VLCD ~ Day 6

Weigh in today........  175.5!!  Woo hoo!

Tried to log in and write last night, but this blog wasn't working for some reason.  So, today is day 6 and we are going strong.  Doug is down 9 lbs and I am down 7 lbs (after loading weight).  I tried a couple of the new recipes that I made and I LOVE the taco meat on lettuce with 1 melba toast crumbled on top (taco salad baby :)

I would write more tonite, but to be honest, I am exhausted.  I have been riding my exercise bike for 2 15min. spurts (not overdoing it) for the last 2 nights and I'll be damned if it ain't helping me sleep at night.

I will try and write more tomorrow....

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VLCD ~ Day 4

Weighed in at 176.5 today.

Another day, another pound gone!  Woo hoo!  I am definitely excited to see the scale moving.  It's day four and I have lost 4lbs in 4 days.  Doug has lost 6lbs in 4 days.  Men!  Always losing more/easier than women :-p

Anyhow, I searched the sites for recipes again tonite, I'm just positive that I will get sick of regularly seasoned chicken and burgers.  So tonite, we cooked up a ton of food!  Doug likes his stuff pretty plain, but I did pull up a recipe for "fried (actually baked) nuggets".  I made those and also seasoned up some regular nuggets and popped them in the oven for him.  I also made taco meat :)  It's always been a fav of mine.  I figure I'll throw it over lettuce, or dice up some tomatoes and mix it all together.  Then I made blackened chicken, caribbean chicken and found a recipe for a "mock shake n bake".  Oh yeah, got a recipe for meatballs too!  So we cooked it up, seperated it, froze some, refrigerated the rest.  I'm looking forward to a little something different.  I'll post back and let you know thumbs up or thumbs down.

As for now, it's 10:49pm, I am exhausted and gonna go chill on the couch with my man <3

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Day 3 of the VLCD

Woo hoo!  Weighed in today at 177.5 lbs!

On day two I weighed in at 180.5, so I'm down 3lbs in 3 days of the VLCD.  Sorry I didn't get to blogging yesterday.  We had spent entire day in the car.  My son lives with his dad in Louisiana and I had him for Christmas/New Year's.  We had to meet his daddy 1/2 way yesterday, which makes for a 9 + hour drive...ugh!  But, on a good note, we did excellent in keeping on protocol. :)  We packed up our lunch in advance.  Doug had steak and I had chicken (cold) which wasn't bad at all.  We also brought radishes and ate those too.  It wasn't bad at all.  I even thought ahead and packed a lunch for my daughter, so there was NO temptation to stop along the way.  We did good, if I do say so myself.

So we made it through today as well.  Let me start by saying that last night was a rough one for me.  The sleep was not good.  I found that I was aching all over and I tossed and turned most of the night.  At around 2:30am I decided to take a tylenol pm and that did the trick.  I was out til 8:45am.  I have decided to switch my vitamins around and take them in the evening.  I am hoping that the potassium at night will kill some of the cramps I seem to be having.

Today for lunch was cold chicken, on 1 1/2 cups of lettuce, with lemon juice drizzled on top as my "dressing".  Doug had a burger and lettuce.  For supper I had a burger (on the Foreman grill) with 2 tomatos sliced thin.  I upped my veggie tonite to stop the late night cravings.  We shall see....

Also, we are used to having something sweet on occasion, so we picked up some sugar free lifesavers.  We count the calories as part of the diet, so hopefully they won't screw anything up.

Lets hope for some good numbers tomorrow! 

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Day 1 of the VLCD

Weight this a.m.:  182.5 lbs (2lbs heavier after loading)

R1/P2/VLCD1 ~ Starting Jan. 1, 2011


Welcome to 2011! I had spent my last two days loading up (on food as well as spirits for the holiday ) I felt pretty much sick to my stomach from loading for 2 days. It was even hard having drinks last night!

I decided I should explain a few of the abbreviations people use while on this diet. 

R1 - means round one.  This is my 1st time on the hcg diet, so this would be my round one.

P2 - means phase 2.  Phase 1 is the loading days, Phase 2 is the 500 calorie diet, and Phase 3 is the maintenance.

VLCD - means Very Low Calorie Diet.  you would then add which day you are one, mine being VLCD1 (day one).

Well, today is a brand new day, and we have started day one of our 500 cal. diet. We woke up this morning and took our drops the same as we have been doing for the last two days. Then we took our "pill cocktail", which consists of a daily vitamin, B-12 and for me potassium (I am prone to leg cramps, and have read that it can be a side effect of the hcg diet) and today we added 2 tylenol for the New Year's Day headache we each have!
Neither one of us cares for tea or coffee, so it's been strickly water for us both. We did have our apple this morning, and lunch was 3.5oz of steak (seasoned) and 3.5 oz of radishes on the side. My problem is, I don't care for steak! So I didn't finish my last two bites of it... Then, due to the wonderful hangover from the previous days festivities, we both napped (as a matter of fact, I can still here him snoring from the couch ) I woke up and I don't feel hungry, which is good.

Dinner: 3.5 oz of chicken and I think it will be either lettuce, or celery. I haven't quite decided. I just took my evening dose of drops and will see if I can hold out closer to 6:00pm for supper so I don't spend the rest of my night starving.  So far so good today, but I don't really consider it a good judgement day cuz I'm hungover and not in my normal way today.

I hope I see a change in the scale tomorrow!  That would be encouraging :)

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