P3 Day 1-3 – Leptin Reset

Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while since I posted… But with the flu and me not really sticking to protocol real well, I really didn’t feel much like posting.

However, I wanted to post in to let you all know how I did for my LDW and total weight loss.. 🙂 I quit taking the drops Monday, 11/7/11 and just finished my last VLCD 11/10/11 for Round 1. I woke up to a 1.4 loss the next morning totaling my entire weight loss for Round 1 (not counting relosing the weight I gained on breaks) 26.8 lbs. Not too sharby for 40 days.

Out of curiosity, my husband mentioned I should count up all the weight I lost in total (for losing weight I gained on breaks/interruptions) and it equals up to.. 35.8 lbs!! Seriousely.. How crazy is that? And that’s with a couple stalls!

Anyways.. Now on to my Phase 3, Leptin Reset. I’m planning on going back on the round with loading on Christmas Eve and Christmas for Round 2 but will be doing the LR in between.

Morning 1, I woke up.. and within 30 minutes was eating my BAB (Dr. Kruse’s way of saying Massively Gynormic Breakfast.. In a few diff choice words) Your supposed to eat high protein, high fat (i think?), low carb.. So I had:

6oz of Thin-sliced sirloin steak, grilled on the George Foreman Grille

4 eggs, fried in coconut oil.. Sunnyside up.

1 slice of cheddar cheese, melted over the eggs

Okay… Now, even I have to say.. That’s a TON of food!! Whyyyyyyy? Well, because that’s what Dr. Kruse says to do. 🙂 He asks you to get in between 50-70 grams of protein in the morning (i exceeded by 7 grams.. 77 grams of protein).

We had a conference with my daughter’s teacher so after meeting with her (and seeing my daughter’s great report card!) we decided to take the kids out for McDonalds to reward her. 🙂

I grabbed a cheap Cheeseburger & a McChicken (not a good idea for LR since it’s a low carb/starch diet) and took them home with me.. Getting rid of the buns and using these things called ‘Oopsie Rolls’. They weren’t as satisfying as sandwich buns, but they sure were healthier! 🙂 You can find the recipe at this link:

http://blog.yourlighterside.com/2009/05/gluten-free-low-carb-buns-aka-oopsie.html

It was totally worth it and my kids loved them as well! I drizzled a little honey on a roll each for the kiddos as dessert.

After lunch, I had my cocoa crack pretty immediately. (Dr. Kruse asks you not to snack between meals so eat it all in one meal, whatever your going to have) I tried it a lil different, I’d been wanting to bring some to my Grandma to show her she can actually have some kinda chocolate (she can’t eat chocolate) and so after making my usual batch, I added in Almonds & shredded unsweetened Coconut.

I had about half of this, saving the rest to let mom and grandma try. 🙂

Dinner-

Steak Stirfry

Cocoa Crack (tried another batch with peanut butter and almonds added to it.. This was my mom’s favorite)

At that point, I quit eating and drinking anything other then water and ended up going to sleep at 10:30.

Woke up the next morning to no gain or loss. I was shocked!! After everything I ate the day before, and how completely filled I was, I fully expected it to backfire and for me to gain.

The next day, I was running out of groceries.. And also wanted to cut down on my egg intake since I felt like I had too much the day before so had:

BAB-

4 oz hamburger meat, made into two small patties.. Grilled on the GF grill

3 oz sirloin thin-sliced steak, grilled on the GF grill

2 eggs, fried soft in CO

LUNCH-

Tuna salad, made with MAYO! 🙂 I couldn’t wait to have it again! I put a lil bit of Miracle Whip, mustard, dill pickle juice, chopped up dill spear, chopped up onion. I smeared it on an oopsie roll (mine turned out pretty flat so I just folded it kind of like a taco.)

DINNER-

Hubby and I picked up a roasted chicken from the grocery store while we were shopping and I had a good bit of it along with some green beans. 🙂 Also, sneaked a couple bites of instant mashed potatoes hoping it would be okay.

Also had some Diet Coke. 🙂

I went to sleep probably around 1:30. (I tried hard to go to sleep, but was stressing out about my weight and my stomach was doing flips from the potatoes. (not used to that much starch.)

I woke up and weighed with dread…. To a 1.4 loss! 🙂 Yay! I’m not getting too excited, since I’m sure it’ll go up and down during the time I’m on LR/P3 but it was still nice seeing it. 🙂

I was a lil stressed, after shopping for groceries.. and seeing the food cost, my husband and I came to the conclusion… LR wasn’t seeming affordable for us at the moment. My hubby actually is out of work again so.. We’re back to juggling bills, putting off what we have to and buying the cheapest groceries possible.

So, I just treated the day as a P3 day and ate the best I could.

BREAKFAST-

Greek Yogurt mixed with blueberries, strawberries & a bit of stevia

LUNCH-

Sloppy Joe on Oopsie Rolls with cheese & onions

DINNER-

Coconut flour-Pizza 🙂

You can find the recipe for the crust here:

dear pizza, i missed you so much.

I added a bit of stevia to the crust. The pizza sauce I took a can of tomato sauce, added a bit of stevia, garlic powder, garlic salt and italian herbs.

