Day 7

Good Morning Followers!
I had a great day yesterday, and it was a pretty easy day, I guess due to the kids being back at school from the long Labor day weekend, and not home eating this or that or warming up yummy smelling food in the microwave, or me needing to fix food for them during the day like it's been for the past 3 days. I got up this morning, used the bathroom and stepped on the scale to find that I have lost yet another 2 pounds! I honestly was not expecting a 2 pound loss, NO.... Not because I cheated! But because I've been losing so much that I just really figured my weight would sorta level out to where I'm losing may a half pound to maybe a pound at most! So, needless to say I was pretty surprised about the 2 pounds, and NO I'm not complaining at all about it! Well, my coffee is ready, and I so very much need a cup, so... Until I post my lunch pictures.....Have a Wonderful Wednesday Friends! :-)

Here is my 5th VLC diet lunch for today. It's 100g of grilled chicken, w/  100g of tomato, which I made into tomato soup (recipe from another blogger whom I follow) and my sweet tasty apple. Such a yummy yummy lunch, I must say!

Here is my 5th VLC Supper, it's 100g of shrimp, w/ 100g of lettuce, It also has a yummy dressing on it, you just can't see it, the dressing is made up of  Apple Cider vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder. Then there is a half of grapefruit, that I will save until my bedtime snack!

Day 6

Hello Followers!
I'm a little behind on my normal blogging time, it's been a bit crazy for me this morning. I got up at my normal time (5:30) stepped onto the scale and.....I lost another 1.5 pounds... YAY ME! I was very excited about that! My first day on the VLC diet I lost 4.5 pounds, on day 2 of the VLC diet I lost 5 pounds, I knew there was absolutely NO WAY I could/would continue to keep losing that much weight each morning, simply because if I were to keep  losing like that, I would only weigh about 80 pounds at the end of my 40 day of HCG! (lol) But.... I'm was just as happy with the 1.5 pounds lost as I was to see both the 4.5 and the 5 pound loss the past 2 days. This makes my total weight loss of 11 pounds in 4 days. Heck yeah, I'm very pleased with that! I'm going to have and keep the attitude that anything is better then a stall, or gain! Even if I do happen to have a stall, especially when my TOM approaches, I'm NOT going to get all worked up over it, especially when I know whole hearted it's not a stall that is due to any type of cheat, If I'm following this diet to a T and drinking all my water, it will have to work itself out in a matter of time, I'm going to keep my chin up and know I'm doing everything right, and know that it will pass. Altho I will say I hope I don't have too many stalls, I'd  just settle for a half of pound vs a stall, I'm sure all of you can totally agree! As you know if you read my blog from Yesterday, it was my daughter's 21st birthday, we had a Labor day cookout, along with cake and ice-cream , and you know.... it wasn't as bad as I truly thought it would be! I stayed indoors while the bar BQ chicken was out on the grill, because I knew how yummy that would smell, even though the windows on the house were all open due to the beautiful cool day we had, I could still smell the grill, (Oh how yummy it smelled!) so that was a little hard, then when my son-in-law brought in the bar BQ chicken oh that was pretty tough too, because the entire house smelled like grilled food. But...I MADE IT! The next hard time was when I took the lid off the birthday cake, Oh man, did my mouth ever water....I just stood there smelling the inside lid of the cake and imagining I was eating a slice while I was smelling it, but.... then I was thinking about all the fat and calories it that cake, and....I was perfectly fine, and never thought another thing about that cake, nor did I even think I wanted a slice! I truly believe that phase 2 of this diet is a lot of MIND over MATTER!!!!!!!!!!! So, I'm proud to say.... I did NOT have even the teeniest tiniest cheat Yesterday! I must say my determination runs deep! I will be posting my lunch photo soon, so until then.....Have a Terrific Tuesday!
Here's my 4th VLC lunch it is 100g of chicken and 100g of cucumbers, and an orange. I can't wait to eat it....YUMMY!

Here is my 4th VLC diet supper it is 100g of shrimp with 100g of broccoli, and my apple for my bedtime snack!

Day 5.... Labor Day Cookout & My Daughter's 21st Birthday...This Will Be The Test!

