Phase 3 Day 1!

Height: 5'9"
Weight:
Dec 16 __ 174.8 __ Pre-Load Weight (Load)
Dec 17 __ 176.0 __ (Load)
Dec 18 __ 179.8 __ Post-Load Start Weight (start VLCD)
Dec 19 __ 175.2 __ (-4.6) yes!
Dec 20 __ 172.4 __ (-2.8)
Dec 21 __ 170.0 __ (-2.4)
Dec 22 __ 168.0 __ (-2.0)
Dec 23 __ 167.0 __ (-1.0) I CHEATED big time this day
Dec 24 __ 167.0 __ No Gain!! Whew!! :D
Dec 25 __ 165.8 __ (-1.2) Merry Christmas to me! hehe
Dec 26 __ 165.8 __ (-0.0)
Dec 27 __ 164.6 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 28 __ 163.4 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 29 __ 163.2 __ (-0.2) (TOM)
Dec 30 __ 163.4 __ (+0.2)
Dec 31 __ 162.2 __ (-1.2) Cheehoo! Broke the plateau!
Jan 01 __ 162.6 __ (+0.4)
Jan 02 __ 161.8 __ (-0.8)
Jan 03 __ 161.8 __ (-0.0)
Jan 04 __ 161.2 __ (-0.6)
Jan 05 __ 160.8 __ (-0.4)
Jan 06 __ 160.4 __ (-0.4) fasting/ate one apple
Jan 07 __ 159.0 __ (-1.4)
Jan 08 __ 159.8 __ (+0.8) What??? I even skipped dinner last night :(
Jan 09 __ 158.4 __ (-1.4) cheehoo!!
Jan 10 __ 158.6 __ (+0.2) oiaue~
Jan 11 __ ????? __ didn't have a scale this day
Jan 12 __ 156.4 __ (-2.2) (in 2 days)
Jan 13 __ 157.4 __ (+1.0) what the heck... maybe cuz i ate 2 oranges
Jan 14 __ 156.0 __ (-1.4) back on track
Jan 15 __ 156.4 __ (+0.4) :(
Jan 16 __ 156.0 __ (-0.4)
Jan 17 __ ????? __ no scale
Jan 18 __ 156.0 __
Jan 19 __ 155.2 __ (-0.8) yay a little extra last minute loss! ^.^
Jan 20 __ 155.0 __ (-0.2) MY LIW!

Jan 21 __ 155.2 __
Jan 22 __ 155.6 __

PHASE 3
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Jan 23 __ 155.4 __

Total Loss: 24.9 lbs
Loss per day Average: 0.75 lbs ~~ Not Bad! ~~

Here we go! Phase 3!! :D Cheehoo! My LIW was 155.0, so that means during phase 3 I should stay between 153 and 157. Hopefully I won't have to do any steak days but if I do, at least there is such a thing as steak days to fix it! :) Today was my first day off the VLCD, and I was excited about it! For breakfast I cooked myself an omelette with cheese, chicken, tomatoes and onion. It was good!! For lunch I had some tuna with a little bit of cheese on miracle noodles (that may sound weird but Ashley and I always used to eat tuna and cheese on rice, so I cut up the noodles to sub as rice). I also had some strawberries this morning and an orange this afternoon. I know I should be careful with the fruits. If I have a gain tomorrow, the first thing I will change will be to try having only 1 fruit a day. I want to make sure I'm eating 1500 calories a day so that my hypothalmus doesn't reset my body to want just 1000 a day, which is some advice I read on one of the online forums. I feel so full though. I had breakfast at 9am, strawberries at about 12, I didn't want lunch until about 3:30 but then I had the tuna mix and an orange together, and now it's 5:15pm and I'm still feel really full (probably some thanks to the miracle noodles). I'm not sure if I got enough protein today. And I have no idea how many calories I ate today either. I don't want to eat too much since I feel so full, but I think the lunch I just ate was about 400 cals total... I doubt my omelette was more than 600 cals, so I'm probably still under 1000 but I really don't know. I should become more educated on how many calories different foods have in general so I don't have to look it up every time I eat (because I won't). Maybe tonight I'll scramble another egg and have it with some organic salsa or something, to make sure I'm getting enough protein. I've heard that enough protein and water, and low sweet fruits, are the keys to an easy phase 3. I was even thinking about getting a protein powder supplement. I'll see how it goes, and how difficult it seems for me to get enough on my own.

I was so excited to use CONDITIONER and HAIR CREAM and LOTION this morning!!! hehe... made my day. I have gone without them for nearly 6 weeks! It's good to know the hcg is out of my system and I can use them again!! Woo hoo!

