August 27, 2007 - Day 4 on Phase 3

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

First the important stuff: I gained .8 - but still I am 1.2 below LIW -
so doing just fine. I only got in about 1670 calories, I honest to
goodness could not eat another thing. I was totally stuffed. Not
uncomfortable stuffed, but couldn't eat anything else stuffed. Didn't
want anything else stuffed. That kind of stuffed. I also started my
mens today, so who knows if that was the cause of the weight gain.

If you want to see my "menu" - take a look here:

http://bizadventure.home.comcast.net/hcg/dailydiet/082607FitDay.pdf

Any questions about anything I ate, please ask.

Yesterday morning, I had decided I was just gonna eat what I wanted when
I wanted it. The only request that I gave my hubby was that I didn't
want to eat late into the night, I wanted to stop eating at 8pm. He is
thrilled now because I am eating so called "regular" food so since he
just loves to cook he is experimenting with things he can give me. He
made for me for a snack yesterday afternoon, his version of "banana's
foster" - OMG - it was DELISH! All he did was pan fried bananas in
butter, then sprinkled Xylitol and cinnamon on it with a little rum and
poofed it with fire and then put whipped cream! OMG! Did I say it was
delish???

I made for dinner this Feta Avocado Salsa type thing to put on top of my
spinach leaves with some Grilled Chicken my hubby prepared along with
some asparagus cooked in butter and garlic. One small plate of food,
one totally enjoyable experience, no thoughts or desires of getting 2nds
and taking about 30 - 45 minutes to eat. This is how skinny people do
it.

I really feel like I am eating to live, not living to eat for the very
first time in my life. I am not craving food, I am not salivating about
it, I am enjoying my food when it's in front of me, but I am feeling
very satiated with the little portions that I have. I certainly don't
have the same emotional attachment to the food that I had before I
started. I find myself very satisfied eating 15 bing cherries for a
snack, instead of the huge bag of ruffles that wouldn't even end the
hunger.

This is the start of day four, and last night already I was looking
forward to going back to phase 2. It's like, I have had my fun, eaten
what I missed, let me go back to losing weight. My son asked me last
night are you not eating because your afraid to gain the weight back or
are you not eating because you are not hungry. How can you explain this
to someone that hasn't experienced it?

I didn't get to be 250 pounds because I didn't like food. I loved food.
ALL OF IT - now, I am loving my freshly made avocado feta tomato salsa
instead of a salad doused in Blue Cheese Dressing. Now, I am loving my
15 bing cherries, rather than a bag full of Ruffles. I am loving GOOD
food, and HEALTHY food. I am trying to eat more, but just can't. There
is something inside me that says, STOP! You have had enough! Your body
is FULL and you have given it what it needs!

Thank you Dr Simeons.

Biz

August 26, 2007 - Day 3 on Phase 3

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

Well folks, I tried and I tried - and I gained .2 pounds! HOORAY! I am
now officially only 2 pounds under my LIW - WOW - I ate like a PIG
yesterday folks! I really did! It's so amazing to me that I had to
consistently think of ways to 'fatten' my diet up so that I wouldn't be
under that 2 pound loss that Dr S doesn't really want you to be at. I
was figuring out ways to GAIN weight! OMG! How funny is that???

I ate a half a banana yesterday, figuring if anything would make me gain
it would be that (and thanks to JPS for telling me to UP MY CARBS!) - in
fact, I ate for dessert last night, bananas, strawberries and my own
whipped cream! MMMM, it was GOOD! I had so much cream in my coffee
during the day it wasn't even funny!

I printed a pdf of my menu and posted it here:

http://bizadventure.home.comcast.net/hcg/dailydiet/082507FitDay.pdf

Now the only thing that is lacking on that printout is all my spices I
used during the day - After years of being on Atkins, I have come to
realize I don't have to put all my spices and/or sweetener in FitDay -
that it usually comes up to no more than 15 or so calories for the day -
so they are missing on there.

I have been using Xilotol - and actually quite love it! I sprinkled my
fruit with it last night and also sweetened my whipped cream with it and
it was simply wonderful. No strange aftertaste and sweet like sugar.
Even my husband said, it doesn't taste like sugar out of the container,
but when mixed with something it's good! In my coffee it is simple
delish!

