AM weight--201.2 pounds
So my birthday was sort of a plunge. I drank and ate stuff that I shouldn't have. It put me up a few pounds for a few days. Today is my first day where I have lost past my lowest weight last week (Friday morn). I am a little dissappointed in myself for cheating but really can't be that upset about it. I had a blast for my birthday. All told I am 14.4 pounds down in 18 days. Not bad at all considering there were two days in there that were a total bust diet-wise.
Since Monday of this week I have managed to get on my elliptical trainer for about 15 minutes every morning. It has helped because I have lost up to 2.5 pounds in a day this week....Cool.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Dosing day 14, vlc day 12 (July 9)
Am weight 201.8
I stalled today with no weight loss between yesterday morning and this morning. I was actually hungry yesterday so I ate a little extra protein. I was worried that I was losing muscle and heading into starvation. Yesterday was the first day that I felt any hunger at all. Today back to normal with no hunger at all. I ate at about 2 pm--chicken and onions with balsamic vinegar and orange slices and melba toast. Not sure what I will do about dinner but thinking about shrimp with hot wing sauce and celery or green beans.
A note on the celery, etc. I know what the protocol says about veggies and I know what is acceptable during the HCG dosing phase. But I have also read Atkins and South Beach and Sugar busters, and so on and so on. The difference in calories and fiber, etc is not big enough to matter for green beans and celery to be okay. I figure as long as I continue to lose regularly and as long as I keep the VLC under 500 cals like it says in the protocol I should be fine.
Another interesting factoid I found out today. With the sublingual, especially the homeopathic version, I can dose as long as I want until immunity hits. So the 40 days I was planning on may extend into more as long as immunity doesn't hit sooner. Interesting....since I have around 50 pounds total to lose (14 lost already) I can lose it all in one round of HCG.....SWEET!
I have already decided that HCG is new new miracle. Looking at being thin the rest of my life is amazing. The way I see it HCG is always an option when I have put on 15 or so pounds. Hopefully that won't happen once I have lost it but we all get lazy sometimes and having a "quick fix" means a lot.
I stalled today with no weight loss between yesterday morning and this morning. I was actually hungry yesterday so I ate a little extra protein. I was worried that I was losing muscle and heading into starvation. Yesterday was the first day that I felt any hunger at all. Today back to normal with no hunger at all. I ate at about 2 pm--chicken and onions with balsamic vinegar and orange slices and melba toast. Not sure what I will do about dinner but thinking about shrimp with hot wing sauce and celery or green beans.
A note on the celery, etc. I know what the protocol says about veggies and I know what is acceptable during the HCG dosing phase. But I have also read Atkins and South Beach and Sugar busters, and so on and so on. The difference in calories and fiber, etc is not big enough to matter for green beans and celery to be okay. I figure as long as I continue to lose regularly and as long as I keep the VLC under 500 cals like it says in the protocol I should be fine.
Another interesting factoid I found out today. With the sublingual, especially the homeopathic version, I can dose as long as I want until immunity hits. So the 40 days I was planning on may extend into more as long as immunity doesn't hit sooner. Interesting....since I have around 50 pounds total to lose (14 lost already) I can lose it all in one round of HCG.....SWEET!
