R2 VLCD Day 12

.2 lbs lost this morning.  At first I thought I stalled again so I was kind of disappointed, but discovering that I actually lost weight really lifted my mood.

There's nothing else to say diet-wise.  Work is still busy, home life is still busy.  That's about all!

R2 VLCD Day 11

Halfway through round two!  I'm not even sure whether or not I have a goal for this round.  Last round I lost 16 lbs, this round I've lost 8.  I only have 16 lbs to go before I'm completely done.  I was going to take five days off and basically start round 3 right away, but I'm not sure that really makes any sense.  I may just go through until I'm done.  There's no point in gaining another 3 or 6 lbs during loading just to put myself that much farther from my goal.  My heart is palpitating just thinking about being done.  I feel bad talking about this when so many of my friends have farther to go than I do.  Please don't think of it as me bragging because I'm not.  I figure this is a good place to talk about weight loss goals since my hubs is sick of hearing about it, lol. 

Happy Wednesday everybody!!!

R2 VLCD Day 10

I didn't get very much sleep at all last night.  Normally the HCG helps me sleep better, but not last night.  I was up until 2 just laying in bed hoping I'd get to sleep eventually.  I'm so tired and I didn't lose any weight yesterday.  Don't mess with me.

Update:  Now that I've had a few minutes to wake up I feel a little better than I did first thing this morning.  I hopped back on the scale thinking that I would, by some miracle of God, have lost some weight between earlier this morning and now.  No miracle.  Oh well!  I'm looking forward to work today...we should be busy enough to keep my mind off a tiny stall.  On Friday I have to go out to lunch again.  My boss is giving me my review and she said she promises it will be a good start to my weekend!  We'll have to see what that means.  I think we're going to Tokyo Joe's again since I know that place only stalls me and doesn't cause me to gain.  I figure that's the safest place to go if I have to go somewhere.   Oh, I forgot to mention the other day...a pair of size 10 slacks that I bought a few weeks ago is now getting loose.  The other pair is still snug, but the other one is definitely getting loose!

R2 VLCD Day 9

The scale finally moved...finally!  I lost .8 lbs and because I lost such a "small" amount (considering that it's basically only a .2 lb loss average for the last four days) I'm pretty certain now that my stall was due to eating out two days in a row while my office moved, and due to the amount of physical activity that I did during the move itself.  Bre - I considered doing an apple day but I struggle with the diet as it is because I have no willpower.  I don't think I have enough willpower to do an apple day at all.  Apple days seem like they would suck.  I guess if I had a five or six day stall I might change my mind though, lol.

So this morning has started out really good just because I'm in the 162s now.  I'm so close to the 150s that it could technically be any day now that I hit them.  I haven't seen the 150s in a long while.  When I had my first pregnancy check up with Chloe I weighed 154.  I keep saying that I weighed 154 when I got married, but technically I don't know what I weighed then.  I had my first preg-check in December (2 months after I got married) and I know that I hadn't really gained any weight since I got married only because my clothes weren't fitting any different.  So who knows, I might have only weighed 150 when I got married.  But either way, I'm close to being back where I was five years ago!!!

R2 VLCD Day 8

Another stall day.  This is the 3rd day in a row that I haven't lost (but haven't gained either).  This is day number 5 of no real quality time in the bathroom either, lol.  I'm going to up my magnesium intake to 800 mg because that's what Erica takes and my caplets are only 400 mg each.  Hopefully something gets moving here soon.  I also think that because of our office move and the amount of physical labor I put into packing, moving, and unpacking, my body may not want to be letting go of any extra weight because I might have done too much activity.  So far I'm not panicking at all, especially since I fit into my wedding dress last night, and fit it better than I did the day I got married.  When I got married I had to wear a stomach flattening girdle type thing so that the bodice would zip up and last night it zipped with no problem, and could have probably been taken in an additional half inch.  It's amazing that I'm 9 lbs over the weight that I was when I got married but the dress fits better now!

Update:  Thank you magnesium.

A Quick Interruption...

Look at what I fit into again (and it zipped up all the way and I didn't even have to suck in!!!)

