Monday, July 26, 2010

Popcorn

What's with popcorn being so good lately?!

Went to see Sir Elton John over the weekend. Jamie bought a huge bag of kettle corn. It was so good! The few kernels I was going to eat turned into half the bag over the course of 3 hours.

I gained a pound.

But lost it, plus some, the following day.

Back on track now that it's the weekday.

Oh well.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

R2 Progress

Things are going slower this time. Actually, about a week ago I started cutting out the melba toast and usually the fruit. Sometimes I have my evening fruit, but skip the breakfast piece. This has made my losses each day about a pound or more. Yay!

I began this round about 5 lbs heavier than I'd been maintaining, due to eating whatever I wanted the weekend of the 4th and it being the week before TOM, when I'd normally gain a few pounds anyway. So, if I measure where I ended Round 1, I'm at a net loss of 6.2 lbs today and I'm on day 18 of this round. What I should have done was start taking shots the day we went to the fair and "fat loaded" those days. May have resulted the same. I'm done beating myself up over it, I look way better already and half way to my ultimate goal.

I plan on doing 4 more shot days and hoping to lose 4.8 more pounds. The weekends screw me up. The hcg is very touchy for me. If I eat some of Jamie's popcorn at the movies, or a hand full of nuts, I end up not losing. I may maintain the previous day's weight, but that's not the goal. If I want to lose another 4.8 pounds in 4 days, I will have to be very diligent over the weekend. Weekdays are so much easier with the routine of work.

And no giving in to ANYONE wanting to go out to dinner! Especially Old Town with the irresistable chips and salsa! Yes, Nan, here's the guilt I promised you! ;)~ Gained .6 pounds from that instead of losing at least a pound that day. It was a nice dinner, tho. At least we figured out the black and red chips don't taste any different than the gold ones. :)

Jamie's mom and Colin are coming to visit for the week of Aug. 1st. I'll be on to the no sugar/no-carbs portion of maintanence just in time for their visit! Can't wait to eat nuts! Strange that a didn't eat so many of them before R1's maintanence. Now they are what I miss the most!

Oh, and I should mention, I'm wearing some of my 12's!! What a difference 5 pounds can make!

Monday, July 5, 2010

Round Two

I should have planned to start Round Two by "fat loading" at the fair. Must have eaten 5000 calories! The next day, even though I didn't eat excessively, I didn't cut out the sugar or carbs - chips, sugary alcholic beverages, enchilada and black beans. Today, barely ate, until we got to Barona for my grandma's free birthday dinner. Included a dessert, carrot cake (my fav!), which I ate all by myself minus one bite by Jamie.

I decided at dinner that I was going to come home and take a shot. So, as soon as we walked in, I shot up!! I know I'm not doing it quite right, since I should be taking the shots while fat loading for two days, but we'll see what happens. Tomorrow I'm going to start back on the 500 calories.

Actually, I'm pretty happy about going back to such a lean diet. I feel better on the hcg with 500 cals diet than I have the last 3 weeks being allowed to eat fatty foods. And I definitely feel better than eating high-carb or sugary foods, which make me feel sick pretty quickly!

I used the already mixed hcg we had in the fridge to do my shot with tonight, but will mix some new stuff up tonight. This website gives mixing instructions along with a chart of quanities of each ingredient you need to make the iu's desired. Very helpful! I take 125 iu.

http://www.hcgsupplies.com/how-to-mix-hcg.html

Wish me luck this round!