WOW! I've made it to day 3 of the vlc diet without a singal cheat not even a lick of my finger! Has it been easy....Heck No! It's been quite the challenge that's for sure! Today will be a toughy I can fee it....It's Labor Day & My oldest daughter's 21st birthday! (YIKES!) We have plans to grill some bar bq chicken, have baked beans, homemade potatoe salad, chips & dip, and we couldn't leave out the Snickers ice-cream birthday cake now could we? See.... I told you it was going to be tough! But.... I will do this and get through this day without a single cheat I have complete faith in myself, for I know without a doubt none of the food which I have listed above is worth causing me to stall or not continue to lose the weight I've seen fall these past 2 days! That food or anyother bad food is not going to get the best of me not today, tomorrow, or even days, weeks, months, & years to come, I was thinking yesterday while I was cooking my family supper, which by the way was chicken bean burittos topped with cheese, salsa, sour cream, lettuce & tomato, and mexican rice, just had to through that in there for ya! (Sorry!) Even when I finish this round 1 of hcg it doesn't stop there unless I want to be back up 63 pounds, this is a forever change, I will choose to continue eat healthy, maybe not 500 calories per day kind of  healthy but... Eating the same types of food we are having to eat on this diet, just more of that kind of food. I love all the food we are allowed to eat there is not a veggie I don't like, and I love fish, shrimp, and chicken, I never have been a red meat eater not at all. So the food on this diet is right up my ally, I just wish I could have more of it! I know without a doubt I will do great on the maintenance part of this simply because it's just what we're doing only you get more of the yummy foods we are eating now, I can't wait for phase 3! OK.... So I got up this morning at my usual time 5:30 used the bathroom and weighed......I've lost 5 pounds since my morning weigh in yesterday that's a total of 9.5 pounds in 2 days, do these drops work? I'd say so! I measured my self in the waist, thigh, upper arm, hips, and bust on my day 1 I'm only doing measurments on each Sunday and I didn't do yesterday simply because I just started on Thursday and it would have only been 3 days, so this comming Sunday 9-11-11 I will post my new measurments. Yesterday I did get weak feeling about 1:00 and to be honest I still feel that way, I took a hour nap and then got up and drank some water and it did help. I'm thinking and hoping that part gets better, or I just get more use to it. I've been posting pictures of my meals just to show my followers to help them to feel better about the food they are getting to eat, I think it helps mentaly when you see and know others are right there with you, surviving on the same kind of 500 foods. HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL!

Here is my 3rd VCL lunch for today It's 100g grilled chicken, half of a grapefruit, and 100g tomato with a 1/4 cup water, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and some cayenne. Thanks to another blogers recipe! It was mighty tasty that's for sure!

Here is my 3rd VLC supper for Labor day & My daughter's 21st Birthday celebration! While everybody else had well.....The traditional cookout food. Here I have 100g of Flounder, 100g of asparagus, and my apple which I always save for bed time....About to slice it up NOW! =)

