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Update

Sorry about not updating the diet! I survived with the help of the day 5 and 6 "beef" menu. We were allowed 10-20 oz. of beef on day 5, then day 6 gave us all the beef we needed. This sounds great but... when you eat the soup (which you have to at least eat one bowl both days) it fills you up so much that not much beef was enjoyed. Well anyway I survived and am happy I accomplished the task for the week. I officially lost 9 pounds but our scale is wacky it would tell me 12 pounds lost then only 5 pounds lost. I have concluded it was 9 based on most of the readings. I feel good also, we have ate out a few times and I have turned down the need for potatoes and other weight adding food with no or little temptation.
What a great weekend with my wife. I loved the Weekend to Remember conference for marriage that we went to. I have to say I learned alot, its really great to take a step back and evaluate (without kids) where our marriage is and what we can do to make it stronger. The best had to be the time with Kel. I think halfway through I realized when we sat, slept, ate, and attended the conference it was just us. That is wild when you think about it. No other couple to socialize with, no kids to be around, and no phone ringing. It was simply just us and I really had fun with that. I think I kinda forget the Kelly that I can sit and talk about God or our life with and have no other interruptions! Shes a pretty cool girl. Love ya hun!

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Day 4 recap - The day Jeff hit the wall

Ohh it wasn't a actual fist into the wall it was mentally, physically and emotional. I was doing fine just going along and singing my song. I started getting a lil grumpy at lunch - the prospect of just eating bananas with my lunch was no bueno. Then I had soccer practice - now I love Tuesdays because I have nothing after MSU practice so I usually go home, relax and eat my snacks while watching Pardon the Interruption. Not this Tuesday, the boys recorded some stupid Japanese cartoon over it. So no snacks and no T.V. Which brings me to a whole new problem for me - my routine is messed up. Everyone knows I'm not good at functioning outside my box and this diet already has me all over the place, so the T.V. show just pushed me into the abyss. Kelly had her night out so I had a night with the boys. I took a shower then got out to the smell of Pizza that she made for the boys. She left, leaving half the pizza on the counter, so I calmly put the rest in the fridge having to actually touch the pieces while I bagged them. The insanity! I then made sure the baby was o.k. (which means staying with him constantly for an hour) then got him off to bed. I made sure my precious princes had their baths and SNACKS then ushered them to bed. Oh I forgot I did have the blessed soup for dinner at some point. The saving factor for the night was I got to view the last two episodes of the Sopranos from the fall. So I'm now caught up. As I sat watching I noticed I felt terrible. I felt so drained and just out of it. I think it had to be the worst day. I think the getting up in the morning and working out without a lot of protein is catching up with me. Ohh but I have made it to the beef day and life will be good!

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Day three

Well hello there faithful reader(s). I have just completed day three of this diet. I have to tell you I'm getting tired of people telling me "why you doing that, you look fine" or "this is probably a better diet for you the one your doing is crazy". Here's the background and scoop as to why I chose to do this. I weighed the most I have ever weighed after the holidays. It has nothing to do with the holiday meals or sweets. During soccer season I killed myself with fast food and no exercise. So I decide to get up every morning and workout (6am) to lose weight. Well guess what, it worked. I started watching what I eat and working out and lost a good number of pounds. Then I heard about this diet and thought what a great way to lose some extra weight but more than that, to challenge myself. I want to be disciplined enough to do this - a wise man once said - "its not the destination as much as its the journey." I have no clue who said that, I may have just made that up. It makes sense though. When is the time in my life that I could say I gave up eggs, sweet tea, potatoes, alcohol, chicken, diet coke, pork, pasta and sweets for a whole week. I did it because of the challenge not because I feel like Fatty Mcfatty (I made that name up also). Am I happy that I will clean my system out and lose some good weight, sure. Will I gain some of it back even though I'll watch what I eat, sure. My challenge to myself will be accomplished and I will love the fact that I achieved it. So thanks everyone for telling me I look like I don't need to lose any weight and now you can go jump off a cliff.
Yesterday was not too bad. Kelly whipped up a new batch of soup and I think it tastes better. I steamed a lot of broccoli for lunch and ate it with the soup. Nothing really special - that's for sure. The big challenge was the trip to Rob's last night. The drink count went as follows: Rob drank beer, Jeff drank 3 liters of water. I had to pee every 5 minutes, he did make some killer veggies for us on the grill. He was a great best friend and didn't tempt me by eating meat, just ate the veggies with me! I have to tell you I feel good today. Its cheesy but I feel like I have some more energy and am able to focus better. I'm really not kidding about that. Its kinda perplexing to me but for some reason the last two days I can concentrate better on what I'm doing. Well I guess we'll see how my banana and skim milk day goes. So far three bananas and two glasses of skim milk - good times had by all!!

