Thread: Hungry and week

The only way to tell is to skip your next injection and see how you feel after 4 and into the night. You can't just change the dose for a day because that's not long enough to tell. I suspect your dose is too high for you which is common. If you feel better after a skip day, go down to 125 iu which is 12.5 units on your syringe.

The real test of the skip day is after 4pm and into the early evening. What happens before that is not important to the result, but that you already feel some relief is a good thing. Hang in there today and be sure to give us the post 4pm report. Once your dose is right, you will find this the easiest diet you've ever been on from a physical comfort aspect.

I totally understand your frustration with other diets. I was in a similar condition and was once at the place where a 3 week water-only fast only produced a 2 pound loss. People think you have to be lying, but you can really damage your metabolism to the point where you gain on diets others lose on. Yay for an endocrinologist that is an HCG promoter. Thats pretty amazing in itself. But he's right. You are on your way to healing.

Ok so here it is...

Definitely not as hungry today! Didn’t eat lunch until almost 1:00, only had protein, veggie and strawberries skipped he bread stick. Slightly hungry now.

Saw Dr. Today, she said they used to start people on 125 but found too many to be hungry so they now start at 150. She has said she feels I need to be upped not lowered. She said it’s ok for me to try either method. They prescribe phentermine and commends the fact that I don’t want to use it as a crutch. (I am leaving for a cruise in February and she did say that in that I will be starting P3 the day I leave that she would prescribe the phentermine to take with me just so I don’t fall off the wagon my very first week on P3. And sad If I don’t need it, then Kudos)

So yes, I’m a tad hungry now at 5:30 my dinner will be after 6:00 (going out tonight and already looked at the menu)

In a nut shell, mild hunger all day, but manageable.

My question now is, tomorrow do I go up or down? (Dr. Said up because it’s all day, not just morning or not just evening, I’m confused because it’s less than it was over the last few days)

150 for 7 days (2-1/2 were load days) 4 days on P2

If hunger is less in early evening then you go down.

If hunger is stronger in early evening you go up.

Its normal to have a little hunger right before regular meal time. What is not normal is to get hungry right after eating.

Even going by your doctors measuring rod, you said your hunger was less earlier in the day, so that still indicates you need to reduce dose. Drop your dose to 125iu tomorrow. You'll know soon enough if it was the wrong direction.

If you are hungry in P3, you should eat. Its silly to suppress hunger in P3. Problems in P3 are more often caused by not eating enough rather than eating too much.

Originally Posted by Leez

If hunger is less in early evening then you go down.

If hunger is stronger in early evening you go up.

Its normal to have a little hunger right before regular meal time. What is not normal is to get hungry right after eating.

Even going by your doctors measuring rod, you said your hunger was less earlier in the day, so that still indicates you need to reduce dose. Drop your dose to 125iu tomorrow. You'll know soon enough if it was the wrong direction.

If you are hungry in P3, you should eat. Its silly to suppress hunger in P3. Problems in P3 are more often caused by not eating enough rather than eating too much.

Thank you for your response Leez. I will post how it goes tomorrow.
I am quite comfortable tonight we went out with friends. I ordered the grilled chicken breast and said no oil no butter, she asked if I had a food allergy and I said yes. Perfect! Then I got it on top of lettuce, with lemon wedges and squeezed them on it. It was delicious. Only mistake I made was to totally forget about how much chicken there was and I ate the whole thing. I didn’t feel stuffed, so it probably wasn’t too much. Ugh. But, today I had no breadsticks and I skipped my fruit tonight, hope I’m ok tomorrow.
I feel great tonight. Energy has improved, not feeling so weak.

Thank you JesseB for your kind words of encouragement.

You are so right about this forum, wow, what help it is.

Good luck to you on this round! I have a total of 40 lbs. to lose and am hoping to get as close as possible on this round and maybe then finish on my own. But we shall see!

No weight loss today 😔
Guess it was that extra serving of protein I inadvertently ate last night.

Injected 12.5 today at 8:15 am
Stomach growling like crazy at 10:30
Not 100% if it’s actual hunger. Going to drink more water. In waiting room at eye dr and I’m not sitting here looking at the woman with her protein bar across from me wanting to grab it from her. Lol it doesn’t appeal to me. Coffee smells good and I so miss my creamer. NDFF but I still miss it.