Round 2 Starting Weight 214.4
Yesterday 201.2
Today 200.6
.6 Lost Overnight
50.2 Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

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WE ARE HAVING A PARTY!!!
CELEBRATE WITH ME!!!!
50 POUNDS GONE FOREVER!
YEAH ME!!!

OMG!!! I finally got my 50 pounds gone!!! WOO HOO!!! I was jumping up and down this morning, could you all feel me??? I was so happy to see that number on the scale! WOW! Who would have thunk that I could lose 50 pounds since June 23rd of this year? OMG! Not me, that is for darn sure.

This is surreal. Do you realize that June 23rd is only 99 days ago! GEESH! 99 days and I lost 50 pounds. In any other weight loss program, that would be unbelievable success! With this program, that is par for the course! With any other program, for me to lose an average of a half a pound a day, geesh, what would I have to do? I was on Atkins for a YEAR! STRICT! Exercised every single day. And I lost 60 pounds, but it took me a YEAR! I am at 50 pounds in under 100 days! And you know what? That is with 3 weeks off eating whatever I wanted with the exception of sugars and starches…and I didn’t even want them! So I was busy maintaining for three weeks and I still managed to lose an average of a half a pound a day over 100 days!!!

OMG! Did I say that yet?

Please celebrate with me! If your a lurker and don’t normally post on blogs, jot me an email at bizadventure at comcast dot net! Let me know you stopped by! Let’s have a virtually party today! Yes, today, it’s all about me! I don’t ever get to do this. I am always focused on everyone else, how they are doing, worried about their progress, seeing if I can be of some help, but today? I am gonna be TOTALLY SELFISH!

THIS IS ABOUT ME!

Whew! That out of the way, let me tell you that it’s measurement day! WOO HOO – oh yeah, and picture day! LOL

These are clickable – which means they are small here yes, but you can click on them and see larger ones:

MEASUREMENT DAY!!!Neck 16th = 14″ / 30th = 14″ (No Loss)
Bicep 16th = 13.75″ / 30th = 13.25″ (Loss of .50″)
Forearm 16th = 10.25″ / 30th = 10″ (Loss of .25″)
Chest 16th = 43.25″ / 30th = 41″ (Loss of 2.25″)
Waist 16th = 39.50″ / 30th = 37.25″ (Loss of 2.25″)
Hips 16th = 48.25″ / 30th = 47.25″ (Loss of 1″)
Thigh 16th = 27.25″ / 30th = 26.50″ (Loss of .75″)
Calf 16th = 17″ / 30th = 16″ (Loss of 1″)

Total Loss is 8″!!!! Keep in mind this is the total loss THIS ROUND!

WOW! Again, who would have thunk?

What was my menu for yesterday? I had chicken soup with cabbage for lunch, and my hubby grilled some steak for dinner and I had that with some red lettuce with Strawberry Vinaigrette Dressing. Was totally awesome!

Gosh people, I am at a loss…don’t know what to write today. I am pretty much gonna be flying high today!

99 days – 50+ pounds.

WOW. I am just gonna bask in my awesomeness today! HA! I crack myself up!

Biz

Round 2 Starting Weight 214.4
Yesterday 201.6
Today 201.2
.4 Lost Overnight
13.2 Lost Since Start of Round Two (VLCD) 09/16/07
49.6 Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

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THIS POST MIGHT BE TMI FOR SOME!!! READ WITH CAUTION!

HA! This is very melodramatic! Look at that, I had a talk with my body and my body didn’t listen. Well at least it gave me a compromise. So I guess I am needing to learn PATIENCE! OMG! I thought I learned patience the LAST round! I was 21 days, COUNTEM, 21 days in my 220’s – 21 days to lose 10 pounds. Did that not call for PATIENCE???

Perspective Biz, perspective. Keep the faith. It will happen, it’s going down, it’s NOT going up and it’s NOT stalling. I tell you what is happening. My body is going to make me work HARD for this 50 pound/under 200 milestone, make me APPRECIATE the SACRIFICE it took to get there, yeah, that’s the ticket. It’s trying to make me feel the pain. HA! YEAH BABY! I feel it already!

HA! Ok…I am over it.

