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R5P2C4 Starting Weight 150.6
Yesterday – 147.0
Today – 146.6
0.4 lb LOSS Overnight
1.6 lb UNDER LIW of Round Five Cycle 3 (148.2)
4.0 Lost Since Start of R5C4 (VLCD) 09/02/08
104.2 Total Lost Since Start of Protocol (VLCD) 06/26/07

Not too bad.  I had some soup yesterday, and although I usually make it with a low sodium chicken broth, all I had available was Bouillon Cubes and so I have a feeling my loss was not as good because of the sodium.  UGH – peeing like crazy today, so I know I am getting rid of the excess – no worries.  Also, TOM is vicious, once again.  UGH!

My Goals

I thought I would go ahead and talk about my goals for finishing protocol – as I am coming up to it pretty darn quickly.  I don’t know when the HCG will tell me to stop, but I know where I don’t want to be, and that is anywhere where it’s not considered “Normal” or “Average” – I want to go until the HCG tells me to stop, but I don’t want to go crazy either.

As of today, at my weight and my height, I am still considered “Overweight” by the BMI charts – my number one goal for protocol has always been to get UNDER the overweight BMI as I want to be able to get life and health insurance and have no issues in doing it.

I don’t want to be SUPER SKINNY – I don’t like that look and I know it wont work for me.  But I do want to be “average” whatever that means.  I figure that the BMI charts say that “Normal” BMI for a woman is 18.5 – 24.9 – so to be “average” I am thinking I need to be at 22 BMI – that means my weight would be exactly at 128 – which actually sounds about right, as I remember being 130 all thru high school – I had a killer bod, I ran every other day for exercise and I looked good.  I didn’t think so back then cause I had an anorexic friend that I would always compare myself to, but now I know what was realistic for ME – so my goal right now is 128 – but as we all know, that is subject to change.

My first goal was 150 lbs, because quite frankly, I never thought while I was at 250 lbs, I would ever get to 150 so that was the first number I picked.  Now when I look at things a bit more closely and I am now UNDER 150 lbs, and I see some stuff that still needs worked on, my next ‘arbitrary goal’ will be 128 – when I get there I will again assess things and see what I should do again.

So hopefully, during THIS cycle, I will be able to get to my goal of 138 – so that I only have another 10 lbs to get to 128 – two cycles to be done by the time I am “supposed” to go to Hawaii.  We shall see, everything is up in the air at the moment.  And I do want to be on a reasonable place when I go to Hawaii, but I know I will have to go straight back on P2 when I get home from there!  LOL

Hanna is on her way – no rest for the weary.  They had called last night to tell us that baby girl had early dismissal today for school (90 minutes early), and then this morning at 8:30 they called and said that early dismissal changed to only a half day, so I had to go and pick her up – the weather is going down hill right now, and we have decided to bunker down here at our home.  We said we would leave if it’s a hurricane, well it’s not, and so we are staying put.

But, as they say, it’s not over till the fat lady sings.  And IKE is right behind this one, so we are still watching things closely.  Keep us in your thoughts.

My Menu

• Coffee with 2% Milk
• Catfish with a can of green beans cooked in tomato sauce (all no salt added)
• Tomato chicken soup with a cube of chicken bullion with broccoli and tomato sauce.

You can see a copy of my FitDay here for the calorie counts.

Have a great day!  By the way?  Thanks to all of you that have welcomed me back with your comments, I have not been ignorning you, it’s just taking everything I have to update – I will get back to normal after this weekend has passed.

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LIW – 153.0 lbs (06.29.08)
Today’s Weight – 153.0 lbs
0.0 OVER/UNDER LIW

Once again I went MIA – what are you people gonna do with me?  OMG – I am such a FLAKE!  Really, I am NOT trying to go MIA – it’s just happening!  Oh well, I will try to do better!

Yesterday was my LIW for this Cycle – I didn’t make it to 100 lbs loss, but before I go into some LONE TIRADE about how I feel about this, let me quote something someone wrote me over at the My HCG Journey Community Forums – because quite frankly?  It put everything into perspective for me:

And B, even if you don’t make a stupid number goal, think of ALL that you have accomplished in the last year. And think of ALL the people that you have gotten to GOAL or helped them on their way to a better, healthier “them”!!!!!!!!!!!! When you have touched and changed LIVES, does a number really mean success or failure?!? I mean, isn’t it just a number?!?! And would it be any less monumental if those 100 pounds came at say a year a a day or a year and a week or a year a month?!?! I think not.

So, once again, thank you DAWN for coming to my rescue, making me realize what this is really all about and to be very happy with where I am TODAY.  Your a peach.

So without further adieu, let me go ahead and post my stats, because they pretty much speak for themselves!

I was not able to come close to Round 4 losses in Body Weight Lost Percentage – but that is OKIE DOKIE ARTICHOKIE!!!

