100 Pounds in 127 Days

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Goodbye to my first 100 pounds. I am very very pleased.

Now I just want to repeat the same thing again to lose another 100 pounds.

To follow up on my post from yesterday. I did some research on-line yesterday about perimenopause symptoms and both medical and non-medical treatments. Reminded me of all the reasons I dislike the medical industry. I’m not overjoyed with the natural product/supplement industry either. Anyway, I’ve decided to start with I’m going to try some Yogi herbal teas and I’m going to buy one of those FHS tests kits.

Estroven puts out a FHS test so you can check your hormone levels at home. It’s similar to a pregnancy test but it’s supposed to tell you if you are perimenopausal. Looks like you need to do it at the start of your cycle, provided your cycles are still somewhat regular, so that’s about a month down the road for me. If the test shows I don’t have hormone issues then at least I’ll know to start looking for solutions in another direction.

I know tea isn’t considered 100% raw but tea just seems so much safer and milder then medications or even supplements to me so I think that’s where I’m going to start. I ordered 4 kinds of Yogi Tea, a brand of tea that I’ve really enjoyed in the past. I got Woman’s Moon Time, Woman’s Raspberry Leaf, Women’s Dong Quai Tonic, and St John’s Wort. I’ve actually gotten relief from depression from St. John’s Wort pills in the past, so I thought St John’s Wort Tea wouldn’t hurt. It kind of skews my experiment a bit, but this seems like one of the mildest steps I could take, short of doing nothing at all which has been my strategy up till now.

If things don’t ease up on their own or with the help of some herbal tea, then I’m still open to the possibility of trying some stronger supplements like Chaste berry, Black Co hash, Dong Quai, and possibly vitamin/mineral supplements. And then if I’m still not getting relief, I may eventually look to prescription drugs, but that would be a number of months down the road.

So aside from wild mood swings things are going well. We’ve got the septic service folks coming out on this cool and foggy day to give us the bad news on the drain field. We’re also looking to meet up with a handy man to get some estimates on some work around the place to spiffy things up a bit. We picked up some laminate at Costco to do the kitchen floor because the linoleum had some tears in it. We also want to see if he can do some of the other more labor intensive stuff like painting our ceilings, etc.

On the real estate front, we found some houses in our town in the price range we thought our house was worth and we did a little driving tour yesterday. It was very educational. There is a lot of neglected vacation property down here so this isn’t as shocking as it sounds but we saw houses with ‘For Sale’ signs out front that had broken windows, partially missing garage doors, and curtains half hanging half falling in the windows. Just pitiful. Our house looks way better then that and we’ve haven’t even gotten started on our long list of ways we wanted to do to spiffy it up before we put it on the market. It’s looking good in terms of resale potential. We may walk away with more then we anticipated.

Along those same lines, we had two things happen after we got back from our tour that we decided to take as signs that we were on the right track. First of all, Mary got a phone call on her cell phone that she’s only had a few months and the guy said he was calling about the property that was for sale. She told him that he had a wrong number because we don’t have any property for sale but we thought it was quite a coincidence. Then not an hour later we got a knock on the door and someone inquired about the empty lot next door wanting to contact the owners to see if they would be interested in selling even though the lot is not up for sale. This has never happened before and with the timing we thought it was quite extraordinary.

One more thing I wanted to mention. I think I’m done with the Grocery Receipt entries on my blog. I’m glad I did it as it really helped me to examine prices in a way I hadn’t done before but I’m starting to find recording groceries to be tedious so I’m going to drop it. I may occasionally mention prices in the future but I’m not going to bother recording every receipt.

Well, that’s enough for today. Until tomorrow, I’ll leave you with the usual.

Yesterday’s 3 quart Green Smoothie Recipe:

408 grams Earthbound Farms Mixed Baby Greens [Organic baby lettuces (red & green romaine, red & green oak leaf, lollo rosa, tango), organic red & green chard, organic mizuna, organic arugula, organic frisée, organic radicchio.]
118 grams Raw Onion
17 grams Raw Garlic
22 grams Fresh Lemon Juice
840 grams Frozen Mango
15 grams Organic Whole Flax Seeds
32 ounces filtered tap water

I had an additional 48+ ounces of water and 3 Rolaids. No other food, beverages, supplements, or medications.

Nutritional Breakdown utilizing Nutridiary:
Calories: 772
Fiber: 31 grams
Fat: 8 grams, 8% of total calories
Carbohydrates: 187 grams, 83% of total calories
Protein: 19 grams, 9% of total calories

Elimination: 2BM, normal
Menses: Most recent: 7/4/07, Prior 6/3/07, Prior: 5/3/07, Prior: 4/5/07, Prior: 03/10/07, Prior: 2/11/07

Exercise for yesterday:
10 minutes neck stretches

Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 100.2 pounds (45.45 kilograms)
Weight today: 428.0 pounds (194.14 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 428.4 pounds (194.32 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)