Day 4... First weigh in on the VLC

Well, I made it through my first day of the VLC diet. I must say it wasn't too bad at all, I'm not sure if these days get easier, or if they get harder as we make our mark to day 40? I guess I'll just have to continue forward on this journey and see for myself. I really think round 2 has to be easier just for the simple fact, you kinda have a better idea as to what to expect and all that you've learned from round 1, so I have to believe you get wiser with the more you do this, that's just my thought on it. OK, so yesterday I got up and weighed and I had gained 4 pounds from my 2 loading days ( and boy did I load!) I said from the start of this diet I was going to do it right, or I was not going to do it at all, and I'm a woman of my word! So, after I weighed yesterday morning, I took my drops and and blogged while I waited for my coffee to brew, I had 2 good size coffee cups of black coffee with my Vanilla Creme stevia, then we went to my 9 yr old son's first little league football game that was suppose to start at 11:10 but didn't actually start until 12:45 ( I was pretty upset about that, simply because it was 100 degrees here yesterday and all those little guys were just soaking wet from sweat) Needless to say... I drank close to 4 liters of water just sitting at the football stadium with the hot sun beating down on us. Ok, we got home about 2:00 I took my drops and started fixing my lunch which was 100g of chicken grilled on my Geroge Foreman and 100g of asparagus and a half of a grapefruit. then we went shopping at the mall my middle daughter needed some blue jeans and my hubby wanted to try and find a good tripod for our video camera. Seems like everybody at the mall either had a waffle cone filled to the top with yummy ice-cream, of had a delicious cookie or brownie from the Great American Cookie Store, and I lost count on the people carrying cups of StarBucks coffee, my twins always get a cup of Dip-N-Dots when we go to the mall, so it was just one thing after another the entire time we we're there. I'm thinking to myself well, Shyla you'd just best get use to that, because the whole world is not ever going to be on this diet with you, and there are always, always going to be people & family for that matter who will be eating, sipping, licking, smacking, & chewing on things that are not allowed for you so....Pull up those big girl panties and stay strong and no matter what, DO NOT lose sight of that goal you so desperately want to reach! They funny thing about all those people I saw with all that yummy and fattening stuff, they all were over weight, and didn't need to be eating it them selves, and guess what? I'm still here alive and well this morning, so that means..... I didn't die because I couldn't or didn't get any of it! (lol)
Ok, so on to my supper last night, We got home from the mall and shopping about 5:00 I went to Wal*Mart and got a few things for me, Chicken breast, Shrimp, garlic powder, onion powder, apples, oranges, lemons, apple cider vinegar, ect.... I also picked up from the deli honey Bar B.Q. chicken, fried okra, and potato wedges for the family. Came in from Wal*Mart took my drops, fixed the kids plates, then started fixing my food, and that being 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and then I drank 32 oz of water and I was too full for my apple so I went into the kitchen cleaned up from the family, and sat down at the kitchen table and for 2 hours I weighed out my 5.58 pounds of fresh chicken breast I had just bought from Wal*Mart I took a small piece of Glad cling wrap laid it on the table then I would weigh out my 100g of chicken then wrap it up, then I continued to do that until all my chicken was weighed into 100g portions and individually wrapped, so now I have 21 packages of 100g chicken in my freezer, so all I have to do when I want chicken is pull out one of those wrapped up chickens and cook it, Jeez, that weighing took forever last night, I was so ready to be done with that! Ok so I finished all that, cleaned up again, then I decided I needed to eat my apple, it wasn't because I was hungry, but.... I just didn't want to leave out any of my important foods. I'm not doing the bread stick or the Melba toast right now, I may add it in at a little later time, but, for me I just didn't want it for now. So I ate my apple at 9:30 as my bedtime snack. I went to bed at 10:30. I woke up this morning scared to death to step on the scale, all I could think about was.....What if I step up on it, and I haven't dropped a single pound? I ate like a pig my 2 loading days, and gained that 4 pounds, and I was just so worried, those for pounds would still be there, and it was just more then I could stand to think about! I pulled my clothes off just dreading the move of placing my feet on that scale but, I knew they only way to find out was to just do it! So... I did! And I could not believe what I saw.... I stepped off the scale let it reset, then I stepped back onto it, and still could not believe y eyes,  "HAD"to step off yet again, let the scale reset, and for the 3rd time I stepped back onto it, yup all 3 times the scale said the same number, so... I called my 21 yr. old daughter ( she'll be 21 tomorrow!) into the bathroom, had told her what I had lost, and she was like....NO WAY! she had to look, and again for the 4th time the scale read out that same number........ I lost 8.5 pounds!!!!!!!!!!! Kourtney ( that's my daughter's name) said OMG! that is so CRAZY! I told her, I know it is, I just can NOT believe I lost that much.... I'm totally blown away! After seeing that loss I truly believe I could eat a lunch of 100g of chicken, 100g of asparagus, and half a grapefruit,  and have a supper of 100g of Flounder, 100g of broccoli, and an apple for a bedtime snack for the rest of my life!!!!!!! I will say that I did drink a little more then a half gallon of water yesterday as well, if my tummy started growling, I drank water and it helped so much. So, I have to wonder if the high water intake doesn't play a vital role in all this?!?! OK so that's my latest update on my HCG 40 Journey!
THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY LUNCH TODAY... 100g OF CHICKEN, 100g OF CUCUMBERS w/ APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, AND AN ORANGE.

FOR SUPPER I HAD 100g OF GRILLED SHRIMP & 100g OF BROCCOLI W/ MY APPLE WHICH I DIDN'T EAT UNTIL CLOSE TO BED TIME.

