(-1.0 lb.)

Strange thing this morning. The scale read -1 lb. In my two previous rounds, after my LIW, I always stayed the same weight for the 3 days following. This is the first time I actually lost any weight after the shots. I was surprised this morning. I did have extra water, and tried to finish the water earlier in the day and not have so much water at night right before bed, so I don't know if this is the reasoning, or not.

Today, I brought 2 hard boiled eggs with me along with my apple, cucumber and chicken, as this afternoon will be over the 72 hours from my last injections, so I thought I jump start my protein increase this evening. I'll have a salad tonight for dinner with some sort of meat, but didn't want to have problems with the protein dificiency issues and have that water retention, so extra protein.

I'll also make sure I'm getting in plenty of water today as well. Tomorrow is the first official day of stablization or as some refer to it as P3. It will be good to be there again and then be able to move on to maintenance for life. I'm looking forward to making a zucchini lasagne this weekend since it is the season for zucchini. I'm also going to make a zucchini cake with almond flour for myself (although my family likes it as well) with cream cheese frosting. YUMMY! I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it. I haven't had any hunger pains yet, but I'm thinking by this afternoon those will probably start as all the HCG will be out of my system.

Well, hope everyone has a great Wednesday. Til' tomorrow.

Holding Steady

Okay, today is my second day of the last three VLCD days. Tomorrow is Wednesday and tomorow evening I have to go to a birthday party for my niece. I'm planning on a nice chef salad for dinner, but don't know if they serve them at the pizza place we are going to. I'm contemplating bringing a couple hard boiled eggs with me for a late afternoon snack depending on how I'm feeling and the menu. I'm going to call the place and see what they have to offer. I might just make an appearance and then go home and make a nice steak with sauted mushrooms and a salad. Still unsure, but I'm looking forward to having eggs back in my diet. I've sure missed those as well as the cheese. Thursday's menu is looking something like this:

Breakfast: 3 egg omelet with ham, cheese, mushrooms, green pepers and tomatoes.
Lunch: 6 oz. chicken breast with salad and oil/vinegar dressing.
Snack: 2 hard boiled eggs
Dinner: 6 oz. of meat (not sure yet), fried zuchini (with egg)
And of course lots and lots of water.

I'm soooooo glad to be done. First, to get rid of this excess weight I've struggled with and second, I'm really ready to resume eating real food again.

Til tomorrow. Keep smiling and stay strong.

(-.4 lbs.)

Okay, Sunday was my last shot and this morning I woke up .2 lighter. I have today, tomorrow and Wednesday of the VLCD before beginning stablization (no sugar/no starch phase). I've very excited to be so close to my goal weight. I'm about 2 pounds above that, so all in all it was a good round.

I'm going to go shopping for some new pants again, because when I went to put on my size 6 dress pants, they were too big. YIPPEEE!!!!! Size 4 here I come!!!!

Had a good weekend. Went to my in-laws' house for my mother-in-law's birthday on Saturday. They had all kinds of goodies, including the apple-crunch cake that I made and brought. Unfortunately, I didn't get to eat any of the food. It was very hard, but I managed. I'm just glad, I only have a couple more days and I'll be able to enjoy more food choices.

Til tomorrow.

(-.2 lbs.)

Two more shots and then 72 hours of limited eating. I was thinking of a chef salad, but an omelet wtih mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, and a little cheese is sounding better yet. Wednesday night is when my 72 hours are up and I can eat, I'm really dreaming of food right now. I'm 3 pounds from my goal, not too bad. Thought about going for a couple more days on the shots to get to that goal, but I'm mentally done. The family had veggie pizza last night and it the smell almost killed me. I was sooooo tempted to cheat I literally had to go the the other room where they weren't and where I couldn't smell it. Later I came back and was fine, but that first initial smell was too much for me. That's when I knew I was mentally done. Whatever my body gives up in fat on the next two days will be fine with me. I can live with being a pound or two above my goal, because I feel great, I look great and my health is GREAT!!!!!

I'll check in on Monday with my stats for the weekend. In the meantime, stay strong and keep smiling.

(-.8 lbs.)

The scale was good to me this morning. I try not to let the scale dictate my mood, but sometimes that's hard when the scale is slow to move. All I can say is that I'm glad that the scale is moving again. I only have three shots left and I'm hoping to make it to my goal. I thought about going a few days more to get to that goal, but mentally, I know I'm ready to be done no matter where I'm at on the scale. So next Thursday I'll be having a nice chef salad. Then I can have some eggs as well. I'm really looking forward to something different to eat.

Using HCG has been an amazing journey to a healthy lifestyle no matter what sacrifices I've made they all have been soooo worth it.

Til tomorrow. Keep smiling.

(-.4 lbs.)

Yesterday the scale didn't move, but today I had a .4 drop which is a good thing. I only have 4 shots left and three more days after that of the VLCD. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get to my goal, but I'm darn close, which is fine by me. I'll have to do my inches again, because I know I've lost there as there was a pair of pants that I couldn't button a month ago and now they fit fabulous.

I can say that I am really ready to enjoy a good sald with mixed veggies with a little oil/vinegar dressing. This round has been the hardest mentally for me, but I did not waiver and cheat. I stayed strong and stuck it out. I had a few days in there where I was ready to just quit, but I knew I couldn't live with myself knowing that I quit something. That's just not in my nature.

I finished reading Jillian Michael's Making the Cut book and it makes a lot of sense as does her Mastering your Metabolish. I'm going to be making some major changes in my lifestyle in regards to eating more organic and taking a good multi-vitamin and others to balance out my hormones that run my metabolism.

Well til tomorrow. Keep strong and keep smiling. Life is good.

(-.4 lbs.)

Well this weekend wasn't much to shout about, but I'm still down so that's a plus. I have 7 more shots and three days after of VLCD, so I'm hoping to drop at least another 3-4 pounds, we'll see, my body is just holding on to that last little bit. And I'm getting a little frustrated with it. I'm going to really down the water today and see if I can't get things moving again. I'm losing inches, because new pants from the back of my closet are now fitting when they didn't a month ago, so that's a good thing, so the numbers on the scale shouldn't be my focus, although that is very hard to do.

Well, hope everyone had a good weekend, and the week goes well for them. Stay strong and keep your head up no matter what as the end results are the most favorable.

Keep smiling.