I really don't like loading days anymore.

OMG!!! I am only half way thru loading day 1 and I feel like shit. I've had a bagel w cream cheese, garlic bread, and 3 slices of pizza. Ugh I feel like a damn heffer!!! That is all.

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Countdown to R2

All of my supplies are here! I am so excited. TOM is STILL here. Movers are coming on Monday. My bf is out of his place on the 30th. I am out of my place on the 29th. We still don't have a new place to live. Eek. We will be crashing with my other bestie until we find a place. He has had a total of 5 different interviews with the same company. Initially they interviewed him for 3 different positions then he went back on Thursday for a 2nd interview with 2 of the 3. Hopefully we will be hearing some good news on Monday. He has only been out of the Navy since the 5th but he is starting to get stir crazy. LOL Keep your fingers crossed for him.

Hopefully TOM will be gone tomorrow. I was thinking about just starting on Monday, regardless of whether it is or not. It's harder for me to load when I am working because then I end up spending a ton of money at the resturaunts here at the airport. They are ridiculous in price and in all honesty, the food SUCKS! So yeah, I will most likely start on Monday since the movers will be coming and we can order PIZZA!!! LOL I still miss pizza sometimes. Especially since it is football season. I think I will make a list of everything that I want to load on this time around. Last time I didn't hardly load. I pretty much ate like normal, not realizing that I needed to really stuff myself. Anyway, I still haven't decided on how long of a round I will go. It just all depends on my progress and how I feel. As for now, I am planning for the standard 40 day. I am thinking that doing another 65 days will just be too long. Plus I would like to plan to start R3 on Christmas Day. Holidays are PERFECT for loading!

Hope everyone is well and stabilizing/releasing. I will catch up later this morning.

Waiting games...

Wow... 0.2oz below LIW. I'll take it. TOM is still here. Seriously ridiculous. It has been almost a week. Now I am playing a waiting game. I have my hcg. Bac water should be arriving today. Vials should be here tomorrow along w my syringes. Hopefully! I am ready to get this hcg party started already. I wish everything would just show up today. Oh well. Just have to wait some more.

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Thai Vegetable Soup courtesy of Elana's Pantry! The bf loved it!!! We used baby bellos instead of shitake and no cilantro.

I love waking up at 3am...

I did not release anything last night. Maybe it was the lack of sleep I got, or TOM, or maybe my body just simply did not want to lose anything. Either way I am still on track to get back to my LIW. I hated having to get up this morning but I am wearing my "skinny" shirt that I bought after the end of P2. There is a pic posted of it on my last P2 day. I bought it then when I went on vacation and I gained weight, I didn't like the way it looked on me. It was a little too tight in the tummy. Now it is perfectly fine. I am allowing myself to only buy 1 new outfit per round. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on clothes that are only going to fit me for a few months. Once I am done, then I will go on a shopping spree. Plus I want to save up so I can get a completely new wardrobe. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!

Work has been rather slow today. We will be super busy in the afternoon. I received a confirmation email that my bacteriostatic water was shipped... It will be leaving the west coast tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed for everything else to be shipped tomorrow or Tuesday as well. Better jet. I am started to get really sleepy so I need to get moving. Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday.

Real quick...

Just wanted to post real quick. I have an early morning shift tomorrow and we had delays tonight so I really should be getting to sleep. I am only 0.6lbs away from LIW. TOM is here and will be full force tomorrow. I can feel it. I will hopefully be starting my next round this weekend, as planned. I am just waiting on the rest of my supplies to get here. I purchased everything I will need for the next 3 rounds, so I won't have to buy anything. I definitely will have extra, so I will probably end up selling it. I'll let you guys know, so if anyone is interested. Other then that, nothing too interesting going on. The bf had 3 interviews in one day. One of the interviewers wanted to offer him a job on the spot. We are just both concerned with the base pay. It is super expensive to live in the DC Metro area and there base pay just isn't going to cut it. Especially if we are going to be spending 1500+ for a rental. It's ridiculous. I tell him we should just buy but he wants to save up for a down payment eventhough VA loans don't require it. Oh well. Guess I will be giving my money away to yet another landlord. The movers are coming a week from Monday. I was so relieved when we found out that they will store everything until March. That gives us time to really find a place that we are going to be comfortable in and not just rush into the first place that we find. Plus, it's not easy finding a place with a garage out here. You would think with all of the snow, but nope. Anyway, time to head off to bed. I will post tomorrow with my AM loss. Hopefully it will be 0.6lbs or more!!!

