Let the losing begin...20 days to go!!!

I feel like I'm doing pretty good - not as much as I wanted to lose for my "FIRST" day of weight loss but a few more just like it would be AWESOME!!! I weighed in at 161.6 this morning.

I had an apple for lunch and chicken, raw spinach and a crushed melba toast for late lunch. (Had a funeral this morning for an AWESOME man named Alan Coleman who will be VERY much missed!!!)

Dinner I had my strawberries marinated in stevia, a grilled burger with a piece of melba toast...can't believe how good some of this food is tasting...this is AWESOME!!!

Pray I can make it through this weekend and stay STRONG...NO cheating!!! God is with me and I KNOW I can do it!!!

Day 1 VLCD...Come on 21 days!!!

I'm up and my scale shows the fruit of my LOADING...165lbs...yikes!!! I'm excited about the next 21 days and pray they go by with the strength of God and QUICKLY!!! My husband wrote a sweet "Good luck today" on the mirror for me and then prayed with me before he left...thank you Lord for that guy!!!

Not sure there will be much to report other than my weight and what I eat/calorie count but I'm still going to try to update daily. Praying my days don't go as my friend Amy's did over on her blog...who despite all the down and out posts still lost 16lbs! Way to go Amy!!!

I measured out handfuls of strawberries and put them in individual bowls sprinkled each bowl of them with a packet of Truvia (Aldi's stevia).

Ok - I just did one of the GROSSES things EVER...I just cut up and weighed RAW chicken...YUCK!!! Got my 21 bags of chicken ready.

@ 9:15 I had one of my marinated truvia/strawberry bowls...it was SUPER yummy!!!

I have a feeling the mornings are going to be ALOT easier than the evenings are going to be...God will get me through. God speed!

Had 2 melba toasts with a burger for lunch had steak and raw spinach for dinner...and an orange for after dinner snack...486 calories.

Day 2 FULL LOAD!!!

Ok...I'm getting sick of eating all this food...I really (IRL) am NOT a large eater...I mean when summer comes I love my ice cream and some how I've packed on a few more pounds than last year but geewiz...with all this eating, honestly, I can feel my nose growing larger under my eyeglasses! LOL

This morning I had 2 of Heathers Cookies & Cream poptarts
This afternoon we had Burger king - a bacon cheeseburger, fry & chocolate shake
Had an ENTIRE bag of Hershey Twizzler's
What's for dinner??? Chicken Kiev & some fettuccine alfredo noodles
A Hershey pie from Burger King for dessert.

AND as my Rep said...I am CONTINUING to go UP...ugh 164.4 this morning. Hopefully, tomorrow is the LAST day I'll see a HIGH number like that. 166.6 is the MOST I've EVER weighed without being pregnant...and that was just a couple of weeks ago...of course, I somehow lost 7 lbs that day/night so it must have been because of water retention.

FULL Day 1 LOADING

Since I got my HCG mid day on Monday my Rep told me to go ahead and start it and do my FIRST VLCDay on Thursday - therefore, I'll actually have 2.5 days of loading.

And so...I've continued to load/gorge myself silly today.

2 Hot Fudge Sunday poptarts
1 7 layer cookie
1 piece of gooey butter cake (searched out the LARGEST piece in the pan too:)
Shrimp Fettuccine & onion rings - this loading is costing a FORTUNE!!! LOL
Butterfinger shake from Steak N Shake
I was suppose to go out to eat tonight but to be honest...I'm REALLY getting SICK of eating!!! LOL
Had some pot roast & corn for dinner - not much fat content...took care of that with a small DQ Resses, choc chip blizzard! :)

ugh...

Oh man do I feel SICK...I've had a sick tummy ALL night. I'm wondering if since those sugar cookies have an egg in them if I have salmonella poisoning??? I don't in the LEAST feel like eating...definatley NOT a symptom you want when you're "LOADING"...ugh!

As my rep said, LOADING will cause me to gain but she said I shouldn't be concerned as I should lose it pretty quickly...weigh 163 today.

Day 1 LOADING eating

Cheeseburger & fries from McDonald's
EXTREMELY BIG Regular Peanut Butter Galaxy from Maggie Moos
Chicken Kiev for dinner
Hot Chocolate & Large Chocolate Chipper cookie from Bread Co
A sugar cookie cause Heather made it!!! :)
And 3 more sugar cookies cause I might as well eat EVERYTHING that I want when I'm "Loading"!!! LOL

My HCG journal

Well - as you can tell from the name of this blog...I've been "STRIVING" to be fit & trim for quite some time now. Seems like nothing is working. I've never been one to follow fads or "do" diets but with ALL my friends (you know who you are :) that have finished it and are currently doing it...I thought I'd give it a try.

Have you heard of the HCG protocol? I ordered mine from The Ultimate HCG Pro I have friend upon friend who have lost 17-40 pounds on their first round of HCG.

I got mine today and started it this afternoon. My weight this morning was 162.2 - I plan to follow the protocol and should be done with Phase 1 on Sept 22 then I'll have my 3 VLCDays and 3 weeks of maintenance. My goal is to lose 15-20 pounds.

I will try to update but for now there's not much to say except that the "loading" is SINFUL!!! LOL