So the researcher in me wouldn’t let it go. Why think of me any different? I kept telling people yesterday that this whole ‘down’ feeling felt to me like PMS – weird because I just finished my menses on the 25th (Tuesday) – why would I feel like PMS symptoms already on Thursday and Friday? So I did a little surfing.

This site was posted over at the Yahoo Group a bit ago:

Estrogen Dominance

Very interesting site on our Menses. Very educational. I noticed over the last day or so that I am ovulating (I wont tell you HOW I know, but women, you know HOW I know). So this could definitely be attributed to the slowdown I am experiencing. Notice what this says:

The time from the beginning of menstruation counting forward to ovulation can vary tremendously from 8 to 14 days.

Since that is true, let’s count from my first full day of menses which was the 18th (the Tuesday before I stopped) to my remarkable slow down – 10 days – right on the money! Let’s see what Dr Simeon’s says about ovulation – Under the Section Title “Interruptions of Weight Loss” and the Sub Title “Menstrual Interruption“:

The fourth type of interruption is the one which often occurs a few days before and during the menstrual period and in some women at the time of ovulation.

Well, I am definitely SOME WOMEN – so this applies to me. Isn’t it really wonderful that this man was such a genius and he pretty much spelled it out plainly? We women are so attached to a stupid number on a scale that we need to be reminded that we are a fine tuned baby making machine whether we ever use that function in our bodies or not. We have to deal with the cycle that happens and go on through life.

Did I need that little pick me up? Um, yes, after all, I am only human – I talk the talk to everyone else, but geesh, I am still a woman! I have my perks! I have my down moments and sometimes I need to be reminded how this is truly a MIRACLE and let it happen!

Ok…that is enough for me. Tired of feeling ick and ready to feel good again.

Let’s see, what was my food yesterday – do you believe I actually forgot to eat one of my fruits yesterday??? JUST PLAIN FORGOT! What the heck is THAT about? I had my Creole Catfish again for lunch, LOVE that stuff, it is so comfort food for me, and then I had my Thai Beef Cucumber Salad for dinner.

A bit of sadness for me in the blog community yesterday – A fellow blogger and HCG newbie, along with her family decided that HCG wasn’t a plan that could work for them. I was saddened by this news and quite frankly was at a loss for words. I wish them success in their journey to health, but because I want to keep my links on my blog directly HCG related, I feel I must remove their link from my list. If you visit, please understand that I wish you and your family the best in your journey to health!

Ok…tomorrow is guess what???? PICTURE DAY!!! MEASUREMENT DAY!!! I am excited, how about you???

Biz

Round 2 Starting Weight 214.4
Yesterday 202
Today 201.6
.4 Lost Overnight
12.8 Lost Since Start of Round Two (VLCD) 09/16/07
49.2 Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

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Ok, so I am SO OVER my body not letting me see that 50 pound mark, it’s gonna make me FIGHT for it! Well, I will soon show it whose boss.

Very down yesterday, couldn’t put my finger on it, but it was weird. Seems alot of people were down yesterday. Could this all be remnants of the “Harvest Moon” – some weird wild freaky stuff going on this past week. Wanting this week to be OVER!

Had a function to go to last night for my daughter (2nd grade), it was the Autumn Family Fun Night sponsored by the PTA – it was activities and such, but then they had a dance for the kids and it was crazy! HA! I was doing the “Electric Slide” with my little girl – first time in what seems like FOREVER that I have actually gotten out there and danced. Even with my bad back. Point is, I didn’t hide in the shadows as per normal. I went right out there and became part of the party. I didn’t even shy away when the resident photographer who takes pics at all the functions for the school took my pic while I was dancin! How funny!

Yeah, things are starting to happen. What a concept.

My eating yesterday? Simple – I pan fried celery and beef for lunch and had my Creole Catfish for supper.

Not a long post today. Still a bit weary from yesterday, feeling better, just not 100% – my friend JPS has a ‘theory’ about why we get like this from time to time. She feels there are times when our bodies are not getting the nutrients we need from our abnormal fat cells – that at a point our fat cells have nothing but junk to offer us and it makes us feel like crud. Well, if that is true, and she is not scientist, then it would explain the feeling of yuck.

So with that, I will leave you all to your daily duties.

Have a GREAT day!

Biz