Weight: 157.5
I’m at the end of my 4th round.
In considering where I am in this whole process, I still have what I call a “baby muffin top” around my middle, so I think I’ve only got about 10 pounds left to go. That’s really frustrating, because if I hadn’t screwed up the last 2 weeks, I could be done already! The problem is that I’ve really been struggling with staying on protocol for that time, resulting in gaining and re-losing the same 2-3 pounds.
The round started out very strong, the first VLCD was March 7th, at 170 pounds. At day 27, I weighed in at 157 pounds. My average loss was almost a pound a day this round, which has been a very encouraging change from the other rounds. That’s a 13 pound total loss in 27 days, including the load days.
Where I started struggling is that I’ve started to get hungry, which I know is the indicator that my body is done for the round. Sometimes it’s a matter of a lighter hunger in the morning that grows into being really hungry because I haven’t had my veggie snack with me to get me through, such as when I’m at a customer’s desk. I started adding two hard boiled eggs for breakfast, and then later even added 2 Mozzarella string cheese sticks to that because I’ve been hungry in the mornings. The times I’ve tried to wait, I got too hungry by lunchtime, ate too fast, and then wasn’t very satisfied when I was finished eating.
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve just gotten super hungry in the afternoon, before I get home from work, and I’ve already eaten everything I took with me for the day. When I get home, I have to have a snack so I can make it to dinner, and I’ve gone way overboard. So, letting myself get too hungry has been the biggest problem, one I thought I could work through and finish out for the remaining 8 days, but I’m doubting how effective those remaining days will be. I try to eat high protein foods, rather than carbs, when I get that hungry. It might be, too, that the extra food is causing me to really crave sugar; hard to say.
The other problem has been social situations. One, yes, I’d gotten too hungry and ate a quarter of a chicken quesadilla that was offered to me, and I was so grateful to have it. The other, however, was a get-together last week where I couldn’t resist the brownies, cake and deviled eggs (I was trying to eat protein, so started with them first). I’d eaten dinner before going, and have resisted the treats in the past, but I really ate a lot that night, so much so that I was still full the next morning.
I’m thinking that taking a 2 week break and then doing a 23 day round might be the perfect time to let me re-group, as well as start working on changing the Armour dose. I’ll work with my doctor to see what his opinion on this is and go from there.
In the meantime, I have to get through the next couple of VLCD eating.
