Striving to be Fit & Trim...AGAIN!

My HCG (2011) Journey & 2016 Shape Reclaim Journey

Sunday, September 4, 2011

MORE proud of my sister!!! Before & Afters

Doing her 3rd round of HCG...my sister just lost a total of 54lbs...I'm SUPER excited for her! She looks GREAT!!! Way to go Liz! XO

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Saturday, April 16, 2011

My Sister

SOOOO proud of my sister finishing her FIRST round of HCG today!!! She lost 24lbs and is looking SO good!!! Love you Liz!!!


Saturday, April 2, 2011

My Round 2 Transformation pictures!!!

I'm done and lost another 8.8lbs for a total of 25.2...WOW!!! Here are my transformation pics. These are JUST the Round 2 pictures...under that will be the beginning to end ones.



From the start of HCG to the END of my journey.



SO glad I did this!!!

Friday, April 1, 2011

I'm DONE!!!

Well - I'm ending my second round of HCG today. It's LDW day at 137 pounds...I haven't seen that number in 12 years...I'm thrilled. I tried to decide this morning to stop here or hang on a few more days and get to 135 but Larry thinks I should be done so...I'll end here. I will continue my Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) through Sunday night and will be able to eat EGGS on Monday...along with nuts...I'm looking SO forward to that! Monday will begin my maintenance which is eat anything I want EXCEPT sugar or starch foods for 3 weeks. I'm considering myself to be done on Easter...even though I wouldn't
"officially" be done until April 25...it's ok. :)

Beginning at maintenance and for the REST of my life - I will continue to weigh each morning after going to the bathroom. The FIRST morning I am over 139.2, I will have a "Steak Day" and will get back to where I need to be. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this diet for THIS reason. Many diets can help you lose the weight but NOT many diets make a way for you to KEEP the weight off for the REST of your life. I've had PLENTY of practice since round 1 and know exactly HOW this all works...it's doable for me...I LOVE it!!!

I'll post before and afters and inches lost soon. I LOVE HCG!!!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

My friend Jackie's transformation...WOW!!!

BEFORE

AFTER

Down 56.3 pounds...SO proud of you girl!!! You look GREAT!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

So long 100+ pounds!!!

Woo Hoo - Our group has surpassed the 100+ weight loss...Way to go girls!!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

We're lossing like CRAZY!!!

Our group of 6 has grown to 7 a couple of days ago. Our group has now lost over 70lbs...in 8 days...WOW!!! Way to go ladies!!!

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Round 2 - YIPPEE!!!

Ok so my faithful "lurker" on this blog has asked me to blog about my second round that I just started - therefore, here I go...hi Brenda!!! :)

There are 7 of us doing HCG right now, 3 of us are doing round 2 and 4 are brand new to HCG.

I wanted to do this round to take a bit more off my thighs. I was within my "safe range" up until the day I started my loading. Therefore, the day I started loading "should" have been a steak day...what I'm trying to say is that I gained a few pounds on purpose before starting this round...or maybe it wasn't "on purpose" but I sure wasn't doing a "steak day" the day of loading. :)

I don't think I'll blog each days progress on this round like I did on my first round but I'll try to update periodically.

We began our load on March 8 and plan to be done with our LAST VLCD on April 2 and done with "maintenance" the day before Easter.

Here are my numbers:
3/8 150.4lbs (LOAD) (+2.4lbs out of my "safe" range)
3/9 153.8lbs (LOAD) (+3.4lbs)
3/10 154lbs (1st VLCD) (+.2)
3/11 150lbs (-4) (Whoot, Whoot)
3/12 145.8lbs (-4.2) this was my LDW weight last round...everything after this is a BONUS loss!!!
3/13 144.2lbs (-1.6)

Here's my round 2 picture:

Monday, February 28, 2011

An ENTIRE month with NO steak days...YIPPEE!!!

I don't know if my body has finally leveled out or what but it's been 4 months since I finished my first round of HCG and I've had 12 steak days in that time.

LUCKY me...no steak days for the month of February...that's unbelieveable and TOTALLY rocks!!!

I LOVE it!!!

Monday, January 3, 2011

A Double Steak Day???

What do you get when you pair waking up New Years Eve morning already being over your LDW range with eating anything and EVERYTHING that you want and desire on said day and NOT having it be your steak day as you should have???

A double consecutive steak day...yep, that's what I just had for the first time in my HCG history...it really is TOTALLY my fault. On New Years Eve night we were invited to some friends house and I ate, and ate, and ate...MORE!!! LOL I had 3 plates of dessert and since that day was ALREADY suppose to be a steak day, I KNEW that the next day would DEFINATELY be one...and low and behold...it WAS!!!

Unfortunately, all the eating I did on my "already NYE steak day" put me quite OUT of the range that just 1 steak day would bring me back from so lucky me...I had to do another and another is what I did I'll tell you...there was NO way I was going to take a chance in not getting back to my safe range...I've enjoyed this diet too much and am SO thankful it works the way it does. It really is such a forgiving diet...I love it.

So...over eat on an already steak day and push those numbers just slightly out of reach and have a steak or two...that's what I seem to do!!! LOL