Since I did the posts yesterday, I realized I didn't put my goal in here anywhere! As of right now, the goal is to lose 62.2 pounds. My initial goal was 52.2 and the date was July 4th, but I'm going to not change my date for now and see what happens when I talk to the doctor on Monday.
Mondays are the official weigh in days. Mondays I also get the medication refills and the injection.
A little about all that: The medications are three different things. One is a pharmacy grade multivitamin with minerals. One is called Calcium Pyruvate and it helps burn body fat, increases endurance and improved physical performace as well as helps maintain lead body tissue and aids in increasing muscle mass. The last one is Phendimetrazine, the appetite suppressant. I'm not so much a medicine person, so the difficult part of this for me is taking 11 pills throughout the day. There are 4 times during the day I am supposed to take the meds. I had to put a reminder in my phone so that I'd remember to take them.
There is also a weekly injection and that includes: MIC, Chromic Chloride and Vitamin B12. The MIC is Methionine which prevents fatigue, works as an antioxidant and has lipotropic actions, Inositil helps with redistributing body fat and promotes healthy hair and skin and the Choline helps to control weight and cholesterol levels, also helps prevent gallstones. The Chromic Chloride regulates carbohydrate metabolism and blood sugar. The B-12 part is the "energy vitamin".
This must be what has me bouncing off the walls sometimes. The one issue I am having is that I'm not sleeping well. Well, that's not entirely true. I'm sleeping well, once I get to sleep. I just haven't been tired at all. The other night I was on Wii Fit at 12:30 because I was awake and nobody was on Facebook to chat with! I've been going to bed about 2 hours later than prior to the program start. I might need to ask the doctor about that on Monday.
I certainly seem to have more energy and really, I've been in a great mood. I'm not sure why, I just feel like I'm a lot cheerier than I maybe was a few weeks ago. I'm just happy and motivated and I know I'm on a mission!
Let's talk about water--do you all know how much water I drank before this all started? Right--NONE! Michelle is not a water lover!! I'd be lucky to drink something other than tea at lunch and a cup of coffee in the morning, if I even had coffee.
Now, I have two problems! I got this awesome coffee maker for Christmas, it's like a "crack-machine"! It's one of those Keurig single cup brewers. Everytime I go in the kitchen I make a cup of coffee or tea. Luckily most of the tea is caffeine free, but I used to drink one cup a day, if that, and now I want coffee all the time.
So, now I want coffee, but I have to drink a gallon of water a day---yes, a GALLON! So I've pretty much resigned myself to a schedule. One cup of coffee when I wake up and run down to the crack machine, then at least 1 liter of water before I can have any more coffee. There are 3.78 liters of water in a gallon. I've been drinking a full 4 liters. The goal is one liter before lunch, one liter at lunch, one in the afternoon and one with dinner/evening. Then I can finish the night off with hot tea. So far it's working well, but drinking that much water has definitely been a change for me. I think I need to buy stock in Zephyrhills Water Company!
Thanks for reading and thank you all for your support!
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