4 More Days To Transition!!!

So my grand total on Thursday was 45.8lbs.  Whoop!  I lost 2lbs this week and 3 the week before.  I got lazy on the blogging because nothing too exciting or life changing has happened.  :-)

Well, potentially.  I had a job interview in San Diego that I would love, but I'm waiting for a response.  They send an email to references and have them fill out a short questionnaire which my references all did by Friday.  So they should have had it all by Tuesday  (it was MLK so no one worked Monday) so I would think they should have a decision, but I suppose who knows what is happening.  The trouble with nursing is that it is hard to get in to new places with all the unions even when you know people! I work in pediatrics and really being in the SF Bay Area and single can only afford to work for the bigger institutions.  The same issues exist in the south it seems.  Darn unions (yes, I know they do their job to protect workers, but I just want a foot in a door!)  I applied for even more jobs in the area here and under the advice of many people I even applied for jobs that are not in pediatrics!  We shall see.  I would still really love to go south if they will have me!

We got all of our transition information this week.  Basically my program adds in 3oz of lean protein and 2 cups of veggies every week for 3 weeks and then you are allowed to either stay on 3 Optifast products plus 3 meals of about 150-250 calories each (depending on your goals and weight loss, etc) forever if you want.  If you don't want product anymore you just aim for 1100-1200 cal/day until you reach your goal.  At the end we will do RMR testing with calorimetry to see what we need to eat to sustain ourselves.  I'm excited for that, because I have always been curious!  I think it will be a great tool to have in our packets.  They say if you have been overweight and loose a lot of weight that your RMR stays about 20% slower than a person of the same size and build who has never been overweight.  My question is does it matter how long you have been overweight?  Or how much you have to lose?  I feel like then every person who gains excess weight in a pregnancy and loses it will always deal with having to eat less or move more.  Science is crazy. :-)

At any rate I am ready to stop having soup for dinner.  They want us to pick one meal and essentially limit the choices as well. So I picked dinner and I plan to add in salmon and chicken (or possibly tofu-haven't quite decided that yet) and for veggies I'll buy asparagus and maybe peppers.  I also thought maybe I could just buy a big variety of veggies and just steam them all together at the beginning of the week.  So I guess I still have some planning to do before Thursday!  I do plan to stop at Sprouts on the way home from weight management class on Wednesday night so that I will have food ready at home Thursday evening!   I thought about cooking, but I think that will be too much after class so I will maybe chop some veggies and defrost my salmon overnight-basically prep so I can just steam my meal when I get home Thursday.  They also want us to do bland food.  I can see why, but I have been adding spices to my soups so we will see how long that lasts. :-)

All very exciting!