Thread: P2 Day 3 - Anyone else start P2 on Sat, Jan 28?

@Mermaid - how have you been? are you still doing 40 days?
@MrsKinney - How are you doing?

This past week went well for me. It was the previous week (Vday week) that went wrong. I actually did a planned interruption because i went to 2 clippers game in a suite. They cater food and have an amazing dessert tray. So instead of fighting all the events that took place that week, I just stopped the drops 3 days before. I stayed away from carbs but sugar was my friend/enemy. I did gain 2lbs but I am happy to say that I have lost that and then some. I planned to take the drops until the 29th which is 1 more week, but since I decided to go off protocol last week I may extend it.

Originally Posted by lylabelle

Debating doing drops when I start up again instead of injections for about 3 weeks, then going back to injections. I don't want to build immunity and I plan to be on p2 for another 50 days or so (hoping to drop 35lbs in that time, 40 would be amazing, will settle for 25 if I have to, but I'm hoping doing the light workouts will keep things moving when they slow down, and may try an apple day - though 1 apple for me and EVERYTHING goes out of my system - I think I'm slightly allergic).

I asked the forums if it is possible to go to the drops after the HCG injections. I will not be doing another round and I will only have about 10 pounds left to lose. It would be nice, but I never got any responses. I would just start the drops after my 40th injection. What do you think?

Finally, I lost a half pound. Yippee! So now I have lost 18 pounds. I am happy with that, as long as I keep losing. Glad I don't have to do an apple day yet. How is everyone else?

Originally Posted by mermaid192

hey girl .. i think u and i started at about the same place .. i was 236.5 and am at 219 now .. i am so pleased .. but my losses are getting sluggish also ..im gonna try and see if i can find a few answers as to what we can do to kick it up a bit .. and get it going good again .. i love that we are hanging tough .. even my lil skinney couldnt stay away .. and im glad

Hi Mermaid192,
You guys started the end of January right? I started my VLCD on January 29th. Im on day VLCD 24 now..so far lost 14.6lbs. Im glad to have found others that started around the same time as me (=

lwolvi01--Welcome. I learn so much from all the forums. I gain strength when I have a bad day knowing there are so many others who go through it with me.

I am hoping to cross into the 170's in the morning. I was down to 181 this morning. It was exciting but was secretly...okay, openly, wishing to see the 170s. I have just over 2 weeks left of my 42 this round. Getting off for weeks of phase and then back on for a shorter, 28 day round and hoping to end it all at 155. I would be absolutely stoked if I saw 150. At 6 foot tall I would look pretty darn good.

Question for all of you. I find myself always feeling bad about the size of pants I wear. Society places women with size 5 and smaller on petastools. I am so tall that I have NEVER been even a size 8. I am recently a heavy weightand gained more than 45 lbs in the last 4.5 years since moving to the north and not running anylonger. Even at my thinnest of 160 I could not break into the 150s but was only able to fit into a few size 10. Mostly 12s. Anyone else struggle with sizes? I am afraid if I do not see size 10 I will not be happy. When I know...looking at previous pics 4 years ago that I looked great. Mental games us women deal with.

On another sharing note....what was the event that made all of realize we could not maintain the weight any longer and must do something about it? Mine...December before my company Christmas party. Isat in the parking lot crying and feeling the lowest I have ever felt. I wanted to be invisible. To boot, a gal I worked with saw me and asked me what was wrong......humiliating!

Anywho....do share.

Originally Posted by bmathis7824

lwolvi01--Welcome. I learn so much from all the forums. I gain strength when I have a bad day knowing there are so many others who go through it with me.

Question for all of you. I find myself always feeling bad about the size of pants I wear. Society places women with size 5 and smaller on petastools. I am so tall that I have NEVER been even a size 8. I am recently a heavy weightand gained more than 45 lbs in the last 4.5 years since moving to the north and not running anylonger. Even at my thinnest of 160 I could not break into the 150s but was only able to fit into a few size 10. Mostly 12s. Anyone else struggle with sizes? I am afraid if I do not see size 10 I will not be happy. When I know...looking at previous pics 4 years ago that I looked great. Mental games us women deal with.


Anywho....do share.

I hate to be cliche but the pants size doesnt matter too much to me. I have lost 20lbs and I still fit a size 10. They may be a little baggy but it is ok. In theory, I would have guessed that I would be a size 8/9 by now but some of my 10/11 pants still fit fine. I know that my overall shape has gotten better and I look better in my clothes so that is really what matters.

Clothes sizes....My D and I watch What Not To Wear. And they stress over and over to quit looking so hard at clothing sizes, because there really is no good universal sizing guide. Matter of fact, when they cut out some jeans, for example, there are layers and layers of denim, and they use a metal die that pushes straight down through the layers of cloth. While the die may be sized for a 10, the cloth on top may actually be a size 8, and the layers on the bottom could actually be a size 12 because of the way the cloth pushes against itself and shifts from the pressure of the cutter.

Right now, I am wearing a size 6. I KNOW they are mis-sized, as I can't get into a new pair of 8 Levi's. I just bought two pair of American Eagle 8's last night. So see, they are all different.

As Clinton and Stacy would tell, try the clothes on, and buy the clothes that fit you, regardless of size. A tight 8 will make you look fatter than a well fitting 10! Embrace that height and those long legs!

Originally Posted by bmathis7824

Question for all of you. I find myself always feeling bad about the size of pants I wear. Society places women with size 5 and smaller on petastools. I am so tall that I have NEVER been even a size 8. I am recently a heavy weightand gained more than 45 lbs in the last 4.5 years since moving to the north and not running anylonger. Even at my thinnest of 160 I could not break into the 150s but was only able to fit into a few size 10. Mostly 12s. Anyone else struggle with sizes? I am afraid if I do not see size 10 I will not be happy. When I know...looking at previous pics 4 years ago that I looked great. Mental games us women deal with.

If you talking about sizes that are in the stores, then no I don't pay attention to those. I have come to learn that it depends on the stores. If you go to an upper end store the clothes tend to have sizes that are "smaller" then lower end stores. I have clothes the ranged from a size 4-8 and that was when I was at 120. It depended on what store I shopped at. I don't buy "expensive" clothes either.

By the way I'm 5'2" so I'm not tall. As long as I look good in my clothes then I don't pay attention to the size.

A long time ago I bought a grown when I was around 125 and it was a size 8. Years later I bought another one for a wedding. I was around 135 at the time. The dress was a size 8. I came to the conclusion that sizes are B.S.