R3P2 Starting Weight 193.2
Yesterday – 187.2
Today – 186.2
1.0 lb LOSS Overnight
1.2 UNDER LIW of Round Two (187.4)
7.0 Lost Since Start of R3 (VLCD) 11/26/07
28.2 Lost Since Start of R2 (VLCD) 09/16/07
64.6 Lost Since Start of R1 (VLCD) 06/26/07

Here is my menu for yesterday.

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WOW! Again, another pound, I am just a fat burning machine this round.

There is a lot to be said, I tell you, from being in the RIGHT mind set with this protocol and the weight you lose. Please notice that I didn’t freak about my gain, I am not focusing on the fact that it’s only “1.2″ under my LIW. I am THRILLED that I have lost 7 lbs so far, no matter what! WOO HOO!!!! I am GROWING UP!!!

The scale is my friend, not my enemy!!! Now I just need to remember that when the scale doesn’t co-operate and I want to throw it out the window. You all have my permission to remind me that I said those words! hehe

An update on my son … he lost 2 lbs on his first day. Keep in mind that he was already 4 lbs UNDER LIW when he started this round, AFTER load, and now he is 6 lbs under LIW. So he is doing just peachy.

What was my menu like yesterday. Coffee with milk in the morning, apple with lunch which was steak, lettuce, cilantro with braggs/vinegar dressing, dinner was shrimp, lettuce, cilantro, apple with braggs/vinegar dressing. Yes, I mixed my apple with my salad and it’s definitely something I am doing again.

I seem to be stuck in the “lettuce” mode right now. No problems. Raw is good for you. I just wish I was eating more healthy lettuce.

I had a sort of rough night last night, so I got started posting a little late, so I am just gonna finish today with my commenter’s:

Lili – Thanks hon, for the visit and the really nice words! I am so glad your store is doing well!

Mary – yes, you were correct, yesterday was a new day and it was a good one! I owe you a response on your email. Can you IM while your at work?

Amy – I left you the mustard chicken recipe on your blog, hope you saw it. Now if you were singing along with me, does that mean we are “around” the same age, cause that song definitely shows our age!

Crystal – I remember your experience with the family gathering ending you up in the ER – but this is precisely the reason I want to broach this subject. I haven’t figured out my form yet, but I will sometime today and post it ready for tomorrow, or maybe hold off until Monday because I know alot of people read this while at work….hmmmm.

Larbsl – Maybe there are some helpful hints you can offer me with your editing skills!

Winston – I don’t know if you know how much it means that you are a part of our little “community” of bloggers. It’s good to have some testosterone in our midst. It’s always good to get a male perspective from time to time. YOU keep up the good work you LOSER you! Almost 50 pounds!!! WOW!!!

Brooke – Our family actually saw him at Pleasure Island at Disney back about 10 years ago, ugh, he was NOT the man he was in the 70′s when we saw him, but if you closed your eyes, it was the same guy! ROFL – Is this showing YOUR age as well???

Michaela – Shortened breaks … I am still of the opinion that it is UBER necessary to give your body the 21 days after your last VLCD to “stabilize” – then another round can take place. What gives me that thought process even tho it’s in direct contradiction to what the good doctor says? In my research of different clinics across the nation who have since did Dr S’s protocol, it seems that the breaks were just a “theory” Dr S had. If I would have stayed with NHW my entire time, and not even known about Dr S, they would have put me on max 8 week courses with min 2 week breaks. But again, I don’t believe in the 2 weeks, I feel you NEED, your BODY needs the 3 weeks to get stable and then you can start again. But again, this is just MY thoughts and how I continue to work my rounds.

Monica – WHERE YOU BEEN!!! Can we get an update on you???

Jennifer – See my post to Michaela above, pretty much sums it up. Thanks for the visit!

Becca – I didn’t get to complete my form yesterday – it’s not gonna go long, but I want to make sure I phrase the questions right ya know?

OK – I have to get a move on, already running late. Have a wonderful day everyone, full of sunshine and rainbows.

Miz Biz Whiz

R3P2 Starting Weight 193.2
Yesterday – 189.2
Today – 187.2
2.0 lb LOSS Overnight
0.2 UNDER LIW of Round Two (187.4)
6.0 Lost Since Start of R3 (VLCD) 11/26/07
27.2 Lost Since Start of R2 (VLCD) 09/16/07
63.6 Lost Since Start of R1 (VLCD) 06/26/07

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That’s the way, uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh!

Who would have THUNK it??? I certainly did NOT expect it, but it happened. It’s Thursday and I am finally under my LIW! THANK YOU DR S!!!!

After the day I had yesterday? OMG! I thought the stress I was under yesterday was going to translate to the scale. AND boy oh boy, it fooled me! Could you all hear my screaming from here??? I am ON my way! WOO HOO for me!

