Day 8 - beginning of week 2

Starting weight: 70 lbs to lose
Weight lost last week: 5 lbs
Weight lost to date: 5 lbs
Weight left to lose: 65 lbs

Sorry I didn't get to blogging after day 3. Been busy around here! We have spent the weekend potty-training Dain. This means hyper-vigilance! We also had a play date, grocery shopping, etc...

My eating has steadily improved. For the rest of the week, I was averaging around 130-140g protein a day, and around 85g of carbs a day. Yesterday I fell off the bandwagon a bit when I was feeling nauseated and ate some carbs to help settle my stomach. What's amazing to me is the immediate results that I get JUST from changing my eating habits!

One thing that I have found is that I need to eat pretty much first thing in the morning. If I don't, I will pay for it later, like yesterday. If I get too hungry, I start feeling nauseated and then I don't feel like eating anything. Of course the way to cure it is to eat something, but protein-type foods don't help when I feel yucky.

For the first week, I have been taking only half of the dosage of the metformin, to kind of "ease" into it. This is at the Dr's recommendation. It still wreaked havoc a bit with my digestive system, but this week might be a bit worse. Starting today, I'll be taking my entire dose (one pill with breakfast, and one with dinner). I'm hoping that I've adapted enough that the increase won't affect me too much.

I'm now officially 5 pounds closer to being (as my aunt put it) once "hot mama!"