Before Picture

This is my "before" round 3 picture, it was actually a few days into it, but close enough. I really don't know what kind of results I'll see this time. I do know this, Ross told me tonight that I felt "tiny"! I don't think I've ever been called tiny in my life!! :)

Update

I'm starting into my third week of the diet today, up until yesterday I had been doing great. No hunger pains, completely satisfied with my food. For some reason, I was super hungry for something bad yesterday. I had pizza for supper, pizza has been both Ross and I's weakness every time we have done the diet. It tasted yummy at the time, made me feel awful later on though, plus I gained 3lbs. Oh well, I'm back on track today, determined to reach my goal. 

Sunday morning I weighed, 170, this morning I was back up to 173. Hopefully I'll get rid of those three pounds in the next day or two and get back to getting down to 160. I have until August 9th to reach my goal, I think it's achievable to get to 160, possibly even 155. 

I'm anxious to try on my bridesmaid dress again soon and see if it will zip now!

Here We Go...Round 3 Begins

I'm on day 3 of my third round of hCG. I started at 182, 6 pounds heavy than when I finished round 2, not too bad. The first two days are loading days and I gained 4 pounds. This is my third day for 500 calories and this morning I was at 179. My goal is to get to 160 minimum, 155 if I can. I'll post my progress every week or so and of course, I'm sure I'll share after pictures when I'm done. My best friend is getting married in October and I purposely ordered a dress that was a little too small so I would have the incentive to get some more weight off. 

Hello

It's been awhile since I've posted on here. Thought it might be time for a quick update.

I've struggled quite a bit with keeping my weight in check, but I'm still not doing horrible. I realized that I was looking at the wrong weight at the finish of the diet, so I'm actually right on track, sort of....

The final weight that you need to try and not go over is what you weigh in the last day you take the hCG. That weight was 176. I did hang out around 173 for a little while. Now, I'm hanging around 177-178, still acceptable, but I do not want to do what I did after the first time. When I finished the first round last summer, I stayed under 190 for while, then started creeping back up to 193, which was my finish weight after the first round. Then I packed on 7lbs over the holidays and started the second round at 200. At one point I had been down to 186, so I had to lose 14lbs just to get back to that. I don't want to have to make up for pounds I've already lost when I do round 3.

I'm going to really focus on not eating too many carbs or sugars on a daily basis, only have that type of stuff occasionally. I also have let myself get into the habit of eating late at night, that's thanks to the goofy shift I work and how my body functions because of it. I have to stop that, I know it's horrible for you.

I'm not doing so well with the running, I'm not sure it's really my type of exercise. I have been enjoying exercising, just not the running. I've been doing my Walk Away The Pounds DVD's pretty faithfully. I've also started doing a 30 day squat challenge. I've never done squats before, but I really want to focus on toning what I've got, so I thought that would be a place to start. I'm also going to try adding in some lunges as well, and get a few dumb bells to try and intensify the workouts.

The first day of 50 squats, I felt fine, second day I was supposed to do 55, but missed that day, had a horrible headache. I did the 55 on Friday, then 60 on Saturday. My legs are sore today! Thankfully, you do three days and then have a rest day. Tomorrow will be 80, you keep increasing each day until the end of the 30 days when you'll do 250! We'll see what kind of results I get.

This is where I'm at for now, learning self control over my food issues, building good exercise habits and trying to take care of this body I've been given. It's a constant struggle, but I will prevail! I plan to do one more round of hCG, probably in July. I would like to get to somewhere between 155-160lbs.

Where I'm At

I've kind of slacked off on keeping you updated, sorry for that. We've been working a little overtime at work, not used to that at this time of year, it has me a little worn out to be quite honest.

I have one more week of no sugar and starch left. I've done a pretty good job of maintaining my weight around 173 and 172, I even had a day down to 171. Friday night at work, we were having pizza, I had requested a thin crust and only ate two pieces at first break and then had a third slice at second break. My weight was still 173 on Saturday morning, same as it had been on Friday.

Saturday was a different story, I was exhausted from the week and Isabel and Alexis and Ross were all trying to get over something they've had from the week. I ate more pizza, ramen noodles and I've been pigging out on peanut butter. You would think peanut butter would be fine, and it is if I'm eating the all natural one. The Jif we've been using for years has sugar in it and I just haven't been able to resist a smooth full or two of it. It's so much smoother and creamier than the all natural kind I've been getting for myself. Also, chowed down on some wheat thins before bedtime. An overall, horrible day, and the scale told me so Sunday morning. 176.2. Anytime you see a gain of 2lbs or more from your final weight, you are supposed to have a steak day. That means you can have as much herbal tea and coffee throughout the day, but eat no food until supper and you eat the biggest steak you possibly can along with either a serving of tomatoes or an apple. I did my steak day yesterday and weighed 170.8 this morning!

Back last Summer, after we had finished our first round, I tried one of the It Works Body Wraps. Ross isn't a huge fan of them, but I don't see anything wrong with them. I'm wanting to get some more of them and try and tone up the "baby" area of my belly. It's very stretched out and loose and rather gross looking to be quite truthful. Have any of you had any experience with them and what do you think of them?

I'm still doing my 5k training as well. I finished up week 3 yesterday and managed to do okay with it. There were 3 minute intervals of running and at first I thought I couldn't make it that long, but I pushed myself and made it. Tomorrow will start week 4 and I have to do some 5 minute runs. Here's to hoping my determination to do this will push my legs to go for that long. Ross is one week ahead of me on the training and the 5 minute runs were pretty hard on him, but by the end of the week he was doing better with it. He started doing more of his training on the treadmill, because the hills in the subdivision were getting him at all the wrong times.

Doubts

I'm having doubts about this whole running thing. I had done two weeks of the couch to 5k training on the Treadclimber, but it only went 4mph. I started the training from the beginning when we got a regular treadmill. I'm doing the walks at 3.5 and the runs at 5mph. I didn't have any problem doing the intervals in weeks ones training. I just finished the first day of week two and I thought the extra 30 seconds of running was going to kill me. I may be walking the 5k, we'll see.

After

Here are a few pictures from earlier tonight. I feel very proud of myself when I see how far I've come. I'm still not where I want to be, I'd like to go down another 15-20lbs. I know most of you that read this blog have seen the pictures on Facebook already, but I wanted to share them here too.