R3 VLCD 5

Lost .8 lbs today, yay!!  I've lost 5.2 lbs so far in my 3rd round.  It feels great to be at my lowest weight in over 7 years.  Good grief I cannot believe I have been so heavy for so many years.  I'm so ready to reclaim my life. 

Keep up the great work, girls!  I'm proud of each and every one of you!♥

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R3 VLCD #4

Well I only lost .2 lbs today.  =(      I followed the protocol perfectly, so I'm at a loss as to why I only lost .2, esp just 3 diet days into phase 2.  Oh well, just need to keep pushing forward and not let it get me down. 

R3 VLCD#3

I lost 2.2 lbs this morning, putting me at my LDW for round 2.  Everything I lose now will be new weight lost.  yay!  I still feel sick.  Horrible migranes, stuffy nose, scratchy sore throat.  I need to get to the store today though, I'm completely out of cabbage and asparagus. 

I hope today is even easier than yesterday was.  Have a great day girlies!♥

Waaah!!

Ok I seriously want food right now.....lots and lots of super naughty food.  I hate going through this each time I start this diet.  Pretty much all day I've been dreaming about cake with thick chocolate frosting, pizza, Mongolian BBQ, noodles with thick rich sauce, garlic bread, starbucks mochas, cheese, cheese, and more cheese.  STUPID DIET!  STUPID FOOD CRAVINGS!  I'm not really hungry, just wanting food in the worst way.  I hope tomorrow is much better than today.  =(

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R3 VLCD #2

I didn't lose as much as I had hoped.  Oh well, at least I lost what I gained in loading plus a little bit more.  Hopefully within the next two days I'll be back where i was at my lowest weight and then start making new ground.  I lost 2 lbs as of this morning, putting me at 228.  My LDW was 225.8, so I have another 2.2 lbs to go before I get back to where I started. 

I started feeling  hungry around 4pm yesterday and got a bit cranky.  It's never the "I'm STARVING" kind of hunger, just really annoying mild hunger that doesn't go away.  I woke up not hungry, so that much is good.  At 4am I woke up to my throat hurting so bad I could hardly swallow.  I ended up sucking on a ricola cough drop despite the sugar in it.  Hopefully that's the worst it's going to get and I won't have to "cheat" anymore. 

Hope my sister and vicky have a great 1st VLCD.  Hang in there, girls!♥

Round 3 VLCD#1

Well today's the day where I start starving myself again.  lol  I mean....today's the day where I start my next round of very low calorie days.  I woke up this morning to a horrible sore throat and stuffy nose.  Normally I'd take honey or some medication to help with the symptoms.  I don't know what I can do on the diet other than taking hot water, lemon, vinegar, and maybe some cayenne.  I did enjoy loading yesterday.  I baked up a couple butter braids for breakfast.  We had blueberry cream cheese and raspberry.  I had 3 1inch slices and a side of scrambled eggs and was beyond stuffed.  We had Thanksgiving dinner at 4pm.  I had a small helping of stuffing, potatoes and gravy, green bean cassarole and a slice of turkey.  I  was really hurting at this point.  A couple hrs later I had a 1inch slice of pumpkin pie and a 1 inch slice of apple pie.  I told Ben he needed to get a wheelbarrow to help me get out the door and into the car.  ugh!  I haven't gotten on the scale yet to see how much I gained.  I know it's probably a considerable amount because I couldn't button my black size 16 pants yesterday.  lol    I love loading and hate it all at the same time.  I understand that it's important, but I hate the feeling of going backwards so I can move forwards again.  Oh well, such is life.

I'll update later w/ my total weight gain.  Good luck to Victoria and to my sister...both of who start today!♥

UPDATE:
I finally got brave and got on the scale.  I had gained a total of 2.5 lbs during phase 3 and I gained another 1.7 lbs from loading.  I weighed 230.0 lbs as of this morning.  ugh!!!  I know that as of tomorrow I'll never see the 230's again.  I'm looking forward to pushing into the 2teens and losing over 50lbs. 

Round 3 Load Day #1

Yay I'm sooo excited to be starting round 3!!!!  It's 9:30 and I haven't taken my drops or eaten anything yet.  I was busy going to the chiropractor's and then off to the grocery store to get some baking supplies.  I'm being lazy this year and am buying evaporated milk and refrigerated pie crusts.  Normally I make my own evap milk and my own pie crusts but w/ my sister in town and a million other projects to get done, I'm letting myself off the hook.  It killed me to actually PAY for those items, but I believe it'll be worth it. 

I hope you all have a wonderful and joyous Thanksgiving!!!♥♥

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vanilla spiced rum......

I'm going to miss my vanilla spiced rum coffee creamer when I start back on the VLCD.  I went up .8 lbs today and am officially 2 lbs above my LDW.  The gal that gave me my massage yesterday at the Chiropractor's said that if you don't drink ample water after message therapy you can gain a little bit of weight.  I only drank about 6 cups of water and she was right.  lol  Oh well.  I don't really care about the 2lbs.  I mean I do, but I'm not going to freak out and do a steak day.  I'll up the water significantly today and see what tomorrow has in store for me. 