Life is good. I'm SO GLAD I DID THIS PROTOCOL. I feel great about myself, started the new year RIGHT, and since I feel good in general I feel better about all aspects of life. I'm taking more initiative in my life and I'm HAPPY! :D I even met someone and am in a new relationship, and he's AMAZING and it could turn out to be a life-long thing! :D Wow thank you Dr. Simeons!

Day 28 VLCD - Total Loss: 23.8 lbs

Height: 5'9"
Weight:
Dec 16 __ 174.8 __ Pre-Load Weight (Load)
Dec 17 __ 176.0 __ (Load)
Dec 18 __ 179.8 __ Post-Load Start Weight (start VLCD)
Dec 19 __ 175.2 __ (-4.6) yes!
Dec 20 __ 172.4 __ (-2.8)
Dec 21 __ 170.0 __ (-2.4)
Dec 22 __ 168.0 __ (-2.0)
Dec 23 __ 167.0 __ (-1.0) I CHEATED big time this day
Dec 24 __ 167.0 __ No Gain!! Whew!! :D
Dec 25 __ 165.8 __ (-1.2) Merry Christmas to me! hehe
Dec 26 __ 165.8 __ (-0.0)
Dec 27 __ 164.6 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 28 __ 163.4 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 29 __ 163.2 __ (-0.2) (TOM)
Dec 30 __ 163.4 __ (+0.2)
Dec 31 __ 162.2 __ (-1.2) Cheehoo! Broke the plateau!
Jan 01 __ 162.6 __ (+0.4)
Jan 02 __ 161.8 __ (-0.8)
Jan 03 __ 161.8 __ (-0.0)
Jan 04 __ 161.2 __ (-0.6)
Jan 05 __ 160.8 __ (-0.4)
Jan 06 __ 160.4 __ (-0.4) fasting/ate one apple
Jan 07 __ 159.0 __ (-1.4)
Jan 08 __ 159.8 __ (+0.8) What??? I even skipped dinner last night :(
Jan 09 __ 158.4 __ (-1.4) cheehoo!!
Jan 10 __ 158.6 __ (+0.2) oiaue~
Jan 11 __ ????? __ didn't have a scale this day
Jan 12 __ 156.4 __ (-2.2) (in 2 days)
Jan 13 __ 157.4 __ (+1.0) what the heck... maybe cuz i ate 2 oranges
Jan 14 __ 156.0 __ (-1.4) back on track

Total Loss So Far: 23.8 lbs
Loss per day Average: 0.88 lbs

Well things have slowed down a lot recently but I'm sill on a gradual downhill so that's alright. I've got six more injection days to go! My ultimate goal weight is 145, and my goal for this P2 was 150... I have six pounds left for that, and six days to go, but my loss per day average hasn't been a whole pound for a couple weeks now... but who knows, miracles happen! ^.^ I'm going to try to make the most of this last week. Also, a week or so I started eating oranges as my fruit and found that it was not so good for my weight loss, especially on a day when I ate oranges for both of my daily fruits. I think that was Jan 7, and as you can see I was up 0.8 the next day. So I'm going to stick to apples and strawberries the rest of P2. Another thing, I finally received my miracle noodles that I ordered online! It took longer than it should have to get them because my post office somehow misplaced it within the mail room and then finally found it two weeks later and called me in... oish... but I've had them a few times now and they're pretty good. I find that when I eat my lunch with the miracle noodles I don't even want dinner that day because I stay full for a long time. I usually just have my second fruit in the late afternoon or evening, as long as it's at least three hours before I go to bed. I would recommend the noodles to anyone who has a hard time with the boring P2 diet! So far I haven't really done anything interesting with them... The first time I just ate them with some beef, nothing special, then I had lettuce wraps with the noodles and chicken (that was good), and once I had them with beef again but I cut them up into smaller pieces so it wasn't like eating such big, long noodles. (They are really long.) Maybe I'll look up someone's recipes for them someday and try them out! Like spaghetti and meatballs or pasta primavera~ I've seen recipes for both of those out there! Yumm...:D One more week of P2 to go!!

