8/19/10 - 28 days post HCG phase 2

08/19/10 - 28 days post HCG phase 2


Day 1 weight 6/13/10: 184.8
Last dose weight 7/20/10: 159.2
Today's weight: 161.2

Last Saturday, 8/14 we attended a wedding. I had planned to eat conservatively and it went pretty well until the cake was served. Instead of a traditional wedding cake, they served each table a selection of individual 3x3 cakes with 1/2 inch of frosting all around decorated in Snicker, Oreo, Andes' Mint, Turtle, Cheesecake, Death by Chocolate, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and one more I cannot remember. How evil. My plan was to eat 1/2 of one piece but I ended up eating two pieces. Then just as we were preparing to leave they brought in pizza. And I don't usually give in to carbs like that but my "NO" button was broken.

Sunday I was up to 167. We were travelling home and I did not have a very clean day on Sunday either. Monday was 165.8lbs. So on Monday I did a steak day. Tuesday I was very disappointed that I had not 'recovered' and was still at 165. Now what??

Then I called my sis (my rock and resource). She said to do protein rotation days, steak day, egg day, chicken day, steak day . . . as needed until I was back in range. So Tuesday I did and egg day - 4 for breakfast, 4 for lunch, 6 for dinner and 2 later in the evening, plus a can of water packed tuna with 1tbsp mayo at lunchtime to break things up.

It helped . . . alot. Wednesday I was at 162.2 - 3lbs over LDW and one pound away from my 'maintenance range'. So I decided to do a clean P3 day on Wednesday. I had eggs/coffee for breakfast, a big salad with lots of protein and ranch dressing for lunch, and then tilapia, chicken, cauliflower and milk for dinner. After dinner I made individual sugar free pudding parfaits for everyone thinking they would be a low carb tasty snack. They were tasty but I ended up eating 43grams of carbs right before bed - over 1/3 of my total for the day. I thought for sure I would be even or up today.

Miracle of miracles - 161.2 today!!! So today I get to eat on my "LIFE" plan. Ezekiel bread, eggs, coffee for breakfast - a big salad with protein for lunch - and a balanced dinner. Now that I am officially past my 3 weeks of phase 3 I will try to eat on the "LIFE" plan to drop a few more pounds before the half marathon in mid-September.

The exercising is still going well. Still running 3 days a week and have weight training in sight. Have to skip this week since I have my 4 kids and 3 of my sisters - no way to get to the gym with 7 kids!!

Also - I am reading "The Perfect Body Diet" by Cassandra Forsythe. I am only 85 pages in but am really agreeing with what I am reading so far about eating a good balance of healthy carbs, fats, proteins. The book also discusses exercise and weight training but I haven't gotten that far yet. I hope to make this book my diet and exercise "bible".
See ya soon!