Thread: Paige's Valentines Loaders

Ugh! I hated loading! I actually gained 5lbs! I mean, I knew I was gonna gain, but geesh! I'm already looking forward to getting On the scale tomorrow!
Glad you found the thread Alicia!

Yay Jess!!! Keep me posted!

Alicia- my first round I started at 13drops 3x a day. During the last 2 weeks I went down to 11 drops 3x a day. I am starting this one with 11 drops 3 x a day and can already see I need to bump it up cuz I've been a lil bit hungry today too.
Gotta account for boredom though too. I chew alot of sugar free gum,(with XYLITOL), on this journey!
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Adjust your dose. If you're doing the drops at the right dose, you won't be hungry.

Alrighty!! Here goes!!! So I may not be joining on this round of drops, but I thought Id post my stats up to now! Im very pleased and proud of myself, but still would like to lose another 25-30 lbs!!

So for starters, at my heaviest I weighted 275 lbs! That was just after I had my second daughter only 3 years ago, that hung on for a couple years and I did some better eating habits and got that widdled down to 245 lbs, which is where I managed to stay at in my normal life. Including in high school... 245 in high school just wasnt fun, pretty much miserable really.
After being on Atkins, 6 Week Body Makeover and so many more diets (starting diets at the ripe ol age of 10 just wasnt fun either), so on September 18th, 2011 I started this diet at 227 lbs! So my stats are as follows:

Heaviest: 275 lbs
Sept. 18, 2011: Starting HCG weight was 227 lbs
Sept. 20, 2011: Gained a total of 6 lbs on Phase 1, Starting Phase 2 at 233 lbs!
Oct. 27, 2011: Ending Phase 2 at 199.8 lbs! Im gonna say thats a loss of 33 lbs, and 76 lbs lost from my heaviest!
Nov. 22, 2011: Phase 3 was short, but I managed to lose a lil bit and get to 194.2 lbs! I used Thanksgiving as my R2 P1 Loading Days!!!
Dec. 22, 2011: Stopped takin the drops so I could enjoy Christmas, not that I was plannin on eatin like crazy, just wanted to have some time off.. My weight was loss was starting to stall alot so when this day was over my weight was at 176!!! Thats 57 lbs gone from the drops and 99 lbs gone from my heaviest!!!!!!
Feb. 15, 2012: To present time, this has been the longest Phase 3 Ive done. I kinda wanted to do one more round of drops to reach my ultimate goal, but Im actually happy where I ended up, so now Im going to do some good workouts to get toned up and maybe even lose the last lil 25-30lbs that Id like gone, but as of today Im at 169 lbs!!

Total Lbs gone from 2 rounds of drops is 64 lbs !!
Total Lbs gone from my heaviest weight is 106 lbs !!!

Traci, you are an inspiration! Thank you for lighting the way for me...& so many others! I'm here for ya girl, drops or no drops. Think positive. Eat right. Keep moving. Don't let the big girl in your brain win. You are so beautiful...inside and out, and I'm so lucky to call you my friend! Viva La Mango Deck!!

So it begins again for me....I'm down 2.6 today. Was hoping for a big whoosh as my loading gain was 5lbs, (& I did gain 2 on the cruise). Oh well, it's all gonna slide off soon. I'm planning on going till March 8th so i can be done with my p3 in time for our spring break Dis Cruise. I SHOULD reach my goal by then. Then again, I may keep going and just do a planned interruption that week...hmmm.....thinking, thinking. Just gotta see where I'm at....
Have a great day people's!

Ok, I know a few of you havnt got your drops yet, or may be on the fence. Thought I'd post up pics of lunches n dinners to show ya how easy and yummy it is!!
So, salad on VLCD1-http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...1/bcc32dce.jpg
And chicken TACOS for lunch on VLCD2-
http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...1/e52442cb.jpg

The tacos were the bomb, and I'm stuffed! BUT, I CAN ALREADY TELL I GOTTA KICK THIS LIL SWEET TOOTH! Boy, that chocolate buffet on the ship really blew it for me!!

Found a fantastic little blog from a very creative gal!! She has some REALLY GREAT RECIPES for P2. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU LOOK!

http://myhcgcooking.blogspot.com/p/phase-2-recipes.html

and Traci, you can use the p3 stuff now!!! Lucky girl!
(I made a lot of her p3 recipes while in R1P3... looking at P3 already??...its like food porn, We'll get there soon enough! Lol!).