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R5P2C4 Starting Weight 150.6
Yesterday – 148.2
Today – 147.0
1.2 lb LOSS Overnight
1.2 lb UNDER LIW of Round Five Cycle 3 (148.2)
3.6 Lost Since Start of R5C4 (VLCD) 09/02/08
103.8 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Can you say “VIRGIN TERRITORY”???  Not too shabby!  Everything is GRAVY now!  And my goal is that much more close!

I got an interesting email yesterday.  I asked the writer if they had any issue with me posting their question and then my answer.  They said no, so here it is – her email:

No urgency whatsoever, obviously you’ve got plenty on your plate. But I’m curious about the menu you posted.  You just know from experience that blueberries work for you? It didn’t look like much food and no veggies. I struggle sometimes with getting my veggies in. I’m definitely not criticizing you in any way. Just want to learn a little more to understand the reasoning and you said you’d be happy to share.

My answer:

No problem, I am always reachable by email, much more so then my blog or the forums.  I am a WAHM and spend alot of time on my computer!

Anyhoo, the blueberries?  I found on my 4th round that I could do them with no issues.  My 4th round in fact was pretty much the first time I played around with the protocol whatsoever.  I had a huge loss really quick (2 weeks) and did my whole goal for that round in two weeks, so in the interest of “research” I started experimenting with different foods.  I tried green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, not to mention some different crackers, even flat bread.  I tried peaches and blueberries.  I opted to try things I had seen other clinics use and see what the consequence was.  I found that if I stuck to pretty much the same “families” of veggies, that I was aok.  Any berry worked, and the peaches did to.  I would never go with any high glycemic stuff, asking for trouble there (grapes, watermelon, catalope).  The flatbread?  It was the only time I gained.  So that is a NO GO for me.

Every so often I go thru this thing with my mouth.  I develop sores in them – it’s usually around TOM and always focused in on one side (where my only filling is) and when this happens, it’s hard to eat much of anything.  So that is why I focused in on the eggs and cottage cheese/blueberries yesterday.  Today was the same thing, but I found I could add a bit of tuna so I subbed the one egg for the canned tuna.  When these sores go away, I will focus in on my veggies again, cause quite frankly, I love them, and would rather live on them.

I added this in a subsequent email:

Yeah, I worry about how things come across online also, and I have been called on the rug a few times for things I do, but I always say, when you have come as far as I have and been on this as long as I have, then we can talk. ROFL – For my first 4 rounds (well, 3 rounds and the first 2 weeks of my 4th round), I was the poster child for the HCG Protocol – and most of the stuff I have done has been in the interest of research. Lots of people doing lots of different things depending on what avenue they are taking (clinics and docs) and I wanted to find out why these clinics allowed what they did.

So there you have it people, that should explain why I go a little “against” the flow – I usually have my reasons, they are MY reasons, and they are MY consequence should I encounter issues with those decisions.

That being said?  Here is my menu for yesterday:

• Coffee with 2% Milk
• Cottage Cheese and Blueberries
• Tuna with 1 T Light Mayo, Mustard, SF Relish and Lettuce – Chopped hard boiled egg

Ok peeps – we are not out of the woods yet, those storms are still churning out there, we apprise the situation each morning as to whether or not we will be leaving, today it’s a NO GO – so stay tuned tomorrow!  Did I mention TOM was in the house?  UGH – maybe that explains my mood.

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R5P2C4 Starting Weight 150.6
Yesterday – 150.6
Today – 148.2
2.4 lb LOSS Overnight
0.0 lb UNDER LIW of Round Five Cycle 3 (148.2)
102.6 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Not bad, not bad at all.  Right back where I was when I started my break, in just one day!  WOO HOO!  The lowest I have gotten so far is 147.2 which was done during my 3rd cycle on the 16th of August, so I wont be in “virgin” territory until then, so let’s not celebrate yet!

Things are getting a little crazy around here – with Gustav causeing my sister to evacuate to Jackson Mississippi and my thoughts with her and her husband, as well as my brother and his wife that live on the panhandle of Florida; and now Hanna, Ike and Josephine making a BeeLine to our area, you can imagine where my focus has been.  Tomorrow should be the day where we make a decision as to the “are we evacuating” or are we staying, so stay tuned.

I wanted to start posting my menu, but I gotta tell you, I don’t want any flack about it.  LOL – I have been on this WAY long enough to know what works and what doesn’t for me.  So if you see my menu, don’t freak and tell me that I shouldn’t be eating this, or I shouldn’t be doing that.  I will gladly tell you the reasoning I have behind the choices that I make, just ask.  And it’s nothing freaky, it’s just I know what works and I do it.  So that being said, here is my menu for yesterday:

•Coffee with 2% Milk
•2 hard boiled eggs
•Cottage Cheese and Blueberries

Ok, yesterday, I posted the WRONG picture of my son, ugh, I wanted to post his before and afters where you can really tell the difference, so here is that (remember to click for larger view):

So, that is all for today! Keep us in your thoughts, looks like we are in for a bumpy ride!

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R5P2C3 Starting Weight 160.4
Yesterday – 155.0
Today – 153.6
1.4 lb LOSS Overnight
0.6 lb OVER LIW of Round Five Cycle 2 (153.0)
6.8 Lost Since Start of R5C3 (VLCD) 07/14/08
97.2 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

2.8 NEEDED TO LOSE TO REACH 100 POUNDS

6.8 loss so far – .6 more to LIW of Cycle 2 – 2.8 lbs more till I reach 100 lbs lost!

Loving life right about now. These numbers are too unreal – dare I say it? It is topping MY FOURTH ROUND – I am quite frankly AMAZED – no joke. 6.8 lbs in 3 completed days. I am gonna get into the 140′s before the week is up if I keep this up!

But seriously, I haven’t really wrapped my head around being in the 150′s and now already I am gonna have to deal with the 140′s??? What is up with that?

WOW

I had a really rough day yesterday (just really weak), and now today my back is hurting – I have come to the conclusion that something is going on with my body, it’s shifting or something – funky things are happening. I have not been this weight since the early 80′s – and something weird is happening to my muscles in my back.

During the first round, I lost an incredible amount of inches from my thighs and they were in a constant state of aching while on protocol. This time, I think I am dealing with back fat or something cause since Tuesday morning, some strangeness is happening back there – and now I am in bed, this is the 2nd day. UGH

Oh well, interesting to see what the future holds for me. Pictures should be interesting this round that is for sure.

I am short on time, so this is my update for today!!!

Let me go back to answering my commenters from yesterday:

Trudi – thanks for the wonderful words!  We have all been given a great gift, it’s up to us to use it wisely, give of it freely.  Thanks for being a part of my journey!  BTW – YOUR PICS ARE AWESOME!