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!