Have lost track of days....

I know it has been a while since my last post, more than a week I think.  Everything has been pretty much the same except that I have now started incorporating starches and sugars.  It has been really hard sticking to a "clean" diet when allowed these foods but I am trying really hard.  The 2nd day on this part of P3 was my birthday and my husband was in the hospital so I found myself OVERindulging especially in the bottle.  The next day, though, when I was over that 2 pound range, there was no way to do a steak day.  I had a yard sale that day (and had gorgeous weather) and my cousins came over to put their stuff in too and we had already planned a BBQ after the sale.  Well, it would have been rude for me to eat a big ol' steak in front of them and I couldn't afford to buy steaks for all of them.  More alcohol involved that night.  Despite these mishaps I am keeping my weight within 2-3 pounds of my LIW.  So this is where I stand right now.  I have 10 days to go before I start my next round.

Have a great day!

Phase 3 - Days 10-12

Well, on day 10 I had to do another steak day.  I was up to 208 that morning.  Then on day 11 I was only down to 206.5.  I didn't do a second steak day in a row cuz I didn't know if I should or not so I just ate "clean" and stuck to salad, apples, and proteins.  Today, day 12, I was back down to 205.  Awesome!!!!!  This phase is such a major roller coaster.  In a couple of days I am suppose to start adding a little bit of starches and sugars.  OMG!!!!!!!!  I can only imagine how that is going to go.  I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO GET BACK ON THE INJECTIONS SO I CAN START LOSING AGAIN!!!!!!!

PHASE 3 - Days 8 and 9

I have made it through this first week.  It went by pretty quick.  I really do not like this phase AT ALL.  I am having a really difficult time keeping my weight down.  I am teetering on the limit at 206 but if I go over that then it's another steak day.  I haven't been able to get back down to my LWID at 204 but at least I am staying within the 2 pound limit other than the 1 day that I did go over.  But the biggest problem with this phase is, that I REALLY want to be LOSING weight!!!!  I can't start losing more weight for at least another 3 weeks.  Hopefully it goes by as fast as this first week has.  Then I can get back to losing weight. 

Peace out!



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PHASE 3 - Day 7 (or day 4 depending on which protocol you follow)

On my first 2 days off of the vlcd I gained 2 pounds each day.  I didn't do any carbs or sugars but I guess I just over indulged in foods that my body was sensitive to, like alcohol, LOL.  Anyway, it was already time for a steak day.  On that day I also did a detox bath and started drinking fat flush water.  I woke up to a 3 pound loss today.  Thank God! Now I am just going to be A LOT more careful!  I have worked entirely too hard to screw up now!

PHASE 2 - Days 31 and 32 through first 3 days of Phase 3

So I made the decision to stop the injections on Wednesday (today is Sunday).  I was at 204.5 pounds at that point.  On Saturday morning I dropped down to 203.5 but I need to stay within 2 pounds, either way, of my last injection weight (LIW) which was 204.5.  Last night I made a most delicious cauliflower and broccoli casserole along with a 12 oz strip steak.  God! was it soooooo good!  I also decided to have a glass of wine that turned into some shots and then another glass of wine and another.  Needless to say, I jumped up to 206.5 this morning.  I guess I better chill out on the alcohol.  I don't drink a lot hardly ever so it shouldn't be a problem in this phase. 

So, my plan is not to do the whole 6 weeks between rounds per "Pounds and Inches" protocol.  That calls for 3 weeks increasing calories without eating any starches or sugars and then another 3 weeks adding back healthy sugars and starches.  So I will just do 2 weeks each instead of 3 weeks each.  Then I am going to do 2 more loading days and then start P2 again.  Depending on how well my weight loss goes this time in R2P2, I will decide whether to do a 26 day round or try and make a full 43 day round.  I am optimistic that R2 is going to go waaaayyyy better than R1 went. 

Peace out!

