Almost to a New Decade

150.2

So, So close. My last day of VLC and last no dose day. Tomorrow I start P3 --- bittersweet for sure. I really wanted to reach that new decade of the 140's and tomorrow may be the day, however knowing my body I will gain to stabilize. I did last time about 3 pounds above my last dosage weight (LDW). But I did stabilize which is what is important. I look forward to eating mixed vegetables, cheese, good fats and adding more protein, but I will miss the losses each morning as I walk to the scale.

I did have to go shopping for clothes this past week. Those of you who know me, know that is not a favorite thing of mine! I had to as all of my clothes were falling off of me and I really did not have much to wear in my closet. I have gone down a size and 1/2 depending what clothes I measured by in the closet. It does feel good to be down and I do have a fear of returning to that size now that I am no longer dosing and doing very low calories. But in about 8 weeks, I will return to lose the rest of the weight and hopefully get into a comfortable 8/10 size. That is my goal --- not necessarly the numbers on the scale. The numbers are just an indicator of how I am doing on a daily basis.

Finally!!!

150.4

Dropped .6 since yesterday morning.....Finally! I had been stuck at 151/151.2 for days! No reason that I can think of, just my body re-adjusting I guess.

Today is a non dose day....seems weird since I have developed a "habit" of taking it first thing in the morning. Just two days of VCL and then I can have a mixed salad with ranch dressing :)

I hope the stabilizing goes better than last time.....but I do realize that you have to be on the stabilize protocol for 21 days for a reason....to STABILIZE and it may just take that long.

Can't Get Past 151

I hit 151 and just cannot get the scale to move past it. I am very dissapointed that I won't make the 140's by the end of this round. Oh well, 18 pounds and I am happy. Today is my last dosing day on this round. Two days of VLC and then onto P3 where I can have yummy foods, just no starches, sugars or legumes. Who knows -- maybe by Friday I will hit the 149.8 and make it a solid 20 pounds! :)

Bummer-- Stalled again

I have two dosing days left and I had hoped to be in the 140's....don't think it will happen. The good news is that I have gone from the catagorey of being obese to being overweight and I am only 3 points from being in the healthy catagorey. That will happen in the next round for sure!! Just have to get through the holidays eating cleanly and splurging only on the special occassions. And then not big splurges.

New Week

169.8......151

We have had a very busy weekend. No posting and really not much to say but that I just keep going down. I had been going down .4 everyday until this morning. I didn't expect it just because of the craziness of yesterday. I wasn't able to get my drops in at the right time in the afternoon and came home to a house full of people from my small group. I didn't have the chance to eat correctly -- so I ate the non-carb foods available which was not on protocal. Still was down .2 this morning and I will happily take that!!

Today is suppose to be a non dosing day....I have decided to extend this round until Friday. My non dosing days will start on Thursday. I just want to get into the 140's before ending this round and I an sooooo close to it. I hope that I will be 148 before Friday......LOTS of water today!! :-)

Down again

169.8......152.2

I may have to extend this round as I am doing so well. I may just wait and see if I make it into the 140's before stopping. I really think the timing of the drops are making a huge difference!

I think I know why I have never liked fish....I have been eating the wrong fish....Grilled some Chilean Seabass with lemon and dill......AWESOME!! I could eat that every night except for the fact it is a little on the expensive side. Kinda of like eating beef tenderloin from H&H.

Still Going Down

169.8......152.8 (-17)

Yesterday was a great day but not such a great food day. However I was still down .4. I actually have started taking the drops right before going to bed. I'm taking them first thing in the morning, around 2 in the afternoon and then right before going to bed. It seems to work better than just before meals which is what I did last round. That is the ONLY thing that I have done differently on this round and the results are much better.

6 days to go

169.8......153.2

Pounds not coming off as fast, but still happy with the results. Yesterday was a difficult day time wise. I had to leave for Bible study at 3:45 so I basically only had one meal yesterday. I had lunch and then had to cheat with a few bites of cheese at the Bible study. Oh well, it's my life!! Still was down today, so I can't complain.....hoping to see a new decade before this round ends.