R2 VLCD Day 7

One week down, two to go.  Then five days off...reload...and my final (hopefully) three weeks!!!  I lost nothing yesterday but gained nothing either which is actually really good.  I went to the store and bought magnesium softgels and am wondering how long they take to kick in now.  I'm on day three I think with no "party" in the bathroom and it would be nice to see some action!

Mom - I'm so glad you are doing this diet with me now.  Yesterday it would have been very easy to give up but just knowing that you and Erica and Bre are "watching" made it easier not to.  I hated even having to admit that I went off protocol for two days, and I hated having to go off protocol for two days (well, at least at lunch time) and normally just having two off days like that would have opened the doors for me to quit any other diet.  With so much support around, who can be a quitter?

Bre - The tea I use is called "Get Regular."  I call it Smooth Move because more people recognize that name, but if you look around in your grocery store for a tea that has senna in it, you should be able to find something.  I think mine was in the organic section, but your store may have it right next to that digestive tea that you bought before.  Mine was right by the digestive teas at least.

Erica - I can't wait until November!!! 

R2 VLCD Day 6

Well I ended up losing .4 lbs in spite of the fact that I went WAAAAYYYY off protocol yesterday.  My office is moved today so I get the pleasure of unpacking (try not to be jealous) all day long.  Apparently we're still having phone issues and may not have phones for the next few days.  That means I get to use my cell phone all day at work.  Woohoo?

Update:  Had another crappy dieting day again and ate the same lunch that I had yesterday (chicken with a tiny bit of teriyake sauce and some veggies at Tokyo Joe's).  Again, our office was all disorganized and I had no access to anything to cook my food with.  I stayed late at work tonight to finish getting everything unpacked and ready to go, so hopefully the scale doesn't scream at me tomorrow.  I think I may take a detox bath, and my smooth move hasn't been working so that's a pretty big bummer.  It will be hard to tell tomorrow whether or not I gained (IF I gain) because of the food or because none of the food I've eaten in the last three and a half days has left my body yet!  Either way, I felt horrible eating out for lunch and especially for the teriyake sauce but I just can't eat plain chicken.  Yuck!  

R2 VLCD Day 5

Another 1.8 lbs lost yesterday and I have now officially lost more than I have left to lose.  Only 18.2 lbs to go!  I went over my calendar yesterday and decided that I will just do a very short phase 3 this time (just five days) and then do my last round so that it will be over with and I'll be in p3 when I go to Idaho in November.  It feels weird to know that I may be at my goal weight in just over a month.  I am shocked that I lost so much weight last yesterday.  I ended up eating a greek yogurt smoothie (I figured that eating the greek yogurt would be about the same as eating cottage cheese) for dinner, I accidentally had flavored creamer in my coffee yesterday, I forgot my water almost completely yesterday, and I spent the whole day packing up my office for our move this morning, which means I was doing some pretty heavy labor all day (and I hear that you can actually gain weight on HCG if you work too hard).  All of those things combined made me sure that I would gain a bit or at least stall and I didn't.  I'm happy to know that greek yogurt doesn't stall me because I love those smoothies and it's just another thing I can add to my very limited list of things that I will eat for dinner and I'm just sick to death of everything else.  I'm a little nervous that once I get my water intake back to normal today, I will end up re-gaining some of the weight.  If I do though, it's okay.  I know it's just water weight!

Update:  I wasn't able to take lunch to work today because we are moving offices and the refrigerator and the microwave were on a truck at lunch time.  I decided to go to Tokyo Joe's and get some steamed vegetables and some chicken breast.  I ended putting about 1 T of teriyaki sauce on the chicken and was feeling bad so I skipped my fruit hoping the lack of fruit-sugar would make up for me eating real-food-sugar.  I really wanted to dump the whole thing of sauce all over, and get rice instead of bamboo shoots and edamame so I was at least partially successful.  Because our water dispenser was also on a truck, it was hard to drink a ton of water at work today, so I'm doing my best to catch up today while I'm at home.  I also need to drink some smooth move tea because I forgot to yesterday.  What I would really like to do is go get some magnesium liqui-gels like Erica takes but I don't have the money for it right now.  That will have to wait until payday. 