Hope you're all having a wonderful day!♥

R2 P3 Day #22

Nothing much to report you guys.  Still stable, still eating what I want in moderation.  It's so nice not to be freaked out about the scale.  I feel like my body has really reset itself and things are working the way they should be to maintain weight.  Now I just need to reset it at a LOWER weight, lol. 
A week from tomorrow and I'll be starting my very low calorie days once again.  YAY!

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Phase 3 Day #21

I'm 1.2 from my LDW as of this morning.  Yay!!  I'm REALLY starting to look forward to Thanksgiving and loading again.  I'm so ready to see the scale start moving down again.  I'm anxious to be out from under the 200's.  Although I doubt I'll be there by the time my 3 week round is over.  I can promise you this though......I will weigh less than 200 by the time January is over.  I'm giddy just thinking about it. 

Phase 3 Day #20

I got on the scale today after a day of drinking almost zero water and eating too much salt.  To my great suprise I'm still within my 2 lb LDW.  Today I'm going to really up the water......I feel so thirsty it's weird! 

I'm feeling really depressed today.  All I can say is it's a damn good thing my husband is out of town till Friday.  Normally I'd let my feelings dictate how I chose to eat.....not today.  I'm not going to sabotage my diet just because I'm angry with my spouse.  I deserve to be healthy, I deserve to be happy. 

Phase 3 FINALLY BELOW LDW!!

I've been having a super fun time w/ Mia here.  I have to admit I haven 't been eating phase 3 friendly foods the last few days at all.  Not to say I'm going hog wild and eating lots of crap.....more like I'm eating what I want in moderation.  I can't seem to eat much at all before I feel SUPER full.  As of this morning I was .6 lbs BELOW my LDW.  YAY!!  I am so glad my metabolism is working like it's supposed to.  Thank  you Jesus, for bringing HCG into my life.

Phase 3 Hot Diggety Dog

Yesterday I was over LDW by 3 lbs.  Today I'm over LDW by only 1 lb, yahoo!  Hurray for TOM leaving!!! 

I picked up Mia from the airport yesterday and we spent the day catching up on old times and such.  Today we're going to go get our nails done, pedicures, eyebrows waxed and lots of other girly stuff.  Then we're off for a night out on the town. 

Hope you all have huge losses today.  =)

TOM + NOT ENOUGH WATER + TOO MUCH SALT = BAD THINGS

YAWN!!  Soooo sleepy today!  Last night we stayed up and watched The Road.  It was kind of a creepy movie and I had a hard time falling alseep.  Then I woke up super early to the sounds of my kids crying because my husband forgot to put the dog back in our bedroom before he left for work.  Apparently the pup was licking and chewing on them trying to play.  ugh

So I went to bed at about midnight and woke up at 5am.  Joy of joys. 

Yesterday was a busy day.  I had conferences for both boys and I had a bunch of errands I had to run.  Since I was away from home so much and I forgot to bring my water bottle I ended up drinking only about 1 liter of water instead of my usual 3-4 liters.  Then at dinner I ate some fairly salty foods......so I think the extra salt, the small amount of water and TOM caused to be at 3lbs above my LDW as of this morning.  Dang.  Today I will make sure I get a gallon in and I'll really be careful with the foods I eat.  Hopefully TOM leaves soon and I'll be able to get back in my little safety bubble. 

Today I go pick Mia up at the airport, yay!!! 

What did you expect??

So I just have to vent for a second.  There is a gal I'm friends with on facebook and she tried the hcg diet after seeing myself and a few other's have great success.  So she runs out and gets a bottle of the drops and starts the diet.  She doesn't research it, she doesn't know what food is and isn't allowed, she doesn't weight her food, she doesn't make sure she's staying within 500 calories etc etc etc.  Then she starts to complain that this diet just doesn't work and that she had horrible headaches during the diet.  SERIOUSLY?!?!  IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THIS DIET THE WAY DR. SIMEONS WROTE IT, IT WILL NOT WORK.   I'm SO frustrated when people don't take the time to research anything and then complain when other's aren't interested in spoon feeding them the answers.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE helping other's out with the information I've learned thus far.  What I hate is when people put zero effort into something and expect other's to carry their lazy butts.  Anyway.  I'm done ranting.  lol

I lost 1 lb this morning, so I'm definitely back in my LDW range.  YAY!  TOM is about to leave, good riddence!  I wish that when a woman was 100% done having kids that she could flip a switch to make TOM go away forever.  lol  Hurry up menopause, hurry up!  LOLOL

Phase 3 TOM BLOWS

Gained 1.2 lbs today.  Dang it!  I've been researching weight gain and TOM for phase 3 and from what I can find they say do not count TOM weight gain.  So even if you go over your 2 lb "bubble" to not do a steak day.  Keep the fluids up, keep eating phase 3 foods and when TOM is over the excess weight will go away.  I hope that's true as I'm 2.2 lbs above LDW today.  sigh

Phase 3

Lost .8 lbs today....putting me a 1.2 lbs above my LDW.   Yay!  It's so much harder for me to drink my 4 liters of water on phase 3 than it is during phase 2.  Plus, now that it's getting cold outside the thought of drinking water just makes me colder.  Brrrrr! 

