Are You Attached to a Certain Number on the Scale? - 02.02.08 - D12P2R4

R4P2 Starting Weight 184.4
Yesterday - 170.0
Today - 169.4
0.6 lb LOSS Overnight
6.0 lb UNDER LIW of Round Three (175.4)
15.0 Lost Since Start of R4 (VLCD) 01/22/08
81.4 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Here is my menu for yesterday. This is what I had:

Well, yesterday I had every intent of changing up my menu because quite frankly I was getting bored. And things went well until after my afternoon snack! I had my coffee and half and half, a grapefruit half for morning, Thai Hot and Sour Soup for lunch, grapefruit for mid afternoon snack, and then I don't even want to go into what happened for supper. Suffice it to say that all I had for dinner was coffee and cream. Don't holler at me, it was a preponderance of things that lead to this decision, as I absolutely refuse to eat past 7pm ... the rest is history.

A total of around 310 calories divided this way: 6 Fat, 35 Carbs, 30 Protein

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Do As I Say, Not As I Do!

Don't skip meals unless absolutely necessary - seriously. I didn't plan what happened last night, I wanted to eat my dinner, it is just circumstances prohibited it, and I was not going to take a chance of eating at 7pm - I just can't eat that late anymore. Just not gonna do it.

With everything else that happened last night, I ended up with a migraine. Now this is the 2nd migraine I have had in 4 weeks, and now I am going to have to assume it has something to do with the coffee. I hate it, but you don't have to hit me over the head with a baseball bat more than twice for me to get the picture. I am off of coffee.

I fully expect there to be some sort of bounce back or stall because of not eating yesterday, I will be sure to eat today my required meals. In any case, I am in the 160's today and all is good with the world. 169.4 - that just looks WRONG, but it isn't. What an amazing program. I am on this until the 17th of this month (LIW) and I do believe that my goal for this round might have been a little short sighted. I only have two more pounds to reach my goal, and I think I may get there some time next week!

Most excellent!

Here are the numbers for those of you following:

Day 11 (Complete) - Round 4 = 8.13% Body Weight Loss
Day 11 (Complete) - Round 3 = 6.73% Body Weight Loss
Day 11 (Complete) - Round 2 = 5.78% Body Weight Loss
Day 11 (Complete) - Round 1 = 4.94% Body Weight Loss

To me? That is simply incredible!

Are You Attached to a Certain Number on the Scale?

The closer we get to what we consider our 'ideal' weight we start to be very determined to reach a certain number on the scale. It could be a number that we were at in high school, a number that we were when we were married, a number we were at in college, but a certain number where we feel that we need to be in order to call this program a success.

I have posted this time and time again that my so called "goal" weight of 150 is so arbitrary because I really have no idea what HCG can do for this 45 year old body. It might stop me at 150, or it might continue to go down to 135, or some other ludicrous number, but it's not about the number on the scale with me. I am all about my body and what the HCG does to it.

I am seriously a completely different person than when I was married the first time in 1981, at 108 pounds. Do I think it's possible to get to that weight again? Um, NO, I don't even WANT it. I have had a child for goodness sake, my body has changed. I am completely content to letting the HCG dictate where I need to be. I have had enough experience with this program, and watching the successes of others to KNOW that it does indeed work, and work well.

I see more and more people out there becoming discouraged with the program the closer they get to their goal. What is simply amazing to me is that they have seen it work with the first 50 pounds they had to lose, but when it comes to the HCG doing the "SCULPTING" thing, they all of a sudden start to have doubts about the validity of the program. That blows my mind.

What that says to me is that they are looking at this protocol as only a weight loss thing, and not what it truly was designed for: FAT ON THE MOVE - Dr S made that plain. I am reminded time and time again of his story of "The Emaciated Lady". If you haven't refreshed your memory of this story, please allow me to do this for you.

The Emaciated Lady

I remember the case of a lady who was escorted into my consulting room while I was telephoning. She sat down in front of my desk, and when I looked up to greet her I saw the typical picture of advanced emaciation. Her dry skin hung loosely over the bones of her face, her neck was scrawny and collarbones and ribs stuck out from deep hollows. I immediately thought of cancer and decided to which of my colleagues at the hospital I would refer her. Indeed, I felt a little annoyed that my assistant had not explained to her that her case did not fall under my specialty. In answer to my query as to what I could do for her, she replied that she wanted to reduce. I tried to hide my surprise, but she must have noted a fleeting expression, for she smiled and said “I know that you think I'm mad, but just wait.” With that she rose and came round to my side of the desk. Jutting out from a tiny waist she had enormous hips and thighs.

By using a technique which will presently be described, the abnormal fat on her hips was transferred to the rest of her body which had been emaciated by months of very severe dieting. At the end of a treatment lasting five weeks, she, a small woman, had lost 8 inches round her hips, while her face looked fresh and florid, the ribs were no longer visible and her weight was the same to the ounce as it had been at the first consultation.

Notice what I highlighted. Good grief! Can you imagine being this woman??? 5 entire weeks on this protocol, and she was exactly the same weight as when she started. Can you imagine??? And I hear people getting disgruntled at two days at the same weight. What the heck???

The true MIRACLE of this protocol is the SCULPTING, and not the WEIGHT LOSS. Please, please, PLEASE remember that. Sure, massive weight loss happens in the beginning, but then you need to give the HCG time to SCULPT and MOLD your body.

Granted, this woman had a DOCTOR telling her all was well, that things were working like they were supposed to. And I am sure through Dr S's clinic that he was meticulous with measurements and pictures for his research. But us? Most of us have chosen the road of SELF DOCTORING and so we don't have that benefit of someone telling us all is well, just keep doing what your doing and it is working. We have to rely on ourselves, and quite frankly, we can let a little thing like no loss on the scale drive us down a dark and empty path of futility.

When you are close to goal, and you are having days without losses, what are you doing to prove to yourself that the HCG is still working?

• Have you taken measurements?
• Have you taken pictures? (CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT PICTURES ARE!)
• Do you have a pair of jeans a size or two smaller than when you started that particular round and try them on every day to see if it feels different?

Dr S was very clear that the HCG would stop working when there was no more fat to move. He never said that once the weight loss stops your done. He said, once your RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY the HCG had stopped consuming abnormal fat.

Please stop thinking of this as a "DIET" - it's a PROTOCOL - MEDICALLY PROVEN - it's not just to LOSE weight, it's to get rid of abnormal fat. Remember that, PLEASE???

Do not get attached to what ever number you think is your IDEAL weight. Let the HCG determine that number. After all, I don't mind being 150 lbs if I am in a size 8!!! Are you FREAKIN' KIDDING ME???

Nuff said...

On to my commenter's - these are my responses to yesterday's comments:

Shelly - HA! Baby got back! Too funny!

Mary - I made it, I made it!!! WOO HOO FOR ME!!!

Monica - I really did give it a shot to like Stevia, but I can't do it. I have tried all different brands, and both the liquid and the powder, and it is just ick. I don't like sweet and low either because of the bad stuff, but while I am on protocol, that is what I use - the sweetness most resembles sugar to me. Maintaining positives is the way to go, especially on this protocol!

Crystal - it sure is good to have you back!!!

Lili - you crack me up! HA! Have success at your show! Save some of that money for the YOU KNOW WHAT!!!

Have a good day people!

Biz