VLCD 4- Friday 1/27/12

Hello all! Woke up to a .6 loss Friday morning, thankfully.

I’ve been trying something different the past 3 mornings & it seems to be working out really well. I’d read somewhere on the HCG forums that some of the senior members eat an apple first thing in the morning to jumpstart their metabolism for the day. SO… I’ve been giving a go of my own variation.

6am: wake up with the hubby and help him get out the door. Weigh & take my drops.

6:30am: Wake up my daughter & start getting her around. Eat three turkey jerky nuggets & a handful of dried apples.

7:30am: Had my cup of green tea

12:30pm: Had some of that ham I made the other day with a little mozarella cheese melted on top wrapped with some salad in a tortilla.

7pm: My hubby made some pizza to help out around the house with us all feeling sick… SO, I had some of that.

My daughter seems to be over the ickies but my son’s still in the hardest part. Hubby hasn’t even gotten it yet and hopefully mine’s getting better. Either way, I’m still losing… And I’m planning on riding this new form of protocol until it doesn’t work for me anymore. That doesn’t mean it’s the right thing for everyone to do, but it’s the right thing for me to do right now. 🙂

[<3] happy

 

VLCD 3- Down 1 more lb

Wellp, woke up to 1lb loss… Thankfully!

Today was another bust day.. So looking forward to when I’m over being sick. Either way, I probably need to just suck it up and deal with my diet at the same time. 🙂

Yesterday however, (confession time) I had pizza for dinner. I’m sure it’s all just luck or my gaining is going to sneak up on me, but either way.. I wont be complaining.

I also woke up this morning at 4am with my son for about 30 mins and ended up drinking nearly an entire bottle of water before 6am while I tried to sleep so.. I know if it weren’t for that extra water-weight, I’d of shown up with an even bigger loss. (at 4am, I was 2.8 lbs lighter.)

Interesting thing tho, I went to sleep at 8:40pm last night from being sick so I wonder if maybe that also contributed to the loss? Curious things make me wonder. 🙂

Have a great day & remember that falling out of the saddle doesn’t mean you should sell the horse all together. Don’t give up.

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R2 VLCD2- Fallin back outta the saddle

Second day on the diet & woke up to a 1.8 lb loss! Today, however, was a bust. I’m sick with the cold & it’s turned into a falling off the wagon-fest.

So…. With that said, we’ll just have to see the damage tomorrow. 🙂

[<3] happy

 

VLCD 1: 2nd Time – Back!! :)

Well… My break lasted a lil longer then I’d originally planned… But for one reason or another, I felt it was necessary to extend the interruption a bit longer.

Starting on Day 1 of the new VLCD round. 🙂 Planning on going another 23 days (through halloween… Yuck) and then being on Phase 3 for Thanksgiving.. Then loading again on Christmas for my third round of VLCD… or just my second? Not really sure what it would be considered since I didn’t do a full 3 weeks of P3 and 3 weeks of P4 between last round and this. 🙂

I gained 5.8 lbs on my interruption (ouch) but feeling okay and refreshed! Ready to get back in gear to lose what I gained and hopefully much more.

I really didn’t stick to P3 very well at all on my break.. So just glad I didn’t gain anymore. 🙂

OH.. And, I started TOM yesterday. Two months late! Needless to say, I was a lil worried and while I don’t like ‘that time of the month’ glad it’s finally getting over with.

What I had for my first day:

Morning-

Took my drops and had some green tea with stevia

Lunch-

Chopped up chicken with onion and bell pepper, seasoned with garlic powder, onion powder, seasalt, black pepper & braggs amino acids. 🙂 Eaten on top of a bed of baby spinach leaves.

Midday Snack-

Apple

Dinner-

I had a slightly larger then 3.5 oz steak… I didn’t really measure to be completely honest. 🙂 With a bit of teriyaki sauce. I knew the HCG wasn’t taking affect yet and with TOM being a booger, it was making me much hungrier then I normally would’ve been. Thankfully there are things I can eat to help combat the cravings.. Somewhat.

