Well night shift tonight and I am really hungry!!! Tonight I brought a pizza pop, applesauce, peaches and low pro gluten free pretzels.  All I want to eat is the pizza pop but I am trying to hold off alteast for a few hours. I doubt I will make it.  Its so hard with random shifts. A few weeks ago I thought I had the night shifts down to a semi ok routine but then the shifts got slow again and I have had 2 shifts in over 3 weeks. ahh the life of a casual nurse!

So anyways I am reflecting on my progress with my weight loss and I am not happy!!! infact I am very frustrated and dissapointed. I am alittle obsessed too. I am weighing in monthly with the 2013 Biggest Loser PKU style facebook group I created but I am also weighing in weekly with my friends. If I go by my monthly weigh ins December 1st was 180.4 , January 1st was 181.6 , and February 1st was 180.2 . This is just not good enough. I am going to Yoga Tuesdays and thursdays , Gym mon, wed, friday , Aqua fit monday and wednesdays and I walk twice a week. Why am I not seeing any changes? and i know everyone says dont focus on the scale but my measurments have not changed yet. I dont no what I am doing wrong. I am drinking way more water than I have ever dranked. I am tracking phe and calories, I am eating more fruit and vegtables and my blood phe levels are great and stable. It always seems like its one or the other for me. either my blood levels are high and my weight is low , or my levels are low and in great range and my weight is high. This is my biggest problem with PKU! it makes weight loss so hard!!

Looking back into 2011 When I actually lost 30 lbs from January to June , I was doing all this and the only diffrence was my formula. So even though bettermilk flavour changed for me when they switched the formula I am going to give it another try. Cambrooke did say they where switching it back. So hopefully by now I will get good batches.

I also talked to my dietican today to see what else I can cut out of my calories or cut back on and the one thing that is popping up daily in my food records is margarine. I have margaine on my toast or low protein buns and pizza pops and I also have it on my dinner and I cook with it. So i am going to start tracking my magarine useage and see if I can cut it back by half. As well as keep working on my fitness routine. I am hoping with these changes I will see some progress on my next weigh in on March 1st.

Oh I also joined the Young and Raw Facebook 30 day green smoothie challenge. That is what I am going to be doing for lunch. I think its a great idea. I will get a more variety of fruits and veggies, try new recpies, gain more nutrients and natural vitamins and minerals. I will of course let you all know how it goes! The challange is free and I talked to them about modifying the recipes for myself to make them more low protein friendly. Like subistiuting milk , yogurt and taking out any seeds or nuts or anything like that. They said that was fine. So if you feel like joining me, please feel free! I would love to hear how it works out for you! The challange starts February 15th and Young and Raw will send you a grocery list via email before the challange starts! Please let me know via my own facebook fan page if you decide to join!

Well I guess that is all for tonight,

Hope everyone in my time zone is having a good sleep! and for the rest of you, have a good day/ evening!

xoox Amanda C