Hi! My name is Vonda and I am so excited to walk through this journey with DrugDelivery.ca, my fellow bloggers, and you! I have over 50 lbs. to lose, most of which is partying around my middle. I'm a picky eater so one of my biggest challenges is going to be getting variety in my diet. I plan on ruthlessly pirating any suggestions from any source I can find. Randy, my husband of 21 years, is very supportive and excited for me...we'll see how that lasts when anything that tastes/smells good is banned from the house! :)
Years ago, I consulted a plastic surgeon for this pocket of fat in my abdomen that I couldn’t get rid of, no matter how much I dieted and exercised. He told me that that type of fat can only be gotten rid of in 3 ways: starvation (which he didn’t recommend and I didn’t want), pregnancy (which I also didn’t want), or surgery. I thought long and hard about spending money on this and decided not too. But it was always in the back of my mind that there must be some trigger that would release this fat, besides pregnancy and starvation. I was so excited when I read Dr. Simeon’s plan. The thing I wondered was, could I stick myself with a needle? I thought about it, read the sites that walk you through how to do it, read numerous posts of people doing the diet, and decided I wanted to try it. So, I did; I ordered a small amount of hcg. Once I let the alcohol dry enough after numbing the area with an ice cube, it wasn’t bad. I was away from home at the time, and didn’t have the money to keep going, but I knew at some point when finances were better I would get back on the diet. I am so grateful to DrugDelivery.ca that it came much earlier than I expected. And honestly, having to blog about my experience will help me stay on the straight and narrow, so thank you to the readers. I ask for your support and feedback. It will mean the world to me!
I live in an area where we have a lot of rain. Randy has promised me a vacation at a sunny beach somewhere (any suggestions?) when I hit my goal of 125 lbs. He loves me the way I am, but he knows I am happier and feel healthier when I am at my normal weight. The last time I weighed myself was a couple of weeks ago when I entered this contest and I think it was 183ish. I’ve been baking a lot for my son and his friends lately so it’s probably more. L The day I start the diet, I will give my exact weight – I really don’t feel like running in there and torturing myself right now, hehe. My height is 5’8. I used to be an inch taller…don’t you hate that we shrink with age?
My son, David, turns 21 this year, and I really want people to think I'm his sister, not his mom, when we take him out. Several years ago, I had just started to gain weight when he and I went shopping for a new car for him. The car sales people would assume that we were a couple and one asked if we had any kids. I answered, ‘Yes, this is my son. I’m helping him pick out a car.’ The sales guy was embarrassed, but I was used to it. That type of thing doesn’t happen any more, and I want it to.
I owned a small gym and was working long hours and contracted a Super-bug. The Dr told me I couldn’t work anymore and I was to go to bed for several months or I would probably die. And even if I did that, there was no guarantee I would live. I couldn’t afford any more staff, so I had to close the gym. Well, obviously I did live, but the time spent recovering and not exercising and, frankly, eating from the depression of all of my hard work gone, has left me wearing size 18 instead of 7.
I am fine now, just in the same boat as so many of my clients were…I just don’t want to exercise. It was so easy to exercise when I was thinner…but now it’s very uncomfortable and progress feels painfully slow. I have been getting back into going on nature walks and hikes, which I love, and I am hoping that getting this weight off will stimulate my desire for weight training again.
I currently work part-time planning parties – which is a hoot! - and I thought it was going to go full-time right away, but it looks like that has been pushed back a bit. So I have been applying for jobs the last couple of weeks, and I tell ya – I’d rather have my teeth pulled, except for the fact I wouldn’t have teeth… The positions I have been applying for have had essay questions to fill out that are grueling. The Human Resources Director at one of the places commented that they were hard questions. She figured that if people could answer the questions, they could do the job. I agree. I’ll keep you posted.
I turned 40 last May and Randy claimed I went through a mid-life crisis. Well, I didn’t feel like I was in crisis mode, but I did need to re-assess what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. So I traveled to the east coast of the US for 3 months in the fall to walk through the colorful trees and do some soul searching. I feel more balanced now (well, for a mildly crazy woman…hmm, was that redundant?) and am excited about the future and the possibilities. I am 40 and I have a lot of life left in me!
