Day Thirty One...

Up .4 lbs.  Back to LIW.  Ate normally.  Last day of vlcd with no shots.  I thought I would be starving by now, but still nothing.  Tomorrow will be the first day of P3!  My friend started P3 today and got sick after eating her omelet.  Let's hope I don't!!  Can't wait for tomorrow, but nervous to maintain :)

Day Thirty...

Down -.4 lbs.  Today is the second day of no injection and the vlcd.  Yesterday I ate my normal food.  I was great in the morning.  Got really tired in the mid afternoon.  Sort of cranky and craving in the evening.  Woke up this morning and felt good.  I am hoping to drop a pound or two over the next 2 days, for a little leeway when starting to eat P3.   I am going to make up a menu today and my shopping list.  Just think....not tomorrow morning, but the next one, I will be eating an omelet.... :)

Day Twenty Nine...

Down 0.0 lbs.  So today is the first of my 3 days without an injection.  I really thought I would see a big loss this morning because of the way my clothes were fitting.  Everything is looser this week, when the weight has been staying the same.  But I measured and have lost just under 6 inches in 6 days!  That would explain it :)  

This has been an awesome experience with highs and lows.  I am very happy with the results and am excited and nervous to enter phase 3.   I can't wait for my omelet on saturday morning :)  I just hope that I stabilize okay and don't have to do too many steak days.  What an exciting adventure to finding the new me!  

Day Twenty Eight...

Down -.6 lbs!  So I am back to two days ago.  Body wants to hang out here I guess.  I am very pleased with this round.  I bought a pair of jeans that were one size smaller yesterday!!  Husband kept saying "cute butt"!  Always nice to hear, especially when you are the dreaded pear shape :)  I actually like my curves, I just want the lower half of the pear to be a bit smaller :)  As for the top half of the pear, it has disappeared!  So you can guess what gift I will be giving myself this christmas!  Today will be my last injection day for this round.  I really wanted to hit that 20 mark , but mentally I need a break and I will start my next round in about 5 weeks.  Of course, if the scale moves significantly tomorrow morning then tomorrow will be my last injection day :)

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: Chicken,romaine,strawberries

Dinner: Melba,tilapia,asparagus,strawberry choc smoothie

Today felt great.  I went shopping and was so pleased!  Bought a size 8 skirt!! Tops in small and medium!  This day made all the rest worth while.  So depending on what tomorrow mornings weigh in is, will determine if today was my last injection.

Day Twenty Seven...

Up +.6!  Ate perfectly yesterday but did not get in my water.  That is the only thing I can think of.  Going to do an apple day to see if that will do anything since I am so close to stopping the protocol.  It probably won't, since I am not in a real "stall" and I did the mini steak day .  

Here is what I ate today:

4 apples

Here Hoping!

Day Twenty Six....

Down -1.2 lbs!!!  I will forget that yesterday was so miserable, and put it all behind me.  Only 1.4 lbs away from my goal to lose 20# in 30 days.  My last injection will be Thursday.

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea Hot, 1/2 baked apple

Lunch: Romaine,Chicken, 1/2 baked apple

Dinner: Tilapia,asparagus, 1/2 baked apple

Pretty good day.  Felt much better. Anxious for P3, hoping there won't have to be too many steak days:)

Day Twenty Five...

Down -.8 lbs!  Well that was pretty good.  I was hoping for 1 but thats okay.  Mini steak day was hard.  Not from an eating stand point, but from a mental stand point.  I was not hungry, but very emotional, wiped out, and felt like I could not keep going.  I am feeling better this morning and will just eat normally today.   Only 2.6 more to reach my goal this round!  Got up and went bike riding for about 45 minutes around the lake with my husband.  Beautiful day.  But since I only ate one meal yesterday I was pretty weak.  After I got home I was so wiped out and exhausted.  I felt like I could not do anything.  I pretty much laid down for most of the day.  Did not feel very good at all.  Never felt quite like this before.  I also started to pass out everytime I stood up.  Had to make sure and put my head between my knees to avoid it.  Maybe the blood pressure is low.  Which would be amazing since I have always had borderline high bp.  

