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LIW +9.6
Overnight Loss 2.4

Here is my menu – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: Coffee with Half and Half, 3 Egg Omelet with Swiss Cheese cooked in a pat of butter
MidMorning Snack: 2 Scrambled Eggs cooked in a pat of butter, topped with shredded cheddar and bacon bits
Lunch: 2 Boiled Eggs in Mayo, Mustard and S&P
MidAfternoon Snack: 1 Hard Boiled Egg
Dinner: 2 Boiled Eggs in Mayo and S&P

A total of 1235 cals divided: 98 fat grams (71%), 8 carb grams (3%), 75 protein grams (26%)

The Sweet Taste of Recovery!

Since Saturday – down 6.4 pounds in 4 completed days – that is what I call SUCCESS!!! In no other weight loss plan could I ever in a million years even smidgen a hope to recover this quickly. This shows what a complete MIRACLE this protocol is. I would like to say I am in ‘shock’, but quite frankly, this has happened this way before so I am pretty much expecting it.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Anyhoo, woke up late, don’t have time to complete my post this morning but had to let the early birds know my news. If you come back around 10am my time (Eastern US) – I will have completed my post, complete with shout outs to my commenters!

Stay tuned for Part 1a…

Part 1a of The Sweet Taste of Recovery! (Edited at 8:15 am Eastern)

Ok, so I got most of my early morning routine done and I am back.

Like I said before, I am seriously amazed at how well this protocol works. 6.4 pounds lost in 4 completed days. Simply awesome. When I was on Atkins and I had a slip up, I would try to rectify it and it would take me a week, sometimes two or three to recover … if I was even able to recover at all. Because it would take me so long to recover, I would get discouraged and then do something else stupid. But when you see results like what I have seen over the last 4 weigh ins, well, it just encourages you to keep on keeping on.

Let’s go over what I have done so far:

Saturday: I discovered I was 16 lbs over my LIW – Saturday was a special day for me, so I chose not to concentrate fully on what I ate, but I did stay away from white flour and sugar. And I concentrated on getting in my water.

Sunday: 1.4 lb loss – This day I really focused in on eating right again, primarily eating lots of raw, fresh foods. I gotta tell you, it felt DIVINE. I took in about 2250 calories – wow, didn’t think it was that much until I plugged it all into FitDay and was quite nervous that my weigh in Monday morning wouldn’t be great.

Monday: 2.6 lb loss – WOW – I was totally AMAZED – even after eating all that food, I dropped a good bit! Monday was another day spent eating a healthy dose of fresh, raw foods. I just KNEW I would see another drop.

Tuesday: 0.0 loss – HA! Ok, so I weighed in at a totally different time then I had been weighing in. Kids went back to school, so I weighed in at 5:30am (my usual time) instead of 8am – 9am like I had been doing since Saturday. I chalked up the no loss to a different time of weigh in. No worries. Regardless, I had already planned on doing an “Egg Day” this day to kick start a few days of alternating Protein / Normal Eating days. My theory is that when you confuse your metabolism, it works harder.

Wednesday: 2.4 loss – A total of 6.4 lbs since Saturday, with one day of no loss. Pretty darn good. Today, I am focusing in on a normal eating day. I will attempt to get my ratio of 60% fats, 25% proteins and 15% carbs – and then tomorrow will be another “Protein Day” – most likely NOT eggs – I get pretty tired of eggs after an “Egg Day” – probably Ground Beef – with a small amount of carbs.

How is that for recovery???

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Mary – Oh how I have missed you too! And I bet I am more happy than you to be back!

Regina – Girl! Amazing isn’t it! I hope you have fun on your trip!

Shelly – I am here now! Just email me when your ready to chat and we can make a “date” – look at how this is coming off! OMG!

Winston – Thanks for checking in my friend! It is just mind boggling that the recovery process is so sweet. It’s just a matter of making your mind over and doing it. OMG – 18 lbs? Me at 16 lbs? What were we thinking???

Becca – HA! Normal??? Girl, there is nothing normal about our lives! I really missed you too Becca – I need to tell you and your friend ALL about my sister’s eyes! OMG! The doctor said she might qualify for Lasik (sp?) surgery when she goes back in June??? How cool is that??? Girl, don’t worry about any gains … as I am proving (and Winston) they are recoverable.