Coming into the Home Stretch

169.8.....153.6

Down to the home stretch....7 days to go and I had to reorder drops today. I don't have enough to last for that long. I am thrilled with the results of this round. So far in this round I have lost 11.6 lbs. and still have time to lose a little more. I realize that since I am coming close to the end, losing becomes slower. 16.2 lbs in two rounds --- I'm very happy.

I will do P3 until the holidays are over and then begin again in January to finish the loss. Hopefully I will stabilize during the holidays, reload and then finish off the last few pounds before spring.

Not a good day

169.8......156.6

This has been a terrible week (it could be worse, I know). Allergies, knee issues that cannot be resolved until I have been on Advil for two weeks and due to being careful with the knee, my back began to hurt yesterday and I ended up at the Chiropractor. So last night my precious husband just wanted to take me out....I had no resolve left in me, so we went to the Brazilian Steak house here in The Woodlands. I thought it was awesome, especially since it is P3 friendly and I didn't have any carbs to tempt me. However, this morning it hit me hard. Upset stomach and I was up 1.5 lbs. So not worth it. Also, their meats were more on the greasy side than I anticipated which is not good for a stomach that has had little or no oil for two weeks.

So taking it easy today with lots of water and rest.

Half Done with Round 2

169.8........155.2

Down more than usual at this point in protocal. YEAH! 11 Days to go and then I get more variety in my daily meals.....light at the end of the tunnel!

Day 11

169.8.........156

I guess today is considered halfway through the round. I am ready for it to be over, but not ready to stop losing the weight.

Down .4 again today.

Knee is still hurting and the Dr. prescribed a heavy Advil pill to take WITH FOOD. Since it is just once a day, I will take it with my lunch and be done with it.

Off Subject Today

169.8......156.4

I've had and interesting week to say the least. I somehow have hurt my knee which is making it difficult to walk. So I made an appointment to visit the orthopedic Dr. in my area (so I thought).

I got to the Dr.'s office at the time requested to fill out all of the paperwork which was a minimum of 10 pages only to find out that my appointment was elsewhere. When making the appointment, no one once asked me where in the Houston area did I live.

"Excactly where am I suppose to be? .....I thought my appointment was at this facility"

" No, but let me look it up for you......I'm sorry the Dr. that they booked you with is in Katy, TX." An hour away!!

Fortunately, this is a really good clinic and somehow worked me in to see the orthopedic Dr. He made a diagnosis that my meniscule needs to be looked at by way of MRI and quickly handed me over the the tech to make the appointment. Wonderful!!, let's get this pain removed as quickly as possible.....sounds so good and maybe would have been the senerio 5 years ago. I received a phone call from the Drs. office this morning and they had to cancel my appt. because my insurance company feels that I should be on Advil for a minimum of 2 weeks and then a follow up with the Dr. before they will approve my MRI. I guess this is what we have to look forward to with the new "health care" that is in our future. It will be up to someone else to determine your physical welfare who has not even seen you or knows the pain that you are in to determine if you can have the nesessary procedures your DOCTOR asks for you. Live with the pain for a minimum of 2 weeks on the "approved" list of OTC meds that we, the insurance co., requires of you and then maybe we will approve your MRI or maybe will just send you to therapy regardless of the pain.

To this I say "THANK YOU, reid, pelosi and obama". This is the hope and change the American people asked for!!?? You passed the bill and now we get to "see what is in it"......It STINKS!!!!

Day 9

169.8......156.8 (-13)

Finally.....a release!! Down .4 today after stalling for 3 days!! Staying the course even though I had a big slip up Sunday night eating cornbread and my homemade chili that has ranch style beans in it with our small group. I haven't seen the results of it and hopefully won't. Bodies are so finiky when trying to lose weight, that I wouldn't be surprised at anything at this moment!!

Planning on -

Biz's shake for lunch and

Shrimp for dinner with asparagus

Day 7

169.8.......157.2

Stalled...

Looking back at my journaling, it was this same time in protocal that I stalled in Rd 1. I guess it's normal, at least for me, to stall while my body adjusts to the new diet. Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully I will see a release.

Lunch

Grilled chicken breast with dressing-less salad from Cafe Express

1/2 apple

grissini

A Very, Very bad evening food wise.

