August one year ago

Things were really starting to go well now.  His ankle was better. He was very tired but life was good.  He was starting to show a little bit of kidney stress though around this time.  Scans were coming up and so was his one year anniversary of his transplant.  It can be so hard to look back and think of what we were doing and see now where we are without him.  Here he is visiting the Hoppers Flying Team. We miss you so much my love.

Day 13 the plan

Day 13: Rest day. I basically repeated one of my last great loss days which was beef taco-ish night.  I added just a tbsp of refried beans thinking the gas wouldn't bother me, but I forgot that I get headache from that, so woke up with headache this morning. Ugh.  Good news....I am down 1.4 today!! Woot Woot!!

Total wt loss since August 20....10 pounds!!

My goal is to take a picture just for fun today.

BMI wish I had written my starter BMI:   35.7

I want to get under 30 to start, which will get me out of the 'obese' range!  

22.8 pounds total from last year. I know Braveheart would be so proud of me, I can just hear his encouragement. Miss you my precious, precious boy....how can I live the rest of my life without you??? I am glad to be able to think of this as not my permanent home. I will have eternity with you.

Hey, I am not saying I am some sexy mama or anything, I just want to log my progress and maybe I will inspire one of you in the process. See you tomorrow. Oh I hope I can handle my breakfast test this morning.

Books of 2012

• juice lady's turbo diet
• sleeping away the pounds
• the outliers
• The Juice Lady's Living Foods Revolution
• winter's heart

hunger games, I admit it, I read them.....

read a few others but hard with Braveheart ill again..miss him so much...

Day 12

Today is Day 13 with yesterday Day 12 being a 'test veggie' day. I made a delicious tomato sauce from the maters out of my garden.  I put it on my chicken Parmesan, but really it was Manchago for now, and mild symptoms last night of itching and some mild aches, but this morning my wt was up .2 so I think we have a full reaction!  We will cut that out for now. Rest day today so hopefully will recover and then tomorrow I get to test a new breakfast that I love and I am so excited!

No worries, the wt. is just a tool.

Still working on pics.  See you tomorrow.

Day 11

Day 11 was a rest day.  We enjoyed all of our foods that are 'safe' foods.  Felt good all day.  Woke up after a good nights sleep to being down .6.  This is good. Today we will test a new veggie....tomatoes....everyone wants to be able to eat some of this in it's sauce form.

Total loss: 8.4 lbs

Total loss since last year when I lost 40 lbs but gained much of it back when Brave Boy became ill
 again: 21.6

I will plan to post a picture soon as I keep things moving and where are my food pics, I am too busy. I will try harder.

Day 10 the plan

Day 10 down: down 1.2 pounds!!! Yeah!

What a good day of feeling well, eating well and all just all together well.  I added the pinto beans (refried beans) as a new protein mainly for the kids and we love tacos.  The kids had a brown rice tortilla fried in coconut oil with same as me inside except I let them have mozz cheese, where I just had my beef, beans, manchego cheese, avocado and lots of lettuce on a plate with some mildly sauteed kale with pumpkin seeds. I no issues until later which involved lots of gas and a mild headache. So I guess beans are a fail for me for now. My exzcema acted up too, but I am not sure if it's from that or from picking tomatoes without gloves after dinner for my mama. Tomato plants really bother my skin. I am going to test tomatoes soon but fear I will fail some version of that.

See you tomorrow.

Total loss:  7.8 lbs

Day 9 repeat the plan

Day 10: New Protein

I did recover from my 'off' day by losing .4 lbs, I am happily moving on with the plan.  Today is a 'test protein' day. I chose to add pinto beans so we could have something filling that the kids would love.  Tonight was almost like any other day that we eat. We will have tacos.  Plan modified of coarse. Feeling good.  Can't wait until tomorrow to see if I can say there is some more wt off and loving my list of foods I can and cannot eat growing.