R2 VLCD Day 4

I lost another 1.4 lbs last night.  I suspect that this will be my last day of "big" losses.  I think the last round the losses tapered off after the third day.  I just went out to have a cup of coffee and realized half way through that I used the regular creamer so now I'm a little scared about gaining tomorrow because there is sugar in that creamer.  I guess I'll have to see what happens tomorrow! 

I have now lost 19 lbs and I'm really excited about that.  I have 20.4 left to lose, so unless that creamer causes a gain tomorrow, I may actually hit the half way mark!  I've been eating all the same foods that I did on the last round and that gets boring really quickly.  I wish that I enjoyed fish and shrimp because that would help a lot, but I keep reminding myself that I only have to be bored with my food for another 2.5 weeks until this round is over, and then I get to eat regular foods until after the new year.  I'm still torn on whether or not to just go ahead and do p3 for another 1 or 2 weeks and then do another 3 week round.  That would put me on p3 again when I go to visit Erica and Vicky in Idaho in November!

R2 VLCD Day 3

Aah, that's more like it!  2.4 lbs g-g-g-GONE.  So that's 4 lbs total this round and 17.6 gone since I started HCG.  I'll be hitting the 20 lbs mark sometime soon, and that will mean I've lost half of the weight I needed to lose.  Sometimes I feel really stupid complaining about needing to lose weight when I only had 40 to lose.  I imagine it makes people feel the same way I feel when I hear somebody say they have to lose 10 lbs.  It makes me want to say "boo-hoo."  But 40 lbs is pretty significant.  My daughter weighs 40 lbs.  I have a whole 4 year old to lose. 

Not anymore.

R2 VLCD Day 2

I lost 1.6 lbs from yesterday and I was actually a little disappointed.  I ended up drinking my full 2 liters of water and I think that I would have probably lost more if I had kept up on my water intake during p3.  Once I was off the drops, I had a really hard time forcing myself to drink water all day long.  I'm still 1 lb over my last drops weight, so it was hard to see a negative loss on my first day (I had lost 16.2 lbs total on the last round, and now I'm only at 15.2 lbs total as of this morning).  I wonder if a smaller weight loss is expected with your second round than with your first?  Regardless, I'm probably being a baby about this.  1.6 lbs is nothing to sneeze at and now that I'm on the drops again, I will be seeing losses again finally.  P3 was hard because my weight was up a little and down a little every day.  Now I know it will be another set of steady losses.

I hope everybody else has good luck on the scale this morning, too!

UPDATE:  Do not ever eat Shiritake noodles.  Ever.  Unless you like biting into little skinny umbilical cords because that's exactly what they felt like.  Oh my gosh, I'm going to barf.  

R2 VLCD Day 1

Loading days are over and now it's time for low calorie again.  I gained quite a bit of weight yesterday (like 3 lbs or something) and I hit 170.8 this morning.  That was pretty rough seeing that number, I thought I was back in the 160's for good.  By tomorrow hopefully I should be in the 160's again and my goal after this round is over is to be in the low 150s.  I had a pretty bad stomach ache last night, partly because I was so full and I believe the other contributing factor was the sugar that I had eaten in Aaron's chocolate cake.  I'm excited to start seeing weight loss again tomorrow.  I hope the first few days have big losses like last time!

R2 Loading Day #2

Loading is not as fun as I thought it would be.  I'm surprised at how food doesn't taste the same anymore and it doesn't sound all that good.  I'll have to remind myself of this once I'm in the throes of phase 2 and am not allowed to eat anything.


I drank wine coolers for dinner last night.  I wasn't hungry at all for dinner, but those stinkin' wine coolers metabolized a lot faster than they used to.  I didn't set out to get drunk, but at the end of the night the room was spinning pretty well.  Oh well, it was fun and I never drink so that made it even funner.  The best part is that I don't have a hangover this morning.  I think the HCG had something to do with that because the hangovers are the main reason I chose not to drink very often anymore. 

