physically hungry and broken my fast early but HAD to do it and I never regretted it, or had the scale be MEAN
Hoping you feel better and finish strong!!!
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Alrighty....
This is taking everything in me to share.
It's embarrassing as hell to see my before picture and my progress one still shows I have a long way to go, but.... I'm sharing it b/c I feel like I need to... for some reason. /shrugs.... it's just time lol.
Even though I still see all my flaws, seeing this side by side shows me how far I've come.
The before pic though... man. I looked more pregnant then than I ever did with all 3 of my pregnancies in the last month of being pregnant. I knew I was big, obviously, but seeing where I'm at now compared to where I was... I was in some serious denial about how big I had gotten.
Anyway... ugh... ok here it goes....
Starting weight was About 224
Weight today an hour ago was 164.8
pls ignore the hampers behind me in the recent pic. We're still waiting for our washer to get fixed and the dirty clothes have piled up
Never again though. I will never be that before ever again and my next progress photo will be even more dramatic... hopefully lol
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I love this before and present progress photo, LOOK AT YOU! You've lost so much, I am teary eyed with happiness for you. You are doing so amazingly well, keep it up! :-)1
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WOW congrats to you for putting those pics up. WHAT A AWESOME TRANSFORMATION!!!!!!! You should be THRILLED with the progress!!!! That is so amazing and just proves that your plan is working!!!! I am super proud of you!!! Keep it up ---you will be to your goal in no time at all!!!!!
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That is a huge difference! Give your body a round of applause for nurturing and birthing three little people and now focus on you. My hats off to everyone who shares progress pics because they are so helpful to others.1
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Amazingggggg!!!! You shouldn't be tentative at all because your progress is mind blowing!!!! Thank you for a little burst of motivation today! Congrats on being (and looking) fabulous!!!1
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Thanks everyone.
SO nervous about posting that, but I'm glad I finally did. It really does help to see how far I've come and I am damn proud of my progress so far
Today’s Date: 5/2/2019
Today's Plan: bone broth fast
Weight Goal for the Month: 162lb
Today’s Weight: 164.8
Description/Photo of Meals: 2 cups coffee w/ heavy cream/unsweet almond vanilla milk/monk fruit, bone broth w/ bouillon, ribeye steak w/ hot sauce and 2 fried eggs
Total calories:1200-1300
Your thoughts/comments on the day: I had planned on doing bone broth fast, but I knew I was done with it after my last cup of broth this afternoon.
I put in electrolytes with each cup of broth but I kept getting that weird shaky (but with no actual shaking) feeling. Mild, nothing severe or anything like yesterday, but I knew that I was done with it.
And ya know what.. although it's not what I set out to do.. I'm good with how long I went with it.
Maybe next time I attempt something like this, I'll be able to go longer, but for my first time.. I think I stuck with it pretty well
Had some super hardcore hunger moments, but overall it wasn't too bad. Next time, whenever that may be, I'll definitely include more electrolytes and definitely more water.
I'm going to enjoy the rest of my coffee the next few mornings while I still have some left and then kick some OMAD booty come Sunday!
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Firstly, it takes lots of courage to share photos! Salute to you! Secondly, omg! a huge congratulations!!!
You have loss a lot of weight and its a huge progress and motivation for us all!!! :+ Keep up the good work! 1 -
You are doing great!!! Enjoy your weekend 0
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Feeling a little bloated this morning.
Official weigh in was 166.6 a little while ago. Still up a little but that's ok.
I did see a 164 weight yesterday.... hopefully by next weigh-in I'll see that again
Dizzy again this morning when I got up from laying down. Hopefully with some food in my stomach that will stop.
Not worrying about calories today, but also not going to try to overdo it either. Tomorrow will be the same and then Sunday it's time to start OMADing again! Excited to get that started up again.
About to go fix myself something to eat. I've had 2 cups of coffee so far this morning.
Sleep last night was actually really good, but I started waking a lot at around 4pm. Falling back to sleep then waking up a few minutes later over and over again. Annoying. Hoping I'll be able to sleep in tomorrow. Even just 30 extra minutes would be great.0 -
So sorry you're feeling dizzy! I hope you see 164 by your next weigh-in as well, that would be fantastic. Enjoy your calories and coffee today. And I can relate to sleep issues so I hope that soon resolves itself for you as well :-)1
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sandy- Thanks! I hope your own sleep problems get better.
