P3 Day 1

P3 DAY:1

LIW : 164.4

Date of LIW: 12/22/08

Today' weight: 163.8

# above/below LIW: -.6

# gain/loss from yesterday:+.4

Here we go. I am really concerned about all the counting. I know that I can get the low carb but to get 1684 cals 60% fat 25% Protein and 15% Carb. That takes alot of work. We'll see.

Day 47 and 48

Lost -.2
Lost -.6
Total Lost 30.5

-.8 from LIW I hope I get more wiggle room tomorrow.

I am making a TON of preparation for tomorrow. I have made several kinds of SF candies. I am cooking SF pumpkin cheesecake today.

Menu for tomorrow
Turkey
Waldorf Salad
SF Mashed Sweet potatoes
Special GB Casserole
Cauliflower Au gratin

Dessert-
SF Pumpkin Cheesecake

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

Day 46 LIW

Lost .-06

Total Lost round one 29.7 Close but NOT 30!

So I lost "about 30". It is just a number . It is interesting how important numbers become to us. Our age...our weight... our tempersture.. our BP...our income they are all numbers. That is why I decided that I was not going to let the number 30 OWN me. So today is my last LIW even though I didn't reach 30. So next round I will reach the 30 and the 40 and maybe even 50 so there!

So on witht he show!

Day 44 and 45

Day 44 = 0
Day 45 = -6

Total loss 29.1

It looks like I may not make it to 30. We'll see I still need to BM. Maybe that will push me over. MY water % keeps rising! 49.2%. I hope that is because all the little fat cells are being replaced with water and that was is yet to be released!

Tomorrow is the deciding day if that will be the LIW or not. I want so badly to be on the low carb for Christmas. I even began to buy some things I could eat and recepits that I want to try. It I don't hit 30 I may just tell people that I lost close to 30. I know people will ask when I go home.

The funny thing is many people on the forum have said how much inches they lost. Well I really don't think I have lost very many. I may have only changed one size. I do carry all my weight in my hips and thighs.

I measure tomorrow.

Day 41,41,43

Day 41 -1.2
Day 42 +.6
Day 43 -.4

Total Loss 28.5

Things are finally settling down. Tom got the staples out yesterday. We discussed his digestion problems with the Dr. and we have a plan. I missed my luch yesterday and stopped at the grocery at about 3 and got an apple and some celery.

Yesterday was supposed to be a non injection day but I took the injection any way.

I am REALLY wanting to hit the 30 lb mark before the end of this round. My original plan was to take the last injection on the 21st. I would be on Phase 3 for Christmas and could try out some cool reciepts.

OR..... I could take the last injecton on the 23rd wold be on VLCD on Christmas and would make me on phase 3 the day we leave for Ohio on the 27th. We will be there 3 weeks. I cannot decide what to do.

Day 40

Lost -.2
Total lost 27.5

My water percent is up to 48.8. WOW if I could shed some of the water weight that would be great.

Day 39

Lost -0.8 water % 48.7 up .6 Fat % 39.2 down .6
Total lost -27.3

Well some how my days are messed up again. Today is day 39 on the weigh in sheet.
I'm hoping for another loss tomorrow.

Day 38

Loss -2.2
Total Loss= 26.5

WOW Check that out....
Here are some things that I have discovered.
1. I can eat eggs - 4 whites and 1 yoke
2. SQ injections work as well or better than IM
3. The lower 140IU works better then the 185 IU that the dr had me on.
4. I can eat Albacore Tuna packed in water
5. I can eat fruit and my grissini

My water % is still up 48.1% was 47.5%

My fat % is down from yesterday 39.8% was 40.1% the day before and 40.5% before that.

I hope it keeps moving . My stats show that I lose than I have a fat goose egg for a few days. I am hoping that the change in the amount of hCG and the place of injections will kick me off to daily losses. I like daily losses even if they are small.

Day 33-37

Total Net Loss -.8
Total loss 24.3

This week has been very tuff and stress full. DH has had several rough nights! We are in the process of seeing what he can eat. Things were getting better yeaterday was his best day. Then last night he was up again in the middle of the night. (3:30) I feel hopeless when there is nothing I can do to help him. He was having indigestion. He was us again early.