Well, I'm not sure what I'm going to eat today.  Food still sounds yuck. 

R2 Loading Day #1

Loading day!  I thought I'd be much more excited than I actually am this morning.  Oh well, today I'm going to eat donuts, and pizza, and Aaron and I are going out to lunch.  Tomorrow I'm eating Sonic and going out for Aaron's birthday.  I'm kind of nervous this morning.  I take my first drops in an hour and for whatever reason, I'm having second thoughts.  Can I do this again? 

I guess I'll update later on my progress. 

P3 Day 12

Tomorrow is loading day already.  I can't wait for maple bars and starch and sugar again, although except for maple bars, nothing really sounds all that good.  Aaron and I are going out to dinner for his birthday on Saturday and I'm going to have a margarita or two.  Even drinking doesn't sound that good (I'm not much of a drinker anyways) but I figure that I'll wish I had one once I'm on p2 again.  I hope to lose more than 16 lbs on this next round, but if not I will be okay.  Whatever I get to on this next round will be my new weight until after the new year.  I might end up going an extra week on p2, but that's a decision I'm not willing to fully make until after I'm in p2 for a few days.  I imagine that I have already forgotten how difficult p2 is. 

P3 Day 11

It's Wednesday and I'm hungry and I want a maple bar pretty badly this morning.  :)  I got my mom's blog set up yesterday so now I just need her to log in and start posting.  She should have her drops on Thursday and then she, Erica, and I will be starting Phase 2 together.  I'm looking forward to loading, although I'm certain that it will be even harder than last time simply because I can't eat very much anymore without getting too full.  Hopefully the smaller stomach also means less hunger during the first week of phase 2. 
I forgot to weigh myself this morning.  That's a good sign for me, because I was certain this diet would make me obsessed with the scale.  Just knowing that I can still "forget" to weigh makes me feel better.
Well, I better get ready for work.  I hope you all have a great day!

P3 Day 10

I had a rough night with Nicholas last night.  He's been pulling some seriously sneaky stuff lately and so Aaron and I had to deal with it.  I went to bed angry at Nick and woke up still angry.  I just don't trust my son anymore and I hate this feeling.  I swore that if I raised my kids right, they wouldn't be pulling these kinds of stunts, and I think I got my wake up call last night.  I think that I try to give God control of everything else in my life except for my kids, because I can handle my kids.  I need Him to handle everything else, but I got my kids.  It was like a slap in the face last night to realize that I haven't given control of them over to Him yet. 

So that being said, I really wanted to eat last night.  I wanted to eat a greasy hamburger.  I wanted to eat some lasagna.  I wanted spaghetti.  I wanted enchiladas.  I wanted anything to help stuff this anger down inside and bury it under a pile of food.  I didn't give in and I'm glad now that I didn't, but it was hard.  Being a parent is even tougher than trying to lose weight.  I feel like a failure.

P3 Day 9

Nothing new to report today.  My weight seems to be holding fairly steady right under my LDW.  I haven't had to do a steak day yet even though some days I'm sure I'll have to do one the next day.  With round two just a few days away, I'm not sure that I'd even do one at this point.  C'mon Friday!

P3 Day 8

Only six more days until maple bars and pizza and a Super Sonic Breakfast Burrito with tater tots from Sonic for breakfast!  Aaron's birthday is on Saturday and I'm having my friend Erica bake him a cake (I just realized that both of the Ericas that I know are both awesome cake bakers...most people surround themselves with positive people, but I like to surround myself with people who can make some FOOD lol) and then we're dropping the kids off at her house for her son's birthday party and they're going to spend the night there while Aaron and I get to have a date night.  I'm very excited!  We're going to El Aguave for dinner and I'm going to eat chips and salsa until I could pop, and I'm having a chimichanga and a margarita or two.  I'm pumped, except for the part where I will possibly gain another 5 lbs like last time, and the drops will make me not want to eat anything!

