OK .....1 week update

OK, so week 1 is done, and I must admit I do feel a difference. The snacking in between meals has stopped completely, and the urge to eat even when I know I am not hungry has also ceased. I don't see or feel a remarkable difference in my weight, but my energy level is through the roof right now. The pictures below are taken in the same dress as last week, and once again without the help of a girdle, it's just me letting it all hang out :-)

I do see a slight difference between this week's pictures and last week's pictures, it isn't a HUGE difference, but it is slightly noticeable.

I must say, all the water I am drinking due to the cotton mouth effect of the pills has my skin glowing. I am not wearing any makeup, but my skin tone has evened out, usually it is pretty blotchy and irritated.

I stepped on the scale this morning and it said........



257.5

Day 2

So, just to update I have peeing like WHOA....and I have to force myself to eat. These pills take away any hunger signals your brain may be giving to your stomach. I am still eating my meals, but since I sense no hunger I just eat enough to know that I am giving my body the nutrition it needs. The good thing about it is that I have no feeling to snack in between meals. That is my weakness....I must admit, I like the gratification of eating after you feel your stomach growl, it gives me a certain pleasure to satisfy the beast within....I can live without that if it means I am living with fewer pounds on my body, but still :-/

Anyways, it is FRIDAY!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!! I am soooo glad to see the weekend here! Hope everyone has a great weekend, especially my Beautiful Best Friend!!!!

xoxoxox,
Clarissa

Herbal Slimming Pills 7 day trial......Looking for a miracle, too lazy to exercise....

Ok my friends, so we all know I am trying my damnedest to lose weight, and my coworker is losing weight like CRAZY by taking these pills called Herbal Slimming....I decided to use the 7 days worth she gave me to try and post if there is any noticeable difference in 7 days the way others claim there is. As of today I weigh in at 263, and this dress is a size 18. I am not wearing any girdles in these pictures, this is me, flab and all!

BTW....I am not too lazy to exercise, but I do need that metabolism boost since mine is pretty much in hibernation year round....:-) I still can't exercise beyond walking of course because my incision is not fully healed yet. Soooooooooo, until I can hit the exercise routing hard like I want to, I need a supplement to help me progress towards what the biggest Loser contestants dubbed as Onederland!!!!

Day 1: Took one pill about 30 minutes after breakfast as per instructions. Breakfast was fruit, a mixture of grapes, strawberries, and watermelon. As lunchtime rolled around I am not feeling hungry at all. I don't feel full, I just don't have any inclination towards food and usually my stomach is GROWLING by this time of day. I did go ahead and get lunch though because it specifically says DO NOT SKIP ANY MEALS....I haven't been doing any incessant snacking, and that is my weakness, so I personally feel so far so good...

Tantrum Thursday

It's that time...the week is almost over but you can't take it anymore. Come one get it off your chest..you'll feel much better!

Me:I can’t stand office whisperers. Let me clarify this…I can’t stand office whisperers that are in the cube right next to me. Now for the closest people next to me you know that I am a VERY nosey person. It’s who I am and I’m proud of it. But when people are in the cube next to me whispering I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. They need to stop already. Don’t they know they are giving me a headache cause I’m straining so hard to listen! If I was in Harry Potter Land then I would bust out my extendable ear on those biyatches! (that was for all my nerds out there)

C:My Tantrum is the stupid people who think they can cut you off to get into the fast lane in the highway and then they reduce their speed to about 60 making you brake because you are already going 80 like a bat out of hell because you are running late for work, and these people wonder how accidents happen....

oh, and the old lady who lives in the apartment under my mother in law......This lady called the cops on my children because they were too loud....Cmon lady, it is 2pm in the afternoon, and the kids are playing on the balcony...they are 4 and 5 years old for God's Sake, how can that possible be a noise violation, GET A LIFE!!!

Insightful Ramblings of the BFF Kind-Club Dress

C: I want to go buy one of those club dresses, that is going to be my reward if I get down to around 230 before you get back here again :-) I need to go out with someone who doesn't care what people think and will dance with me, and that person my friend is you, and the crwod there is more our age, no little 19 year old hoochies and thugs

Me: Yea!!!! I can’t wait! I want a club dress too…what do these club dresses look like lol?

C: Like hoochie dresses lol, j/k, I don't know, girls were just wearing dresses that were all fitted and they looked pretty and I want one

Me: Lol ok…it’s been a loooooooong time since I’ve been to a club

So is this the club dress....cause I got a lot of weight to lose before I half way look good in this lol:) And also does this make me and the bestie automatically like Jersey Shore?! FIST PUMPIN BABY!

I am but a Cow and work is my Pasture....

So, ordinarily I would have run this theory by the Bestie before sharing it with ANYONE else, but she is in a wonderful world called VACATION....say it with me "LUCKYYYY!!! (breathy tone)"

So, I just came back to work from Maternity Leave...and don't say lucky in that breathy tone, this leave was HELL! Anyways, I started looking around at the cubicles and saw everyone munching constantly all day while working. I started imagining a pasture full of cows with nothing to do but munch and gain weight to profit their owners...Isn't that what we are doing...sitting in our Pasture (workplace), eating whether it is out of stress, boredom, or just plain hunger. Eventually we become enslaved to our desk, we don't want to leave it. We don't get up to take a brisk walk during breaktime, or even a brief walk to stretch our legs after sitting all day. Then we start fighting over the closer parking spaces because we don't want to walk more than a few steps to get to our desk. Since our job only requires us to sit at our desk and produce work we are more than happy to do so and we profit our employer...just saying, perhaps i am wrong...but what if...WHAT IF...my theory is true?? Why else do our employers provide us with vending machines full of fattening sweets? Why else do we get rewarded with food for work well done, Why not gift cards, or bonuses??



Well, that was my personal tantrum for our long neglected tantrum Thursday :-) and I Miss You Bestie, hope you are living up in Vacationland!!

I'm BAAAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!

OK, so my watermelon baby was born April 14, 2011 and he was 9lbs 10oz and 20.5 inches long. He is a BEAUTIFUL baby, and of course you already know this because tha'ts how me and the Bestie do it when we make babies, we put a lot of fabulous into them :-)

So, I was supposed to keep posting about how the weight was going...well, the day I went into the hospital for the c-section I weighed 300lbs...not funny friends...all I could say was "WHOA!" Today i weighed myself and the scale said.........drumroll.........

257!!!!!

I will keep posting weekly with any progress I make, or any setbacks that occur!