Becoming Coco

WARNING : it may suppress your appetite too much (This does not count as dinner! Even if it does have healthy nuts on top) This is my second day using my new bottle of GC, so I've been using GC 2 weeks with a 2 week break in between and just started up again. That's not how you are supposed to do it I just lost my previous bottle. Anyway... Yesterday my appetite was suppressed. I'm assuming it was the GC because that was the only different factor in my diet. I woke up Saturday around 11:30am and ate a decent sized brunch till I felt satisfied, not too full and no longer hungry. 3 hours later I had a coffee and a small fiber one bar. 3 hours after that I had a cupcake. 3 hours after that I was still awake and had eaten nothing else but felt fine. Lies. I woke up this morning and my body hated me. It was screaming at me to eat something. I took a shower and had to pause my shower half way to crumple on the floor until the feeling of my stomach eating me alive subsided. SO Whe...

If I keep track of all the delicious things I made maybe I'll remember to make them again someday. This tastes really really good. It's  a fried egg and bacon sandwich. It simply goes like this: The Bacon: 2 pieces of thick cut bacon and optional 1 piece turkey bacon  The Egg:                       My trick: After cooking the bacon 1/2 way I dump out the extra grease into a metal can. Then when they are finished I leave the new grease in and throw in an egg. I make the egg over-easy and fried in the bacon fat.  While it's frying I add parsley salt and thyme for flavor. The Toast: Toast two pieces of toast and now you need to coat them with: Mayo Or Butter Or for healthier options Olive oil Or Spreadable cheese (I like laughing cow) The Sandwich: Then add the egg and bacon, breaking up the bacon so it fits and there you have a fried egg bacon s...

I finally got my new bottle of GC in the mail after leaving it at a friends house. So now we are starting over.  My weight right now is :115.4 My BMI: 19.4 (low-normal range) My Body Fat %: 16.6 %  2 % points lower than before.  Maybe my somewhat healthy eating habits, my 4 days of walking 30 min or more and taking daily vitamins is helping. Or maybe the GC in my system from before is helping. Or both?  (All the supplements I take regularly, some are everyday, some are 1-2x a week) Let's wait and see. Also I'm keeping in touch with my friend to see how the supplement works for them.

So I had to take a break from my GC experiment because I accidentally left the bottle at a friends house who lives 2 hours away. They were curious so I just told them "hey why don't you keep them and see if it works for you?" And that's what they're doing.  As for me I've gained two pounds. It's such a small number that it could be natural fluctuation, or it could be that since I stopped taking the GC I'm gaining it back. Who knows? Anyway I've ordered some more bottles and they should be here soon. So we will find out later if it works completely on me. On the plus side now I can tell you if it works for my friend too!

(Cool picture from my hike, more on that later) Overall the first week went pretty good. With my BMI range I shouldn't be losing more than 1 pound a week and I didn't so no surprise there. The positives: I went down 4 pounds, but only 1 is verifiable (see previous post on why scales suck). And I went down 1 body fat % point.  The negatives : I had a headaches and cloudy thinking. However if you read my notes there were other possible explanations for those phenomena.  Overall a good start and if the trend continues I may be a believer of GC, but it really depends on if the trend continues.  (Well work night technically, but I do work at school during the day. I'm a secret agent by night.) Day 4 GC Today I feel tired and cloudy headed, but I think it's because I just woke up from a nap. I was tired probably because I got to bed at 3 am. I couldn't sleep last night because I had coffee at 10pm.  Note to self: don't have coffee at 10 pm no matter how cold and ti...