first day losse :)

let it begin :) so after a faboulous loading i was ready to barf..lol but i have to say the breadsticks were devine..haha but i was feeling lousy by sunday night and anxious to start again... the 4.4 lb gain during load was not fun either!!

today first losses were in at -2.6..i was hoping for a bit more for first day loss, but actually considering i ate a late dinner and out for my chicken and salad.. im glad i got a loss at all..dang going out.. it wasnt my call..a friend of hubbys at last min.. so i did what i could.. so ill take it ;)

heres for a great p2! and the losses begin ;)

getting ready

p3 has been awesome enjoying the fats, and more selection but getting ready to start round 2. and boy am i excited for load days!! so tomorrow is first injection here we come!!

p3

sry i havent written, i have been dealing with hives, sickness and trying to figure out p3... what a journey it has been. but p3 is going great... im finding I had to up my fats.. and also eat less protein that what i had been.. which is strange for me i thought the higher protiens would be better, i have always done well with the higher fats, but i thought it was higher protiens too...

i ended R1P2 at 172.8 since starting p3 i fluctuate from 173-174... so im in the 2 lb range.. i wish i coul say i go under..lol but as long as im staying at that 2 pound range im happy. ill post a sampling of my meals as well :)

i have been keeping a home journal of eating and weight.. im finding the on the scale thing to be scary.. lol i have always been a person who never looks at the scale much as long as i could feel me losing weight.. i know thats strange but thats how i was.. i could feel the weight loss.... lol

so i dont want to become a slave to the scale either.. but i do understand the importance of the daily check in... crazy things we do to lose weight.

i am glad i only am doing a short p3.. im already itching to start P2 again.. so halloween is still the goal for first load day. im still up in air if im going to do a moderate or all out load days.. of all the journals ive been reading i still find the load days to be important.. to the point that i think the ones who went really moderate had slower weight loss.. at least thats how i see it after studying.

But i hate to see the pounds go up, when i want them to go down lol... so we will see as i get closer to starting . well thats all for today ill try and keep to update more in here now im feeling a little better :)

well my day with no hcg wasnt fun!! i was snacky all day. i hope its all mental.. but i dont know i felt hungry for the first time!! it wouldnt suprise me if this works out of my body fast.. meds act diff in my body!

also i broke out in hives bad yesterday, im not sure what from.. but i had to up my allergy meds again..sigh have been doing really good so i was hoping to not have to do this..

oh well yesterdays menu:

l-curry chicken, spinach, apple, grissini
d- hamburger, tomoatoes, grissinsi.. :)

well lets hope for another good loss tomorrow.. im liking being in the 170's again :)

monday-no hcg

had a really busy week, walked all over!! sight seeing thought my legs were going to fall off lol. went on a dinner cruise last night... the meat selection wasnt wonderful was worried, and the veggie section didnt leave alot of choice either so ate best i could but splurged on bite of brownie and a bite of roll...lol but no gain today, so ill tak that. and loss sunday so thats awesome!! looking forward to a more calm week i hope with some good losses..

i have found i do better with one fruit a day, so am going to stick to that.. i think . unless i do a treat.. the strawberry smoothie worked good for me (just frozen strawberries, little cottage cheese, sweetner and water..) in fact i didnt eat it all and my daughter gobbled it up!! so it was great!

day 8

well no loss yesterday... lol but today down .8 which i will take hehe. especially after yesterday walking all over (sore feet) and eating at a lunch where i ordered a grilled chicken salad with no dressing and they still put tortilla chips and corn chille on it. lol so no to bed ...yeah..

meal yesterday:
l-grilled chicken salad
d-talapia, grissini, cucumbers, and strawberry smoothie :) yummy ;)

not too bad :)

down 1lb today :) not going to complain.... was a little down yesterday, but doing ok today.. even went on date with hubby had a dinner salad with grilled chicken on top.. not too bad we will see how it does tomorrow :)

another day :)

well didnt expect a big loss after yesterday's shakes.. i always retain water after being shaky and it was not diff. -.6 loss.. not amazing but I will take it! lol

I did some calorie checking and it looks like i went over yesterday too .. so im going to have to watch a little closer.. man i hate counting calories..sigh. lol

i can do this.. i can do this.. i can do this? right? lol more later !

update..

ok so i had really good lunch: hamburger with cumin and cilantro on top of boiled cabbage.. i wasnt hungry so i didnt eat my apple thought i would save it for later. BAD IDEA.. i got shaky about 20 min. after drank a lot of water had a melba toast, even had a sf jello trying to gauge the shakes.. sigh so from now on no fruit on its own, with a meal or not at all!

d: lemon garlic shrimp with 1/2 cucumber. tried a strawberry/spinach smoothie later but no go...lol so i think im going to cut it her and hope tomorrow's scale doesnt show this disaster day! lol

food allowed :)

i found this at another site.. i liked cause it had the calories.. so im posting it more for me lol ;) (note that all the foods here listed in red are not listed in the simeons protocol and i will probably not be eating those this round!)

Allowed foods:

Foods allowed in each recipe are pretty strict, so here's an overview of them:

Per meal:

1 vegetable

1 100g meat

1 fruit

1 grissini (they're more like bread pencils, but about twice as long as a pencil)

Each meal is 250 calories. The meat, breadstick, and fruit calories are added up then subtracted from the 250 allowed and the rest is consumed in the vegetable.

Spices (any spice) are allowed in any amounts.

1 T milk, if desired.

Juice of 1 lemon, if desired.

Celtic Sea Salt is the only salt allowed.

Sweet Leaf Stevia is the only sweetener allowed.

