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R5P2 Starting Weight 176.8
Yesterday - 166.4
Today - 165.2
1.2 lb LOSS Overnight
3.2 lb Over LIW of Round Four (162.0)
11.6 Lost Since Start of R5C1 (VLCD) 05/06/08
85.6 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Yes, now that is what I am talking about! Only 5.2 pounds more to go till I get to my goal for this cycle, HA! And only 3.2 pounds to reach my LIW of Round 4 - I knew it would take this round to at least get back down to where I was on my LIW day. So this is just fine with me. Here are my stats compared to previous rounds:

• Round 1 (10 completed days) - 4.55% of body weight lost
• Round 2 (10 completed days) - 5.78% of body weight lost
• Round 3 (10 completed days) - 6.31% of body weight lost
• Round 4 (10 completed days) - 7.81% of body weight lost
• Round 5 (10 completed days) - 6.56% of body weight lost

Here is an interesting stat as well, this is my average weight loss per day:

• Round 1 - .66 loss per day (8 week round)
• Round 2 - .64 loss per day (6 week round)
• Round 3 - .85 loss per day (3 week round)
• Round 4 - .86 loss per day (26 day round)

If I average those numbers out, I can expect to lose around .75 per day, that is around 3/4 of a pound. Using that figure, and counting today, I have 11 more injections to LIW day. That means if I stick right, and live by my averages, I could stand to lose around 8 more pounds. That means I might see the 150’s on this round! OMG! Wouldn’t that be totally AMAZING!

Yesterday I had coffee for the first time in a while, I was just so cold, and I didn’t feel like drinking tea. I also saved my food up so that I could have a double portion of my husbands spaghetti sauce that he made special for me and JPS with no salt cans of tomato stuff. I ate mine on top of green beans, so I had like a modified steak day. During the afternoon tho, I had a snack of lettuce with feta and WHITE balsamic vinegar. OMG! That was simply delish, that is a definite keeper that WHITE balsamic!

Rebellious Eating

Ok, I hope I didn’t freak some of you out with my title. No, I didn’t have “Rebellious Eating” - but I was broached on this subject in my journal over at the My HCG Journey Community Forums - in part this is what was asked to me:

A certain member had a pristine Round 1 Phase 2 with a subsequent Phase 3 that was clean also - now they went on their Round 2 Phase 2 and pretty much all heck broke loose and they started feeling deprived and it was a hard round (aren’t all second rounds pretty much the pits???) and now this member is on Round 2 Phase 3 and is feeling very rebellious about their eating. She was wondering if I have ever felt that way?

Um, hello??? HA! I could definitely be this person, seriously. Oh sure, I might sound like I have it all going on at times, but nothing could be further from the truth. There is this constant rebellious spirit inside me that is screaming to just let her have her way. This alien inside is really mad when she sees her husband and her number two son eat what they want, and when they want, with what seems like no repercussions - but what repercussions is she looking for? Well the only one she knows how to look for, and that is weight gain. But is that all there is?

This protocol is so much more than just weight loss. It teaches us so many different things. The most significant thing it has taught me is my relationship to food. For instance, I have figured out that for the most part I am a perfect happy camper while at home and able to make my own food choices, able to stick to plan, whatever plan that may be. But when I travel, and get with friends and family, I start to throw caution to the wind because I feel that these are special occasions, I “deserve” to live it up and face my consequences when I get home.

Well, this girl has learned her lesson. This last family trip I took cost me 16 lbs when I got back. Because I chose to throw caution to the wind while in California, I am paying for it by being on this round 10 days so far and still not hitting the weight that I was back on February 17th (LIW Round 4) - that is not acceptable - rebellious spirit or not. I have worked TOO hard to get this far to screw with this again. Fact is, I am bigger than this rebellious spirit in me and I am worth TOO much to let this happen again, it’s about time I really accepted that as truth. The worth too much part. I deserve to be thin. I deserve to be healthy. I deserve to enjoy good healthy food that will make my body thrive. I am no longer that person that has to hide behind bad food choices.

So what does the rebellious spirit get me? What does any rebellious spirit get anyone? Nothing but heartache and pain. I have to stand up and do what is right for this machine I call my body. I have to feed it things that will enable it to be a well oiled machine that can last many years into the future.

Before I end this … I want to go back to the question I asked earlier about watching my husband and my number two son eat what they want with no repercussions … I asked, is that all there is? Do I just see weight gain as a repercussion? Well, no, that isn’t all there is. Because of the bad food choices that my husband and number two son continue to make, they might not gain weight, but they are sure paying for it in other ways. Both have IBS - my husband is dealing with liver problems, gall bladder problems, now he is complaining of pain in his left shoulder. My number two son deals with lethargy. All of these things are made better by eating a more healthy diet, but they will not change their eating habits. I can only inform them of the benefits of healthy eating, I cannot force feed them. What will it take for them to come to grips with this and do something about it? What did it take me? I have to give them enough rope … I’m just sayin …

Tomorrow? I am gonna talk about handling a deviation on Phase 2 …