Had an exceptional weekend with lots of temptations. A night out with some high school girlfriends and offered to be the DD so I didn't have to miss having a glass of wine. Ordered a plain salad with shrimp and a few lemon wedges. They went all out with shrimp burritos, the jalapeno cheese sauce that I know is to die for and margaritas!! I wasn't even tempted. Today I weighted 176.5 (I think!) and my clothes are starting to feel looser! In fact, last week I bought two skirts and a pair of pants on clearance and they were all extremely tight. This morning I tried on one and the skirts and it looked great. I didn't try the pants yet...they were the tightest so maybe early next week.

I'm going to do a 33 day round this time and then see where that leaves me weight wise. If I have 20ish then I'll do one more long round and hope to reach goal. If not, I'll do two 23 day rounds. I just hate that first 10 days!!

Starting to feel like I'm making some progress so I'm feeling good.

Well I'm back at it and pretty much disgusted with myself because I knew I was gaining weight and did nothing to prevent it. Gained all but 10 pounds back and have plenty of excuses. Had some health issues that caused nausea and dizzyness so I guess I just ate to feel better. I did come to the conclusion when I was loading for this round that I had been pretty much loading for some time. Now that I have a week under my belt, I can laugh about that but I do need to do some soul searching to correct that.

Anyway, started back at 187.3 and gaind 2.5 for loading. Yesterday I weighted in at 180.2 and today 180.4 which was disappointing but I did a circuit training class last night which is probably playing a part in that .2 gain.

My first goal will be to reach normal BMI which for me will be 159. Then I would like to get back to where I left off (147) and see how I feel. Ideally I would like 135 but with this diet, numbers are different than they used to be and for me that may be too thin. At 147 I'm wearing a size 8 with a few 6's...depending on the designer. I felt really great at that weight and told myself that I wasn't going to be one of those girls who was never happy, always finding faults with their weight. I look back at myself when I was a teenager and even though I had one of the nicest figures around, I always thought I could be 5 pounds lighter. what I would do to have that figure now and I didn't even appreciate it then!!!

I have noticed at this upper end of the scale that it takes me so much longer to change sizes. To go from a 12/14 (again, depending on the designer) to a 10 is like 20+ lbs. Then to a 10 is only another 10 or 12 lbs and an 8 just a few more. Who know's what I'd be at 135! I just know with this diet I wiegh more but wear a smaller size than when I was at a particular weight prior to HCG.

For me the first 10 days is really tough mentall and emotionally. It's not so much hunger as trying to avoid social situations, getting into a routine, not having a ton of energy, etc. so now I am trying to decide how to break up my rounds because I definately need to do more than one. When I originally started HCG I did a 42 day round and lost 23 lbs but I loose about 18 doing a 23 day round so it almost seems more logical to do shorter rounds. The only problem is that 10 day starting peiord that is so difficult and the time you have to take in between.

157.9 and holding steady. I'm definately enjoying this phase 3 more than the last one because i'm less scared. I'm definately eating even though the scale is still moving slightly downward. The same happened the last time. I just don't know how you aren't supposed to lose weight on the last two days of VLCD. Having your LIW be your target weight just seems to me like it gives you a bit of a cushion. I'm not worried, I stabalized fine last round even thought I went below LIW by 3lbs. I only went over LIW by like .2 on the very last week before I restarted the protocol. I was actually thankful because I wanted to see if the steak correction day really works. It certainly does and I need to know that for my own piece of mind. I lost 3.9 lbs on my steak day. I started the second round .1 over my last LIW which I thought was absolutely amazing. I'm taking the full break (8 weeks) and will begin my third and final round in late July.

158.1 and Holding Steady! Had a wonderful girl's weekend away without the scale for the first time in many months. Stayed on track the entire weekend for phase 3 but have to admit there was lots of wine involved. I was a bit nervous about this morning's weigh in. I was exactly the same as Friday. Yippie. It doesn't take long for the constipation side affect to go away once I have some fat back in my diet. I'm very thankful for that!! I hadn't seen these girlfriends since before I started round one of this diet so needless to say, they were astonished at my weightloss. It was a great feeling.

First (and most important) Goal Met!!!!!!

158.7. Finally hit my first goal of normal BMI which for me is 159.3 lbs. Missed my second goal of 40 lbs total weight loss by a couple of pounds. That will just have to wait until my next round since my ability to remain true to the protocol is being tested. Saturday was my last shot this round since the losses have been slow and I'm nearly at 40 days. Haven't decided if I will just take a two week break and start back up since immunity doesn't seem to be a problem for me and I really want to get this last 12 lbs off. If not, then I will take the full 8 weeks and start fresh sometime in August...which my gut tells me is probably a better idea anyway. Feeling good, bought a size 10 jeans this weekend and I have to admit they looked really small on the hanger. I thought no way but I'm going to try them anyway. Much to my surprise, they looked amazing. Oh, and I always grab a size large in shirts/blouses out of habbit and they were way too big. Even the mediums were too big in many cases. I just don't see the difference in my body in that area as much as in my behind. Overall, feeling very good and healthy. Looking forward to some different food choices starting tomorrow.

160.9 and heading in the right direction. Had a perfect protocol day yesterday which is always easy for me during the week. I need to keep it up until next Tuesday. I want that 159 and normal BMI!!!

161.9...pretty disappointed in myself. Wanted to call it quits today because I have a girls night in next Saturday night that I was looking forwad to being in P3 for that but I have to remain strong and hold out for another week. I really need to get to 159 for my own sanity! I have hit it twice only to blow it. This round has been much tougher and it really doesn't pay to deviate at all on this protocol. Feel like I wasted my time this round. Not a complete waste, still down 11 lbs. or so for round two. I keep my journal at home and I can never remember from one week to the next. I do know my starting weigh and roughly my starting weight for round two. To date it's a total of 34.4 lbs with one week to go.