P3 Day 7

I've been on phase 3 for a week now and my weight has been up and down and all over the place...arg!  Today I'm .2 lbs below my LDW which is better than being 2 lbs over.   Some days I feel so full after eating that I'm certain that I will wake up to a massive gain and there never is a gain.  I've always equated gaining weight with feeling full, and losing weight with feeling hungry.  It's hard for me to get rid of the feeling that going to bed still full from dinner means that I'll gain in the morning.  I have a lot of thin friends and they get full after meals and they're still thin...I just can't get that across to my own brain.  I'm so grateful for this HCG diet because it's helped me to lose more weight faster than I've ever been able to before.  I'm in the 160's (high 160's, but the 160's nonetheless) and am looking forward to the 150s here in a few weeks.  It just seems to good to be true.  I got down to 166 lbs one time in 2008 but it took me a few months to get there, and as soon as I stopped dieting, I gained 15 lbs in the matter of two weeks.  I didn't understand the abnormal vs. normal fat, I didn't understand that all that weight I lost was just my normal body fat and that I would have to continue on the strict diet forever, or risk gaining it all back again like I did.  With HCG I don't have to worry about that.  It's not getting rid of my normal body fat (which is why I can't tell that I've lost any weight when I'm just looking at my face) and I've eaten a ton of oils and nuts and butter while I've been on P3 and nothing has really happened.  My weight has been fluctuating every day, but it always settles right back to where it's supposed to be.  I love this darned diet, and I'm ready for round two again!

P3 Day 6

I was so shocked this morning to get on the scale and have lost .4 lbs yesterday.  I ate that teriyaki chicken and was certain I would have gained at least a pound or two this morning.  About an hour after I ate the chicken for lunch yesterday I felt so sick and full that it was hard to stand at work.  I had to keep sitting down because I thought I was going to pop.  This diet confuses me sometimes.  I'll be glad to be back on the drops and losing weight, but I'm already a little nervous about the next phase 3.  At least I know right now that if I gain some, I'll be back on p2 in a week and losing again.  After this next round is over, I'm done with HCG until after the new year.  I'll really have to try harder to maintain my weight after the next round is over.  It feels like I'm all over the board in terms of weight right now, but I haven't gone OVER my LDW yet, and only actually hit my LDW once.  Other than that, I've been below the mark.  Honestly I'm worried that I'm creating a lifetime obsession with the scale.  Before HCG, I could go a few weeks without weighing.  Now it's like I wake up early just to hop on.  Once I stabilize after my next round, I think I'll be doing a weekly weighing. I can't get in a habit of worrying too much because my obsessive personality will take over for sure!

P3 Day 5

Well I'm back to my LDW and I hope I stay here for a bit.  I'm a little confused about whether or not I should be eating dinner if I'm not really hungry, but I can't find any definite answers on that.  I'm trying to make sure I have protein at each meal but I'm just not really hungry at dinner time.  I don't want to be eating when I'm not hungry but I also want to make sure that I'm getting enough calories.  Dr. Simeons said to eat when you are hungry on P3, but I just don't get very hungry now.  Erica, what do you think?

Update:  I cheated today.  I had teriyaki chicken and veggies from Tokyo Joe's for lunch.  I knew there would be sugar in the sauce and I just didn't care.  I will probably care tomorrow, but oh my gosh was that sauce ever GOOD.

P3 Day 4

2 lbs gained but I ate at a restaurant yesterday (Chipotle chicken salad with no rice or beans) so all is well.  I hope.  Dr. Simeons said it's not unusual to gain a few lbs after eating out, and now I will remember not to wish I could eat out all the time.  I'm still 1.4 lbs away from having to do a steak day.  I'm a little nervous about eating today because I don't want to gain again!  I bought some sugar free chocolate candies at the store the other day and I think I'm going to quit eating those for sure.  The chocolate delight is just fine by itself.  I'm looking forward to P2 already.  I like the steady weight loss, not the all-over-the-place weight that is going on right now.  It's too stressful!

Edit:  I just took a shower (this is about 15 minutes after I posted about gaining 2 lbs) and after the shower I weighed myself again and was down to 167.4 (from 168.8 15 minutes before).  I'm taking the lower weight lol!  When I first got on the scale this morning I was having a hard time getting the scale to settle on a number and it was probably because I was still really groggy from my sleeping pill and having a hard time standing still.  So yahoo!  Only a .6 lb gain from yesterday at the restaurant.  I feel much better!