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Progress for progress sake

Steak day was a success! I will do another one today. I lost 1.8lbs from the steak day, then woke up today to another .3lbs gone. Less then 4lbs away from my LIW. Wahoo. TOM showed up this morning. Hopefully that won't affect my releasing. I also received my HCG two days ago. I jaw enough for 3 more rounds. Hopefully that is all that I will need. This round I plan on being super strict on myself. Last round I cheated and omitted certain things some times. This time around, no cheating and no omitting. I'm still debating on whether to do an extended round or not, like last time. I will just have to see how it goes.

On another note, my boyfriend has an interview tomorrow with a really good company. AND we won't be moving to Tampa after all which is a huge relief. I hate moving and the whole fact that there hasn't been a job posted since May was really stressing me out. On top of that, there will be a position open in November for supervisors so I will be able to apply for that. Anyway, time to get my day started. Happy releasing everyone.

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The first of many correction days...

I got on the scale today and was not surprised that I will be having to complete some correction days. My bf has been at my house since before the fishing trip and we have been going out to eat all of the time. Most of the time I am really good with what I choose to order... No potatoes, no fries, nothing FRIED! The last couple of days I have caved though. We went to a brazilian steakhouse a couple of nights ago... These places are the best. For those of you that have never been to one... they have a yummy self serve salad bar and then the guys come around with freshly cooked meat on skewers. They slice off a piece and you are ready to go. Anyway, so I did really well until dessert. Even then, I have to applaud myself for not eating the whole thing. We split a creme brulee. I know, I know... Of all of the desserts. LOL Anyway, then yesterday we went out for dinner as well. I was going to make yesterday a steak day because we got up late and we didn't end up eating until around 3pm but by the time we got to the resturaunt, I didn't feel like steak anymore. Needless to say, I had shrimp and steamed broccoli. He had a peanut butter chocolate piece of pie. I had 2 bites of it. I definitely miss sweets but at the same time, it has been since June that I have had any. I am not making any excuses for this though. I am just stating the facts. And the fact is, I have a sweet tooth that has almost completely diminished. Snickers and Pepsi were my weakness, especially the Pepsi Throwback. I love that stuff. I still have a case of it, UNOPENED, in my apartment. I don't plan on opening it until I have complete control over this sugar craving, which could be a super long time. By control I mean, making I have to say that after my first round, I am extremely happy that I don't crave desert after every meal or that I don't crave Snickers right before TOM. Speaking of which, TOM should be arriving in a few days. I can feel it. I am starting to get really crampy and cranky. LOL. Oh so back to the food. Since I have definitely not made smart choices this past week, I made a smart choice this morning. I know that before I had said that I would be fine staying at 240lbs. Well 240lbs has come and gone. I will be doing correction days until I get back down to my LIW of 237lbs. I want to start R2 off correctly. I weighed in at 243.1lbs this morning. I was expecting a gain and am surprised it was not more. So I will be doing strict P3 eating with correction days every other day until I am back down. I think I can handle steak every other day. I have found that egg days don't really work for me. I am going to try a chicken day as well. Do I need to cook the check myself or can I just purchase the ones already cook from the grocery store and just snack on that??? Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated.

