R2P3 - Day 39

Wow!  It has been 10 days since my last check in.  Well, I have been off of my injections, on phase 3 for 10 days now.  Suppose to be able to eat anything EXCEPT sugars and starches.  I haven't stayed away from the sugars so much but I am staying within my 2 pound leeway.  It's just so hard to decide what I want to eat.  I need to get to the store tomorrow and get more veggies.  This weekend I will officially start adding sugars and starches.  So things are going really well.  In my "day29" post I noted that I had lost only 7 inches but I refigured and dated it back to the beginning in May and I have actually lost more than 13" all over.  That's about all.  Gonna try to get back on here and keep updated.  My Pampered Chef stuff has been keeping me so busy.  If u like Pampered Chef, get in touch with me. I got your hook up!

Need to get ya caught up.

I will catch up soon.  Been busy with my Pampered Chef business and I'm too tired right now but I haven't given up on blog or diet.  Talk soon!  G'nite!

R2P2 - Day 29

Alright!  Today is measurement day again.  7" down altogether. Can't remember exactly how much off of where but there has been significant loss everywhere.  I'm down to 191.5 lb's.  Once I start adding more calories to my diet, I MUST start exercising!  If I did it now, I am sure to pass out.  But I am needing to build some muscle mass.  

Today is going to be my last injection.  I know it's only 29 days but my body is telling me its time.  I am having more and more of a difficult time sticking to the diet.  So I think that means its time before I totally screw it up completely.  This way I don't go totally off the grid with the diet but I know and can see an end in sight.  This gives me more incentive to stick with it because I know in another day I can start eating more food and start adding some other foods little by little.  This is a better technique than trying to hold out for 40 days and then blowing it completely which the road that I was heading down.  I am hoping this round 3 goes easier than the last one.

R2P2 - Day 26

Today - 194 pounds.  I held steady at 196 lb's from Thursday and Friday days 20 and 21 and on Saturday, day 22, I dropped a 1/2 pound.  I don't think I ate much on Friday, day 23 but I don't remember for sure, though on Saturday, I just decided to let loose a little and had about 10 oz of lean beef in the form of filet mignon but it was, of course wrapped in bacon and I had steamed broccoli with minimal butter on it, and an apple or 2 earlier in the day plus 1 oreo cookie for dessert that night.  But I woke up on Sunday weighing in at 196.5 and immediately took a 45 minute detox bath and did an apple day.  Bringing me to today's weight of 194 which was also was yesterday's weight.  I think I have been stressing quite a bit lately and may contribute to a lack of weight loss, yet sometimes can contribute to MORE weight loss.  I haven't really been eating the full 500 calories required every day but, from what I understand, as long as you aren't hungry, that should not have an effect on weight loss/gain.  One thing that I have been doing every day this round that I should not be doing is I eat almonds.  I need that crunch and something to get rid of the "stale" flavor in my mouth.  Maybe without the almonds I would be losing more but I am happy that I am losing the weight.  I have lost 40 pounds altogether now.  In the beginning, I lost 12 pounds on my own but gained back 4 and then I lost some on the homeopathic drops version for a couple of weeks and now on this version, the real hcg injections I have lost like 23-24 pounds, something like that.  I did gain back 2 or 3 pounds in between the first round and this round.    Hopefully the stress in my life doesn't affect my weight loss negatively.  But even with the ups and downs, I am quite satisfied.  :)