Toppings for the pizza were:

Mini Pizza 1-

* bacon, grilled on the GF grill

*Canadian Bacon

*Onion

*Cheese (Cheddar/Mozarella)

Mini Pizza 2-

*Bacon, grilled on the GF grill

*Shredded chicken from the night before

*Onion

*Cheese (Cheddar/Mozarella)

They sure helped curb my incredible pizza cravings, but… The crust was too soft.. crumbly for me. I need to find something that’ll be more stiff and sorta crispy.

I had 1 small pizza and saved the other one for tomorrow’s lunch. 🙂

Hopefully the scales are kind tomorrow morning! But I’m trying not to stress out too much about it. As long as it all evens out in the end.

My mom mentioned that she could maybe help me with grocery-costs for Leptin Reset, I think she really wants me to be able to stay on it since there is the possibility of losing more weight as where on just normal HCG P3, your not supposed to lose more then 2lbs and only sposed to stabilize.

Off to watch the hubby and kids play hide& seek!! 🙂

Happy losing!
❤ happy

VLCD Day 4 (or VLCD Day 29?)

I’ve just about decided, it’s much more encouraging to think of this as one long round. 🙂 Rather then two normal rounds.

Yesterday, I woke up with a cold… Sore throat, stuffed up nose.. Just enough that it was annoying. I was also really exhausted, since the night before I was only able to get about 3 hours of sleep. *for some reason, I have a super difficult time getting to sleep lately! No idea why.. :/*

Morning-

Drops, Green Tea with Stevia

Lunch-

Grilled Chicken with herb-seasoning on the George Foreman, topped with Marinara sauce (homemade)

Dinner-

Grilled Steak with Teriyaki Broccoli stir-fry

Evening Snack-

Small Apple, a couple bites of cocoa-crack (I put WAY too much truvia in it this time, and it ended up really grainy, too sweet and gross….), Diet Coke

It got in bed at a decent time and instead was awake till about 3 again. I don’t know what’s up lately… But I can’t seem to fall asleep before 2:30.. Which only gives me about 4 hours of sleep at the most.

I was stressing out, figuring my loss would be pretty nonexistent since I ate much less calories yesterday and since I didn’t get a ton of sleep… But woke up to a 1.6 loss. So that was a nice little surprise. I’m now down at my lowest pre-break weight. 🙂

I have one more day left on VLCD before the HCG is out of my system… Then I’ll be starting back up on P2 Tuesday. That is, IF my drops come in today or tomorrow. If not, then as soon as I possibly can.

Next round, I’m going to try and make sure I don’t have this issue.. Too many breaks when I’m encouraged are seeming kinda hard. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll definately enjoy being able to relax a lil this weekend, since it’s Halloween weekend. (We’re sposed to go to the pumpkin patch this weekend also) but… Before I realized I was running out of drops, a break for Halloween wasn’t even an option.. As much as I’d of liked to spend the weekend eating a semi-normal diet, I had come to terms with the fact I could lose 4 pounds simply just by staying with the diet over the weekend and halloween. 🙂

Wellp! The little guy just woke up (later then normal ^^) So off to get him some breakfast as I try to pretend my water-bottle’s a satisfying substitute for cereal. 🙂

 

 

 

VLCD Day 3-Still under construction.. Battery died on laptop. :)

Hi everyone! A lil late tonight in posting yesterday’s progress… But here goes!

Woke up, daughter was still sick (had been up all night and I got VERY little sleep…) So i crashed.. and got some sleep. 🙂 I also, forgot to take my drops.

I’ve been using my George Foreman Grill and… yum! I still haven’t figured out how to cook it thoroughly yet (without burning the outside) but am tweaking. 🙂

Lunch-

Grilled chicken breast (double protein again) seasoned with garlic powder, seasalt, black pepper, onion salt, onion powder and italian seasonings.

Marinara Sauce seasoned with garlic powder, italian seasonings, a bit of stevia. I poured it over the top of the chicken 🙂

Midday Snack-

1/2 an Orange

Dinner-

Grilled steak, marinated in teriyaki sauce (rogue.. :/) I heated some coconut oil in my mini wok and began cooking some broccoli.. Also using some of the teriyaki sauce from the marinade.

I hopped on the exercise bike to burn 20 calories before hopping upstairs with my cocoa-crack and Diet Coke to watch a couple episodes of ds9. 🙂

I was exhausted throughout the day but.. just really didn’t have an opportunity to nap. By night time (11:30) I climbed in bed and proceeded to try to fall asleep for the next 3 hours. For some reason, even though I was exhausted… I just couldn’t fall asleep. I went downstairs an did some cleaning while I couldn’t sleep.

I woke up to a .6 loss. 🙂

But… On to dire news….. Ran out of drops today, so moving into yet another ‘break’ while I wait for my order to get in. I don’t know how long it’ll take… But I’m not counting on them getting here tomorrow or saturday. (I should’ve ordered them sooner, but really wasn’t thinking! I ended up ordering them on Monday)

Aw, battery’s dieing on the laptop! On to watch some more ds9 🙂

[<3] happy