I see that others are losing consistantly and I am not.

I did switch to SQ at 140 IU. The Dr had me on 185 IU IM. I am ging to try it for one week to see if it helps.

Day 32

Loss -1.2
Total -23.4

Today I finally had a loss!! Cool. The odd thing is for the last few days the keto stick have shown. Light and not the moderate that they have been showing. I have done the cranberry drink for the last 3 days maybe that is why the ketosis sticks have changed.

Tom is coming home from the hospital today. Yeh! PTL!

Day 30 and Day 31

Day 30 Loss -0
Day 31 Loss -.2

Total Loss 22.2

Hi things are much better for me. My husband is doing much better. We are hoping he can get home tomorrow or the next day.

It is hard is keeping up on the cooking and cleaning and staying with my husband at the hospital from 8 or 9 am to 8 pm.

Hope I will loose more tomorrow, I have been on a stall for 4 days.

Day 28 and 29

Loss both days = Loss 0
Total loss - 22 lbs.

The good news is that I didn't GAIN! So much stress. I took lunch to the hospital each day but not supper. That was a problem. On day 28 I didn't eat supper. It was 11:00 PM by the time I got home from the hospital. Last night I did eat but it was at 9:30 to 10. TOO LATE TO EAT, but I didn't want to go another day without supper.

Today I brought food for BOTH lunch and supper.

DH update- He is better yesterday. The path results came back. They will NOT need to do Chemo! We Praise the Lord for his answers to our prayers.

Day 26 and Day 27

Day 26
Loss +.2
Day 27 -1

Total lost 22.0 pounds

Well, Tom is in SICU. Yesterday I was in the hospital from 6:00 Am until 8:00 Pm ( when they kicked me out)

Today I got in at 8:00 Am or so and I will leave Tom when they kick me out.
Today was stressful , Tom has been combative and one time even pulled out his tubes. It will be interesting what tomorrow brings on the scale. I brought my food to the hospital.

It will be interesting if tomorrow brings a weight gain.

Day 25

Lost 0
Total lost: 21.3

You know one thing that was really interesting . My water % and the fat % was exactly the same. Well tomorrow my hubby goes in for a colon surgery for cancer. I am lifting him up and trusting God for a speedy recovery.

The stress could make my weight out of control. I will be taking my prepared lunch and supper. I will stay on the protocol. More tomorrow.

Day 22 and 23 and 24

Lost - 3
Total lost 21.3

Let me explain the above. I got a new scale the old scale shows -1.2 for the 2 days and the new one shows 3 pounds . Since I am switching to the new scale.... I have change the loss to match. The new scale shows % of fat and % of water. I want to watch those when I am not losing pounds to see if those change.

I also made a mistake in the numbering on the blog I have two day 12's. So this will catch me up. Now on with the show.

OMG my FAT % is 41.2 !!! Water is 47.2 that is correct for my age.

Day 20 and 21

Day 20 lost -.2
Day 21 lost -.5 Thanksgiving
Total 18.3

Again one more week with slow losses.
Week 1 - 11.9
Week 2 - 3.1
Week 3 - 3.6

I don''t really get it I thought that the losses would be greater than that. I have been on other diets that I have lost the same about 3 per week. I have logs on my inches lost from previous diets and it doesn't appear that I am losing more inches either. We'll I'll keep trotting along.

Day 19

Lost 0
Total lost 17.5

Here we go again. I was hoping to start a consistent loss again. I am on the very last injections of the first ampule. I'm wondering if it is getting weaker. I have kept it in the frig. My ketostix are still showing burned fat so I guess I will try to be patient.

Day 18

Lost -1.4
Total lost: 17.4

Much better! YA HOO! I hope I am back on the track to loose. I am being real careful with salt. I do think I may do a little "stationary bike" for a few minutes each day to help use up calories.

Day 17

Lost +1.1
Total Lost 16

Just what I was hoping would not happen did. I gained! . On the plus side I am still down.1.4 from the apple day. The ketostix show that I am burning fat. That's a good thing. I guess we will see what tomorrow brings. I have been so careful. I didn't even have any salt yesterday and most days I am under 400 cals.