I enjoyed my food a bit better last yesterday. I stayed away from the
blue cheese dressing, and hubby made a remarkable London Broil on the
grill. MMMMM - Salivating yet???

I can't lie, these two days have been very stressful - I had no idea I
was going to have to deal with loss of weight rather than gaining
weight. I was totally prepared to be frantic about all the weight I was
gonna gain on Phase 3 - not prepared for the loss aspect, not
whatsoever!

I keep re-reading this in the DR S manuscript:

Losing more Weight

An ex-patient should never gain more than two pounds without immediately
correcting this, but it is equally undesirable that more than two lbs.
be lost after treatment, because a greater loss is always achieved at
the expense of normal fat. Any normal fat that is lost is invariably
regained as soon as more food is taken, and it often happens that this
rebound overshoots the upper two lbs. limit.

I don't want to lose 'structural fat' - that is why I am very concerned
about being under that two pound limit he speaks of!

Oh the stresses of Phase 3! These are the kinds of problems I want to
have!

If anyone does look at my food list, and is interested in anything I
fixed, just let me know!

Have a good morning!

Biz

August 25, 2007 - Day 2 on Phase 3

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

Yesterday completed my first Phase 3 day - eating anything I wanted but
staying off of sugars and starches.

Ok, phase 3 isn't all it's chalked up to be. I dreamed of the food I
wanted for a few weeks. I knew what my menu would be, and do you know
there were only THREE things that I really enjoyed - my BING CHERRIES,
my PORK RIBS and I had a beer. Everything else was blah. What really
shocked me was I wanted blue cheese dressing SO bad during my whole
round - and my FAVE blue cheese dressing "Maries" didn't taste like I
remembered. Even tho it's got pretty good stuff in it, it was very
chemically tasting and really, not at all like I thought it would taste.
I was highly disappointed. It makes me want to go back to braggs and
lemon!

I enjoyed my omelet, I really enjoyed my cherries, and my salad for
lunch was ok, then I had a peach for a snack and then my dinner.
Mmmmmm, pork ribs with a dry rub. Grilled to perfection. My husband
cooked some portebellos with butter and garlic and I enjoyed a couple of
slices of those, and then my salad. This time I sprayed a bit of that
WishBone spritzers in Ceaser flavor and that was a bit better. I had my
beer, all in all I totalled about 1700 - I wanted to be between 1500 -
1800.

Do you know that I lost weight this morning??? I am now 2.2 pounds
UNDER my LIW - who would have even DREAMED that I would lose weight
after all that food I ate? What am I going to have to do? DRINK FAT???
I can't imagine needing to go up to 2000 calories just to maintain my
weight??? That is LUDICROUS!

So, today is a concentrated effort to down 1800 calories. It wont be
easy - honest to goodness folks, it was HARD eating yesterday. JPS
thinks I may have HCG in my system still. I don't know, but it took me
almost an hour to eat my dinner. I took some ribs and only ate like
half and let them sit there and tried awhile later to finish.

Ok, that is my first day experience...stay tuned for day 2.

Biz

August 24, 2007 - Day 1 on Phase 3

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning,

I have been neglecting my updates haven't I? Oh well, I will do better
I promise!

I have had absolutely no hunger during my 72 hours since last injection
weight. I even lost more weight! I am now 1.6 pounds under LIW - so I
have some room to play with for the next 3 or so weeks (remember, I am
only taking a 3 week break).

Today starts my Phase 3 eating. This morning I had a cup of coffee and
a one egg omelet, cooked in butter with swiss cheese and onions. I am
STUFFED! And I am ONLY up to 286 calories so far! I gotta get a handle
on this, I am aiming for 1500 calories today. I am going to the store
this morning and buying the food I need for this weekend. I have begged
my husband to make me ribs today because I have missed pork
unbelievably! JPS mentioned she wanted me to make some
Spinach/Artichoke dip so I am buying the stuff necessary for that.

Sorry, if this makes any of you salivate, but hey, I put in my 8 weeks
of hard labor! LOL

I will let you know as the day progresses what I am eating. I honestly
cannot believe that this one egg omelet almost looked too big for me to
eat, and before I did this protocol, I wasn't satiated with a three egg
omelet! LOL

Seriously folks, I am STUFFED!

I am starting Phase 3 at 212.2 - who would have thunk?