P3 Day 3

I gained weight this morning (.6 lbs) but I'm not stressing.  I was 2.6 lbs under my LDW yesterday and I knew that I was bound to gain a bit after I started P3 simply because I kept losing weight even though I wasn't trying to.  I've had a hard time eating as much as I'm supposed to.  I'm going to keep trying to up my protein intake and avoid a stupid steak day.  I don't want to do a steak day....waaah! 

P3 Day 2

Yesterday I had two pieces of Cinnamon Raisin Ezekiel bread french toast for breakfast and was full all day.  I also ate a piece of baked chicken from the grocery store, and some Greek Slaw and that was about it.  Oh, and a greek yogurt strawberry smoothie.  I know it wasn't enough so I'm going to try harder today to eat more.  I just wasn't hungry at all.  I made two eggs scrambled with some ham and cheese for breakfast and I still feel stuffed 3 hours later.  I also made some chocolate delight with cranberries and nuts and ate it and it was SOOOO good.  Today we're having hamburgers and deviled eggs and veggies with ranch dip for a late lunch/early dinner.  I'm going to try another strawberry smoothie today but add some splenda this time because it was a bit bitter yesterday.  I just didn't want to add any Stevia to yesterday's smoothie because I seriously can't stand the taste of that stuff.  I have a whole bottle of vanilla creme stevia that's going to go to waste, too.  Unless you want it Erica?  I would be happy to send it to you.  Anyways, that's my progress so far.  Didn't lose/gain anything from yesterday, but I'm still like 2.4 lbs under my LDW.  I'm excited to go to work tomorrow just because I get to wear my "new" size 10 slacks!

Update:  I think I will be trying Splenda instead of Stevia during my next round of HCG and see if it stalls me.  I know that Splenda is a fairly new non-calorie sweetener and probably wasn't around when Dr. Simeons wrote his manuscript.  If it doesn't stall me, that might be my new sweetener of choice.  I can't stand the Stevia and the Splenda isn't bitter and doesn't have any sort of an aftertaste at all. 

P3 Day 1

Well I made it and I couldn't be happier.  I'm looking forward to raisin cinnamon ezekiel french toast for breakfast this morning and am a little sad that I'm not even hungry yet.  I'll definitely wait to eat until I'm hungry because I don't want to start any bad habits by eating when I don't need to.  Yesterday was such a busy day.  I ran some errands with Chloe and Aujane and had a Starbucks again.  I should have waited until today to have it, but because I was a little over 2 lbs under my LDW, I didn't care if I gained a bit or stalled from having the extra milk in my cafe latte.  We came home and Ben (my boss' husband and our landlord) came over and hung out for about an hour, and then he left and texted us and asked if we wanted to bring all the kids over to his house to go swimming (they have a pool in their back yard) so we went and did that for an hour or so.  Then we came home, got changed, and drove to Brighton to visit my sister and brother in law and their four kids at Aaron's parents house since they were leaving this morning.  I was a bit nervous because I always feel like Sara and Jon don't like me for some reason.  It turned out to be an awesome evening with no tension and we had a ton of fun playing games together as a family.  I'm so glad that I married into the Campbell family.  I didn't have a close family at all so it's kind of a different experience for me.  My sister and I didn't really become close until she moved here last year and I am still so thankful that that whole situation played out like it did, because it's nice to have a sister to call just to talk to now. 

We ended up eating at 6:30 and we had hamburgers and chips and beans and veggies with ranch dip.  Because I was only 1.5 hours away from my 48th hour off my last dose of drops, I decided to eat a hamburger and veggies/ranch.  I used two pieces of low-carb bread as a hamburger bun and after I ate it I was full for the rest of the night.  REALLY full.  I was so scared to get on the scale this morning and really regretted it, but I got on the scale and had lost another .8 lbs.  I'm a little confused because I was SO FULL.  Regardless, it worked out alright and I just had my first cup of coffee in a while (I quit drinking it in the mornings because I thought I'd throw up if I had to have one more cup with a measly T of fat free milk and some stevia in it...YUCK) with some sugar-free creamer and it was heaven.  I'm about to get up and make some of that chocolate in a minute after I find wherever it was that Erica posted her recipe.  I'm excited to be here in p3 now but will be a bit bummed to not be losing weight for awhile. 