Seriously folks, yesterday was one of those days you wish you would have never gotten out of bed. One thing after another kept going wrong. And let’s add that to the fact that I was one big emotional piece of crud yesterday because of Aunt Flo and you get yourself a very volatile situation! ROFL

Suffice it to say, I am putting yesterday BEHIND me, yes sirreee Bob, it’s done, it’s over and I don’t even want to talk about it.

I’m getting all excited again! There are some things being done “behind the scenes”, one of which is that I am starting to put together a PODCAST! I am thinking that is how I am going to handle my FAQ’s for the first few episodes, so I will be a busy little beaver behind the scenes getting that done! Also, some other stuff is going on too! I am so excited, but I can’t post anything about it yet, but I certainly can build anticipation! WOO HOO!

What did I eat yesterday? Nothing out of the ordinary. Let’s see, I had coffee in the morning with my 1 tbsp of milk, I ate my apple with my lunch which was cajun catfish over lettuce, and then dinner was mustard chicken over lettuce with cilantro and a cut up apple with a bit of hot pepper vinegar, boy I gotta tell you that was delish and I am having that AGAIN! What a combination of sweet and spicy! LOL

Have any of you gotten your book yet? I want to start discussing it, but not until you folks that are going to join me have it.

Oh, and there is this thing that is playing in my mind about “food/family/important gatherings” – I am just not sure how to frame the thoughts without sounding condescending. I don’t want to come across as condescending to anyone, after all, this is all a very personal journey. But there are some things I just don’t understand about some people’s thought processes. Seriously, I am trying to wrap my head around how I want to discuss it, so bear with me.

How about this, let me set up a form and see what YOUR thoughts are on this. I will figure out some questions and post a form tomorrow. That will help me form my thoughts to share with you. I know, I am talking very cryptic, forgive me, but I don’t want to go forward until I am sure of my own thoughts.

Oh well, that is all for this morning. I am finally at about 90% better. This cough is lingering tho and that isn’t fun. Until tomorrow!

On to my commenter’s:

Amy – YES! Back in the 180′s, how sweet it is!!! Yeah, I am thrilled that there are three of us doing this together, it’s so much more fun when you have someone doing this with you ya know? You don’t feel so all alone! My son only ended up gaining .4 his WHOLE load! ROFL – what a metabolism. Yesterday was his first VLCD so I will be posting tomorrow how he did.

Crystal – That is way too funny to hear about your husband! He didn’t know what stretch marks were??? OMG! I had to laugh!

CB – Every lesson you learn on this protocol makes you stronger and stronger. You will soon be spouting off advice left and right based on the experience you have gained trying this an doing that. I will be around your blog sometime this morning to see what you wrote.

Cheryl – well, hubby went to work yesterday, but he did call me about a million times telling me how miserable he was! ROFL – My nieces daughter went on the protocol earlier this summer, and she is only 15. They went thru a clinic, and they told her that any girl is fine to do this protocol as long as they are done with puberty. My grand-niece had an early puberty. If you need further information, I can get some for you!

BB – Interesting theories! I just LOVE theories. I love it when people give me their thoughts on why something works, or why something else doesn’t work. It really helps me make informed decisions! I will think about yours…and girl? ANYTHING made with Sweetened Condensed Milk is AWESOME! My mom makes this “Pineapple Sherbert” with that this is KILLER!

Brooke – yeah, I cannot even imagine being 130 – my goal is only 150 – I remember being 130 in 11th grade and thinking I was FAT. I was running 7 miles every other days so I had THIGHS to die for! I look back on my pics and I am like, girl, what the HECK were you thinking??? You were FINE! ROFL

Tracey – NOPE! No laughing here! ROFL – oh wait, there is a laugh! Thanks for the visit!

Okie Dokie peeps! Have a WONDERFUL day!

Biz

R3P2 Starting Weight 193.2
Yesterday – 190.8
Today – 189.2
1.6 lb LOSS Overnight
1.8 lb Over LIW of Round Two (187.4)
4.0 Lost Since Start of R3 (VLCD) 11/26/07
25.2 Lost Since Start of R2 (VLCD) 09/16/07
61.6 Lost Since Start of R1 (VLCD) 06/26/07

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Ok, ok, I can HOPE to be at LIW tomorrow, but in reality, don’t think that is going to happen, based on AUNT FLO showing up it seems my prediction might take a wee bit longer. That’s ok, it was still MIGHTY fine seeing something OTHER than a “1″ and a “9″ as the first two numbers on the scale. YES! That brought MUCH joy!

According to my calculations, I only have to lose an average of .71 per day in order to reach my goal of 15 lbs for this round. Today I am exactly 2 per day, so as long as my average keeps up I will be just fine. And really, even if it doesn’t. I am fine either way.

What did I eat yesterday? Hmmm, I had an apple for breakky with some coffee and 1 tbsp of milk, steak and onions fajita style for lunch, cajun shrimp on lettuce with a bit of vinegar for dinner and grapefruit for desert. Seriously, this is the first time for me to try grapefruit this protocol. I don’t know how anyone eats that stuff, it was WAY too gross. I am sticking to apples, oranges and strawberries.

