149 It stuck! YES! Tea Please!

I have now been converted to drinking tea in the morning (I in the past did not like it). It keeps me warm these days so I need it. I only drink herbal teas without caffeine because I do not like that bursting energy that caffeine's give you and I never have been a big caffeine drinker in the past either.

So I have been paying attention to what is good and not so good about some of the teas.

Black Tea: Lots of caffeine and tannins are in this kind.

Dieters Tea: Senna can be dependant making to your bowels. Addictions become a problem also.

Smooth Move Tea: Same at the above named tea, dependant making too.

Rooibo's Tea: My oldest son loves it and did before he went to the country of it's origin.

Yerba Mata: It's ok not sure I like the natural caffeine that makes me buzzed but I am kind of craving it the R2 on HCG that I did. Strange I haven't really ever liked tea before this diet.

Herbal Tea: Well I am liking the ones that are fruit, but that is not really an allowed on the HCG diet R2 phase. So peppermint's and chamomiles might be a bit safer to use.

I have now decided to drink my chocolate, coconut oil with Tension Tamer every morning since it helps keep me warm and must be making my metabolism jump started.

With this new breakfast that I have started drinking more my middle guy wanted to try it, he was not impressed even though he did drink it all gone. It tastes like nothing is all that he would say about it.

Breakfast: 1 orange with choco, coconut oil, Tension Tamer tea mixed together.

Lunch: Turkey burger soup with onions & Quinoa. I did not eat any toasts because of the quinoa grain that was in my soup.

Dinner:Halibut, on a melba round 4 actually and asparagus.

Miles: I intended to not do any today to take a break, but someone encouraged me so 5 total 1 running that's 10,000 on my C boys Ipod pedometer.

160.2 pounds down today! YAHOOOOOOOO.

I get to count today and tomorrow as a loss and this was reward today another pound gone that takes me to 23.8 pounds gone in my first round so far. I am so excited today because i had held at 162 or 161 for so many days. Lesson be patient with your body. My partner and I have been discussing that we will do our P3 round and start back on another P2 round right after so that we can try and lose the last 40 pounds that we need off. Ok so I am being optimistic at getting all 40 gone but that's ok I can be. Then the summer will be in full swing and we will maintain until the school year starts again. Pictures will be coming up soon just give me time.

Lunch curried fish with apple green leaf salad and a yummy apple cider lemon dressing with stevia garlic and onion mixed in. I am missing my melba toasts or grissini's. They were nice while I was taking the HHCG but thats ok I am on a mission to get smaller.

Dinner was Onion chicken broth, I just cooked the chicken and onions in water with braggs amino acid and garlic mmm on a cold night. I am way tired to night and not hungry for anything else that warmed the body.

I had a warm cup of tea and I actually am starting to like it with the stevia in it warms me up at night.

162 New scales 27.80 BMI

It seemed to work it's almost noon ready to eat my lunch feeling great no hungry pains. I am starting to gather recipes to get me through the next three weeks to set my body in this weight and face the family parties that are going to come up. Still bugged about not fitting into my jeans yet and that its stuck on my hips still but I am patient.
Things I am missing. Conditioner I am tired of straw hair.
Deodorant I thank goodness am not into
the sweating summer yet.
Lotion I really am starting to miss on my hands.
My partner is looking so great she can fit in her smaller jeans and we are both waiting to get really exercising at a more energizing level.
Lunch Chicken with spinach rolled inside. Grapefruit with stevia on top and grissini sticks.
I drank a cup of Yerba Mata tea this morning and when my box is done I do not think I will ever get it again. I have never been a soda with tons of caffeine in it drinker. I just never really liked it so I am not going to start with the tea either. Caffeine is a stimulant and why would I want to become hooked on something that makes my body be stimulated. I watched the preemie babies have it used just to keep their hearts stimulated and always was happy when their bodies decide to get going on their own, so ya I think exercise will be my stimulation for my heart. Looked up links to Atkins info finding inspiration and recipes. http://community.atkins.com/index.jsp
Dinner Grilled fish with that yummy picante sauce and my melba rounds on the bottom. An orange for the finish up. It was a great day.

