Thread: April 2022 Loaders - Loyals

I love seeing posts from folks I dont always see! Mrs Woody I’m hoping this round is great for you.
When my P3 was a struggle it was because I struggled with those 3 translation days. I don’t know why they are so so hard for me.

I’m seeing losses again finally. I really appreciate everyone’s posts and the positive energy and support here. Let’s have a great week!
Deb


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Originally Posted by gz9gjg

MrsWoody, what went wrong with your P3? I broke off my round early because my head wasn't in it, now eating P3-ish and often hungry, too. I'm planning to do a new round when the weather here gets better, so I can get in my outdoor walks.

I was constantly hungry and couldn’t hold anywhere near my LIW (or is it LPW on pellets?). I ended up “stabilizing” (if that’s what you can call it) around 10lbs above LPW. So, not good. Sorry to hear you had to break off your round early, but I think if/when you know your head just isn’t in it, that is the best thing you can do since trying to fight through it will be more of a struggle than it needs to be or usually is when you’re in the right mindset. I hope the weather where you are gets better and you are able to resume with your head fully in it.

Thanks, gz. P2 is the “easy” part, when my head is in it. I embrace the monotony of food choices and not having to think about “what to make” and “what to eat”. I know that’s hard for some, but as someone who had very little growing up and when starting out on my own food choices were limited, so while I didn’t know it at the time, it was good training for this diet lol. And after that strange and awful P3 unlike any other P3 before, my head is definitely in it. I was actually counting the days till I could start P2 again, which has NEVER happened before.

Yesterday was the best first VLCD I think I’ve ever had. Hoping for another smooth day today but not sure that is going to happen as I just ate lunch and am feeling slight hunger vs satisfaction, so I might need a dose adjustment, but I will see how the rest of the day goes and reassess after dinner.

This will be my first round trying a PI. While I hate to experiment coming off my first “experiment” (first round on hhcg vs rx) with a disaster P3, I have to travel in mid-May and sticking to plan won’t be possible. So we shall see how this all plays out. Crossing fingers and toes and everything else this round progresses and works as it should.

skeeballer, good to hear you are in a good place now.

I don't think you would be prescribed 20 iu. Did you mean 200iu?

If so, then that is a dose that is too high for most people. Start at 150iu and see how that works for you.

Your label is telling you to inject 20U which is units on the syringe. Diet Doc has historically directed mixing at 1:1 (which in you case would be 6000iu with 6ml bacteriostatic water), so it is most likely that your dose is 200iu then. But you can confirm with them. I believe they have a live chat on their website that is easy to use.

Yes, starting with 150iu is a good plan. If I am correct about the above mixing ratio, then you will pull to .15 pr 15 units (U)

Originally Posted by MrsWoody

After my disaster P3 I am starting another round. It was frustrating to not be hungry on loading days, especially after the weird constant hunger I had in P3. I’m giving the Intermountain hhcg pellets another go for this round and hope my dose is the same as the last round so I don’t have hunger and don’t have to monkey around with figuring it out. It will be interesting to see whether I can just pick up where I left off dose-wise, or will have to adjust down as I did with rx hcg injections. Today is VLCD 1.

Hope everyone is at a good place in whatever phase they are at in their journey - here’s to a successful day!

Hi Mrs. Woody,

Welcome back. It is strange to not have any hunger at all on the days you're supposed to eat as much as you can. As I said, I had that same problem a week ago before I even took my first injection, and it made me delay my start altogether.

By the end of loading Day 2, just thinking about food makes me start to feel nauseous . But looking back a week later, I'm happy I was able to get in my two whole packages of 6 Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs, since they were conventiently on sale for Buy 1- Get 1 Free. I'm not much of a sweets person, so that and a few pecan pralines were the only sugar I had. The only bread I had were two croisant sandwiches loaded with a 1/2 pound of bacon and cheese each and two hardboiled eggs drizzled in bacon grease - absolutely yummy!. Otherwise I focused totally on fat. Fried Fish, Homemade french fries cooked in Beef Tallow, Buffalo Wings with homemade blue cheese dip, homemade macadamuia nut butter, and a big bowl of my famous six-cheese mac & cheese.

I gained 6 lbs. loading, but have lost 8 already at the end of week 1, which went well as there was no hunger for me at all.
I also usually only eat one Apple a day around 10am with a big bottle of water before havin my coffee or tea, and sometimes will have a grapefruit on Sunday Mornings instead as I am planning to do today,
then an occasional orange or strawberries during the week if I get slighty hungry in the afternoon between lunch at noon and dinner at 7.

As our dear friend Pearly always says - ONWARD!!!!