185.8 and I've changed the way I eat!

OK I'm SO excited because I have found a new love for vegetables and fruit, and more so for vegetables! Every day I've been bringing lunch to work and I've discovered (belatedly) that if I just have food prepped then it's easy to bring a lunch to work. For example, we had dad and bro over for Father's Day last night and made tons of shrimp, steak, salad... so after dinner we packaged it all up in small servings and today I had containers of servings of things to bring to work. I also made brussel sprouts while making the rest of dinner, which weren't really ready on time for us to eat (thank goodness cause there was tons of food) so those are now packaged with little servings of steak for my lunches. I also made a pork roast in the crock pot the other day, which is 2 weeks worth of pork servings for me and SO tender & delicious!

The best news is that I am still losing weight! This morning I was down to 185.8 so I've lost weight since I moved to phase III and I know it's not a fluke (like water loss) cause I'm eating fabulous food. Yessssssssss... and only 19 days to go before it's time to lock and "load" the next round. Yay!

186.9 and on to phase 3

So a number of things happened...

*I went 10 days without losing weight (last a pound one day and thought I had broken the freeze but then gained it back the next day)

*I got my period 10 days before I was supposed to (that never happens! I'm on birth control!)

*I got sick

*I got hungry

So I wondered at that point if I shouldn't just stop using the drops and move on to the next phase. I could have been 10 days into my 4 weeks off! 12 actually... cause it took 2 more days to decide to stop taking them. Now I'm 8 days into phase 3, which means I have 20 days before I can load for the next round. My sister suggested using the injections instead which she feels are more effective. It would be VERY nice not to have to set my alarm for 7 times per day (once to wake up, then 6 doses of drops) so I'm thinking about that.

The GOOD news is that I have a newfound love of fruits & vegetables that really wasn't there before. Not that I didn't like those things, but now I'm SO excited about eating them! It's really great and I feel much healthier! Also last time I went off the drops I didn't gain weight back so I'm hoping for the same result. I'm eating great so it shouldn't be a problem. Thinking about joining weight watcher's now, but then will need to avoid them for a while.

Oh and we're thinking of Africa in January and my weight goal by then is 150!! I think I can do it. I'll have time for 2 more rounds of hcg - actually I have time for more than that, but 2 more might be all I need, plus healthy eating in between for continued weight loss. I'm actually hoping to lose a pound or two now before the next round. I'm tracking my food for 1200 calories per day and usually I can lose weight on that somewhat effectively.

OK thanks for reading!

187.2 - but I feel a cheating day coming on...

So today I'm feeling sleepy, weak, shakey, nauseous... weird! I haven't felt this way at all so far until today. I took the drops each time I was supposed to and this morning I got a coffee and put a lot of cream in it thinking maybe I just need extra calories today. It didn't help, so I had a flat bread with cream cheese and an orange - and it's not even 11am! SO the cream and the cream cheese were total cheating items and not I'm having some sun chips. Yeesh. I didn't bring any protein with me today and I can't leave my office to go get anything for another hour. Maybe that's the issue... I need some protein. hm. Well this will probably set me back a couple days but I have 23 days left so there's still time to come down another 10 pounds. Yay!

ok I tossed the chips in the trash. argh.