Shaking things up!!!!!!!!

Well, you know I think I have just a tad bit of OCD in my blood. I searched and searched until I got my hands back on some low carb shakes. I even went so far as to order some and have them shipped all the way from America. What can I say, I like to stick with things that work. One of the powerful things that happens to you when you follow the book and are truly in ketosis is that your desire to eat leaves you. Today I was out of shakes ( AGAIN) and nothing seemed apealing to me, its like my relationship with food is over, after all these years and all the love just like that you wake up one morning and your beloved is gone. Will I miss it , heck yeah, but being down 4 pounds from last week gives me reason to keep looking foward and no turning back. Soooo as my OCD would have it I have found some more shakes and plan on having them in hand by the end of the day. I do a pretty good job of eating healthy foods, its just with the shakes I dont have to put so much thought and effort into what I plan on eating throughout the day.With 10 children I really dont have time to be hovering around in the kitchen trying to figure out what to eat next.
I am really into the callenetics, I LOVE it and I see curves coming in places that I didnt know existed, so whoooo hoooooo. Im enjoying this ride. See you next week.

Uncle "TOM" and Aunt "FLO"

Well my unwanted relatives are hear and lets just say they brought an extra present this week. Im up a pound, but its not getting to me because I started doing Callenetics and I love it, so I am not going to get bummed out about one pound. Something else that hit me this week is that as long as I stay consistent time is on MY side. I dont need to give myself dates to get to certain pounds and make myself feel like a failure, this isnt some kind of race. Im doing this for ME and as long as I dont give up , I have already won. So rather than set dates that I want to meet my goals by I will set goals that I want to make and then just keep up with the day I make it to that goal. I know I will get there, so no need for the extra pressue. I plan on doing turbo jam and walk away the pounds on the days that I dont do callanetics. My goal this week is to do some form of excercise daily and continue to eat clean, stay under my 20 grams of carbs daily. My shake routine was put on hold because I ran out of shakes and the store here that carries them is out, so one week of normal atkins, and I will see how things go from there.
until next week....happy low carbing

Busy Busy Busy Thursday

I really dont have time to post today, I have to go to my daughters school. Its the end of the year and lots of things happening at the kids school. My weight today is 294. I had a fiasco one day that involved 3 atkins advantage bars which threw me out of ketosis because of all the sugar alcohol but I am right back on track and also excercising now. I will try and post more later when I have time.

Better late than never!!!!

Sorry my post is a day late but in all fairness I will use my weight from yesterday which was 297. I'm feeling good. Yesterday was my daughters KG graduation and Awards day for my son, there were tons of chocolate baskets floating around and I was very tempted to " just have a bite" but I resisted.Despite all the running I still stayed on plan and yesterday made 12 cheat free /clean eating days.
I have still been:
- keeping up with writing down everything I eat
- drinking at least 3 liters of water
- staying under my 20 grams of carbs a day
- avoiding MOST low carb convience foods
what I am NOT doing is getting enough exercise. I don't know what my problem is, I have a HUGE variety of Cd's , machinery and gadgets to give me something different to try everyday but I just don't have the energy or motivation to get the exercise done. Can I count keeping up with 10 children as exercise??? I know I need to do more I just haven't found that niche that I can do everyday yet, but I am working on it , I ordered a callenetics video along with the actual Dr. Atkins book so we'll see if I can make some changes in that area, other wise everything is going pretty well.
By the way I found my lab report here goes:
Cholesterol 163.5 should be less than 200
Triglycerides 42.2 should be less than 150
HDL Chol. 42.9 should be between 35-60
LDL Chol. 106.7 should be less than 130
VLDL Chol. 8.5 should be between 6-38

that was perfect ...here is the problem
free T3 2.81 should be 3.1-6.8 ( mine is low)
free T4 15.39 should be 12-22 ( mine is ok)
TSH 7.06 should be .35- 4.94 ( mine is high)
This was after being on no meds for a month so the wacky doctor put me back on thyroid hormones 50mcg. a day for two months and then I go back to check the levels again. I know my levels aren't that bad but I feel like they are alot worse, I have that weak, dragging feeling , that don't want to move feeling, but I am trying to make myself do as much as possible.
OK that's all folks, I have a "social gathering" today and I am taking all the Atkins foods I need and making a batch of sweet oopsies so while they are having all the Anti- low carb crap I can eat and enjoy my own cheat-free pleasures.
See you next week....

Met goal and counting!!!!!!

WHOOOO HOOOO!!!!! Alhamdulillah ( All praise is due to God) I made goal, my weight today 299.2 I don't EVER want to be over 300 pounds again, I am not looking back, this will be the year that I get close to 200 pounds , I know I can do it. I feel great and I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
May goals:
lose 10 pounds
no cheat days/ eat clean for 30 days
exercise at least 30 minutes every day
what I am already doing:
drinking 3 liters of water a day
writing down everything I eat
taking my vitamins and thyroid meds every day
keeping meals as simple as possible

I seemed to have misplaced my lab reports , that's what I get for procrastinating about entering it in my blog...so you will just have to take my word for it that my lipid profile was perfect, and my thyroid is wacky, but I am working on the thyroid issue.
Until next week...