Day 21 VLCD - Total Loss: 20.8 lbs

Height: 5'9"
Weight:
Dec 16 __ 174.8 __ Pre-Load Weight (Load)
Dec 17 __ 176.0 __ (Load)
Dec 18 __ 179.8 __ Post-Load Start Weight (start VLCD)
Dec 19 __ 175.2 __ (-4.6) yes!
Dec 20 __ 172.4 __ (-2.8)
Dec 21 __ 170.0 __ (-2.4)
Dec 22 __ 168.0 __ (-2.0)
Dec 23 __ 167.0 __ (-1.0) I CHEATED big time this day
Dec 24 __ 167.0 __ No Gain!! Whew!! :D
Dec 25 __ 165.8 __ (-1.2) Merry Christmas to me! hehe
Dec 26 __ 165.8 __ (-0.0)
Dec 27 __ 164.6 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 28 __ 163.4 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 29 __ 163.2 __ (-0.2) (TOM)
Dec 30 __ 163.4 __ (+0.2)
Dec 31 __ 162.2 __ (-1.2) Cheehoo! Broke the plateau!
Jan 01 __ 162.6 __ (+0.4)
Jan 02 __ 161.8 __ (-0.8)
Jan 03 __ 161.8 __ (-0.0)
Jan 04 __ 161.2 __ (-0.6)
Jan 05 __ 160.8 __ (-0.4)
Jan 06 __ 160.4 __ (-0.4) fasting/ate one apple
Jan 07 __ 159.0 __ (-1.4)

Total Loss So Far: 20.8 lbs
Loss per day Average: 1.04 lbs

I had a good big loss today which was nice! :D And I broke the 160 milestone! Cheehoo! I haven't been in the 150's since high school. My weight loss per day average has been dropping but it's still over 1 lb per day, so I'm okay with that! I just hope it doesn't continue to drop! I have 13 more days of injections left. My ultimate goal weight is still 14 lbs away but I feel great already so whatever I can get out of these next two weeks will be great by me, and I'll try to take off the last few pounds on my own during either phase 3 or 4. More and more people are noticing my weight loss. I'm glad I started this at the end of the semester and got the bulk of it done during the break, so now that people are coming back, it's been a few weeks since they've seen me and the loss looks more noticeable! I went to a school dance this past Friday wearing a somewhat form-fitting shirt and a girl friend of mine that I haven't seen in a while just looked at me when she saw me and said, "Dang girl! Look at you! You're skinny!" haha... :D Cheehoo! Well I guess that's all for me now. Hunger is back down to almost none again so that's good. I think TOM really just throws a wrench in things for a while. But now it's back to normal! I love this protocol! Thank you HCG and Dr. Simeon!!

Day 18 VLCD - Total Loss: 18.6 lbs

Height: 5'9"
Weight:
Dec 16 __ 174.8 __ Pre-Load Weight (Load)
Dec 17 __ 176.0 __ (Load)
Dec 18 __ 179.8 __ Post-Load Start Weight (start VLCD)
Dec 19 __ 175.2 __ (-4.6) yes!
Dec 20 __ 172.4 __ (-2.8)
Dec 21 __ 170.0 __ (-2.4)
Dec 22 __ 168.0 __ (-2.0)
Dec 23 __ 167.0 __ (-1.0) I CHEATED big time this day
Dec 24 __ 167.0 __ No Gain!! Whew!! :D
Dec 25 __ 165.8 __ (-1.2) Merry Christmas to me! hehe
Dec 26 __ 165.8 __ (-0.0)
Dec 27 __ 164.6 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 28 __ 163.4 __ (-1.2) (TOM)
Dec 29 __ 163.2 __ (-0.2) (TOM)
Dec 30 __ 163.4 __ (+0.2)
Dec 31 __ 162.2 __ (-1.2) Cheehoo! Broke the plateau!
Jan 01 __ 162.6 __ (+0.4)
Jan 02 __ 161.8 __ (-0.8)
Jan 03 __ 161.8 __ (-0.0)
Jan 04 __ 161.2 __ (-0.6)

Total Loss So Far: 18.6 lbs
Loss per day Average: 1.09 lbs

I've been having a harder time losing lately. My progress has slowed down a lot. I've only lost a pound in the last four days. I would do an apple day but every couple days I have a little loss, like today I lost 0.6. But with a couple small gains it brings my loss average down... So I'm not sure if that's a situation for an apple day or not because it's not a typical, no-loss/no-gain plateau... If I still have trouble in the next couple days I will try an apple day. I have about 2 1/2 weeks left on Phase 2, so hopefully I'll be able to lose another 10-15 pounds like I want to! I feel really good now though so even if I was done here, I would be happy with the results. Another 10-15 pounds would just top it all off. :) Yesterday a good friend of mine that I haven't seen in a couple weeks saw me and nearly stopped in his tracks and asked if I've been working out... I told him no, I haven't, and just smiled. He looked confused and said, "You've lost weight! You look good, Sam. Seriously." That made me feel good. My clothes fit better and I feel and look better. January 20 will be my last day of injections and by then I will be a knock out! haha... Here we go~ 16 days left!