a week...

yes, i have officially been on hcg for a week! go me!! to be honest after the two loading days, the next two days i very much considered quitting because this diet is so much harder than i thought it would be! luckily, i stuck with it and now i am down to 163!! from my starting weight of 169.8.. i am almost seven pounds lighter! if you count from after my two loading days of getting up to 173, i have lost ten!! pretty crazy if you ask me! although, i am definitely loving the way i look and feel! this is the weight i got to shortly after rey and i got married and i was at this weight for like a month! oh, and on top of the weight lost i have also lost inches!! i have lost 3 inches off my waist, an inch of my thigh, about half an inch on my upper arm, and an inch of my bust. the only place that i haven't lost any weight is hips.. so kind of sad! i guess i am just destined to always have the huge womanly hips! as of right now my only complaint would be my bust! i would seriously like to lose more inches there.. to be honest, with my waist shrinking and my bust staying the same i am starting to look a little unproportionate! i tried on the shirt that my friend melissa and i are going to wear to our guy's homecoming, and it's a formfitting t-shirt and it kind of looks like i got a boob job or something with my small waist and big boobs! so hopefully we get some changes there.. haha!

soooo, the other thing i wanted to mention in my bloggy blog today is something that i was thinking about before i went to sleep. you know how sometimes right before you fall asleep you start thinking of something.. well this is what i was thinking of! for those of you that actually keep up with my blog you will remember a blog where i vented about so many girls complaining about being away from their man and one of them was complaining about being away from him for one night.. looking back on that i feel pretty lame! i mean, i remember the days when rey was training and had to be away for a week or two, and no matter what.. that always stunk! yeah, maybe the one night thing i still find a little pathetic, but once i start realizing that she probably isn't used to him being away that was probably really tough on her! i guess what got me thinking about all this is, i read this one marine wife's blog where she lost her husband due to the war in afghanistan not too long ago, and on top of that she gave birth to a little girl while he was deployed as well. how lucky am i to know that rey is going to come home safe and sound to me.. yes, seven months sucks super hardcore, and sure, i may not get to hear from him very much, but at least it is something! i think we all just need to realize no matter how long they are going to be away, that somebody will always have it worse than us, and as much as it sucks and as hard as it is to be away from our men, we just need to realize that we are so lucky that they are safe, and if you can call or text them feel blessed for that because so many people don't have that luxury! yes, i'm sure i'll find myself getting annoyed when i see girls posting posts like that on facebook, but i am definitely going to try and remember, that at least rey is safe and i will get to see him! the last time i checked i think my donut of misery was to 39% left.. so in less than three months rey and i will be back together and it will never ever be this hard again!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen