Okay so it has been a while and I'm proud to announce my stall ended, but this is still very slow going, a little bit less than I was led to believe. I am very good at keeping on track with my eating, but still can only count on about 3 pounds a week. I was hoping for at least 5 pounds a week, and was told if I was conscientious it would be 7 pounds per week. I have no hunger!! That is good, and I eat well, lots of food with the salads and the meat, but I wish I could lose more. Oh well, it may just be that I have to do another round after this. Anyway, I am down just over 10 pounds but it has been 19 days, that translates to about 1/2 a pound a day....hmmm. I am also walking every day, 2 miles and have added some weights in. Very interesting. I feel strong, my clothes are still fitting looser, but maybe the weights is why I"m not losing as much. Who knows, I just want to get into my size 8 older pants so that they look nice, not tight. That is my goal this week. Still looking at the long term 120 pounds though and I definitely feel it is within reach

Thanks all

I stalled

So, the past few days have been trying to say the least. First off, I had two kids sick with the flu, trying to keep them well, plus keep everyone else sane. Not good. Jacob missed like 3 days of school, so once again I'm playing the catch up game, although his new writing strands is going really well!!! He likes it, because it is written to him, and he likes keeping it a secret, he even did extra days. He read about South American Desserts yesterday in reading and told me something I didn't know. Tapioca is made from the poisonous root of the cassavas plant. I love tapioca!

The diet continues. I had an off day from the HCG and stalled. I didn't lose anymore weight for 4 days. Sat, Sun, Mon, then when I got up this morning I had gone down another pound, so that makes 6 pounds in 9 days really if you don't count the two loading days. That works. But I have paid for it the past few days. I have been extremely hungry. Now mind you I have a cold, which is causing some indigestion and a ton of gas, I think this made it worse, I also started drinking the protein shakes. While they are easy, they just don't last!!! So back to actually eating, and eating smarter, I just had a HUGE lunch. Okay, so let me explain. I had been following to a tee the directions from my doctor, but yesterday I happened on this website, My HCG Family... well they have a link to the original doctor's writings, and I noticed several subtle differences. One the original doctor allowed 2 grassini breadsticks a day with a meal, and 1T of milk every day. Now I have been foregoing anything like that, but I do like a touch of milk in my morning tea, still can't abide the coffee without vanilla syrup, so no go on that! and what up with the breadsticks, which are readily available at Kroger. He also allows veal, I love veal, better than beef and he doesn't like US beef, because it is too fatty throughout....hmm, my doctor allows it, but no more for me. So I went to Kroger and bought some salad greens, veal, lobster, crab and more chicken..... oh and the grassini. For lunch I had the salad greens, (a whole container, seriously because you get 6 ozs.) and 100gms of veal, which i seasoned with salt pepper and emeril seasoning and cooked on the george foreman. Then I sliced the veal poured the juices that collected while it rested on the greens and the tiny pieces of meat, and squirted the whole thing down with balsamic. Oh my goodness. I feel so full. That is a lot of salad, and I had my breadstick, just one, no big deal, and I feel confident that I can last till dinner, which will be orange roughy with cherry tomatoes, basil and lemon. Oh yeah and that breadstick. Wish me luck, only the scale will tell if the breadstick causes my downfall!!!

Hunger Pangs

So when I decided to do this diet, they warned that if you did not overeat enough the first 2 days you would be hungry on days 3 and 4. I thought I had done a pretty good job, dinner at Mortons, eggs, bagels, cream cheese, potatoes, etc. And yesterday I felt really good, no real hunger, just wanted to eat!!!! That was until 8pm. I was starving, I had eaten all of my food for the day and I couldn't stand it. It was too early to go to bed, so I tried to ignore the fact that my belly was growling. Not unbearable, I was just hungry. Okay, so Katie has the flu so that was a good diversion, one of our tenants died from the flu, in the apartment, that was a really good diversion, so I was ok. I figured when I woke up all would be right in the world again. Hold on, not so much. I was still hungry, not starving, but my stomach was growling, and all I got for breakfast was tea, really, just tea!!! Oh my goodness, if it is going to be like this for 49 days I want my money back. The only saving grace.....I got on the scale and I had lost 3 pounds. Yup, just like that 3 pounds. So I ate my 1/2 grapefruit, gather my 2 chicken tenders and 1/2 of a cucumber and headed off to my hair appt. I was talking to the hairdresser, who knows about the diet and will start on Friday, and said, look, I'm hungry, not starving but definitely hungry. She put the color in my hair, I noshed on 1/2 of my food, and read my book. Low and behold she came to get me and it suddenly donned on me......I'm not hungry, not at all. Wow that was quick. And 4 hours later still not hungry.

Now I did go to the grocery to get pudding, dinner, etc for the family, and goodness I want some pudding, but not because I'm hungry, just because I want to eat it!!! So I guess the HCG is working, cause trust me if I was still hungry I would admit it!!! Hey maybe I'll lose another 3 pounds today........naw, that would be too much

Day 3 of the Diet and a day at the zoo!!

Today, Jacob and I got to go with Katie's class to the zoo. I was the chaperone. It is actually really fun to go with them. All of the kids are really well behaved and cause no trouble. My group was evenly boys and girls!! The boys crack me up, mostly because they blithely go where the girls lead!! Guess they are being trained as husbands!! Jacob was just excited because he got to ride a school bus, a real treat for a homeschooler, not so much for me. They are loud and bumpy, I could do with out. We had a great time and hopefully Jacob learned something, like polar bears are not primates!!!

So today also marked day 3 of the diet and the real start in my estimation. Days 1 and 2 you are taking the HCG, but you are actually gorging yourself in prep for day 3. The news so far is good, I actually have had NO hunger pains at all. The bigger issue in my estimation is that I want to eat because I can't eat. I had my strawberries (6) for a morning snack, then 2 pieces of grilled chicken tenderloins and a sliced cucumber for lunch. Right now I'm eating my afternoon snack of a sliced apple. I think dinner is going to be lobster and brussel sprouts. I have been a bit lethargic, not tired lethargic, but that could be from staying up late (and dancing at parent prom) getting up early and walking all over the zoo 3 times. I fixed that with a cup of tea. I'm having another one now. I think that might be my treat to myself through all of this, cups of tea!!!

My opinion so far....great, I am definitely not hungry, not overly tired, but we will wait and see what the scale shows for the final verdict.

Good day all, talk to you soon.