Releasing

Well, I'm down 8 pounds. :) That's about 1/2 lb a day for fourteen days. Well - I didn't have a scale for the first week, so that's actually 10 days. And so I've probably released more than that. My pants are getting quite - um - baggy. :) Exciting and annoying at the same time! But I am wearing some church clothes today that I had stopped wearing because they had become too tight and I was too uncomfortable in them. They fit pretty well right now. So I think I've lost some around the belly and around the waist. The only thing that I'm worried about on this diet is loosing too much too fast so that the skin doesn't heal and keep up with it -- I'm afraid of having loose skin. I've looked around at the posts on the forum and they keep saying that there won't be a problem with that on this particular diet - something about it keeps the skin very elastic and as you release weight, your skin will shrink to fit you. I hope that's the truth! I don't want flabs of skin! Ew gross! :) Although -- I was listening to one of Phillip's videos the other day - he's a guy that used to be 300lbs or more and he lost like 150 of that. The skin didn't really give him any problems, it shrank with him. And he was taking a supplement called MSM powder, which is supposed to help with that problem. So was another girl on the site. BUT - he also said - loose skin should not be your focus right now - it can't be - loosing weight should be. Because right now - as long as you are at this weight - you are dying. And I thought - well, that's certainly true. But it's still worrying me a bit. ;) But I got some of that MSM - it was hard to find because I guess it's an ingrediant used to make meth. I found it at Vitamin World, the salesman was trying to persuade me to get the Omega3 Fishoil pills instead or to guy some of the multivitamins I was looking at so that I could reach the $25 to become a lifetime member, I was a 'lifetime' member at one point, so obviously you must have to shop there often to keep it. Anyway, I was pretty annoyed by the time I got out of there, I just wanted that and felt pressured to buy the other stuff, which I told him I didn't have the money for anyway. I guess he was just being helpful though, so I won't hold it against him. :) Anyway, I'm going to try that.
Anyway, gotta get to church soon and I still have to learn how to sprout beans!