The Good and The Bad

Well we are literally down to the last 2 days, Today and tomorrow!! Yes, I am not done with the diet, but I get to move on to the next step. So 3 more weeks of very little excitement in food but I get to add exercise and breakfast! Wohoo!! It's hard for me to fathom that in just 40 days I lost 35lbs.

So lets start with the Good! I no longer have to take my supplements! This is a good thing cause I was taking them 3 times a day and trying to remember all of that just got old. I am still taking a multi-vitamin and vitamin B12 but they are chewables and once a day. Every night it's so weird to look at my pill box now, this diet this last month has been such a blessing. I only have my multi-vitamin, iron, vitamin D, and every other night my Omeprazole. Which I only have to take when I need it. Its so crazy to see how few medications I take now. My back has been improving more and more and I am feeling good. The best thing about my meeting with him this week is he said I can go for Mexican Friday night! Chuy's here I come! I am beyond excited for this! He also said I can add a small amount of fat free sour cream and a sprinkling of cheese to my taco salads at home now. The things I get excited for, LOL.

So the Bad of this diet. First its the lack of variety in food. I am so thankful to be so close to being done with this diet. But I have had a trail with this, the entire time. I also have struggled with not cheating. I have been doing amazing, maybe a few chips here and there but until this week I did awesome. I struggled so bad yesterday. The kiddos were eating pizza rolls and I ate 5 of them. I have never been more disappointed. But we are 100% back on it today and staying strong. I know there are going to be good and bad days and I refuse to let this get me down. Another thing that has been horrible about this diet and has caused my weight to fluctuate is constipation. I am not eating enough to go as often as I wish I could. So today since its been 3 days I went back up to 266.4 and had gotten down on Monday to 263.8. So today I show I have only lost 32. Nothing like a smack in the face, I know it will fluctuate but its so annoying.

Okay so I promised some before and after pics and here you go! Obviously the ones on the left are the day I started and ones on the right are yesterday. I can't begin to tell you all how happy I get when I see these. It makes me want to cry happy tears. Of course I didn't include the close up of my butt that my husband took last night. LOL, he is always such a kidder. So excited to share all of this with you! Hope you have a blessed week and look for my update next week after we start working out.

      ---- Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust, and Me