It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie


Today..... was a pretty good day. I'll start with my food, then go on to other things. I didn't have breakfast. I had a hot chocolate which I made at work. I slept a little longer than I had planned and didn't have 3 minutes to make my shake or I'd have been late for work. Literally those 3 minutes can make or break my drive in traffic and make me late for work.
I had a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch with some french fries, then for dinner, I had a shake. So it wasn't too bad. I have lost 2 lbs in the last week. Not as much as I had lost doing the no grain, but I hit a plateau and needed a kick start. SO hopefully the longer I am on this, the more I will lose. I'm excited. 2 lbs is better than no lbs. And starting tomorrow, I will be drinking 2 shakes a day. One for breakfast and one for lunch. It really is filling, and I can make it in the morning and put it in one of my cups that keeps things cold & put it in the fridge at work and it will stay like a shake which is awesome.


Now, on to my day. Today I donated blood. I donated what is called Double Red cell donation. It was very rewarding to know that donating my blood will hopefully save lives. Double red cell (or A pheresis)donation is similar to a whole blood donation, except a special machine is used to allow you to safely donate two units of red blood cells during one donation while returning your plasma and platelets to you. Work went quickly because I was donating blood for so long. I was there almost 2 hours. My job had a blood drive today. Originally I was supposed to just donate regular, then I thought, why not try & see if I am able to donate the Double Red. And when they said I qualified for it, I was thrilled!! Not everyone that wanted to was able too because women usually have lower Iron & I usually have. I have been turned away from donating for the last 10 years because my iron was always too low. Since January, when I changed my eating habits & then I started this Body By Vi a week ago, my iron is really good. MY iron level needed to be 13.3 to qualify, mine was 15. Then I had great blood pressure too which was 122/80. I was happy about that too. Especially since I had been taken off blood pressure meds back in March. They did put me on this blood pressure stuff which is actually more a diuretic with the lowest blood pressure dose on the market. I needed whatever is in the blood pressure side of it to keep my potassium up because the water pill was taking too much potassium out of me. Anyway, so I did that & I feel incredibly blessed to have been able too and hopefully I will save a baby, or a cancer patient or a burn victim or trauma patient. I will donate as often as I can.


Well I hope everyone has a great night!
God speed!
Jenn