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Medifast Status: Day 7, Down ~9lbs

I got up early this morning and worked at the house for a little while.  I am back to work as of Thursday afternoon so I went into the office today as well.  It was on the late side that I got in because I spent the morning helping out at the house.

I got in to the office just in time to pick up some of the guys and go over to La Cima for lunch.  It was a late lunch and the club was nearly empty by the time that we got there.  I had a blackened fish salad today.  Eating at the club is one of the easiest places while on the Medifast diet since they will just make whatever I need.

So far the diet is going okay but it is tough.  Eating so little and having so much of it be so boring and bland is really hard.  I’m losing the desire to eat altogether, which is not good.

After work, the family went out shopping in Plano at Academy.  I needed to pick up some sneakers as I have none currently, golf shoes, glove, etc.  Not a lot of stuff but a few necessity.  Dominica and I both ended up getting Sketchers Tone Up shoes to help us to get additional exercise when walking.  We will see how well they work.

Medifast Status: Day 6, Down ~8lbs

We had originally been scheduled to attend the Mother’s Day brunch at La Cima today but between my new diet and the incredible effort that it would take to take Luciana to the club we decided against it and instead did our Mother’s Day shopping yesterday and today are just taking it easy hanging out as a family at home.

It was a very relaxing day for us as we just spent the day catching up on cleaning and work at home.  There is a lot to do with the baby having arrived and dad coming in a few days.

I do not have all that much worked scheduled for today.  It is a beautiful day here in Texas.  The sun is out but it is not too warm.  I worked from my office for an hour or two this morning until Dominica and the girls were up and ready to head out of the house.

Dominica already sort of got a mother’s day present last week while she was in the hospital – I got her the limited edition mother’s day bracelet from Very Bradley.  But that was also a “new mother” present.  So today, since it is really hard for me to pick out bags for her, I took her and the girls shopping at the Vintage House in downtown Carrollton so that Dominica could pick out her own new summer bag.

We had a nice time.  Liesl really liked going bag shopping with mommy and thought that the store was a lot of fun.

After we were done shopping we decided to take a little drive since the weather was so nice and the girls were falling asleep in the car.  Dominica has not gotten to see Brookhaven yet and didn’t know exactly where it was so we started by driving down there so that she could see it and the area around it.

From Brookhaven we drove out to Richardson, Texas to which neither of us had been before and found Canyon Creek Country Club and checked out the area around there.  There was a wedding underway there and while we could still go in there we decided against it since we didn’t know our way around the facility.  Canyon Creek is pretty close to home for us and has a driving range so I am considering using that as my location for hitting a few rounds of balls.  I’m hoping to be able to get out and use the driving range a bit over the next several weeks as I am going to be taking golf lessons through La Cima starting on Tuesday of this week.

We got back in the middle of the afternoon and the girls slept for a while.  I got back to work and was as productive as possible for the afternoon.

This evening Dominica and I kicked off watching the fifth season of Dr. Who from Netflix.  This is the third doctor since the new series started.  The last one was so good that this one has a lot to live up to.  He is crippled out of the gate because so many people are unhappy that the last doctor left the show so they aren’t going to be happy no matter how good the actor ends up being.

Today is my first full day in the office since Luciana arrived.  I went in this morning but came home for a long lunch to spend time with the family and to help Dominica out around the house since there is still a lot that she can’t do on her own – or shouldn’t be doing at least.  So I hung out for a while before going back to the office to do the evening deployments.

For lunch today Dominica made me an egg beater omelet, well it was supposed to be an omelet, it turned into a scramble.  It was a nice change for my lean and green meal.

I was at work fairly late tonight, but that is to be expected.  It is a Friday.

Once I got home we spent the evening just hanging out at the house.

Today is my third day on Medifast and my first day going back in to the office since Luciana was born.  I am not going in this morning, just this afternoon.  This morning we took Luciana to her checkup at the pediatrician.  That went very well.  She is making excellent progress both in her food consumption and in her jaundice.

After “lunch” was over I drove down to Las Colinas to go to the office.  Dominica is feeling pretty good and while she cannot drive for at least a week yet she did feel that she would be alright staying home with Liesl and Luciana for a few hours.  So I went in around two and worked until five thirty or six.

I got home about an hour before the Kimberlins arrived to come visit.  They had actually come to see us at the hospital but I was at home taking care of Liesl when they visited so they only got to see Dominica and Luciana.  They are the only non-family who got to see Luciana in the hospital.

We had a good time hanging out this evening.  We haven’t really seen the Kimberlins since shortly after having moved to Texas.  We live much closer to them than we did when we lived down in Irving.  This was their first time seeing our new house as well.