164 Wii 28.BMI 163.4 New scales

Oh ya that Dr.Amen yesterday said that a person should watch their BMI and it needs to stay below 30 to keep from being sick and having all kinds of problems.
AAAAAAHHHHHH this up and down makes me crazy by tomorrow it will be going down again. I think I must really need to be careful what I eat on phase 3 and make sure that I do not miss tracking what I eat so I can tell what foods would make me go back up on the scale in the end. Missed my goal workout this morning but I am going to try to get to it all day.
Lunch Crab with spinach and an apple and melba toast is the fare for the noon meal.
Changed did an orange instead and grissini stick. The orange just sounded better today.

Well I got some Yerba mata not sure I am going to like it. My partner cheated over the weekend and so she is on a quest to lose the two pounds and get back with me. So she already tried the tea and said it was not that great. So coffee drinkers I guess this one would be great for you. This is going to be tough for me since I do not like teas. It is supposed to lower your cholesterol level. Well I guess that's great I have no idea what mine is at so oh well.

So dinner was hamburger with my favorite picante sauce made enough for the whole family and now its all gone. Wasa cracker bun very full. Ate my apple at 5 because I couldn't get to dinner till 7:30pm. Isn't that just crazy one min your hungry and another you are too full. Well I am really agreeing with what Dr. Adkins says in his book wish I could express it all here but that's not realistic, just go get the book and learn. I drank some of the Yerba mata tea yucky but with enough French Vanilla Stevia I got it down. It did have a creamy taste at the end. I combined it with Dieters tea, trying all the tricks to get that last little ounces off before Day 40 hits. I read several things on the Yahoo groups and learned some new insights about ways to do P3 making sure to not gain back in that phase. Most of all I still think it comes down to portion control and cutting all the bad white carbs out of your diet and making sure you exercise consistently.
Drinking Yerba mata tea around 8 Pm. Bad idea I had a hard time going to bed. I have not really ever been a caffeine seeking person so it really hit me hard.

Wii167.3 BMI 28.57 167 New scales

This is a nice morning no hungry pains last night or all day for that matter yesterday. I can feel the muscle pull where I did the leg lifts the night before and it feels tighter. I did side leg lifts this morning 30 both sides of course on my soft bed. I need a mat for my floor so I can do that with the Wii strength training. I am sucking my gut all day to help firm it up. I can definitely tell there is stretched skin from births. Well you can't go all the way back or you wouldn't have your little angels would ya. My partner is so goofy she called me and said "I am MELTING YES MELTING away." Not really but since she carries it all over that's how she feels about the fat cells being depleted. I need to get some of that YERBA MATA tea. If it really helps to sluff off the old unused cells lets get rid of them. That is saying a lot for me because I hate drinking tea. Even when I was a kid and my Mom would say "herbal tea is so healthy and good for your body as long as you do not drink it really hot." Bleak bleak bleak and make that another double bleak I didn't care. So they say raspberry tea helps keep your blood pressures down and aid the baby during pregnancy, here's me gaging it down. I always felt like it was just weakly sweetened water. So as you can see with this said I just drink my Stevia flavored 3 liters of water in the morning. Well I try to get the majority down by 12:00 noon so that I am not up at all hours of the night trying to sit on the throne because I didn't get it all drank early enough. Kudo to you beverage drinkers.

Lunch will be shrimp today and tomorrow so I am preparing ahead as I will need to do the salad in a baggy deal. Not sure the combo yet I'll get back with you tonight.

Oh the funny thing is my partner and I are both having days where we are grouchy or hungry both on the same day. Isn't that strange. Well we were both almost the same weight at the start point but it has seemed surprising to us to have the same kinds of emotional feelings on the same day. It also makes it easier to know that the day will be tough together.

GOAL: 6:00 am strength train right after getting on the Wii for 30 min everyday, except I have to leave really early before six tomorrow.

So lunch combo Curried shrimp with stevia on top of tomatoes slices. A lovely orange that I ate later in the day with grissini sticks.

Dinner Fish soup with Wasa cracker and think onion slices. That was yummy. I also made strawberry lemonade a bit weak because of adding to much water but that's ok. I also used all of my strawberries in the drink instead of just the two that the recipe calls for.

I didn't have one single hungry pain or craving need.