Activity... Maybe I am not active enough? Most of my day is sitting. Maybe a trip to the grocery or lite house cleaning. But really not much activity. If the hcg is putting 2000 cals in and I am eating 500 + or-, my BMR is 1335. So maybe I need to be a little more active.

Day 's 14,15 and 16

Day 14 -.1
Day 15 +.1
Day 16 -2.5 Apple Day

Total lost 17.1

Here his my explanation for the above. Last week I only lost 3.1 pounds. I have been following the protocol exactly. My weigh was barely moving and it was only the second week of the R1P2.
So after 4 day of "stall" I took an "Apple day" that was yesterday. The book says that those pounds should not be gained back. ..... We'll see.

Measurement were today:
Arms , and bust stayed the same.
Waist -2
Abd -1
Hips -1/2
Each thigh -1/2

The problem is I need to loose in my hips and thighs not my waist. I would have loved to see the -2 on the HIPS! Maybe soon. I will be patient.

Day Thirteen

Lost -.6
Total lost: 14.6

Well today is the second "no shot" day. Yesterday had to miss a meal then I had to eat at a restaurant.

The Plan:
I knew I was going to be gone over lunch. My plan included a snack of 1/2 a grapefruit. I took this with me. Then I had picked a Salad Restaurant call "Sweet Tomatoes" I knew that I could get the proper food there. I was hoping to get a break in our Dr. appointments to go there.

What really happened:
My hubby had appointments and testing right through lunch. At 2:00 we had the 1/2 grapefruit. I had taken a small bottle of water with me and that was gone in short order. Note to self...... Next time take a LARGE bottle of water. We did get to the salad restaurant at about 5:00.

My choice at the Salad Resturant: Spinach.... 2 small containers with grilled chicken. ( 2 oz each). Dressing? I picked the balsamic vinegar, no oil. They also had Red wine vinegar that I found out later after looking at Calorie King would have been the better choice. They also had orange slices.

Total Calories consumed all day 256. I was not hungry. JUST THIRSTY!

Day Tweleve

• Lost -.5
• Total Lost 14

I knew that I would need to slow a little on the weight loss. I started stronge but to contunie on that path would have taken me well beyond the 34 pounds that is allowed on the round. But the fact is that it is coming off. Whee HEE! I found a helpful forum.

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Day Twelve

Lost +.1
Total Lost: 13.5

Ok heres the deal..... DRINK WATER. I did not have enough water yesterday. I have been working with my hands crafting Christmas Cards. With my hands busy I don't drink enough.

I measured this week to match against last week. I lost
waist .5
Abd 1
Hips 1
Thighs 1/2 each
Middle of thighs - 2" each ( I am not sure I measured is the exact same spot this seems high)
Calf 1/2 each

I made a Mini Meatloaf recipe on Monday. YUM

Day Eleven

Lost -1.4
Total Lost -13.6

So glad to see a litle more weight loss. Whoo Hoo! I did add only a teaspoon of the zsweet today to make some a quasi baked apple with cinnamon. ( I tried it with cinnamon stevia an UCK ) It was DELISH!

I also put mineral Oil all over after my shower and that didn't effect me. GREAT!

Day Ten

Lost -.8
Total lost 12.2

I was thinking about the numbers this is day 10 to post so I am not sure how that worked out but yesterday was the 7th day that I have been on the VLCD. So if you don't count the load days I have lost. 12.2 pounds in one week. Interesting.

I am tracking my diet on my iPhone with :
Edibles - I think it cost $3.99 It is easy to use and I have it with me all the time. You just enter the food under the "Log food". My Dr. gave us a list that is calories by ounce so it is easier to log. You begin with 500 calories per day and it subtracts the available calories as you use them. You can even review what you ate by day.

For the tracking of my weight I also use the iPhone The application is called :
Weight Track: It is a 99 cent app. You enter your weight daily , you can set your goal weight, it will show your history of losing. You can set your goal weight and date. It will keep track it is very easy to use and you have your info right at your fingertips.