Here is what I ate today:

Lunch:  Chicken,romaine,1/2 baked apple

Mid Afternoon: 1/2 baked apple

Dinner: Tilapia,asparagus,1/2 orange

Snack: 1/2 orange choc smoothie (not as good as strawberry)

Lets hope I feel more like myself tomorrow!

Day Twenty Four....

Exactly the same today! -0.0 !  So the coconut oil did not help.  Darn!  So today is going to be a mini steak day.  I will just have my liquids until dinner and then do a 100g steak and apple.  Hopefully that will get things moving.  Mixed new HCG yesterday so maybe that will help too.  I find it helps to take a picture on days when there is no loss and compare it to the beginning.  Makes you want to keep on going.  So here I am today, compared to the pic at the top of my blog :)

Day Twenty Three....

Down -.2 lbs.  This is definitely slowing down :(  But I have averaged .75 lbs per day from start weight and almost a pound a day from load weight, so I guess I can't complain :)  I don't know if the playing 2 hours of volleyball last night had any thing to do with it or not.  Also, for every day I lose a pound in one day, it seems like the next day is a zero or small amount.  It better give me a few good days here so I can reach the 20# by next thursday!!!  Only 3.4 lbs to go!  Right before I started this protocol, I quit my job at a CANDY SHOP! Standing over a counter of fresh fudge, and surrounded by candy, can you imagine.  Well they called me and asked me to help fill in today.  I was so nervous that I would be tempted or just really ticked off that I could not have any.  Got there and guess what.... did not want a thing!  The smell was enough.  It was not even tempting.  YEAH!!

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: chicken,tomato,apple

Dinner: tilapia,cucumber,strawberry choc smoothie

With all of these small movements my friend and I decided to try coconut oil.  Not on protocol, but has helped some get losing again.  If that doesn't work tomorrow then I will try the mini steak day.

Day Twenty Two....

Down -0.4 lbs.  Not alot but some.  Definitely more random from day to day now.  But it all adds up.  I think I will stop at 30 days and take a 5 week break until round 2.   I just want to hit that 20# mark so bad.  That means that over the next 8 days I need to lose 3.6 pounds.

Here is what I ate today:

Morn: Yerba Mate Tea hot

Lunch: chicken,romaine,baked 1/2 apple

Afternoon: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Dinner: chicken,romaine,baked apple

Pm before volleyball: melba

Walked this morning and played volleball for 2 hours tonight.  I wonder if I will retain water because of all the excercise??  Overall good day, lots of energy.  I have been falling asleep quickly which is nice.  The only problem is that almost every night, I have dreams where I am cheating, and wake up in a panic, with relief that it was only a dream.  My friend is having the exact same thing! :)

Day Twenty One....

Down -1.0 lbs!  Very happy to see that this morning!  That is 16 pounds from start weight today!  If I cut this round to 30 days then I am really hoping to reach 20 lbs lost this round.

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea hot

Lunch: tilapia,apple,melba

Afternoon: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Dinner: chicken,romaine,melba

Movies: strawberries

Had girls night out.  Red Robin and a movie.  Ordered the plain side salad, brought chicken and crumbled melba for salad.  Brought perrier and vanilla creme stevia for a drink.  Took the strawberries to the movies.  Girls gotta do, what a girls gotta do! :)

Day Twenty...

Plateau, Plateau, Plateau... -0.0 lbs!  So annoying!  But, I packed my food for the day and we went up to Snowbird and took the kids on the Alpine slides, Ziplines, etc. The picture above is from today.  I was disappointed about the plateau but, I could see huge difference in my face and arms compared to the picture at the top of the blog. That is why we keep going:) It was a nice day.  They were having some sort of Octoberfest.  The smells of roasted nuts, cinnamon rolls, and pretzels were a little hard to take.  I was not hungry, but oh how I wanted some :)  Instead I pulled out my lunch box of romaine, chicken, melba, and orange.   It tasted good, but not cinnamon roll good!  

