The Trick Worked!

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LIW +7.0
Overnight Loss 1.0

Here is my menu for the day before - this is what I ate:

Fat Fast Items: Coffee with Half and Half, Cream Cheese, Natural Peanut Butter, Tuna, Mayo, Coconut Oil, Cocoa and a Pickle

A total of 1002 cals divided: 88 fat grams (78%), 18 carb grams (6%), 31 protein grams (13%)

The Trick Worked!

I told you folks I had another trick up my sleeve. I am hesitant to tell you about it, only because it should be used only in the direst of circumstances. If you do some research on it, you will find that there is a lot of negative press about it. It's not fun, it's hard, harder than the protocol if you ask me, but it can work.

Only use it with discretion.

Again, this is something that I found worked while I was doing Atkins and would have those weeks and weeks and weeks with no loss, you all know those times I am talking about. The diligence of following a plan, no deviations, and to wake up morning after morning with no loss. That was discouraging.

In Dr Atkins original book, he mentioned the "Fat Fast" - if your an old Atkinsite, you will remember this, but it most consisted of cream cheese and mac nuts. VERY BORING. Over the years, it has been modified to be a bit more palatable. Still, it is NOT easy to do this. It is NOT fun. But it does work, as you can see, I finally got to see the 160's for the first time in over a month. That feels good, I have to say.

Here is a description of the "Fat Fast".

Here are some incredible modifications for it.

So it worked, what do I do now? I am gonna concentrate on a "maintaining" day today, but I will be sticking to Atkins Induction levels, don't want to introduce too many carbs into my system too quickly. Tomorrow? I will do another "Fat Fast" and will see where I end up on Saturday.

I have been asked some questions about why I want to get down to LIW - or as close as possible before I start again. This was a mutual decision between the girl I do this with offline. We had already discussed making our 5th round our last. We were gonna go until the HCG tells us to stop. That is our PLAN anyway. How we decided to do this is to do it in short 3 week rounds with 10 day breaks. Being that this is the case, we both want to be at least CLOSE to LIW because there is no wiggle room until we are done. Every pound loss is going to count, and we cannot gain anything in between. We don't want to spend half the time losing just what we gained. We both feel that 4 lbs over LIW is acceptable, but not 8 lbs over LIW. 8 lbs would take me at LEAST 6 days to lose on HCG, if not more, and with only 21 days on HCG, well, you see the dilemma.

We did however both agree last night that our first injection for round 5 will be on the 12th of April. We did decide that we would both actively work on getting our weight down as close as we can until that date, and come heck or high water we were gonna start. So we established a deadline. Doable I feel.

Any questions? Just ask ok?

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

Shelly - HA! It worked! Today is strict maintaining! Thanks for the support!

Mary - I am sure it's a number of things, and since TOM still hasn't shown up, I might be able to see another drop soon!

Becca - Do you understand a bit better why we wanted to wait? This will be our final round. No more traveling plans, no more long breaks, just gonna go until done. Question for you Becca - if you are not discipline enough to do the 'strict dieting' how on earth are you going to maintain after goal? Will HCG be a part of the rest of your life? Just a thought. Hope the egg day worked for you!

Jan - Do you understand a bit better now why we are wanting to wait until we are closer to LIW? We can't have this attitude that the HCG will be the answer each and every time. We spend too much time losing what we gained, when that time could be better spent in losing what hasn't been lost yet. Wait, did that make sense?

Hazel - thanks for the support! I think I shook things up a bit yesterday! YUP! That is the way to show this body who is boss!!!

Jenn - actually getting back into my routines of waking up at 4am! LOL - Being that I ended up at 170, which was the weight I was almost the entire time I was in Cali, not losing on the egg day proved that it was a set point for me and that I needed to do something that my body hadn't experienced for along while. Shock it into fast ketosis, and that is what I did, get that fat burning back up and RUNNING!

B - thanks for the support my friend. Yes, you knew I had something up my sleeve didn't you??? And once again, the Bizinator comes thru! LOL