Evening Snack-

Iceberg Salad chopped up with some ranch spritzed on it and cocoa crack with some Diet Coke.. I also caved and had some tortilla chips with salsa (since HCG wasn’t in my system yet and ughhh… I was craving so bad.) I know chips and starches are SO not on the diet… Not even phase 3. But…. Glah, I knew the consequences and was okay with them.

Woke up Saturday to no loss… but no gain. Exactly at the same weight as the day before. 🙂 I’m okay with that since from what I’ve heard, eating a 500 calories without the help of HCG would turn your metabolism to burn mass non constructively.. Such as muscle? I think.

Here’s to the next day’s scale-readings!

VLCD Day 14- The punishment continues…

Yesterday went actually really good. While I didn’t lose anything, I only gained .4.. Totaling .6 for my cheat on Sunday so far.

I’m hoping it doesn’t last much longer then the 3 days Dr. S says it takes to recover from a cheat, but just in case.. I’m doing an apple day today. 🙂

The day *yesterday* started out pretty normal… minus one thing… I wasn’t nauseous! It felt SO nice to go through an entire day without feeling like I was going to throw up the protocol food. So, despite my small gain, I was still not regretting my little cheat on Sunday.

Morning-

Green Tea with a bit of Stevia
Lunch-

Baked chicken with onion powder, seasalt and black pepper. Sliced into strips and put on a spinach and onion salad. I used ranch spritzer, like… 8-10 squirts.

Fruit- Forgot

Dinner- Steak Roll-Up (ohhhh sooooo goood. Pic should be below)

Really crappy pic.. Ohh christmas, come sooner!

INGREDIENTS

1 3.5 oz of sliced sirloin steak

1 tomato chopped up

horseradish mustard

onion in cut slices

(if you want to be brave, you can add some bell pepper 🙂 )

garlic

onion powder

black pepper

seasalt

Coconut Oil

 

DIRECTIONS

Lay the flattened steak out on a foil-lined-pan and smear the horseradish-mustard over the top.

Sautee the onion, garlic & bell pepper (if you chose to add it) in some coconut oil. (I still feel weird about using this though it’s sposedly allowed… So I don’t use much)

Chop up the tomato, lay out the sauteed onion/bell pepper mixture  in the middle of the steak along with the tomato. Season with black pepper and seasalt and roll up. Stick toothpicks in to hold together, season with onion powder, pepper and salt an stick in the oven on 350 for about 18 mins.

Voila! Yuuuuum.

I think next time, I might skip out on putting the tomato inside and just stick with the onion/black pepper/garlic. But Im absolutely in love with the horseradish-mustard. :)(which has no sugar added btw and only 5 calories per teaspoon)

Evening Snack-

Later that night, I sliced strawberries and sprinkled with a cocoa/stevia mixture.. Mixing it together. Delish!

 

So, while I stuck to protocol, mostly. I gained .4. I’m guessing it’s from my cheat on Sunday and will just keep an eye on the scales to see if it starts getting better in the next couple days. 🙂 Either way, I’m still not regretting Sunday’s splurge. I feel MUCH better then I have in like a week.. And despite the gains, STILL enthusiastic to stick to the diet. 🙂

So a total of .6 of a lb gained since my splurge. Crossing my fingers the great scale-beings have mercy in the morning. 🙂

❤ happy

 

 

VLCD Day 12 & 13- Double Whammy

Saturday turned out relatively on schedule since my husband had to work. Both the kids were home and we just kinda relaxed. 🙂

Around mid-morning, I started getting nauseous again and with the thought of fish (my only available meat.. We were going grocery shopping that night) I decided I’d probably skip my lunch before I’d choke it down again. However, after a lot of kicking around and glaring at that dreaded thawed-out-tilapia-fillet (note to those of you who are doing HCG…. Don’t eat it EVERY day, even if you love it. You’ll get burnt out, and FAST.) I finally remembered that someone had mentioned we could substitute 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites for a meat. SO… Pouring  a lil water in a cast-iron-skillet, I fried an egg sunnyside up. 🙂 Man, that was pretty darn good.. Even though it didn’t quite have that perfect crisp that eggs have when fried. I ended up scrambling the remaining 3 egg whites… And I think I’ll figure something else out for that next time.. i didn’t really like it.