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Day 3 First day of VLC

I must say I really enjoyed my 2 loading days, but I must admit I'm really glad to see them behind me! I weighed this morning and I have gained 4 pounds from the 2 loading days, so I guess that's a sign I did a good job of it! Now I'm just hoping I didn't do so good of a job that when I get up tomorrow and weigh, I haven't gained another 2, 3, or 4 pounds. I'm telling you I ate like a fool my 2 loading days. For supper last night (my last real meal) I fixed spaghetti with Italian sausage, buttery garlic, cheesy bread, and for desert we had strawberry cheese cake. My oldest daughter, said "Mom, I love this diet your on!" Ha..Ha!
Her 21st birthday is Monday (Labor Day) and we always have a huge cookout with cake, ice-cream the whole 10 yards, so she ask me what are we cooking for my BIG day? I just gave her this look..... She said "oh that's right you'll be on you diet!" I told her that just because I couldn't eat, didn't mean the rest of the family had to suffer, so I told her to let me know what she wanted, and this Birthday would be NO different from the past 20 Birthday's she's had! She looked at me with her sweet smile and said....."I'll grill your fish for you!" ( too sweet... I know!) I am so very determined to rock this diet, and do everything just as the protocol says to do! I promise you won't see me asking if I can eat tuna,( even if it is in water) of if I can have yogurt, (even the sugar free kind.) And, I won't ask if I can use my coffee creamer ( and I love my coffee creamer!) Good Grief I've read so many silly thing on the HCG.com Facebook page of people asking if they can have this or that, I just sit here and think....Really people? If it's not listed on Pounds & Inches don't stick it in your mouth, and DON'T ask if you can have it.....The answer is NO!!!!!!!!! I have my entire heart & mind in this diet, not saying it'll be easy, or that I won't have hard days, but I'm very focused on this, and I know just how bad I want to reach my goal of 175, I am not going to mess that up and cheat myself out of my hard work, because nothing, nothing at all taste as yummy as what 175 looks like on my frame! If I fail at losing any weight it's not going to be because I didn't follow the rules that's for sure! I know this is just my 3rd day and my 1st day of the VLC diet, and it may just be easy for me to say this, but I know my determination for these next 40 days!

HERE ARE 2 PICTURES I'VE POSTED.... PICTURE #1 IS MY 1ST VLC LUNCH IT'S GRILLED 100g OF CHICKEN W/ 100g OF STEAMED ASPARAGUS & HALF OF A GRAPEFRUIT.

PICTURE #2 IS MY 1ST VLC SUPPER IT'S 100g OF GRILL FLOUNDER W/ 100g  OF STEAMED BROCCOLI & MY APPLE WHICH I DIDN'T EAT UNTIL BED TIME.

Day 2 of Loading!

Well, Today marks day 2 of loading, I got up this morning at 5:30 used the bathroom and stepped on the scale to find that I only gained a half a pound after eating a huge apple fritter, a Frisco breakfast sandwich, and a medium size tater rounds ( from Hardee's) then a supremo P'Zone from Pizza Hut, a nutter butter blizzard from Dairy Queen, a huge brownie with coconut & pecan icing, a fried chicken fillet sandwich, and a large order of french fries. I never did get around to eating my 2 king size cad bars, I guess I will have to squeeze them in Today! It thinking that perhaps when I get on the scale in the morning I will show a bigger gain, at least I hope so! Good Grief that's a lot of eating in just one day, I never, ever eat like that.....I swear! But... I've read in a million different places that these 2 loading days are so very important, so I had my mind and menu made up, that I was going to do this right, or I just wasn't going to do it at all!!! I'd say I'm off to a great start! (lol) This morning for breakfast I had 3 large pancakes with tons of butter and syrup, and 2 sausage patties, Now it's lunch time and I'm about to do my drops then wait 20 minutes and go to Burger King for a double whopper, and onion rings. For supper tonight, I'm thinking maybe spaghetti with buttery cheesy bread, and I have got to remember to eat my King Size PayDay & Whatchamacallit before bedtime.

