Day Two Step One

Since this is really only the second day that I have taken the supplements in the right amount, at the right time, according to package directions, I am considering this day two of step one, despite the week or so I was taking them before that.

Since my sister prefers to weigh later in the month, and, I'd like to have at least a week with the supplements, before I go weigh again, we shall probably be weighing next week. That way, I can see if taking the supplements has helped, at all.

However, I can tell you that I did my two waist measurements, today, and was fairly pleased. Two waist measurements are taken, in case you don't remember (or, haven't read that post) because the doctor who wrote the Hilton Head Metabolism Diet says to measure for calculating your B.M.I., you need to measure directly above your hip bones for your waist measurement. However, where my waist actually is, the natural indent, is up a bit higher. Not a lot higher, though, as I have a bit of a short torso.

Anyway, as I said before, I measured them one morning and they were 46"(natural) and 49" (above hipbone), but, later that evening they were 49" and 51" . Today, in the afternoon, they were 46" and 49". So, I count that as good news!

I do feel flappier, this week. It's a horrible feeling, in a way, but, it's also a really good feeling in another way, since it is the feeling of progress. My hands were creeping me out, though.

I had wiggled my fingers around, watching the bagginess of it all, and, then I noticed that the  .. hmm .. I don't know what you call it. You know, I could have totally freaky hands and be cluing you into my circus people genealogy, or whatever, by saying this stuff! Anyway ...

On my hand, at any rate, there is a rather large part under the thumb, where the thumb actually has the rest of its bits that attach to the hand proper. Over the bone is a whole lot of padding. So, when I move my thumb in toward the palm and fingers, that padding, now looser, bunches up and makes the thumb and itself look rather like a very sad, old penis.

See?:

And, here is my same baggy hand, sans penis:

It is a good thing, masquerading as a bad thing.

Same thing with other parts of me. Of course, by my saying "other parts" breasts are inferred; but, not only those. Still, I am constantly amazed when I find that I still have enough fat left there to lose anything, since, every time I lose weight, I lose more of them .Seriously! I was not Dolly Parton to begin with, you know? And, either was she, after she lost weight, until she got surgery.

My belly does feel more like it's partially made out of rubber, so that it bounces along as I walk. Or, move at all. Today, I was trying to read a book, but, I had put my legs together, laying on my back, and, was doing a wee bit of some sort of laying down, pretend belly dance, abdominal exercise and then, I don't know .. I was just flapping my thighs together, after a while, for my own amusement.

Hey! If you can't have fun, why do it? Any of it? Flapping your thighs together may not be normal, but, it is self-entertainment and it is exercise. So, I say, why not?

The real point of all that, above, is that I do feel as if I have probably lost weight and the measurements seem to indicate that some of it has come off my belly. Yaye!

Here is another photo for you, just because. Enjoy my flappy face and insouciant hair!

     













One of my sisters has these uber large eyes (though, I am not sure if she is aware of this) which still look big, blue and flashing, even though she is, currently, larger than I. Whereas my eyes are not so easy to spot, especially as light hurts them and I keep squinting.

To make up for it. I have these lips, you see? Think about it. I am 45 years old. I am overweight, so, my lips look small compared to my face size. People do not generally get fat lips from getting fat elsewhere, you know? No, but, they usually get them from calling other people fat!

My point is, lips get thinner as you age. They look smaller in a fat face. I do not use lip plumpers. I have gotten no plastic surgery or weird injections. Those are my natural, unenhanced lips that look as big, blue and flashing as my sister's eyes do! Err .. well, you know what I mean!

They are a source of happiness to me, because, as a child, I was afraid of being thin-lipped; and, I know that is a fear that is most unfounded.

They are, also, a source of amusement to me. For, while I do enjoy a good set of full lips, it freaks me out when I lose weight on my face, and, it tightens up enough to look like it, and, my lips, thusly, look bigger than they did. Sometimes, to me, it looks like nothing else has changed and it is only that my lips have grown.

Hahhahaha!

Hmm ... if I had a choice between that or being thin-lipped? Hmm... . tough choice. I guess I'd just stop trying to lose weight.

xx

                 

Lesson learned

So, here I am, taking my supplements, and, waiting out what I thought was a bad reaction that developed from eating the Greek Yogurt.  I mean, I expected it would be from the Greek Yogurt, though, I was a bit surprised that it started happening after not having eaten them for a few days, at all; but, you know, I have super slow digestion at times, and, when it comes to my milk intolerance, sometimes, it starts out being just a little bad and then blooms to full blown torture over the next week or so.

That wasn't it, though. It's been plenty long enough that I should have been over it, if it was the cause of my troubles, and, instead of getting better, I've been getting worse. As in, constant rash on my face , neck, shoulders and upper back, starting to get itchy in other places, stomach swollen up, and, other nasty things you just don't want to know about, at all.

I know what I've been eating and none of the food I had contained any sort of milk at all. Okay, there was some bread, but, there's never been a problem with eating bread, so long as its good quality, before now.

So, I go to look up the ingredients on the supplements I've been taking. Turns out the probiotic has wheat in it, which is a little alarming, since, part of balancing out your bacteria is avoiding wheat, if at all possible; but, I wasn't that concerned with that issue, yet. They also have milk in them! I have never bought a probiotic with milk in it, before now, or, even heard of one; but, that's what's in the one I got from Wal-Mart.So, now, I have a several month supply of poison. Yaye!
  I haven't been able to sleep, feel like I can't get going on cleaning or anything else, and, in the last couple of days my rash got really bad, I started seeing spots in front of my eyes and blacking out.  I'm about 100 percent certain that's why.
  Nothing like buying something that's supposed to be helping you get healthier and finding out that it contains things that make you more ill than just about anything else. It's got my thyroid acting all cranky, too.
  I bought the probiotic so that I could get the good results of eating yogurt or kefir, without having to have the milk that comes with it. Grrr!

Update:

Well, things just got weirder. Turns out that the probiotic USED to have milk in it, and, Wal-Mart just doesn't update their site often enough. It does have wheat, though, which is still not good, but, not terrible at this point. Also, even though I was looking for a one-shot supplement, I found out both the magnesium and probiotic really should be taken three times per day. (sigh)

It might be the magnesium that has the milk. Apparently, most magnesium supplements have milk in them. It doesn't say it has milk, but, either do other ones, on Vitacost.com, which do not show up in the search as soon as I search for ones without lactose.

Update, again:

It's true that the magnesium probably has some lactose in it, but, I have, since my last posting on the subject at hand, learned other things that are probably more important.

Most especially, I learned that magnesium tamps down your digestive juices. Since I already have low stomach acid, this is not even remotely helpful, even if other aspects of magnesium make it very good to take.

It might be that it is the fact that milk and cheese are so hard to digest which cause the most harm (when whey is not a huge factor), because, I was feeling just like I was snarfling mass quantities of cheese. Then, I drank some apple cider vinegar, with a little water, and, I felt much better.

If you'll remember from things I typed up, earlier, apple cider vinegar is an aid to digestion, among its other qualities, and, I have found it especially beneficial, in that respect, for me.

Since I found out both that this helps and that I need to take more of the pills to get the effect Dr. Oz was having people aim for, I went ahead and took the next dose at the time I first used ACV today. I just did both, again, and, am now going to eat a salad for dinner.

That may not be all of my dinner. Not sure, yet. It's a good, tasty thing, though, which I am looking greatly forward to, even if it is mainly just iceberg lettuce.

xx