Diet Coke

 

If you know me at all you know that I LOVE diet coke.  I drink it every day. I actually never drank anything except Diet Coke.

Well, that all changed August 9th.  I had been on Optavia for a little over a week and my taste changed and diet coke tasted AWFUL!!!

I have only had water or Crystal Light since then.

I have an emotional attachment to it and I miss having it, but it just tastes terrible.  I have tried lots of other diet soft drinks, but they are just not the same.  

Optavia

With Optavia, you have 5 "fuelings" per day and one "lean and green" meal per day that you prepare.  They don't call them snacks, because they are tiny and just enough to keep your body "fueled".  I have never been so happy to see a piece of grilled fish and brussels sprouts in my life, ha!!!  But it works and I have been losing weight.  I know it is not sustainable, but enough to jump start me so I can go back to weight watchers.  

They recommend you buy a waffle maker for some of the "fuelings".  I bought a dash waffle maker.  It was tiny, but I love it.

 

To say I got off track would be an understatement

 

To say I got off track would be an understatement!!

I did really well with Weight Watchers until about 2018.  I continued to go every Friday, but essentially maintained, then in 2019, I started to gain.  I continued going, but never tracked or even pretended I was trying to be on a diet.

During the pandemic of 2020 - Covid 19 - the WW studios shut down and they only had virtual ZOOM meetings.  I was not a fan and had no accountability of standing on the scale in front of anyway, so my weight continue to go up.

Every "decade" of weight, I'd think, well I won't go over 210, or 220, or finally 230.

My friend at work had lost weight pretty quickly using Optavia.  I decided to do that to jumpstart my weight loss and then get back to weight watchers.  

I started Optavia August 1st, 2020.