Oh and before I forgot to mention it again..... my dang husband.. bless his heart.... ate all the damn beef ribs!! ALL OF THEM!! *kitten* didn't save me a single dang one! If it was something a bit more common that we normally get... whatever... but we don't buy beef ribs and the only reason we had these was b/c they were attached to the roast we had bought.
Damnit! I was looking forward to having at least one of them too!
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sandy- Thanks! I hope your own sleep problems get better.
Oh and before I forgot to mention it again..... my dang husband.. bless his heart.... ate all the damn beef ribs!! ALL OF THEM!! *kitten* didn't save me a single dang one! If it was something a bit more common that we normally get... whatever... but we don't buy beef ribs and the only reason we had these was b/c they were attached to the roast we had bought.
Damnit! I was looking forward to having at least one of them too!
Thank you!
And, um, so is the hubs still alive and kicking after committing such an atrocious offense? 😂😂😂
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AGREED - I'd be finding a shovel and an accomplice
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OMG what was he thinking.....bad bad man very bad man LOL
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He ate them all???
I would have been mad too, he should be scared 
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I think the consensus is that this hubby is nutso (just like the rest of ours lol)! Doesn't he understand that food is sacred?!0
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Lol.... I still can't believe he did it but... not like I can do anything about it now lol. Plus he is taking me to the fish store across town today (pets, not to eat lol). I would go by myself but traffic in that area is HORRIBLE plus I'm not going by myself with my 2 toddler boys. Pffffffft.
No tracking yesterday.
Did have 2 coffees with my usual stuff in them, some fried cheese w/ pepperoni, leftover marinated chicken thighs, chicken wings
I'm sure calories would've been in a deficit still.
Family dinner is rescheduled for tonight since SiL and her family are coming in to town today. Hopefully they pick somewhere we can actually eat. Doubt it though. She likes this one Chinese place that has absolutely nothing we could get. Not unless we just wanted to eat the inside of an eggroll.
I'm pretty sure AF is right around the corner. I've been getting some horrible acne on my face (normal), but also on the back of my neck too. So attractive! lol
Alrighty, have to finish my coffee and get kids ready to go shopping. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend!
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Enjoy the time with your hubby and your family dinner later, as well as the rest of your weekend!1
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You are super brave for sharing. Thank you! Amazing transformation. :0)1
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Back to OMAD today!
And of course AF showed up last night.
Yesterday... I knew something was going on though b/c I was hungry all day long and wanted to eat everything.
I finished off almost an entire bag of spicy pork rinds by myself.
Ate multiple spoonfuls of pimento jalapeno cheese. First time having it and holy crap! Why haven't I eaten it before??? It's SO damn good! Cheesy with a nice strong pepper flavor... omg HEAVEN.
Actually looking at that, I really didn't eat a lot.
But for dinner... dinner was my 3rd unplanned cheat.
I was hungry and told DH that I wanted fried chicken and fries. So that's what we got. Got a 3 piece that before, I would've inhaled and not thought twice about. This time.. I could only eat 2 pieces (along with the fries). So that's some improvement I guess lol.
I did also have a banana milkshake after too which was.... so good.
Back to healthier eating today though. While this was 2 cheats close together, I know I'm in a better mindset now bc before starting this...I would've let cheats just get me right back to eating how I was instead of just continuing on. None of that now though. No more. While I do plan on still eating healthier for the rest of my life, allowing myself to just live a little and eat whatever is part of that plan too.
We're going to have another cheat day next month. Daughter will be out of school and we plan on taking the kids to an amusement park (Carowinds) for the day 1 -
Sounds like some very nice cheat foods! And the banner shake, OMG, yummy!
Couldn't agree with you more on allowing yourself to cheat now and then. I bet you guys will have a blast at the amusement park with your daughter. :-)1 -
OMAD was surprisingly easy. Probably helps that I had some chores to get done so that was a good distraction.
Dinner tonight was slow cooked pork shoulder in low carb tortilla shells, homemade guacamole, pimento jalapeno cheese and lettuce.
Guacamole had 3 avocados, lime juice, diced onion,inved garlic, little bit of salsa, salt and pepper.
I ate one burrito and then had more meat with everything else except for the tortilla.
Sooooo good and I ate too much. But it was worth it!
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