Mia will be here in 3 more days, yahoo!

Phase 3 Day # who the heck knows haha

I woke up this morning to a gain....putting me at 1.8 above my LDW.  Dang!  I'm not too suprised though.  I did eat some salty foods around 8 pm and probably had twice as much as I should've had.  I'm hoping that most if not all of that gain is just water weight.  I'll make sure I steer clear of salt today and drink my 4 liters of water.  I might even possibly take a detox bath.  I refuse to do another steak day.  Yuck!!  I read that a lot of people gain like 10 lbs during their maintenence phase......why is that happening?   I can only assume they're going back and eating the foods and such that they were before starting the diet.  I don't know, but it freaks me out.  I want to stay within my 2 lb bubble no matter what. 
It's supposed to rain and or snow for the next 10 days.  eww! 
ETA: TOM started today......that would partially explain the sudden weight gain.  I'm drinking my water like a crazy person. 

Yawn

I don't know what the deal is.  No matter how early or how late I go to bed I cannot seem to sleep in past 7am.  I suppose I really shouldn't complain.....but there are days when the thought of staying in bed a while longer sounds so good.  Ever since I started HCG I've slept better.  Even the days I only sleep a few hours....I still wake up feeling awake and refreshed.  I still battle w/ insomnia....but no where near as bad as before this diet.  So it's nice and annoying all rolled up into one.  lol

I woke up this morning to a 1.4 lb loss.  Yay!  It's odd to me though because yesterday I ate so much I felt like I was going to gain 17.69 lbs.  I had two eggs and two slices of ezekiel bread toasted w/ butter.  For lunch I had my "protein power" pancakes w/ butter and sugar free maple syrup.  For dinner I had a huge plate of spaghetti squash, chicken, and asparagus slathered in a homemade alfredo sauce.  YUMMY!  

I ordered 10 butter braids from a friend of mine's son who was selling them for his school.  I figured I'd freeze them and use a few as Christmas gifts and the rest I can use for the family.  I'll have to wait until Thanksgiving before I bake one up though.  I know if I bake one for the family I won't be able to stay away from it.  sigh     HURRY UP THANKSGIVING!!!!!!! 

On the other hand a week from today, Mia will be here and we'll be sitting in a salon getting our our mani's and pedi's done.  Woohoo!!!!! 

I took my measurements today and have lost a few more inches.  As of today I'm 46 lbs down and 51.75 inches gone!!!!!  9 inches off my hips and 6 inches off each thigh and almost 8 inches off my waist.  yahoo!!!!

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R2 P3 Day #6

I'm feeling SO much better today.  Pretty much back to normal.  I also lost the 2 lbs I gained yesterday, putting me at exactly 1 lb over my LDW.  I'll definitely take it!  Egg day went pretty good yesterday.  Last night after we went and voted my husband wanted to go to JB's for dinner.  He loves their chicken fried steak breakfast.  I was a good girl and ordered an omlet and substituted my hashbrowns and toast for a bowl of fresh fruit.  My dinner was delicious and I felt very satisfied.  I have also been great w/ not eating my kid's halloween candy.  I'm drinking lots and lots of water and am overall really rocking P3.  I'm starting to feel that itch again though.....the itch to start P2 and lose more weight.  =) 

R2 P3 Day #5

I woke up to a 2 lb gain today.  =(

I have no idea why.  I drank a tad over a gallon of water yesterday.  I also ate phase 3 foods.  Hmmmm  Could it be this cold is finally caught up with me?  sigh    I think I'll try an egg day today and see if that makes a difference. 

R2 P3 Day #4

Not much to report.  I am up a full pound from my LDW.  I'm not too suprised.  I ate 3 mini yorks yesterday and a couple handfulls of roasted pumpkin seeds. All things considered I behaved better this halloween than I ever have.  Today I'm 100% back on track and will be researching some yummy P3 recipes I can make.  Hubby is home sick and I'm still feeling a bit under the weather myself.  I have a slight sore throat and a slight runny nose.  My poor husband and children are super sick. 

The last few days I've been researching "super foods" and I'm in awe.  I want to know more.  They say knowledge is power.......I want to know as much about these foods as possible.  They're like miracle foods.  If I had my way I'd incorporate them all into our daily diets.  I did buy 5 of them the other day.  Spirulina, raw honey, kelp, goji berries, and cacao nibs.  I was thinking of stopping babysitting this December.....but now I think I'll keep watching Wyatt, it'll give me some extra $$ to buy some of these amazing super foods.