Day Nine

Gain +.4
Total - 11.4

OK so why didn't I loose? My and answer ONIONS. Yesterday I made the onion soup and had the onion soup with chicken for lunch and Onion soup with ground turkey for supper. SO on the veggie list onion is the veggie with the highest calories. I made sure that I drank plenty of water. SO I guess that it could have also been the salt and water combo.

Today the veggie de jour will be cucumber.

I know when you loose alot the first week you cannot expect to keep loosing at that same rate. The expected loss is only about 30-34 for the 40 days, So somewhere you need to catch up.

Day eight

Lost -1.2
Total Lost 11.8

Yesterday was a real surprise to me. I was not hungry even though it was a no shot day. So for week one I lost almost 12 pounds. Not too bad. It will be great if I can loose one a day from now on. I am looking for recipes. Normally I don't like fish but I have cooked Tilapia 2 times. The hardest is the veggie being the same for lunch and dinner.

Tea... I learned to not to drink them at night. The Yerba Mate is to give you energy ... I drank both teas late last and I had trouble getting to sleep and sleeping.

Day Seven

- .5
Total Lost 10.6

This the the day seven so I take a day off today. That is day off the injection not a day off the VLCD.

I think I may hove lost only 1/2 yesterday because I didn't drink enough water yesterday. I also ate at Applebee's yesterday. I ordered the Spinich salad with chicken. I brought my own dressing. I did learn that on the WW menu the at Applebees they have 3.5 oz of chicken ( pre cooked weight) on the salad. The Steak on that menu has 4 oz precooked weight. I do think that the low loss was due more to the lack of water. I also ate a differet veggie for supper than I did for breakfast.

Day Six

Weight 183.9
Difference -2.1
Total 10.1

Yesterday went really well. I did join the www.yahoogroups.com the HCGDieters group. They are all there to answers questions and to encourage. There are alot of before and after pictures. Also ALOT of recipes. Yesterday I had to eat an early lunch. I ate at 11:30 - 6:00 and a snack at 8:00. Today when I put my shot in I did it closeer to my knee than I usually do. I think I hit a nerve. I pulled the needle out and tried again.

I am drinking 3 teas:
Oolong
Yerba Mate
Green

Day Five

Weight 186
Difference -4
Total Loss -8

Yesterday was ok but I was a little hungry in the afternoon when I went shopping. We will see how today goes. Yesterday I ate at 12 - 6:30 and snack at 8:30.

I did do more reading. The drugdelivery.ca web site had a challenge that began April 4th. I found it interesting that some of the people dropped out. The majority had gained some weight back. (5-14lbs). Many said in their blogs that they had "things" come up and went off the plan. This should be a lifestyle change. We need to learn to live with "things". My other thought about that was the maybe the HCG was not the same as what we get here in the US from out Dr.'s.

DAY 1 to DAY 4

Day One
Weight 191

Injection today. My first , the first needle bent when I tried to push it in the bottle. No worry's, I just used another needle. I held this one closer to the end. I figure that practice makes perfect. My skin must be tuff... When I tried to do the injection in my upper thigh it was tuff to push through the skin. This was a gorge day. You are to eat as much as you can.. I was not really hungry. I felt rather full. I did eat some of my favorites. That included... Bread and Cinnamon rolls.

Day Two
Weight- not weighing today

Not to weighing until day three. Still today I was feeling really full. I read a little more today and I found that the gorge day was suppose to be mainly FAT. So today I did choose to eat a Big Mac and a chocolate shake and some “Moose Tracks” Ice-cream.

Day Three
Weight 194.1
Change +3.1

Weight to day was 194.1. I have gained 3 pounds on the gorging days. Ok, today is the day to start. I have learned to give myself the shot. If I quickly poke the skin the needle goes in easier. It is only 12 noon. I will enter more later. Today was good. No major hunger pangs. I got up at 9:00 or so ate at 1:30 and then supper at 6 and snack at 8. I ended with only 400 calories. I will increase the protein tomorrow. I am excited to see the scale tomorrow.

Day Four
Weight 190.0
Change -4.1.

The weight I lost today I think was water weight I had to use the bathroom a lot yesterday. I did figure out that on this plan you need to think ahead and plan your meals so you are not caught hungry without the right food to eat. It is still early so I will add more later.