Thread: Lovely Losers 2019 - Sensational in September!!!

Yeah, I may have been panicking a little. Maybe I can handle the cookies and hit up Costco for a cake and a pie. They make good ones, but they don't tempt me. If I make cookies, I will EAT cookies, but maybe if I don't go hog wild... ay yi yi yi yi yi...

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I guess I will just jump in here... Hi everyone!!! Nice to see a few familiar faces/names active! I have been MIA since a brief post in January, and my scale really shows it! I regained 50 of the 70 pounds I lost last year. It has been a rough year with pain, and several changes of medication. My tendency is to "feed the pain", plus any anti-inflammatory meds cause massive fluid gains (6-9 pounds overnight, and up to 20 pounds over a few weeks if I keep taking them!) I don't have the right genetics to benefit from most pain meds, leaving me with just Tylenol and Lyrica (which causes weight gain, but is a must for my permanent nerve damage from a spinal defect.) I was sad to regain the first 20, then 30, and now have been staying at the 245-250 pound mark for a few months. I am ready to get back on my hhcg and get these pounds back off, get back into my clothes, and start feeling good about myself again (right now, for taking control again...)

I loaded over the weekend and started the VLCD today. Just got home from my typical 16 hour Monday, with the exciting exception of picking up our "new to us" car in between jobs. We have been without a vehicle for over a month, so it is a big deal! Still borrowing daughter's car for the few days each week that we both work, but at least I have a car when I need to go somewhere or want to run to the market. She is leaving her car with us when she goes back overseas at the end of November, so we won't be picking up a second vehicle until she returns in March.

I am sticking to the basics, mostly OP, with some V-8 for convenience on my long days. Also, I am using pears this first few days in order to use some up and until I get to the store to buy some organic apples. Normally, I would have gone in my "between jobs time" today. Now it will be Wednesday, as our local market is quite expensive for organic and limited options. I have 5 days worth of chicken cooked, some fish ready to cook tomorrow, and some super lean grass fed ground beef in the freezer for any cravings for chili. I also picked up a couple heads of cauliflower, one of my off protocol options I allow myself.

Here are my stats:

Preloading Weight: 250.6
End of loading Wt: 253.8
VLCD2:

Pearly: I've always been told that, if you're going to have a dessert, you may as well go for it. Well, that's what they say about ice cream at least lol If you can't resist temptation and/or don't want to right now, go for it. You know the consequences but how often do you see your whole family? I know family shouldn't be all about food but it's just a fact that it is. It's a celebration!

Pretty: I do have one best friend (and really no other friends) so if anything happened to her I'd be completely lost. She and I don't even hang out much at all anymore because of distance but when we do it's like we just hung out the week before. I hope you find at least one person who you can hang out with. It gets really lonely only having family to be around. Not that it's bad...but sometimes you need a break from everything.

Tight! Good to hear from you! It's a roller coaster, isn't it, but then, isn't life?

Thanks Pretty, Pro, Mo, Just, Gem et al. Sorry about the whining. I have decided to stick with it, have a cookie or two when the time comes, and freeze myself my own little stash for later. I won't feel quite as deprived. Down a bit from yesterday, and did okay all day. Big Pretty Cupcakes at a meeting last night and I barely glanced at them. Oooh and awed about how pretty to the hostess, got myself a glass of water and wandered off. Yeah, I can do this.

I am at a deep, deep set point years in the making, so if I don't see progress in soon, I'll have to do a true P3 and P4 and come back later. Its possible the only way I will get past this is to come at it with a good Week 1, which I am not getting by extending a round. If I play bounce a pound for a week, not worth it. I did three weeks, was off for about 3 and gained four pounds back of the barely 10 I lost, hopped back on for two weeks, so I really don't have a lot of days left without pushing it anyway. This week is really week 6 and I am probably just wasting perfectly good hcg!

Onward!
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