Day 1 Rome

So can I start off by saying that yesterday’s travelling day was an emotional one! My heavy ass suitcase (39lbs) weighed less than the weight I’ve recently lost (50 lbs) and when I realized that I almost cried! Wow such a great accomplishment. Enough about that!

Rome what a beautiful city but full of crazy ass drivers!  Glad we are doing this on a tour!  Today was our first full day of adventure. Wake up call at 6am, breakfast at 6:30 and on the bus to Vatican City by 7:15am.  Now I have a lot of respect for the beauty of the Vatican, the Sistine chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica but Mom and I chose to stay outside and wander the streets with some other folks that were knowledgeable and took us to the delightful fountain of the four rivers in a really wonderful square called Piazza Navona. Forgive my spelling if I have that wrong.  We also saw the Castel Sant Angelo was pretty cool as well. 

After that we went to the Pantheon in the piazza de la rotunda. Was interesting to see that kind of architecture still standing after so many years.  We stopped into another church just to have a peak but honestly the churches in Quebec are just as beautiful and way less people!

After we got back with the other folks that had gone to the Vatican and St Peter’s etc we got back on our coach and headed through the city to the coliseum.  There we simply walked around the outside, took some pictures and got some fabulous insight from Simoni our tour guide for the day. 

He was smart funny and not hard on the eyes at all.

This afternoon after a brief rest in the room while I write this and Mom FaceTimes with her love ( my Dad)  we will hop back on our coach and head to explore some more.....chat in a few hours!

90 day review...

Wow, what a journey.  It wasn't easy but I did it!  Down 45lbs (okay 44.8) in 90 days!  It's quite honestly the best I've ever done!  I'm currently half way through the first week of being able to eat one meal a day and feeling full all the time.  I'm not sure what that will mean for my journey.  I'm prepared to gain this week, it will be a nominal gain and I'm sure it will be water weight.  My meals have had salt and that is going to be a killer this first week back.  Aside from that it will still be a good week and I have stuck to all of the rules so I'm not letting the scale deter me from continuing! 

I'M NEVER GOING BACK!


On another note, Hubby and I put in an offer on a vacation property.  My nerves are shot and I haven't slept well since Saturday.  It wasn't planned....It just seemed like the stars aligned and this property became available.  We are just waiting on the financing decision.  We hope that works as well and then Hubby will be such a happy guy!  This place is honestly the perfect place for our family.  Lots of room for sleeping guests and so much for the littles to do!   


I'm also on the countdown for my upcoming trip of a LIFETIME to Italy with my Mom.  I'm so excited I can't even explain it.  There is so much to do in the next 15 days.  I'm kind of stressed about that as well! 

I look at everything above and see how VERY BLESSED I am to have these stresses in my life!

Have a wonderful week!

End of Week 9 and July....

So turns out I'm more than half way through this 90 day "hell" (63days) and although it hasn't been all bad, i wouldn't recommend it for folks that lack willpower.   It's true I entered into this with high expectations that haven't really been met but I've only slipped once. I ate a raw mushroom on a Saturday night when i was home by myself.  I beat myself up about it for a couple of days and then honestly when I told my husband and he laughed till he cried... well, let's just say, I felt kind of silly!  If you know me you know I'm a rule follower in my old age.  Primarily this comes from years of bending the rules and nothing good coming from it and I really don't want to have to go through this again!  FUCK it's been hard and some days all I want to do is eat a damn loaded burger...or even a chicken Caesar salad or a carrot stick.

The posts on FB have been all about fun recipes lately and foods that I may never try because they look awesome but honestly I feel like probably not worth the calories.

Work has been keeping me busy and other things in my life have been somewhat frustrating but I've been good.  When I'm done the 90 days and get to taste real food i swear it will be the best 225 calories that I have ever tasted.  I'm certain of that!

This has been my other issue!  I need to share this...I went from having liquid in liquid out to nothing most of the time.  I think despite trying fibre stuff and then stool stopping that, then softener to reverse the fibre thing so stuff comes out I am quite literally full of 

I feel like I am going to hate the program and the scale tonight because my poop chute is FULL and weighing me down!

On a good note...non scale victories are BP Meds down even further, belt is now on the last notch for tightening and insulin intake is down even more.  

Anyway, like i said it's weigh in day and hopefully the number is good to give me strength during this upcoming week at the cottage (where I usually eat and drink till I waddle like a penguin!)

TTFN!