After eating the eggs, I realized.. I felt amazing! It had been several days since I’d felt that good and so was super excited, but couldn’t figure out what it was that was causing me to feel better. However, despite how great I felt.. Around midday, I got a sudden wave of nausea and exhaustion… So went to curl up on the couch for just a lil bit… Then fell asleep. I woke up to my husband coming home, where I managed to stay awake long enough to explain that I was pretty exhausted and nauseous.

My husband, being the amazing man he is, offered to fix me something to eat if I went and laid down in bed for a lil while.. Which I easily gave in on. 🙂 After falling asleep, I woke up sometime later to him telling me my dinner was done. I felt a lil better by that time and ate some chicken that he’d pureed brocolli and stuffed inside it. It was actually pretty good, and had I been feeling better.. I would’ve taken a picture! He’s actually really good at cooking.

I lost 1lb that day.

Later that night, I had strawberries and mixed together some unsweetened cocoa powder with stevia and dipped my strawberries in.. Which was delish! 🙂 I loved it.

The next day was Sunday – Day 13.. I woke up, had my green tea as usual and went to church. 🙂 After church, we rushed around to get out the door to go grocery shopping and .. on our way out, stopped by KFC to see if we could get some grilled chicken breasts for my lunch.. After waiting a little while we were told they wouldn’t do 3 grilled chicken breasts but could do 3 crispy chicken breasts! So…. Not wanting neither crispy or to have to pay for a ton of chicken, I opted for checking out McDonalds. We got the kids a burrito each from Taco Bell (which shares the same building as KFC) and then drove over to MikkyDees… All they had were their grilled chicken salads (other then grilled chicken sandwiches, etc.) and, picky as I am, I opted out of that also. I’ve never really liked their salads as their salad chicken tastes bland and fatty to me and their lettuce just doesn’t do it.

SO, by this time.. I have to admit, I was getting mighty grumpy.. Before I remembered Subway does salads. I ordered a grilled chicken spinach salad with onions and ended up cheating some by using some dressing. The salad was aaaamaaaazing! I Loved it. I ate some apple chips from a lil bag they sell at Subway that were really yummy also and we headed on down to the city to shop.

We stopped by a health store and managed to find Bragg Liquid Aminos… Along with liquid stevia for $15 a small bottle *Yikes!*. I passed on the stevia and grabbed the aminos since I love chinese and it’s sposed to taste like soy sauce.

After a very long shopping session in Walmart, (for groceries) we decided to stop for dinner (entirely WAY too late at about 8pm) We ran over to Jack in the Box and I grabbed some grilled chicken tenders & cheated again on an egg roll. I kinda had already accepted that I’d pay for my cheating but after being nauseous for so long constantly, I decided it was worth it. 🙂

That night, after playing ‘toss the groceries’ with my husband.. which consisted of me pulling them out of the grocery bags (which btw, the bagger made sure to supply us with plenty of) and tossing them to my husband where he put them away.. We climbed in bed to relax.. I was abnormally hyper feeling.. Wonder if that’s a side effect of eating something with sugar in it after not having any for so long?

I woke up to a .2 gain this morning… But still don’t really regret my choice yesterday. Yeah, I cheated.. But I didn’t really cheat that bad. I feel like I’m all ready to get back in gear and bust some lbs again with protocol food!

Wellp! Back to the life of me.. Have a happy Monday everyone!

❤ happy