EDIT... I had originally started this post at 8am but got side tracked with work. BEWARE... RANT COMING... I found out some irritating news today regarding the recruiter my bf was working with. They pretty much told him to fuck off and that he can do his job search on his own. See, he signed and agreement to do a 30/30 program with them. 30 day job search, placed within 30 miles of your ideal location. Well, he signed into the agreement on August 19th. They had specific dates of when he would be out of the country so they could have been job searching for him them and he would be available immediately when we came back. FAIL #1 on their part. Then the bf inquired, KEYWORD INQUIRED, about the posibility of changing locations. Ok, he didn't call them right back, however, he told the recruiter he would talk it over with me and get back to him. It was 2 days! So that would have been 2 days on our part, however, he never told him to stop searching for jobs. He just INQUIRED about it. FAIL #2 on their part. Now, FAIL #3 is MAJOR... The recruiter emailed my boyfriend yesterday morning, letting him know that he needed more information for his resume. Now, here is my problem... Yesterday was the 13th of September. They had 6 days until the end of the 30/30 program. My boyfriend, in response, sent an email back to his recruiter asking/stating the following: Why is he just asking for a revision on the resume. The recruiter had it on the 19th. And when would he be going for job interviews??? This part is extremely important. He has been separated since the beginning of September. He just got his last paycheck and the movers need to know where to take the stuff. We can not get an apartment/house until he has income coming in. No one will approve use with just me. I do not make enough money. Also, the movers can only store our stuff for 90 days but we are anxious to start our new life. So, in response, the recruiter told my boyfriend that it WASN'T HIS FAULT that we were out of the country and he couldn't get ahold of him while we were gone, eventhough he gave them an email address to communicate with, and it WASN'T HIS FAULT that my boyfriend changed locations. This never happened. An inquiry is not a decision!!! On top of that, he also wanted to use the excuse that they had an issue last week with a candidate that they had placed, quitting his job. Well, I am sorry about that. I am sorry that the company you placed him with is asking for their money back but THAT is NOT my boyfriends fault. It also doesn't take the entire company to resolve an issue like that. So, to that recruiter... SCREW YOU. The government should NOT be doing business with you, especially with the way that you treat your candidates. 99% of the guys you work with do not know what it is like to work or look for a job in the civilian world because they have given so much of their life to the government and this is how you treat them??? SHAME ON YOU!!!

Getting things done!!!

My HCG cleared customs last night!!! That means I should have it by the end of the week. Probably within a couple of days actually since it is coming from NY and I live in the DC area. I was starting to get worried for a minute there. Anyway just want to update real quick. We finally sent off the paperwork for the movers to come pack up the house. The bf is going back and forth w the recruiters who are suppose to be job searching for him bc their 30 days is almost up and they severely dropped the ball. I don't want to go into detail. What else. Oh a friend of mine is starting HCG. She will be doing a 23 day round. How much water does she need to mix with it? I told her 5mL but that I would check with all of you. She has 5000iu. Let me know. Happy releasing/stabilizing for everyone. We are off to the outlet mall. Oh man, I love shopping!!!

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It's been so long...

Ok, so I am sitting here at work, thinking about the fact that I haven't blogged in over a week. This are still crazy. I haven't been working as much but we are moving and packing and more packing even though I am not going to be able to move with the bf. That has added a lot of stress to the situation. Also the fact that I am not working as much leads to less money which is also stressful. I am used to clearing a certain amount every month but since he is still job searching, we are trying to take advantage of the extra time.

Anyway, I have been able to maintain my current weight of 240.8. I got down to my LIW but it seems like regardless of what I eat, I stay at 240.8. I ordered for my next round and was getting anxious when I didn't see any updates with the tracking. Luckily today it update and said that it is in NY customs. Hopefully it will clear and be here within a few days. I was going to start on the 24th but I am ready to start releasing again. Hopefully I can start earlier. Plus, I will start TOM around that time so if I don't get it soon, I will have to wait until October to start R2. Eek. Lol either way, I am super excited. One of the girls at work is going to do the protocol with her husband. Only a short round though bc they have like 20 and 30 lbs to lose. I am excited for them to start as well. Well, I better get going. Hopefully I will be able to post more frequently. I know for sure I will once I start R2. Hope everyone is well. Happy releasing/maintaining to you all!!! I will try to catch up tonight and tomorrow.

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