Misto – look at you coming out of the woodwork to visit me!!! Believe me, I am glad to be home too!

TSN – oh oh, a GameCock eh??? I live in Charleston – my 2nd son is a Clemson fan. LOL – I love your BLOG! Looking forward to getting to know you better!

Liz – I am gonna do a post on the “Steak Day” – personally? I hated it the ONE time I did it and I found that doing an “Egg Day” is much easier – and actually produces better results with no bounce back. Dr S says that you must do the “Steak Day” on the morning that you see the increase – if you don’t then you must do strict dieting:

But if the skipping of the meal – and skipping means literally skipping, not just having a light meal – is postponed, the phenomenon does not occur and several days of strict dieting may be necessary to correct the situation.

I will focus on that tomorrow ok? And btw – TOM can do all sorts of freaky things – just do your best when he is around.

Until tomorrow!

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LIW +12

Here is my menu – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: Coffee with Half and Half and a Banana
MidMorning Snack: Apple
Lunch: 3 egg omelet with swiss cheese in butter
MidAfternoon Snack: Cottage Cheese and a fresh peach
Dinner: London Broil with horseradish and mayo dipping sauce, Large spring mix salad with tomatoes, cucumbers and mushrooms with homemade balsamic vinegar/evoo dressing – oh yeah, I had some wine too!!!

A total of 1800 cals divided: 91 fat grams (45%), 110 carb grams (22%), 107 protein grams (25%), and 19 grams of alcohol (7%)

Ah Yes! It’s Good To Be Home!

Ok, technically, I have been home since Friday afternoon, but I am sure you can imagine it’s taken me this long to get back into the swing of things at home. Seriously, there was so much to do to get caught up I haven’t had two minutes to rub together to get to my blog. But today marks the day of the start of my routines again.

Ah yes, routines! The backbone of my life. What I live and breathe for. Ok, I know, I crack myself up.

LIW

Sunday, March 16 was the last time I weighed myself in California. I started getting things ready then, which included packing up my scale. That day I weighed 170.4 – I pretty much stayed around that weight the entire time I was in California.

Saturday, March 22 was the next time I weighed myself, here at my home and when I got on the scale, I about FREAKED. It had gone up to 178 – in just 6 days. Ok, so I calmed myself down and chalked it up to traveling and the dang KFC I ate on Thursday night in honor of my daughter who was such a trooper on the plane ride home I would get her anything she wanted. Some very kind soul out there reminded me of my own words “do you know that a gallon of water weighs 8 pounds?” (Thanks Regina)

Not only was that 16 lbs above my LIW of round 4, but that was 2.6 above LIW from my round 3!!! When I told this to JPS, she laughed, and then said, where is it? I don’t see it? You look the same as when you left??? And I am like, I don’t know? Clothes still are fitting the same. I felt bloated, but seriously, 16 lbs worth? NOT!

Anyhoo, I wasn’t gonna worry about it ya know? It’s nothing but a thing and these were extenuating circumstances, and I knew that once I got back into my ‘routine’ things would find their way back to normal.

There is a lot to be said about stress = cortisol = weight gain. My trip was stressful. Not a bad stress, but a very busy stress. Life in California is totally on a faster pace then here in South Carolina, and quite frankly, I am too old for that lifestyle anymore. I would rather live out my life with rocking chairs on wrap around porches, sipping iced tea. Oh yeah, the southern life!

I digress.

So, Saturday I was 16 lbs over LIW – Today I am 12 – something to be said about being home and doing things right. I am seriously enjoying my fresh, raw foods again. Sure I enjoyed eating things in Cali that I can’t get here, but now it’s time to focus on being healthy and eating right.

THANKS TO ALL

I cannot express the thanks I have for each of you, my readers. I really let the ball drop while I was in Cali, yet I come back and look at my stats, and you folks have been so loyal to continue visiting me even when I didn’t post. Wow, that gives me warm fuzzies. Give me a few days to get back into the swing and I will be a posting maniac. As you can imagine, I have TONS of things to say!

A blanket THANK YOU to all my commenter’s as well! I will get back to replying to each and everyone of you starting tomorrow!

Until then, peeps! Have a good one!!!