I have already decided that HCG is new new miracle. Looking at being thin the rest of my life is amazing. The way I see it HCG is always an option when I have put on 15 or so pounds. Hopefully that won't happen once I have lost it but we all get lazy sometimes and having a "quick fix" means a lot.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Dosing day 10, VLC day 8 (Sunday, Jul 5, 2009)
AM weight = 204.5
Total loss = 10.1 lbs
I went out on Friday night with friends and I managed not to have any alcohol but I was so hungry by the time we sat down at Denny's (at 2:30 am) that I did share some nachos. I was up two pounds on Saturday morning but I weighed at 7:30 and had only slept for a few hours. By today I was down to 204.5 lbs. This makes a total loss of just over 10 pounds in 10 dosing days. Cool. I went to my parents' place for the holiday and eating there was difficult. I managed to stay on protocol yesterday but had a four inch piece of corn on the cob with lunch and the only protein served was pork ribs so I had one. We'll see what the extra does to my loss tomorrow morning I guess. Dinner tonight is tilapia baked over onions and zucchini, an orange and a toast. I am hoping the fish is so low fat that it compensates for the rib. Crossing my fingers!! lol
Total loss = 10.1 lbs
I went out on Friday night with friends and I managed not to have any alcohol but I was so hungry by the time we sat down at Denny's (at 2:30 am) that I did share some nachos. I was up two pounds on Saturday morning but I weighed at 7:30 and had only slept for a few hours. By today I was down to 204.5 lbs. This makes a total loss of just over 10 pounds in 10 dosing days. Cool. I went to my parents' place for the holiday and eating there was difficult. I managed to stay on protocol yesterday but had a four inch piece of corn on the cob with lunch and the only protein served was pork ribs so I had one. We'll see what the extra does to my loss tomorrow morning I guess. Dinner tonight is tilapia baked over onions and zucchini, an orange and a toast. I am hoping the fish is so low fat that it compensates for the rib. Crossing my fingers!! lol
Friday, July 3, 2009
July 3rd--dosing day 8 (day 5 of vlc)
AM weight = 205.0 lbs
Total loss = 9.6 lbs
I must say I am amazed. I lost as much in one week with this program than I did in the first two weeks of atkins years ago. That one week also included my two feeding days in the beginning of the protocol, so really I am looking at nearly 10 pounds gone in only 5 days. Damn!!
The other thing that constatly amazes me is the lack of hunger. I made pizza one night for everyone else while I had leftovers from the steak and salad we had the night before. I didn't craze the pizza or feel like I was punishing myself for not eating it. It was almost like I didn't even want it. There has been 2/3 of a box of double stuff oreos (left over from my feeding days) in the pantry for the whole week and I haven't given them a second look. That has NEVER happened in all of my years of dieting. Before when I was dieting I just couldn't bring food that was off-limits into my house at all. No temptation if it isn't in the house right?! I actually ate a piece of pepperoni off of my son's pizza after he was finished. It didn't even taste good to me. The salad and steak I made for myself tasted better. Wow.
To be fair to the diet and to my own habits I do have to confess this. Last night I thought I was hungry. The reason I say thought is because I am really not sure if it was physical hunger or just a feeling of emptiness that I didn't know how to assimilate and read as hunger. I ended up having an extra melba toast figuring it was the least damaging option in terms of adding extra food. I am not tracking calories other than weighing my protien servings. Sometimes I weigh them at 100 grams prior to cooking, but often I weigh them after because I am cooking a larger serving of meat or fish or whatever to feed everyone. The way I figure it, if the protein weighs 100 grams prior to cooking then it should weigh between 80 and 90 grams after depending on fat content. I know that a 3 oz piece of meat or chicken is the size of a deck of cards and tend to use that as a rule of thumb.
Total loss = 9.6 lbs
I must say I am amazed. I lost as much in one week with this program than I did in the first two weeks of atkins years ago. That one week also included my two feeding days in the beginning of the protocol, so really I am looking at nearly 10 pounds gone in only 5 days. Damn!!
The other thing that constatly amazes me is the lack of hunger. I made pizza one night for everyone else while I had leftovers from the steak and salad we had the night before. I didn't craze the pizza or feel like I was punishing myself for not eating it. It was almost like I didn't even want it. There has been 2/3 of a box of double stuff oreos (left over from my feeding days) in the pantry for the whole week and I haven't given them a second look. That has NEVER happened in all of my years of dieting. Before when I was dieting I just couldn't bring food that was off-limits into my house at all. No temptation if it isn't in the house right?! I actually ate a piece of pepperoni off of my son's pizza after he was finished. It didn't even taste good to me. The salad and steak I made for myself tasted better. Wow.
To be fair to the diet and to my own habits I do have to confess this. Last night I thought I was hungry. The reason I say thought is because I am really not sure if it was physical hunger or just a feeling of emptiness that I didn't know how to assimilate and read as hunger. I ended up having an extra melba toast figuring it was the least damaging option in terms of adding extra food. I am not tracking calories other than weighing my protien servings. Sometimes I weigh them at 100 grams prior to cooking, but often I weigh them after because I am cooking a larger serving of meat or fish or whatever to feed everyone. The way I figure it, if the protein weighs 100 grams prior to cooking then it should weigh between 80 and 90 grams after depending on fat content. I know that a 3 oz piece of meat or chicken is the size of a deck of cards and tend to use that as a rule of thumb.
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