Weight: 165.5
Well, I rather anticipated a larger drop, what with working out and the 1 pound drop earlier this week…or, at least, I was hoping!
I’m starting to think that this will be my set weight for this round, and I’m really quite pleased!
I am starting to crave sweets, though, so I have to be careful. Also, my legs are still itching and I suspect nuts and/or dairy (cheese) is the culprit. I need a new snack!
Weight: 166
I was grazing yesterday, and the choice I went to most was string cheese. You know, instead of the veggies I had right in front of me!
I have a sensitivity to the protein in dairy so I really do need to stop eating string cheese, most dairy for that matter, at least on a consistent basis.
Anyway, my co-worker wasn’t available to go, but I did go for my walk yesterday. When I looked at my fitness tracker it said I had burned 100 calories less than when she goes with me. I’ll tell her that today!
As for this morning, I’m getting on the elliptical. Gotta keep moving!
Weight: 165.5
I had a pretty good low carb day, but I’m feeling pretty full this morning so thought my weight would be up.
I’m tired this morning, too, so no workout, but I’m planning a walk at lunch time, even if it is below freezing outside!
Weight: 165.5
Well, the workout, and a low carb day, got me back in range.
I got to thinking about it, though…the protocol is talking about 2 pounds from LIW. For me, that would still be 165 and at 166.5 I’d still be in range.
I called myself on it because it was an overall gain of more than 2 pounds no matter the number for LIW, and certainly, I’m still 2 pounds over where I was, due to my carb indiscretion.
It’s too easy to let this creep up, giving myself permission to stay higher than I should, and then I’m back in the same boat as before. Then, what’s the point, right?
Overall, I’ve lost about 13 pounds on this round. I’m still 15 pounds over my goal weight, one I’ve achieved in the past on the diet and where I feel fabulous. The way I see it, I’m on shaky ground, and I need to be very vigilant.
I feel SO much better than I did before the diet, though.
Weight: 166.5
So, I can’t do a steak day.
That is, I got hungry in the morning and I was hungry at lunch. So I ate low carb all day. And had a steak and low carb faux-tato salad.
And I’m up .5
So, this is where that “several days of strict dieting” comes into play. I’m working out this morning, too.
Sigh.
Weight: 166
I’m surprised that I’m up a whole pound from yesterday, as I thought I kept to low carb really well.
However, what I’ve found in the past is that the previous days’ indiscretions sometimes snowball and show up 2 days later. So, today is a steak day, as outlined below. Bleh.
As long as their weight stays within two pounds of the weight reached on the day of the last injection, patients should take no notice of any increase but the moment e scale goes beyond two pounds, even if this is only a few ounces, they must on that same day entirely skip breakfast and lunch but take plenty to drink. In the evening they must eat a huge steak with only an apple or a raw tomato. Of course this rule applies only to the morning weight. Ex-obese patients should never check their weight during the day, as there may be wide fluctuations and these are merely alarming and confusing.
It is of utmost importance that the meal is skipped on the same day as the scale registers an increase of more than two pounds and that missing the meals is not postponed until the following day. If a meal is skipped on the day in which a gain is registered in the morning this brings about an immediate drop of often over a pound. But if the skipping of the meal - and skipping means literally skipping not just having a light meal - is postponed the phenomenon clues not occur and several days of strict dieting may be necessary to correct the situation.
Most patients hardly ever need to skip a meal. If they have eaten a heavy lunch they feel no desire to eat their dinner, and in this case no increase takes place. If they keep their weight at the point reached at the end of the treatment, even a heavy dinner does not bring about an increase of two pounds on the next morning and does not therefore call for any special measures. Most patients are surprised bow small their appetite has become and yet how much they can eat without gaining weight. They no longer suffer from an abnormal appetite and feel satisfied with much less food than before. In fact, they are usually disappointed that they cannot manage their first normal meal, which they have been planning for weeks.
Weight: 165
I’m up 1.5 pounds today because I ate carbs at a get together yesterday.
It was stupid, really, because I’d brought my own lunch, with all of my allowed foods, but it just seemed weird to eat it when there was a table with stuff on it that other people brought to share. Selfish, is how it felt. Because I hadn’t brought enough to share with anyone else.
So, today has started out with a nice omelet, and I’ll focus on lots of high protein foods and water and see what happens. I’m still within the 2 pound limit, before a steak day is necessary, which I’m thankful for, but it’s a good reminder for this holiday season.
