Milestones!

I passed two milestones this week: I am wearing size 12! I haven't worn size 12 in at least 6 years. Went through my pants and sorted them out.....all black to a friend who needs to wear black pants to work. Two of my nicer pairs to another friend who is also on the hCG protocol. The rest went to goodwill. In the way back of my under-the-bed drawers was about 6 pairs of size 12 pants. THEY ALL FIT. yowza!

Second milestone I reached just this morning: I am officially out of the 150's and into the 140's!! I weighed in at 149 this morning. A full 1.2 pound drop from yesterday. This feels incredible.

People are noticing my weight loss now. That feels incredible too. Got a few more interested parties at work. Probably going to have to fess up to some of the doctors I work with about what this diet is. Just not ready yet. Mainstream medical doctors are often leery of anything that hasn't been tainted by moneygrubbers. Interesting, no?

I have 15 days to go.....I'm hoping to get to 143 at that time. It is possible, we'll see if it happens. If so, I would have lost 41 pounds in my two rounds. I'm running out of adjectives....just a big WOW is all I can think of.

R2 - Week 2/3

Just getting too busy with life to keep up with my blogging....sorry 'bout that.

As of today, June 1, I'm down a total of 30.4 pounds since I started this journey in February. Feels incredible!! Had a pretty good week...down nearly 4 pounds. Still trailing behind my losses from my first round, but I'm catching up!

Having more cravings this time around....not giving into them, but it's strange that I'm having them. Also not as excited to cook...again, I think that life is getting in my way. Just too many things to do.

I've decided to end this round at the end of June - June 27 will be my last day for drops. I want to be able to enjoy my hubby's birthday on July 2 and July 4 without having the abdominal distress that I did last time when starting P3. If I keep on pace with my losses and average .5 a day, I'll be right around 140. We'll see how I look at that weight. Otherwise, I'll go on another round in the fall to get down another 10 or so. Again, we'll see.

Have I mentioned how incredible this diet is? wow

R2 - Week 1

It's been a little over a week....been kinda busy with planting and yardwork and building a deck. But good news on the diet front - I'm doing great!

Let's get some official numbers. After my loading days I weighed 167.2. Today, ten days later, my weight is 157.4! Down nearly 10 pounds. I'm not on the same pace as I was on my first round. I had lost a few more pounds, but the closer you get to your goal, the slower you will go.

I've tried some new recipes this round...some excellent - like szechwan chicken - some just OK - like spicy mustard chicken. I'll keep experimenting. We've been eating dinner later than usual this past week too...hunger has been popping in and out, but overall - not too bad. Again, I will not cheat - just not worth it.

Hubby thought my stomach looked smaller this week. I measured myself last night and didn't really see anything. sigh...it will have shrink sooner or later, no?

R2 - Day 1

I think I loaded way better this round than last...I know more know on what to do, so I guess it paid off. Yesterday was my first 500 calorie day and I didn't really have significant hunger until dinnertime. But, we ran a bunch of errands after work and dinner didn't happen until 8:00. I should have been hungry, no?

I dropped 2 pounds this morning. Was kinda hoping for 3, but I haven't eliminated all the food from my load days yet....perhaps a detox bath is in order for tonight? A detox bath contains one cup each of epsom salts and baking soda poured into your bathwater. The last time I took one I was pretty well "cleaned-out" the next day.

So, I'm on my way. Feels good to be back at it. Stay tuned....more to come!

Round 2!

I started my second round yesterday - May 12. I really do hate the loading days. I'm feeling so full, bloated, and nauseous. Hate it. Eating the high-fat foods is fun for like the first two bites...then I just feel like I'm force-feeding.

BUT...as with my last round, this does make me anticipate the 500 calories per day coming up even more. I am so very excited to start losing again. This will start on Friday and I'll post my results on Saturday.

Speaking of results, here are my starting numbers for this round:

I stabilized around 164 in Round 1 Phase 4. This morning, after load day #1, I weighed 167 - 3 pounds up....guess I did a good job, eh? Ah well, it will come off fast.

I've shared this diet with some friends. One is doing it with me right now - having tremendous results. Another started and stopped immediately. I think I have one more friend who is highly motivated and will start in the next month or so. I feel like I need to share this with everyone. I really believe that I will lose all I want and never be fat again. What a great feeling!!

Phase 4 findings

Since I haven't blogged in a while, I thought I would catch you up. Yesterday was the last day of three weeks of Phase 4. I have taken the full six weeks off since I stopped taking the hhCG drops and could potentially start Round 2 today.

BUT.....we're leaving for Las Vegas next Friday, so I won't start up again until we return. On Wednesday, May 12, I will officially start Round 2. Really excited to start up again and start losing again. I'm even more excited that my friend started her hCG diet on Thursday! I can't wait to see her results.

I've maintained pretty ok....my body seems to want to stabilize at 3-4 pounds over my set point. Other women on the Yahoo group have said the same thing. OK...if that's how it's gonna be, then that's how it's gonna be.

We did another chicken day this week - I dropped 2 pounds on that one. Yesterday, I had to drive 2.5 hours to a remote site for a meeting.....ate a doughnut, mcdonald's cheesesburger, fries and a chocolate shake. oops.... Just got nasty-ass cravings while driving. I had read about another correction day of cheese and apples. Eat two ounces of cheese and two apples, three times a day. This person also said that after a particularly bad day of eating (I think it was similar to my day yesterday), that she thought she should finish the day eating something somewhat healthy, so she ate two ounces of cheese and two apples. The next morning, she was actually down a little.

So....after eating the junk, I thought I would do the same - end the day a little more healthy. I ate two ounces of cheese and just one apple. This morning I was rewarded with a .4 pound loss. LOSS!! hmmm.....eat junk all day then eat cheese and apples. Interesting diet idea.....

I'll be back after Vegas and post a little more regularly. I'm anxious to see what results I get with Round 2. I know we did a few things a little off-protocol....didn't really calculate our calories, ate melba toast with sesame seeds.....I'm going at this second round with a vengence. My goal is 24 pounds. I will reach it.

Correction Day #2

I did do a chicken day on Friday. Roasted a chicken at 7:30 am and ate the whole thing throughout the day. Kinda boring, but I wasn't really hungry, so that was good. I dropped 1 pound the next day, so am now only .8 pounds over my set point weight.

Hopefully, I am done with correction days and can maintain my set point. I have one week left of eating "Atkins-induction" style. We can start adding sugar and starches on Saturday. Kinda scary again - just don't know what the scale will show. Wish we had a more detailed eating plan like we did in Phase 2. Maintaining, as we all know, is really the hard part.