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Day 2

Its actually the morning of the 3rd day and I'm still alive. Yesterday was veggie day and it was a little harder than anticipated. I guess eating the soup with veggies in it everyday kinda kills your lust for the vegs. We went to the Burney's last night and they made roast and rice - aghhh. It was sooo bad - I was going to just taste the roast but I stuck to my guns and had none. I did get to have a baked potato though!! I have seen a place close to Heaven and it was that potato. I actually got filled up on it which I loved! I worked out this morning and couldn't really feel a difference as far as getting too tired. I have to remember to drink water because I can easily see myself getting dehydrated. I get to go to Rob's for my Monday night steak and Kool Aid night without Kool Aid or steak. Water and veggies anyone?

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Day One

If you have not read my wife's blog then you don't know that we are both starting the Sacred Heart Diet. This is one of those diets that we can eat all the cabbage, carrot, onion, jalapeno', red pepper, tomato combination soup. I can eat all I want allll day. This doesn't sound too bad but this will be my staple for the next week. Each day I'm allowed something else - today was fruit day. Tomorrow is Veggie day with one potato allowed. Then Monday is combo - veggie and fruit (no potato). Tuesday will be Bananas and skim milk day (awful)! Wednesday is beef day and Thursday is beef and veggie day. We will then finish it all up with brown rice day on Friday! Now this is one week without: eggs, bacon, mashed potatoes, fried food, any alcohol, sweet tea! We are supposed to lose between 10-17 pounds. Now I know as well as anyone that we may lose this weight but we will get some/all of it back. I still want the chance to keep most of it off (I really only want to lose 5 more pounds anyway) and I want to challenge myself and see if I can do this!
Today was an adventure. It really shakes up my routine. I'm not big into fruit so this a challenging day. I had only three (big) bowls of soup and it was filling for a little bit. The problem was seeing the kids eat pizza, or knowing I couldn't walk in a simply grab some chips. This will be a very challenging week - more for my mind and less for the body! I will sit here drinking my black coffee and dream of the one baked potato that I will be allowed tomorrow night and cry a lil tear of anticipation.

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Spring Breakinnnn

Well how we doing out there in blog land. We here in the house of the Trimble Clan are enjoying Spring Break. This would be a rather challenging week for the best looking one in the house (me) if not for Karen (my mom-in-law). She is here for the week and with Kel working it allows me to actually get out of the house. Today I get to play golf for the first time in 6 months. All that golf truly provides for me is a glorified stress test but some have actually told me it can be relaxing. They obviously don't play in the usual 100 degree heat here with my golf swing!
March maddness has started and I'm ready to roll. I have over analyzed my bracket to the point of having no clue whom to pick. I'm really not into the office betting pools, I have a little to much competitivness in me without throwing money into the equation! I am however in a number of pools for the pride of being the all knowing basketball game picker! Which with my ego is good enough.
Owen threw out the word DA DA last night. I will choose to think that he was directing it toward me and those will be his first words. I may get a disagreement from the second best looking person in the house (Kelly). I guess time will tell if he can actually realize that he said the words and repeat them!
We rented the movie Facing the Giants last night and really loved it. The boys watched it with us and they really got into the story and the action. It wasnt an Academy award winning acting job but it had a great storyline and the football action was terrific. I really got caught up in it and loved the message. The book for this movie was written by Jerry Jenkins (left behind) and it was well done. The movie was about a football coach who has a number of roadblocks but trusts God to get through them. Anyway - get the movie its well worth seeing.

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