Tea

Coffee

1 T tomato paste

Miracle Noodles

Meats allowed in quantities of 100g only (and calories)

Buffalo 100

Chicken Breast 110

Steak 140

Extra Lean Ground Beef 215

Roast Beef 150

Veal 100

Lobster 95

Crab 55

Shrimp 90

Sea Bass 120

Flounder 110

Halibut 100

Sole 120

Fat Free Cottage Cheese 90

Veggies allowed (and calories/serving)

2 c Asparagus 62

2 c Bean Sprouts 46

2 c Beet Greens 46

1 c Broccoli 50

2 c Cabbage 35

1 c Cauliflower 50

2 c Celery 38

2 c Chard 14

1 c Chicory Greens 41

2 c Cucumbers 29

1 1/2 c Fennel 40

2 c Lettuce 16

1 Mushroom 3

2 c Radishes 46

2 c Spinach 13

1 c String Beans 53

1 c Summer Squash 31

1 c Tomatoes 65

1 c Watercress 4

1 c Onions (white, yellow, red) 61

1 c Zucchini 20

Fruits allowed (and calories/serving)

1 medium Apple 80

1/4 Cantalope 48

1/2 Grapefruit 40

1 Navel Orange 60

1/2 cup Raspberries 32

6 Strawberries 28

day 6

woke up to the awesome numbers 184.2!! thats a 1.4 loss for the night.. i know im slowing down but hopefully wont stop. i have been thinking that maybe ill cut my fruit and melba back to one a day.. in atkins i never was able to add back alot of fruit.. so far im still losing so i wont complain.. but if it looks like maybe it affecting it, then i will probably cut those back.. i found a great forum im a part of and its been awesome ill like it on my page lots of people who have been through this diet and know it well!

oh ya yesterdays food :

L-1oog steak, cabbage, apple, grissini(found them at store was so excited!)
d-100g garlic chicken, handfull strawberries, spinach, grissini

drank over 6 bottles flavored water. there is a debate over at the forums about those stalling you, so far it hasnt and has enabled me to drink lots of water :)

day 5

-1.6 loss today not as good as i hoped..i hoped to get 2 good days before i lvled off.. oh well ill take what i can get!

not feeling as good today.. been reading some forums and thinking i need some potassium, or magnesium.. im sure its withdrawals.. but man i feel nasty lol.. if i can slide through this week i know ill be ok. took a short nap before kids got home..hope that helps a little !

ill post food a little later, i went shopping today so i could have some good variety :)

4.2 lb loss!!

day 4.. woke up and stepped on the scale to the lovely numbers of 187.2 :) (i got on the scale 3 times to make sure that was the right number!!)

now if you count the weight i gained on load days this makes a -4.2 loss in one night! now that i can handle :) i was so excited i had to post! ill catch you up later on what i ate for the day :)...yes im happy i know everday wont be like this so im going to enjoy ;)

was up 2lb from yesterday which from food i ate i would consider normal... but man those pounds still hurt lol..

day 3 first low cal day. not too bad, i was afraid going from the load day to this day might be hard as im sensitive to blood sugar lvls.. and i ate alot of sugar on load days... but not too bad. in fact i have less of a headache than what i did yesterday.

the food was fine, not alot, i can tell it will take adjusting too. not that im starving, just slightly hungry. im sure from the sugar withdrawals.

i even was able to put on son's bday party with out taking a snitch of cake.. lol that is what i call willpower!!

so here is how today went :
breakfast: iced green tea with sf rasberry
lunch: 100g lemon pepper chicken, 1/2 cucumber, melba toast, apple
snack: melba toast (mine were snack size so i allowed myself 1 for snack since i only had one for lunch)
dinner: 100g shrimp cooked with lemon and garlic, tomato, apple, melba toast

drank at least 6 bottled waters, if not more..i dont keep track after 6 lol...

and not feeling too bad trick will be if i survive to lunch tomorrow ;) only the scale will tell

load days and mixing

i have to tell you mixing was the scariest for me. i watched the videos of how to mix it a million times. and still when i was so worried about messing up. i think that would be the only big advantage of having a doc.. the mixing. but i made it and it turned out ok i think lol...

As for the first day, i really didnt think i could inject myself... i also watched those videos over and over ...lol but it turned out ok, except i grabbed the alchol prep pad instead of a tissue to hold over the injection site..ouch.. lol

as for load days having 2 days to eat whatever you want i thought would be awesome.. and of course you were suppose to eat as high fat as you could.. umm i though no problem. well apprently being told to eat bad suddenly makes it not so fun, and actually by the end of day 1 i was ready to puke!! by the end of day 2 i told hubby i would be so happy to start eating good tomorrow lol..

kind of things i ate for load day: bacon egg and cheese biscuits from McDonald, donuts, oreos, cookies, just about anyfood i thought i would miss during this journy.. i kind of used it as my goodbye.. lol

so load days over (yes lol ) and now to the nitty gritty ill keep ya posted!

a new journey

After a crazy year with many difficutlties, i found myself way over where i should be weight wise. as many excuses as i can make it comes down to my love hate with sugar.. lol i love it my body hates it! lol so when i friend of mine talked of doing this hcg protocal i looked into it. of course she went to a doc and all that, but i couldnt afford to do so, and also not knowing how long i would be in one place due to my hubbies work i decided i couldnt really go to a local clinic.

so after much research i found many brave souls doing this themsleves, i decided hey i can do this. now first before you decide you want to do this yourself please read the protocal. its not for everyone! and you can find lots of scams on the internet so please do your research. the protocal is here free:

http://www.hcgprotocol.com/pandi.pdf (pounds and inches)

Also this was a great site that helped me weigh through all the bull out there.. he has great videos about how and what.... so go here and read up before you start.

http://www.hcgprotocol.com/index.htm


ok so now thats out of the way we can begin ;)