Alemicia's Weight Loss Diary

**alemicia** · 09-22-2005, 03:34 AM

Okay so I started officially on 9-16-05. Long story short I didn't ate hardly anything all day, had a few glasses of wine that night and was very sick for it. The next day I felt like total crap and did not atke a pill. On Sunday I took one and felt a lot of the side effects. The whole list it seemed. I had no appetite and again didn't eat much of anything. On Monday I did not take a pill, deciding to do it every other day. I still had very little appetite and was restless and couln't sleep. On Tuesday I took the pill and felt all yucky again but not as bad as before. I had the severe mood changes, loopiness, tired and restless, all that. Towards the evening I felt better and last night I got more sleep than usual. Today was no phen day. I woke feeling great. I worked out before work and weighed myself and my scale said I LOST 5 pounds. Overnight? I couldn't believe it! I kept hopping off then back on. That made me feel awesome and scared at the same time. I don't have a very big goal and I'm scared of losing too much too fast and just gaining it all back. As a treat for myself I decided to get a better scale. A digital one that tracks your loss towards your goal. Well I set it up and was a little disappointed to see a higher number than I did on my cheapie scale this morning. Now I am confused.

I guess should add my goals here.

I started off at 145. I am 5ft tall and my ideal, according to my doc is around 108. My goal is 105 so I needed to lose 40 pounds. I lost some on my own before phen and was stuck and then gaining it all back. I was hovering between 138 and 142 when I began to consider taking it. I lost about 6 pounds on my own before phen and was at about 136 I think when I started. After a couple of days I was down to 131 or 2. (can't read the cheapie scale). My cheapie scale lied this morning and said I was 125. I flipped out. But my new scale says I am 129.8 and that is the scale I am going by now. I am happy with the progress. I need to get one of those cool ticker things everyone has.

I really want to stress again how helpful this site has been. Everyone on here is awesome and supportive and motivating. I didn't put off working out today because I wanted some good news to report to evreyone. I definitely
do well when I am being held accountable so this is great for me. I only have like 25 pounds to go. Yay.

**Back to 135** · 09-22-2005, 04:09 AM

I'm glad you had a better day. Are you going to keep taking the Phentermine?

**zoey** · 09-22-2005, 04:45 AM

Great Job!!! I want a fancy scale too!!!! Mine is digital but a cheap one and it's about 5 years old. Some times it just keeps on trying to read and I have to step off, reset, and try again. If you want to stay on the Phen maybe you could cut your dosage.

**lovebliss** · 09-22-2005, 09:46 PM

i used to have a scale i bought at Ikea for like 5 bucks and it kept telling me i weighed a lot less that what i really did so i decided to go with digital because they are more acurate and easier to read instead of trying to read all the tickers on the regular ones.

PS great job alemicia. You might of lost extra becasue of water weight it happens. And you have a small goal so that is really good. I would give anything to be 140 right now.

**CNSlim** · 09-22-2005, 10:51 PM

Good for you micia...
I have a digital, but it worked once and then never turned on again.
I still have the receipt, so I hope to take it back this weekend, it was expensive danggit, it needs to work!
Yeah, Lovebliss....if I were 140 right now....I wouldn't know how to act.
It seems so far away....
Congrats on getting below that 170 rut!
Keep it up!

**zoey** · 09-22-2005, 11:01 PM

Allright, don't make me get ugly again today!!! I'm just waiting for Sunday with the hopes of seeing 240!!!!

**alemicia** · 09-22-2005, 11:07 PM

Another day. 9-23-05

Today was an on day for taking everyone's favorite little pill. Much less side effects. I woke up feeling great, worked out and went shopping. A good day mostly. I had to force toast down for breakfast. Then for lunch at a diner I ate about half of my chicken strips and fries. I was starting to feel crappy before eating so I am sure all my suffering has been due to not enough food or water. It's so hard to eat when you are not hungry though. I am pretty tired by this time (4pm) in the day suprisingly. I didn't do much. I am going to try a half dose tommorrow and hopefully that will be a good balance for me. All in all I had a good day. I am trying not to weigh myself on my cool new scale.
I got the Health-o-Meter weight tracker one. It was 29.99 at Target. There are even more expensive versions but this one does fine. Today was easy because I didn't have to work, tommorrow will be the test when I go in and see a table of donuts. I had my friend take pics of me in undies and I was so horrified at what I saw. It is even more motivation for me. I am looking for some decent pics to post in the pic section. I am almost tempted to post the ones I took today as greater incentive but I think I only will when I have the nice after photo to post next to it.

I hope everyone else had a good day.

**zoey** · 09-22-2005, 11:11 PM

Go ahead and post it. That's what I did. That way, if I start losing track of what I'm going towards I can look back at it. It's gonna look even better when I get to add the others to it!!!(wait, what kind of undies? This is not that kind of website :eek: )