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: chicken, romaine, melba, orange

Dinner: tilapia, asparagus, strawberry choc smoothie

Eve: tea

Still debating the weighing every day thing.  Also considering cutting this round to 30 days, and doing 1-2 short rounds by the end of January to finish off.  Most people are getting the bulk of their results in the first 23-30 days, and also the longer you are carb restricted, the harder they are to re-introduce.  Probably will decide by Weds.  If tomorrow is another 0.0 then I will consider doing the apple day.  Doesn't sound very good, but if it gets things moving then I will conquer :)

Day Nineteen...

Down -.4 lbs.  Moving in the right direction.  Slow but moving :)  My friend and I have been toying around with the idea of weighing in once a week.  We don't cheat, and we know what we can and can't eat at this point.  We also know that the loses get much more sporadic from this point on and there will be more and more days with no loss or minor losses in between the bigger ones.  So instead of stressing or fretting over that, why not see one big move once a week??  No matter how prepared for no/minor losses, it still seems to knock you down a little mentally. Weds are when we measure so I think starting Weds we will weigh in and then test our theory out and wait a week for the next weigh in. 

Day Eighteen...

Today must be a catch up day!  -0.0!  I was exactly the same as yesterday.  I knew this would be coming so I am not surprised at all.   I was reading P & I again, and it says that people who consistently lose a pound a day (like I have) for a long time, inevitably hit a plateau.  So this could be the beginning of my plateau or just a day for the body to catch up.

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Tea hot

Mid Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: spinach,eggs,strawberries

Dinner: romaine,chicken,melba,apple

Pretty good day.  Did LOTS of chores.  Went to the movies.  Always have to fight a little bit of mental stuff on days with no loss.  I know its normal and I don't even think much about it, but it seems like there is always about an hour where I feel depressed or crave, or feel like this will take forever.... but it always passes and I am back on a high! :) 

Day Seventeen...

Can you hear that??  That's me crossing into the 160's!!!! Down -.8 lbs!  I am sooooo happy.  I started this journey on Jan. 9, 2009.  As of today I have lost 50lbs!  I had lost 40 on my own, but had put some back on before starting my HCG on Aug. 19th.    Today is a really good day! :) 

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: Chicken,tomato,apple

Dinner: Orange roughy,romaine,melba,strawberry choc smoothie

Went for 30 minute walk after dinner.  Good energy today, got alot done :)

Day 16...

Down - .4 lbs!  Might be starting to slow down a bit, but I'll take it.  Had a great time at volleyball last night.  Was tired by the end, came home and fell right asleep.  I had some sleeping issues before but they seem to be gone and I fall right to sleep which is nice.  My friend and I did some research and found that people who were mixing fresh HCG every week were getting better results and feeling better overall.  So we got rid of the rest of our HCG that was now over 2 weeks old and mixed for 1 week at a time.  Today was my first real day after injecting the new stuff yesterday.  I feel a big difference.  No hunger at all (like the first week), good energy. By day 11-12 on the last batch, I was noticing hunger in the am/pm and going up and down on energy.  I think this will be much better, and hopefully it will release an extra pound or two :)

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: chicken,tomato,strawberries

Dinner: orange roughy,tomato,strawberry choc smoothie

Eve: tea

Took a 30 minute bike ride before dinner.  Got alot done today and felt really good!

Day Fifteen...

Down -1.0 lbs!  Yeah!  I was worried the heavy excercise yesterday could hinder me, but thank goodness it didn't because I love to excercise.  I am going to try to play volleyball tonight... can't wait!  Today was good.  Not as high energy as yesterday, but still good. Went out to the movies with the hubby.  New Challenge: Restaurants!  I packed my chicken,apple,lemon,and melba and brought it with me.  I just ordered a plain side salad and put my chicken with crumbled melba on top.  Squeeze of lemon, salt and pepper, and I was good to go.  It was a little hard to watch the hubby eat burger and fries, but I could only eat my salad and about a quarter of my apple.  Which worked out, since I had the rest of my apple for the movie.  Excellent movie by the way: The Time Travlers Wife.

