It's Good News My Friends!

I'm down another 1/2 pound under yesterday's total!  That's 9.5 pounds GONE!!!  Weird.  11 days and 9.5 pounds.  I'm happy to report that I'm now down 1.5 from my pre Little Dude weight and only up 1.5 from my pre twins weight!  Yep, 3 more days (hopefully!) and I'll be at my pre baby weight.  I'm hoping to go down 4-5 pounds beyond that so I'd be at a total loss of 16 pounds in 24 days.  We'll see what my body does over the next 12 days.  Apparently the closer you get to the goal, the harder it is to shed the pounds so I really have no idea what to expect but 6 pounds in 12 days seems fairly realistic considering my adventure thus far.  I'd really like to have a few pounds cushion as it might be easy to gain a few coming off of this.  Also, I have the option to stay on this for as many as 40 days.  I can't BEGIN to imagine that amount of time on this but it's allowed.  I guess I could push it a few extra days if need be.  Oh, that's asking a lot.

Cheaters Never Prosper

This morning I was quite optimistic about this whole HCG protocol thing after reaching a weight I hadn't seen since before Little Dude.  Well, the day got harder.  And harder.  I cheated.  I really couldn't help it.

I made the kids pumpkin pancakes for dinner.  Not a temptation for me.  I don't like pancakes and I really don't like pumpkin pancakes.  When they had each eaten their allotted pancakes they asked for chocolate chip pancakes.  Yep.  That did me in.  First a bite, then another.  Somehow the pancake disappeared before my eyes.  It was sooo good I don't even have words. 

And then I decided that if I'm going to cheat I'm gonna do it right.  I then ate 2 english muffins (with lots of butter) and 2 chips ahoy cookies. 

I'm not sure what went wrong today because previous to this I was only tempted one other time and I was able to get past it.  Not tonight.  Night 10 and whoosh.  This is hard.

I plan to get back up on the horse tomorrow and do it all again.  Looking forward to Day 11.

It's Day 10!

I am loving my scale lately.  Haven't been able to say that in a while.  My numbers went down a whole pound last night!  I'm down 8.5 in 9 full days!  This is Fun!

It's Day 9!

Day 8 and I'm down another 1/2 pound!  I'm in utter amazement.  I saw it happen for my friend but you know how it is.  You always figure things work for other people but of course not for you.  Well, it worked for me.  Better yet, I went shopping this morning while the banschees were in VBS and I tried on several dresses and tshirts.  Get this...I had to go back and get smalls in all the dresses and shirts!  I always pick up the medium to start with an then go from there but never (at least not since Little Dude) have I had to go back for smaller sizes in everything I've tried on!  That definitely makes today easier as I think about NOT eating Chick Fila that was graciously donated to our evening Vacation Bible School.  Oh, how I love Chick Fila!

7 in 7!!

Good news to report!  More loss.  I really can't believe it and wouldn't if it wasn't happening to me.  I had resigned myself to a certain body type (Boo genetics!!!) but there really are ways to transform and sculpt the body. The great thing is all the work I've put in over the past 2 years at the gym is paying off.  There really are muscles under there and they might even be visible one of these days.  I still have 14 full days on this regimen so we'll see where it takes me.  I've heard that the weight loss slows a lot after day 7.  Average weight loss in the first 7 days is 8-10 pounds.  After that it's 1/4-1/2 pound per day.  I think I began my slowing process around day 5 which got kind of discouraging.

I'm so curious to see what my body will do from here.  How low can I go?  I guess I'll find out because I have to stay on the protocol for 21 full days!  We're in for a long ride blog world.