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Today, I had a Non-Scale Victory (?!) if you can call it that. There I was in court, frazzled because I had to leave my kids at the office since I didn’t have anyone else to watch them, frantic because I needed to get out of there within 30 minutes to get said kids to school on time, and frustrated because my nose was running and I had no tissues. Next thing I know, the clerk is shouting at me to come to the bench. Turns out my skirt is halfway down my derriere because it’s too big!

I’m feeling slightly better this morning, but I still have the chest cough with some mucous. My weight loss is at at standstill which I find very frustrating! I mean come on…I haven’t had a bite to eat in 16 days. I just realized that my BMs have come to a stop while I was sick, I wonder if that’s it? I am going to call the hydrotherapist today and get an appointment!

Weight: 165 Loss: 12.5

I am sick. I mean really sick. I keep hoping I’ll wake up better, but it is getting worse. No one else is sick in the family, so I am guessing it’s a healing crisis, but it just feels like a plain old bad cold.

Other bad news, I gained .5 pound. I find this very discouraging as I seriously expected to be down another 2 pounds. 🙁 My husband says I am obsessing about the weight loss, and maybe I am, it IS just a cleanse, right? But come on…no solid foods in over 2 weeks, I should not be gaining weight.

Weight: 165 Loss: 12.5

Did I say weekends are tough? I am truly struggling to get through each minute without grabbing a bite to eat. I am out of veggies, so I had to go to the store. Can you believe that Safeway did not have leeks, zucchinis, kale, or collard greens? I had to go to another store to get that stuff. Arg.

I noticed something the other day that I commented on to my husband — I don’t sweat in the pits anymore. I never used to be a sweater, but after the twins were born, my body went crazy, and I became a pit sweater. It was really embarrassing. I tried prescription deodorant and everything. I gave that up quickly because it didn’t work, and resorted to sever applications of Secret throughout the day and tried in vain not to have to raise my arms. But then, at some point last week, I noticed that I wasn’t needing to do that. I thought it odd, but then I caught a paragraph in 21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox from a testimonial who had the same experience! If this detox truly cured me of that problem all this starvation will have been worth it!

The other thing about me is I am losing 2 pounds every other day. I wonder if that’s normal? The book says to expect an average of a pound a day, and that’s what I have been doing, but it seems others lose a pound every day.

I am still feeling ill. I have a terrible tickle/cough in my upper chest and I have a headache. My jaw hurts too from constant clenching. Maybe I should break open my new yoga kit and try the DVD that came with it? I could sure use some relaxation!

We’ll be having company tonight and I am making Spaghetti, which is one of my all time favorites. I LOVE pasta. I sure hope this soup I am going to try will be as yummy as claimed.

I’ll leave today’s post with a cute thing about my husband. Last night I was still not up to cooking, so one of the kids suggested pizza. He looked around for a coupon, and then looked at me (I must have been pouting) and said we could scrounge and wait for pizza when I could have some too. Ahh. Then, this morning, he proclaimed that he went all of yesterday with just one soda. I said “what, is all of my healthfulness rubbing off?” and he said “yea, I am trying to do better.” Ha! How cute is that?

Weight: 164.5 Loss: 13

I am finding the weekends very difficult. Right now I am starving and neither broth nor tea is helping me. I don’t know what is going on? Every commercial seems to be about food. On Friday, I was excited that it was a three day weekend, but now it feels like three days of torture.