Thread: Please tell me about your second round!

Well, today was last injection day for round 2 for me. Didn't lose quite as much as round 1. But, I'm thrilled with my overall result. I don't think any 2 rounds will be alike, because you are always in a different place, every day. I freely admit that I took a few more liberties with the protocol in my second round. I know that I have to do at least 1 more round in the fall. I'm not in a hurry, my focus right now is to do a great P3 and P4, I think that's a lot more important to my overall success in the long run.

As far as hunger, it was much like round 1, I didn't have any problems with hunger. I'm glad that I did round 2 when I did, I now have the summer to stabilize and maintain my loss.

Thanks so much for the response!

Today is my last day of the hhcg drops on Round 2, so my Round 2 Phase 2 will be 30 days long when it finishes in 2 days. Round 1 was 31 days.

Strangely, I have lost the exact same amount as I did on the VLCD in Round 1 - 24.4 pounds. In Round 1, I stabilized 2.2 pounds under my LDW for a total loss of 26.6 pounds.

I did find that this time was significantly more difficult for me to stay on track- I was much more tempted to cheat, and I did cheat a couple of times which caused me to stall for a few days each time. I've (almost desperately) looked forward to going back into Phase 3 because P3 and P4 were such a good experience for me.

Also, I've been very sick for the past week so my daily intake has only been about 200-300 calories which has really slowed my losses.

That's been my experience.

R2 was much harder for me, mentally. I lost almost exactly the same amount of weight as R1, but R2 was a longer round, and I had an emergency interruption when my MIL passed away suddenly and we had to travel. It set me back a week, but I averaged out the same amt anyway. Lost about 32 lbs on each round. Mentally, it was long and horrible. I was more weak, more crabby, and losses dropped off significantly in R2, but they were steady whereas in R1 I had 9 days w/ zero losses but my losses were huge. R2 I lost daily, but smaller... P3 in R2 was a bit harder. I'm finally getting stable? After struggling for 2 weeks w/ TOM and soybean oil sensitivities (which I didn't have last P3) so my P4 should be today, but I'm waiting until I'm consistently stable.

good luck with yours!

Originally Posted by Sabina

I freely admit that I took a few more liberties with the protocol in my second round.

and once you discover that other things, besides strict protol, will still result in losses, it gets a little harder not to experiment.

Exactly!