Day 43

Weight: 172.5

I am so close to my goal weight that I wish I could just keep going!  Well, sort of.

I’m getting to a point where I am tired of having limits on what foods I can have.  I don’t necessarily want so much more food, I just want to eat what my husband eats.  Like his big juicy hamburger and mock potato salad!  And we are having company this afternoon, and he’s making barbequed pork ribs!  Now that is not on the list!

I have 2 more days of hCG left, then 3 more days of staying on the VLCD (very low calorie diet) before switching to the Atkins style diet, and I can tell you, I’m getting ready!

I have been going through the low carb cookbooks after dinner and announcing to my husband the recipes that I can’t wait to have.  He said “you know you’re on a diet when you study the cookbook like it’s Steinway”.  Funny guy, huh?

I suspect I’ll eventually need to reset my final weight loss goal, to 160, or possibly even 155 (that figure just seems outer-worldly to me!), but it’s so hard to say at this point.  If I am going to have to do another round of hCG anyway, then I want to take full advantage of the opportunity and get it taken care of all at once.  How much I want to lose will make a difference in how much hCG I buy and the timing of it, too.  See, I’m already planning the next round!

One problem with doing that is that your goal becomes a moving target and you never can achieve it.  I’m sure there is some psychological name for that in all of the weight loss issues out there.  Once I get to 165, I’ll make an assessment and go from there.

We went to Wal-Mart yesterday and got our pictures taken to document our weight loss.  They turned out really good, too!  I can’t wait to share them with our family.  We even took a full body photo, but I didn’t pick that one to be printed.  I still have 7.5 pounds to make my goal, and that could make all the difference in the world to a full body photo.  Besides, I want to dress up fancy for that one!