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: chicken,romaine,apple,melba

Dinner: orange roughy,tomato,orange

Thats about it.  It is 9pm and I am off to play my favorite sport: Volleyball!!  Let's hope I don't fall down from exhaustion! :)

Day Fourteen...

Down -1.0!  So happy to see that this morning :)  My son was so sweet last night, and made me my "soda" while I was in the hottub.  It was great.  I came back in and saw a packet of opened splenda on the counter and about passed out.  I started to panic and my son laughed at me and said "MOM, I know you use the green (stevia) packets!  Look in the trash, you'll see the empty one!"  Funny, who would have thought you could have a heart attack over a packet of splenda:)

Today was one of the euphoric days I had earlier in the week.  Massive energy, felt great, no hunger, it was awesome.  I tried going back to dance class. Extremely hard class.  I modified and made it thru the whole class.  I thought I was going to be shaky and starving by the time I was done, but it did the opposite.  I felt even better and did not want to eat until 2pm.  I love dance! 

Here is what I ate today:

Morning:  Yerba Mate Tea  hot

Mid: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: Chicken,tomato,1/2 apple

Mid: 1/2 apple

Dinner: orange roughy,asparagus,strawberry choc smoothie.

Great day. Took a 20 min bike ride after dinner. Wish everyday was like this one.... :)

Day Thirteen...

Ok people, what did I say yesterday about being prepared... yep today was a gain of .2 lbs!  I did not take my magnesium and had not gone to the bathroom in a few days so I don't think that it is a real gain, but it is definitely no loss.  The great thing is that by having friends and the forums you know that these days are to be expected.  If you think about it, the average woman loses 25-30 pounds on a 40 day round.  So that would mean there will be the equivalent of 10-15 days with no loss at all.  I am thirteen days in, and only had one day with no loss (TOM), so in reality I am doing pretty good :)  I did have beef, egg, and sugar free gum yesterday.  BUT I have eaten all of these besides the egg before and lost a pound or more.  So my guess is like Dr. S says, that there are just some days that the body is catching up from big losses or the hcg is breaking down a bunch of fat which requires water retention and you don't see a loss until you release it.  Either way I am good and happy with all of my success so far!  By the way, my friends stall of 3 days broke today with a pound loss! Yea!

Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: chicken,tomato,strawberry choc smoothie

Dinner: chicken,romaine,melba,orange

Eve: tea

Today was a pretty good day.  Walked for about 40 min.  Felt pretty tired in the afternoon for a few hours.  Felt bummed out and craved the good old life of going out to dinner and good food:(  Realized that your emotions really swing from one end to the other thru out this process. Took my magnesium.  We will see what tomorrow brings :)

Day Twelve...

Morning of day 12......down 1.4 lbs!!  Very excited!  I am going to go do some cartwheels and will finish update tonight!

Went for a 35 min walk this morning. Beautiful! Kind of a lazy day today. My friend that is doing this with me has been struggling over the last couple of days with only losing .2 over the last 3 days.  This tells me, I know I need to mentally prepare for those days too.  Those days are going to happen along the way, but just gotta keep going!  Here is what I ate today:

Morning: Yerba Mate Tea  hot

Mid: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Lunch: hamburger,tomato,strawberry chocolate smoothie.

Mid: Yerba Mate Tea cold

Dinner: egg+3whites, 3/4 apple

Eve: other 1/4th of apple

I love the hamburger tomato thing, but I know some people have issues with beef.  I am only going to have it 2-3 times a week just to be sure.  Also tried the eggs today, which is in the protocol as something to have occasionally, and they were really good.  Not much else to report.