Ok, I'm kind of fibbing.
This will actually be my 2nd attempt at the Ideal Protein Diet. The first time I did it, it was October of 2012 & we had just got back from a trip to Yellowstone National Park and after looking through the pictures on my computer, I was disgusted & appalled at the way I looked. I had been thinking about doing the Ideal Protein diet for a while but wasn't 100% sure that I was ready for such a commitment. Well, after seeing those pictures, I called & was like sign me up!!!
So, I met with my coach Tim. He asked me some questions, took my measurements & weighed me. Do I dare say that my starting weight was 173?!!
I got my starter pack which consisted of a handy dandy tote, a water bottle, shaker bottle, 21 sample packs of food & a months worth of supplements. This was not free, just FYI. I don't remember the exact amount, let's just say it would be about a weeks pay for a secretary's wage.
I will not bore you with my week by week weight loss, mostly because I don't really remember. I will however tell you that week 1 I lost 7.5 lbs. Yay!!! This was probably all carb weight - My name is Angie and I am a carb-a-holic. For real. Big time. It's bad.
So by the time mid-December had rolled around, I had lost about 36 lbs. Whoop whoop!! And I was feeling pretty good about myself. I was down from a size 14 to a size 6! And then the weight just stopped coming off. Then I stopped seeing Tim. I only went through Phase I & I never learned the secret to keeping the weight off. So here I am, a year & a half later, less than 10 lbs away from where I began and absolutely positively miserable.
I'm hoping this blog & my public display of my weight loss journey will keep me motivated to keep going - and finish all 4 Phases. To be continued... tomorrow...
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