PHASE 2 - Days 25-30

Well, obviously I didn't learn my lesson that last Friday night when I cheated only a little.  Throughout the week I got down to 206.5 pounds.  But then, my son called and wanted me to make him liver and onions w/ spinach and hard boiled eggs for dinner Saturday night.  Well his girlfriend and my husband don't like that so they had New York Strips w/ broccoli casserole and scalloped potatoes and then I made a "No Bake Strawberry Ice Box Cake" for my son and his girlfriend for dessert.  I had an HCG recipe that I had found for liver and onions and I was just going to have salad with it so I was set to stick to my diet.  OH! and I planned on sending the rest of the cake home with the kids, too.  When the time came, my kitchen was so disasterized from my husband making broccoli casserole and he was in my way and it was just so much of a pain in the ass making 2 separate meals to begin with and then to make my meal, a third meal, well, I just said screw it!  I will eat regular liver and onions and I checked the nutrition facts and ingredients on the can of spinach, and that was really close to my diet protocol so I wasn't going too awfully astray from my diet.  But then!!!!!  I had to try the casserole and the potatoes and then I had to go back for a couple more bites.  Then there was dessert.  What the heck it won't hurt to try a bite, ok, I'll have just a small piece, and OMG!!!! that tastes so amazing! I MUST have another piece!  Needless to say, the next day there was a pound added to the scale.  Today, though, 3 days later, I am back down to 206.5 and looking forward to more LOSS tomorrow!  (fingers crossed)

I only have 10 days left to complete my 40 days of injections and then 3 more days on the vlcd before I can start eating anything I want except sugars and starches.  I am sooooooo looking forward to that.  I am going to do that for 2 weeks and then gradually and some sugars and starches for 2 weeks and then I'm gonna load for 2 days and start all over again.  I had planned on making today (Tuesday) my last injection day and start phase 3 on Friday but I am not so sure now.  I really want to see how much more I can lose in the next 10 days.  But then I am afraid that I am getting so antsy about having some regular food and all of the cravings that, if I don't stop today, then I may gorge again and that will not be good.  Maybe I just need to take a break now so that I am not setting myself up for failure.  By the way, after eating all of that food Saturday night, I was so sick all night and all day the next day.  It sucked!  But DAMN! did the food taste good!  I am gonna make my decision in the morning based on weight loss and ketosis and ph balance.  I have been in ketosis nonstop for 3 days now even despite my binge on Saturday night.

Peace out, folks!

PHASE 2 - Days 22-24

I really learned my lesson Friday night!  NO MORE CHEATING, no matter how little!!!!!  Most people, when they cheat, they REALLY cheat!  I just had ONE ounce of alcohol, 2 bites of pork, and 3 "good for you" cookies.  But it has really set me back.  For the last 4 days, I have followed my diet to a "T", yet I am only down to 208.5 pounds which is only .5 pounds down from where I was at on Friday morning (209 pounds) before my indiscretions Friday night.  So I am into this diet for 3-1/2 weeks now and have only lost 11 pounds.  That is at least TEN pounds less than I should have lost according to the promise by Dr. Simeons "Pounds and Inches".  Yes I have lost a couple inches altogether, the most of which is from the bust, of course.  But still, it is not the loss that I SHOULD have!  Especially when I know that when I did this 3 years ago, I lost 14 pounds in 14 days and I was tending bar at the time so I was even drinking alcohol on the diet and I didn't stick completely to the vlcd.  Imagine what I would have lost then if I would have stuck completely to the diet.

I have tried everything, at this point, to make this diet more successful and the only thing that I can think of that might be an issue (which they say shouldn't be an issue) is that I am almost completely sedentary.  I don't work so all I do is a little cleaning of the house and running an errand once in a while and grocery shopping..... oh!  and a bit of gardening and a little bit of yard work.  Hell!  Since this diet, I don't even do my cooking anymore, and I'm a chef by trade.  So maybe if I was more active I would have more loss????  IDK!!!!  The diet claims that you don't need to exercise, that it is not necessary with this diet but maybe this diet EXPECTS that you at least do some kind of regular activity daily??????  So, if that is the case, then maybe this .42 pounds a day is pretty good.  No matter what!  It IS better than what I was doing without the diet but I still feel like I am starving myself.  My mom is doing Weight Watchers and has lost 29 pounds in.... ohhhhh, probably about 4 or 5 months maybe longer and she is really happy with it especially since she gets to eat whatever she wants.  She just has to watch how much she eats and the points it totals up to.  I don't know if I could keep up with all of the calories, fat, carbs .... conversion - points thing.  Sounds like a pain in the butt.  But then the hcg diet is a pain in the butt in the fact that I am hungry all of the time and I soooo crave my REAL food.  I just did the math.  Comparing to Weight Watchers...  if 11 pounds would be all I lose for the rest of this month, my first month on the diet, and that is the average of weight that I would lose per month, then in 4 months I would have lost 44 pounds compared to my moms 29 pounds.  That makes me feel a lot better about having chosen hcg over W.W.'s. 

Well, that is all of my thoughts today.  Peace out and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!!