Small group here at my house -- made chili and ending up eating it plus a small piece of cornbread (someone brought it and I was polite) : - (

Also, all of my doses have been at different times....I dread tomorrow looking at the scale, but it will be all clean from now on. Why is the second round harder to keep to protocal? I think because I tasted what life could be like, and hate to be disciplined when it comes to food invading my life with LIFE!!

Day 6 R2

169.8.......157.2

I again was suprised by a nice loss overnight. Down .8 Happy the weight is coming off, but I do miss P3 very much!! Only 17 more days until I can have a mixed salad and creamy dressing.....ok, thinking way too much of the ranch dressing that I enjoyed sooo much on P3. :-)

Lunch -

ground chicken

spinach

1/2 apple

grissini

Dinner

Mahi Mahi grilled with lemon and rosemary

cucumbers

grissini

strawberry slushie

I feel like I have cheated....I did a taste test of the chili I am making for our small group tomorrow night. Maybe just a tablespoon to make sure the spices were correct but still not on protocal. :(

Day 5 of R2P2

169.8........158!!

What a surprise....I was down 1.2 lbs. this morning! I really thought from yesterday that I was going to slow down and just have the .4/.6./.2 loss like the last round, but something is working differently this round and I don't understand it. That is just fine! I will take the big losses anytime and try not to get discouraged when they are small!

I was a little hungry yesterday and woke up hungry this morning. I will be happy when 11 o'clock gets here to take my drops and then get busy fixing my lunch!!

Lunch-

Grilled chicken and dressing-less salad at Cafe Express

Dinner

Steak

asparagus

strawberries

Day 4 of R2P2

Ok, I guess the big releases are over :( I had a loss of .4 today coming down to 159.2.....it's going to come I'm sure, but I did like seeing the weight going down fast!!

R2P2 Day3

169.8.........159.8

I woke up to another BIG release (at least for me) of 2.4 lbs! This round so far is much better than last round. So I am back to 10 lbs. even in total loss. I wasn't expecting that until the end of the week, so I will be happy to see what the rest of the week holds!

Lunch-

Grissini

Mexican Soup

2 T. milk with pumpkin spice coffee

Dinner-

100 grams chicken

100 grams spinach with Franks

1/2 apple

grisinni

R2P2 Day 2

I woke up to a 3 lb. loss!! Totally needed it since I had a 5 lb. gain during loading. I started R1 at 169.8 and after 2 weeks of P3 and two loading days, I was up to 165.2 Down today to 162.2....Should be back to the 150's by the end of the week. It feels so good to lose again and not be worried IF I will lose.

Lunch -

100 grams ground beef

cucumber

1/2 apple

grisinni

Dinner-

100 grams ground chicken breast

spinach cooked with Franks

strawberries

grissini

R2P2 Day 1

I certainly was not happy with the added weight from loading over the weekend. Back up to 165 after being down last Thursday at 159. Oh well, I feel that it is mostly water weight as my clothes still fit nicely and I'm sure after drinking 8-9 venti cups of water today will take care of it by Wednesday.

I can't say that I am mentally prepared for being back on P2, but I just need to remind myself that it is for a short (LOL) 21 days!! And I will be so happy with the results 21 days from now -- totally expecting to be down a couple of sizes and hopefully will not have to do another round.

Lunch-

100 grams lean ground beef

1 tomato

5 strawberries with chocolate stevia

1 grisinni

Missing food, but not really hungry!

Dinner -

100 grams of chicken with Frank's

cucumber

1/2 apple

grisinni

Lots of water!!

I'M Back...

After two weeks of a break, I am returning to the protocal to lose hopefully the last 10+ lbs. I had a hard time stabilizing, but once I did I was fine. It was that it was 2.5 lbs above LDW instead of the recommended 2. I'm okay with it and now have an understanding of stabilizing...the first few days are scarey to say the least as you see the scale rise for the first few days and then your body finds the calories/weight to settle into and you are fine.

Not really excited to go back to the hum-drum foods for the next 21 days, but I know that I will love the results!

So today and tomorrow will be my loading days....then back to 500 or less for the next full 21 days!!!

I'll be posting to give me some accountability and reassurance of watching my foods and the weight going in the right direction.