So... I just went and took my drops, and I just notice after I took them just now, that I've been measuring them all wrong with the syringe that came with them, jeez..... Just my luck, I tell ya! It's suppose to be .38 and I've been doing .42 I just caught it, and I am so mad at myself, here I've been trying so hard to make sure I only measure out exactly what I'm suppose to take each time, and being even extra careful not to spill them, I've read where a few people have spilt their drop, (OMGosh, I would just dye if I did that!) I so hope and pray due to my mistake of taking too much for the 5 doses ( 3 yesterday and 2 today) that I haven't cut myself short for my 40 days. My husband says for me not to worry about it, he say's I will have plenty, that the company is not going to cut it that close, I told him, he didn't know what he was talking about, because I have read where people have ran out of their drops before their days were up and they started their maintenance early..... I DO NOT want that to be me! Now, I'm going to be worrying everyday about these drops running out to soon for me! GRRRR! This is just my luck.... trying so hard to do it all perfect and here I'm taking too many drps, how did I mess that up? it even has a picture in the pamphlet that comes wth he drops.....Good Grief!  Ugh.... I'm just in a funk now....

DAY1

It's finally here....September 1st!
So I woke up at 5:00 am with a million thoughts running through my head about my fist day of the hcg. I didn't know if I was suppose to just jump up use the bathroom, weigh, take my drops, then take my shower, and head out for the am bus route, or.... If I was to get up use the bathroom, weigh, take a shower, then head out for my am bus route, then take my drops when I got home. I was just not sure of the exact order of how and when I was suppose to be doing all that I knew I had to do! Jeez talk about worried and stressed out for that first day! I ended up doing like this.... I got up used the bathroom, weighed, then took my shower. Then I went and put on a pot of coffee and at 6:30 I took my drops, fixed my coffee for the road, but, didn't take my first sip of it until 7:02. Then I came home and went to the doughnut shop down the road and got me a huge fresh from the grease apple fritter, ( I never get those, but I do get my son one from there maybe once a month) then at about 9:00 I want to Hardees and got a loaded Frisco breakfast sandwich, and hashrounds size medium! ( Needless to say... I'm so full) so, now I'm trying to think about lunch and I'm leaning towards a deep fried chicken sandwich  with fries, or maybe a P'Zone from Pizza Hut, and I am going to D.Q for a Nutter Butter Blizzard sometime between now and bedtime tomorrow! ( Nothing like thinking ahead....Right?) Oh and I bought 2 yummy fatty Candy bars (Whatchamacallit, &  PayDay) last week that I stashed away for these 2 glorious days of loading! Oh did I mention that they both are KING SIZE? Bahahaha! I'm making sure I do these 2 days right! I'm trying my best to not feel guilty about all this JUNK, it's had not to though, I'm not use to eating like this, I don't even allow my kids to do this, so I feel as though I'm being naughty and sneaky too, as if I'm doing wrong! ( Not a good feeling!) I'm not real sure how I'm going to pull this off again tomorrow, one day is bad enoug, but.... I keep reminding myself of how important these 2 days of loading are to this 40 day journey, I guess that's what's making me DO IT!
I was not sure about the water intake for these 2 loading days, I didn't know if on top of all this eating if I was suppose to be drinkin the 2liters- half gallon of water, so I ask the lady whom I spoke with about the 38 days v/s 40 days of drops, and she told me not to worry so much about drinking all the water on the 2 loadings days but for sure starting on day 3 make sure to drink all the required amount of water. (which I knew that) so, I'm still drinking water (cause that's my favorte drink anyway) I'm just not worrying about drinking a half gallon today!
I did tell that same lady how I took my morning drops at 6:30am but didn't actually eay any breakfast until after 8:30, she did tell me that when we take our drops, we need to wait 15 minutes before & after the drops to eat or drink anything, but...That I needed to eat within that hour of taking the drops. ( Something else I didn't know, but ask!) So, I have to leave out for my morning bus route at 6:40 each morning ( Mon-Fri) and I get home at 8:00am so I believe I'll just start taking my drops as soon as I get in at 8:00 and make sure I eat by 9:00am. Wait...... We don't get breakfast unless you count coffee, tea, or water breakfast? So.... Mmmmmm..... I guess I could still take my rops at 6:30 and just not sip on my coffee until 6:45....Right? Please comment on what you think about this idea.... Anyway.... This has been my 1st day thus far it's almost 11:00 so I suppose I should start thinking about Lunch, and I'm still plenty satisfied from my huge breakfast! I simply can't imagine doing these loading days for any longer then 2 days, good grief.... At this rate it wouldn't take me long to balloon up! (LOL)