Did I mention that my son is once again doing this protocol with us this round? He was originally going to wait until January to finish his last round, but him and daddy decided they wanted to join us for this short round. The boy (ok, so he is NOT a boy, he is a man at 17, but he still is MY boy) has confounded me the entire break in eating whatever he wants and maintaining WAY below his LIW. Monday he loaded, and between Monday and Tuesday he didn’t gain an ounce. We shall see what today brings. I made his favorite last night, beef stroganoff, and he had more than one serving.

He ended his 1st round a week and a day ahead of schedule on Sept 20th – he was 189.8 – so he went 4 weeks and 6 days and lost 25.8 pounds. During the entire time since that date, he only had two days where he was ABOVE his LIW – all the rest has been below, at times as much as 7 pounds under. He eats what he wants, pizza, chips, desserts, breads, junk, you name it, he has eaten it, and he has never gone above. He would like to lose an additional 15 or so pounds, but the weight doesn’t concern him as much as the body distribution, so he is hoping for more inch loss then weight loss this round.

Monday was his first injection, and his weight was 185.4 – 4.4 below LIW – Tuesday his weight stayed the same, and I will update you tomorrow what his first VLCD weight will be. I will post updates on him as I can.

I don’t know what it is about this round, but it’s very different than my 2nd round. I was 2nd guessing myself the entire time on my 2nd round. I don’t know if I got cocky or what, but my 2nd round really was not a pleasant experience. This round is really easy so far. Ok, so I know it’s only the third day, but I can remember my 2nd round it not being this easy even on the 3rd day. If you remember, I did a lot of ‘experimenting’ on my 2nd round to see what would work and what wouldn’t. I found out that all that experimenting was not in my best interest.

If you remember, I tried, half and half, I tried mixing veggies, I tried pork, I had HORRIBLE protein cravings for almost 3 weeks. Don’t know what that was about. But this round, I don’t feel any of that. What is different? Why do I feel this way now and I didn’t feel this way then? This is something I am thinking about deeply.

On to my commenter’s:

Amy – Yes, a PodCast is something that you would be able to download and listen to on your computer, phone, iPod or whatever. I had a discussion with my hubby about it last night so we are gonna work on something. Did I ever mention that my husband is a musician? So he has all the right equipment right here at the house. The one sick boy went to school yesterday so that was nice, but the sick husband stayed home. Doesn’t he know I need my ALONE time! ROFL

Crystal - I could never do a video, but I don’t mind my voice being heard, southern drawl and all! ROFL – Aunt Flo is a PITA that is for sure. You lost 12 pounds in one day before? OMG – how is that even possible??? Go girl, wishing good loss vibes your way!

Brooke – Lili is kinda sweet that is for sure! Miz Biz Whiz! HA! That put a smile on my face. A whiz? Don’t think so, experienced? Maybe. But I do know how to talk alot that is for sure.

Ewewho – So we are on this together! I think there is more than a few of us this time around. Hope you are posting your progress, I so love keeping up with everyone!!! I hope to need your ‘services’ again here soon. Gosh, can you imagine if I can get to 75 pounds loss this round???? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!

Cheryl – I only started on Monday, so 2.4 was pretty good for one day eh? LOL – you poor dear, I know you were having issues with your links or something and didn’t even know we were all updating our blogs over the weekend, it’s so weird to feel so out of the loop. It’s like we need this daily connection to keep us going. We are addicts, plain and simple! Whatever this is that my husband has, I surely don’t want it. He was actually in tears at one point he was hurting so bad.

CB – Actually girlfriend, I have absolutely NO advice on diuretics as I have never used them. I don’t have a real problem with retaining water, but I do notice that the lower I get in weight I do “know” when I have had too much salt. I have always just gone the next day and upped my water intake and lowered my salt intake and it usually takes care of itself. Personally, I always try to find something “natural” to handle issues before I resort to medication. I hear apples and cabbage are natural diuretics. What is happening Thursday if I may ask??? Is there something we all can do to help you battle this stress???? xoxo to you too!

Lili – You better get them to inscribe that in GOLD! ROFL – Girl, you told me, we are all in this together. We are all in the same boat, and Karma is a good thing ya know, when you use it for good that is! ROFL – I am really so excited for you!!!!

Ok, I have to remember to start my time posting a little better. I wanted to delve into this “family/food/social” thing, but I am running out of time today. I think I might need to do a podcast as I have THOUSANDS of words to say and I can’t type as fast as I can talk. ROFL – you folks will get sick of me, I almost guarantee it!

Oh, and one more thing…there are a few new blogs I have added to my list up there on the left corner sidebar of my blog. If you haven’t been there yet, I highly encourage you to add these to your regular reads. There is a wealth of information that can be gleaned from our experience, each one of us can offer something different to the whole plate of this journey, so the more the merrier.

Ok, off and running, have a great day people, and keep it full of Sunshine and Rainbows.

Miz Biz Whiz