Thanks for the support! I really appreciate each and everyone of you.

Biz

August 21, 2007 - Day 56 Complete on VLCD

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

Boy did I miss all of you over the weekend. I had to have my HCG FIX and no one was around! Ok, Ok, I know the board was down, but still, that didn't help anything!

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

~*~TODAY WAS MY LAST DOSE OF HCG FOR THIS ROUND~*~

I am about to embark on PHASE 3! Just 72 hours from now, I will be having my first Phase 3 meal! I am so excited, apprehensive, but still excited!

I ended on this note:

• Start weight - 250.8 - End weight - 213.8 - Total of 37 pounds lost
• Started 1st Injection on June 23, 2007 with NHW - 3 load days, and first VLCD June 26, 2007
• Ended my 6 weeks worth of shots from NHW on August 4, 2007 - that was a total of 32 shots (if you include the 2 first injection shots)
• Started with Gloria's sublingual recipe on August 7, 2007 using 150iu dose per day (taken twice a day)
• Ending today - August 21, 2007

My inch loss was nothing short of a miracle. Look at these numbers!

Neck Bicep Forearm Chest Waist Hips Thigh Calf
15.50 15.50 10.50 46.00 43.00 56.50 33.00 18.00
14.00 13.50 9.75 39.50 36.50 47.50 25.25 16.00

I am so excited with the results from this.

And oh yeah, I posted todays pics!

Please have a great day everyone!

The Progress of Biz

Biz
250.8/213.8/150 (Lost 37 lbs) - Total of 36" lost - As of 08/21/07 (56 completed days 500 cal)
Started 1st Injection on 06/23/07 - Started 500 Cal on 06/26/07 - No Gain During Load Phase
NHW for supplies but following Dr Simeon's Protocol
Using New Scale as of 07/13/07
~*~Started on Sublingual - using Gloria's Original Recipe - 150iu Dose per day - 08/07/07~*~

August 18, 2007 - Day 53 Complete on VLCD

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

Thank you first of all for all the nice comments you folks made to me yesterday! It's cool to know that my daily progress is being heard by the masses! LOL

Scale was REALLY nice to me today! Down 1.2 pounds! Didn't expect that, no how no way! Down to 214.4!!! WOW - Totally blew me away!

I have officially 3 more days of weigh in before it's my LIW - I need to lose 1.4 pounds to get to 213 - which would be WAY cool to be there during my break. That is only a little less than a half a pound a day. DOABLE??? Well, we can only hope!

Stay tuned as the last of the round 1 story of biz comes to an exciting conclusion!

The Progress of Biz

Biz
250.8/214.4/150 (Lost 36.4 lbs) - Total of 32.50" lost - As of 08/18/07 (53 completed days 500 cal)
Started 1st Injection on 06/23/07 - Started 500 Cal on 06/26/07 - No Gain During Load Phase
NHW for supplies but following Dr Simeon's Protocol
Using New Scale as of 07/13/07
~*~Started on Sublingual 08/07/07~*~

August 17, 2007 - Day 52 Complete on VLCD

(Direct copy and paste from my post at the HcgDieters Yahoo Group)

Good Morning!

I know - a little late this morning. I don't even know if people even read about my progress anymore! LOL - it's ok, I like talking to myself anyhoo. Plus it's a place for me to journal and it helps me with accountability.

Again the scale was nice to me! .6 loss to a total of 35.2 - I am down in my 215's! 215.6 to be exact. Dare I even begin to hope that I might be down in my 214's or 213's by the time I am done with this round on Tuesday? OMG! That would be just a miracle!

Every day there is a weight loss is a bonus for me. At the beginning of this I had a goal of 30 pounds, and I did that, but now it's 35 - anything else is just gravy!

No picture update today. I left my camera behind when I went to family this past weekend, and they are sending it back to me. So whenever it gets here, I will take pics.

TTFN

The Progress of Biz

Biz
250.8/215.6/150 (Lost 35.2 lbs) - Total of 32.50" lost - As of 08/17/07 (52 completed days 500 cal)
Started 1st Injection on 06/23/07 - Started 500 Cal on 06/26/07 - No Gain During Load Phase
NHW for supplies but following Dr Simeon's Protocol
Using New Scale as of 07/13/07
~*~Started on Sublingual 08/07/07~*~