• Round 1 (20 completed days) – 7.74% of body weight lost
• Round 2 (20 completed days) – 8.12% of body weight lost
• Round 3 (20 completed days) – 9.21% of body weight lost
• Round 4 (20 completed days) – 12.15% of body weight lost
• Round 5 (Cycle 1) (20 completed days) – 7.81% of body weight lost
• Round 5 (Cycle 2) (20 completed days) – 9.68% of body weight lost

I lost 16.4 lbs this round!  My LIW was 153 – which is 10 pounds below LIW of Round 5 Cycle 1 and 9 pounds below LIW of Round 4 – so I feel this was a great round.  Ok, so I am 2.2 away from making 100 lbs, I will do that NEXT round, which incidently will start on the 16th – because the family is going out of town!  Yes, we are headed to AIKEN/AUGUSTA!

Updates on Son and JPS:

My Son’s Stats:

• Starting Weight – 190.4 (after load)
• LIW – 174.6 (15.8 LBS LOST)
• 20 completed days percentage Body Weight Lost – 9.05%

JPS’ Stats:

• Starting Weight – 136.0 (after load, which is only like .8 over her LIW of Cycle 1)
• LIW – 125.8 (10.2 LBS LOST)
• 20 completed days percentage Body Weight Lost – 7.50%

Update on Inches:

And now the long awaited PICTURE UPDATE:

I haven’t updated pictures since my LIW of Round 4 which was way back in February (the 17th to be exact) – I didn’t take any pictures at the end of my Round 5 Cycle 1 because of not even getting to my LIW of Round 4 so I didn’t think pictures were necessary.  But I did take them yesterday because it was 9 pounds difference, and boy what 9 pounds can do!  OMG!  Lookie here!

First let me show you the differences between my LIW of Round 4 and Yesterday – Keep in mind that my LIW of Round 4 was 162 – and yesterday my LIW was 153:

Now, let me show you the differences between my BEFORES (Last June 23, 2007) and Yesterday (June 29, 2008) – Almost a YEAR and a DAY:

And then, for those of you that like to see the progression, here ya go:

Ok, so how about them apples? What do you think??? Stay tuned for the next installment of Cycle 3 to start on the 16th of July! If I can maintain an average of about 10 lbs per cycle, then I should be done in about 3 or 4 more cycles! Who knows where the HCG will take me!

LIW – 163.0 lbs (05.28.08)
Today’s Weight – 163.4 lbs
0.4 OVER LIW

Wow! I have to tell you folks, you are the best. I cannot believe the outpouring of concern that was shown to me during my absence. Please understand that it was unavoidable – and know that I missed my readers so terribly much. I am sincerely sorry for any cause of concern during my absence – there were a few people that knew I was not available, but evidently not enough.

Please know that during this time I and my family have been fine. It was a case of things happening around me that were not fine and that had to take precedence. That all being said, I am totally ECSTATIC to be back! I also have to tell you that I stayed true to the protocol, even tho everything around me was falling apart. WOO HOO FOR ME!

Ok, let me bring you up to date on how my days went while I was absent – what can I say? My last post was on the 22nd of May and at that time I weighed 163.0 – I stayed that weight until my LIW which was on the 28th of May – I even gave myself ONE MORE DAY past my original day scheduled to finish to try to break this INSANE stall I was in – LONGEST stall of my protocol history – and it wouldn’t budge. I had too much happening in my life to really care about trying to do an apple day or some other day, I was doing really well to stay on protocol so I just let things happen. I can imagine that the stress I was under contributed to the stall and that is why I didn’t make my goal of 160 this cycle. It’s ok. I am VERY OK with where I am.

I proved to myself that I am most capable of handling myself under pressure. And that pleases me to no end. For the first time in my life I didn’t allow an extremely stressful situation be an excuse for me to lose control of my eating. WOW – looking back on that, I am most proud of myself, I must say.

Saturday the 31st was my first P3 day for this cycle – and since then my weight has been fluxing a bit. Believe me, I was happy to see the scale move, no matter WHAT direction! So here was my fluxes since Sunday morning:

• Sunday – 0.2 over LIW
• Monday – 1.0 over LIW
• Tuesday – 2.4 over LIW
• Wednesday (Today) – 0.4 over LIW

I ate late on Monday night and I really attribute the 1.4 gain to that, but I promised myself for my last round that I would follow the strict “over 2 lbs” rule and so yesterday I did a “chicken day” and I lost 2 lbs. So I am well back into the legal limits of the 2 lbs.

We are starting again on the 9th, going straight back into VLCD on that day with no loading or anything. Our break will be 9 completed days long. I am hoping to stay within 3 lbs of LIW by the start of VLCD on the 9th of June – I figure at only 3 lbs above LIW then this cycling thing is definitely WORTH IT – just an experiment – I am the guinea pig.

Update on JPS – she ended at 135.2 – that was a 10.4 loss for her in 22 completed days.

My update – since I ended up at 163 – that was a 13.8 loss for me in 22 completed days. Not quite where I wanted to be, but excellent considering the circumstances.

A couple of interesting things. At this weight I am 12.6 pounds away from having lost 100 pounds on this protocol. My one year anniversary is this month, June 23 was my very first injections – I am so hoping that I will be able to make my 100 lbs lost in one year goal by then. It will all depend on how well I handle this break!

Once again, thanks SO MUCH for the outpouring of affection – I think I am up to date on all my emails. If you wrote me and I didn’t write you back, please write again. I had SO MANY emails to answer!

Until tomorrow – yes, people, I AM BACK!