I just wanted to tell Erica again how grateful I am for all her support.  She lets me call and whine to her when I can hear a chicken sandwich from McDonalds just calling my name.  She has answered every one of my questions and been such an amazing encouragement and support during phase 2.  Erica, I truly appreciate how you've helped me.  This diet is HARD but so worth it and I probably wouldn't have stuck with it had I not known that I had you "here" with me every step of the way. 

VLCD Day 21

Yup, you read that right...day 21!  Tomorrow is the magical day where I get to eat FOOD again!  I've noticed that a lot of the candy commercials aren't really phasing me anymore, but if I turn on food network it's the savory stuff that gets me.  Everything I look at makes me salivate!  I've been working on how to modify some of my favorite meals so that I can eat "normal" food as much as possible.  I'm going to find Miracle Noodles at Whole Foods if possible. Last time I asked for them, they said they didn't carry them.  I found out later that Miracle Noodles is the brand name, and that the noodles are called shirataki noodles, so I'm going to ask for those today when I go to hunt down some unrefined cold pressed coconut oil.  Hopefully they'll have them.  I'm going to make that chocolate today so that it's ready for tomorrow, and I'll be picking up Ezekiel bread because I'm having a turkey sandwich tomorrow for lunch.  Oh man, turkey sandwich.  It sounds so good!  Ooh, and salad with ranch on it.  Real ranch dressing!  And a Denver omelette.  Oh man, this is so exciting!  So exciting that I forgot to mention that I lost another .6 lbs today.  I'm sure a lot of that had to do with TOM but that's fine.  I weight 167 now and I'm good with that weight (or right around it) for the next two weeks.  It'll actually give me time to get used to being smaller.  This morning I was able to put on a pair of workout pants that Aaron bought me a long time ago but I never wore because they were too tight on my legs and now they're not!

VLCD Day 20

I lost another .6 lbs this morning which is cool.  Yesterday was my last day of drops, which means my weight yesterday (168.8) was my final weight to be counted for Phase 2.  I think I lost so much weight yesterday because I woke up this morning and TOM had arrived.  I wish I was more regular because it just shows up whenever it wants to and always catches me off guard.  I'm so ready for this 3 day weekend.  I will probably have to go to work for a bit on Saturday to scan stuff (we're getting ready to move offices in a week or two, and we're trying to get everything scanned before we move so we don't have to move all of our paper files with us because the new office is smaller).  After that I will go get Michael and Aujane who I haven't seen since June and who I miss a TON and they'll spend the rest of the 3 day weekend with us.  I'm looking forward to making french toast or eggs and bacon on Sunday morning.  It's amazing how good french toast sounded two weeks ago, and now all the sudden it sounds only okay.  I've got our Labor Day BBQ planned already.  We'll have hamburgers (mine without a bun), deviled eggs, and veggies and ranch.  All things I can eat on P3 and all things that sound pretty delicious!

VLCD Day 19

Well today is my last day of drops.  I think that means that my weight tomorrow is my official LDW, right Erica?  I'm looking forward to Sunday but I'm nervous about tomorrow and Saturday and feeling really hungry.  I hope that it's not too bad.  I got nuthin' else to say.

VLCD Day 18

The scale didn't budge an ounce this morning, but I'm totally cool with that.  I'm sure it has something to do with TOM almost being here (although I'm so danged irregular that it's really hard to know for sure) and the fact that I haven't needed to use the bathroom for the last two days (did I just say that out loud?  For shame!).  Heck, ever since I hit 15.6 lbs yesterday, I feel like I'd be okay if I didn't lose any more weight at all.  It's such a small amount of weight to be excited over but it made such a huge difference. 

Happy September everybody!