Let's give Shape Reclaim a try...

So Trim Healthy Mama was great while I was doing it but life once again got busy and I didn't eat right so the 24lbs I lost have come back on. I'm praying God will help me to CHANGE and I will be able to stick with a healthy diet and lifestyle. This weekend I begin Shape Reclaim with the goal of losing 20-25lbs. My sister who lost over 50lbs when she did HCG with me will be joining me for this journey. Trusting in Jesus to get us through AGAIN.

SO I wasn't successful with keeping the HCG weight off

Unforunately, I wasn't successful with keeping my HCG weight off and after 6 months...it had all come back on. :( In more recent years, I found out about Trim Healthy Mama - the first time I ate the Trim Healthy Mama way I kept the weight that I lost off for the 8 weeks that I did it but then life got busy and such and I gave up eating that way. Last April (2015) I started Trim Healthy Mama again and have successfully kept the 22-25lbs off...it fluctuates a bit but it's still good...I have been SO thankful for the Trim Healthy Mama eating plan and a way that I can actually live and enjoy life eating in a more natural way.

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

So proud of my sister...40 pounds down!!! YIPPEE!!!

Way to go Liz! Love you!

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!!!

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!!!

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!!!

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

BEFORE

AFTER

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

So long 100+ pounds!!!

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

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!!!

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:

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!!!

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

The holidays just WOULDN"T be complete without a "few" steak days...lol!

Well - with the holidays comes more snacking and eating than usual, hence the need for me to have 2 steak days so far this week. As you've noticed from my earlier steak days, I KNOW how to work them out to my advantage but yesterday I took the "ULTIMATE" steak day test.

Yesterday I had my 2 cups of hot chocolate, about 10 pieces of peanut brittle (super yummy:), about 6-8 chocolate chip cookies (AGAIN SUPER YUMMY:), a bowl of broccoli slaw and then we went to Texas Roadhouse...after all, it "WAS" a steak day!!! LOL At Texas Roadhouse I thought I'd push it to the limits and this is what I had, 1 warm roll with the entire scoop of cinnamon honey butter, 3 fries, 3-4 bites of my husband's ceasar salad, apple sauce, and my 8 oz filet mignon. When we got home after visiting some friends at 9:40pm I had 2 small apples and it WORKED yet again...I LOVE this program and am SOOO very glad and thankful that I did it...It works, It works, It ReaLLY, REALLY works!!!

Merry Christmas to you - I pray that God blesses you this Christmas with life MORE abundantly! HCG rocks!!!

To lose or NOT to lose...THAT is the question!!! LOL

I mentioned to my hubby the other day that I'd like to do another round of HCG to lose 10 more pounds. He's always very supportive of whatever I want to do but I was shocked when he said that he thought I looked great and didn't really think or want me to lose anymore weight.

{WOW} What can you say to that!?! LOL - I'm happy to stay at the 145-147 range...never thought I'd EVER see those kind of numbers so I'm so thankful this diet works...Oh it does!!!

Gobble til you wobble...and I DID!!! LOL

You KNOW it's been a GREAT Thanksgiving when you have to have a steak day the next day!!! LOL - I was doing so good...it had been 12 whole days since my last steak day and yesterday I had a modified version. It's funny that I've had SO many of them now that I just modify them to my liking and it still works to get me to my "safe range" and that's ALL that matters to me!!!

Hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving...we are all SO blessed here in America!!!

Good news...

Well - I tested the waters with my most recent "Steak Day" (Sunday) - glad it turned out good for me!!! I had a 2cup Hot Chocolate Chai for breakfast, 1/2 of my steak for lunch, 1 tbs of peanut butter, an apple and then my other 1/2 of steak for dinner and a Smooth Move tea for a night time snack...yippee - was thrilled to wake up and be back within my "safe" range of 146.6.

Today (Tuesday) was an amazing day on the scale - yesterday I had 2cup Hot Chocolate Chai for breakfast (yes, that IS my coffee, lol:), 2 chocolate chip cookies covered with peanut butter for a snack, 5 club crackers and 1/2 bagel covered in peanut butter and strawberry preserves (I thought that alone would put me over the top to another "steak day"), then I had a piece of chocolate, I made some homemade chocolate trail mix with craisins, walnuts, sunflower seeds, peanut butter pretzels all covered in chocolate, I ate quite a bit of that - probably 3/4 cup of it, I had mac-n-cheese in chili for dinner and a hot chocolate at St. Louis Bread Co. at a 7pm meeting...woke up to an unbelievable 145.8 (LDW:) - YIPPEE!!!

Pushing my limits on the Steak Days!!! LOL

Well - seems like every Sunday is a "Steak Day" for me...lol. I've been off the maintenance portion of the HCG protocol for 4 weeks and so far I've had a steak day...EVERY week. I really don't mind it though cause we RARELY have things to do on Sunday and as long as I can eat EVERYTHING I want and have a steak on Sunday...I'm good with it. Whatever works to bring me back to where I need to be...I'm loving it!!!

I'm stepping out a bit beyond the "NORMAL" steak day which is no breakfast, no lunch and the largest steak for dinner with a tomato or an apple...last Sunday on my steak day I had my Hot Chocolate Chai for breakfast...it made the day worth it!!!

Today, I had my Hot Chocolate Chai for breakfast and 1/2 of my steak for lunch. Will have an apple in a bit and the other half of my steak for dinner...just testing the waters I guess!!! LOL

Since I'm going to do another round in December, I don't mind playing around too much but I don't WANT to gain any...just want to be able to eat what I want and stay this size!!! :)

Will update tomorrow what I find out from this day of playing around...I hope I don't doom myself!!! LOL

It worked, it worked, it worked!!! Yippee!!!

I'm SO thrilled that the "steak-day" did exactly what it was suppose to do which was to bring me back down to my "safe" range (within 2.2 pounds of my Last Day Weight -LDW- when I was on the HCG). Yippee. To be honest, it wasn't bad - I wasn't really hungry until it was 7:30 and I had cleaned at a friends house all day...got home and my wonderful hubby fixed my steak and I had an apple with it. Thankfully the scale this morning showed a much more delightful number of 146.4...WOO HOO!!!

Well...it's OFFICIAL - I'm having my FIRST steak day!!! :(

I am noticing the pounds come on more from starch type foods than from sweet type foods. Oh well - I wanted to see if this "Steak" day was ALL that it was cracked up to be. I woke up to the tune of 148.8 pounds so I will skip breakfast and lunch and have an apple & steak for dinner...this should reset my system and take me back to within my range. I'll let you know tomorrow.

So I've decided to take it as I'm fasting breakfast and lunch today...I'm not sure what the big deal would be if I had more than 1 apple.