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It wasn't until the 3rd week of P3 that I started having trouble stabilizing. Ended up doing 2 steak days, and it appeared that things that I've done well with since the first week of P3 were starting to turn on me! But after switching up a few things, I think I may have discovered what works best for me.

For over a week, my weight continued to fluctuate over into the 2+ pound territory even though I was eating foods that were obviously approved in week 1 of P3. In an effort to improve my digestion, I went a day without meat -- just apples, grapefruit, and spinach salads -- and also plenty of warm/hot water and some magnesium citrate to get things moving. Things definitely got moving, and the next day, I was finally at LIW, which I had not been at in 10 days! So, the next day I decided to lay off the high-fat/protein diet (which is highly recommended for blood type A) and focus more on foods that would be good for my digestion. I'm not tossing high-fat items completely out of my diet, but only have them in moderation, focusing mostly on vegetables that are good for digestion with a grapefruit and a couple of apples per day. I'm also incorporating a digestive enzyme for good measure.

Going back to the Blood Type Diet theory, it's very true that my body (blood type A+) does not do very well with a high-fat diet for too long. It did well in the beginning of P3, because for several weeks on P2, my body had not received any incoming fat and was living off of the my own fat stores. But after a couple of weeks, those same foods I was doing well with were beginning to cause the scale to tip up little by little.

It's going to take more testing for me to figure out how to be successful in P3 (since I have a few more rounds to go), but I'm thinking it may go something like this:

• P3, Week One -- High-Fat and Protein Diet with plenty of veggies and some fruit.
• P3, Week Two -- Medium-Fat and Protein Diet with plenty of vegetables and some fruit.
• P3, Week Three -- Mostly vegetables, some fruit, some fat & lean protein (but maybe only once or twice daily).

Basically, start with a high fat diet then slowly work my way back down to a mostly vegetarian diet.

Unfortunately, P4 is not in the cards for me, since I recently did two steak days, but I'm okay with that. I need more time to figure out how to succeed in P3, which is necessary for me succeed for the rest of my life (post-HCG).