Day 6 - (4th day) VLCD

Weigh-in: 146.2
I swear this diet is simply unbelievable. I haven't even done any exercise except for those crunches yesterday & my stomach is melting away. Now my thighs aren't going anywhere but I'm holding out hope. Didn't expect to see much progress in a weeks time or at least not enough to be noticeable. However, I think I will have enough to take a progress pic or two. Stay tuned...

Breakfast: Green tea & water

Lunch: Shrimp sauteed in lemon juice (3.4 oz. - my scale started acting up in the middle of me weighing & I had to use ounces AND go out & buy a new scale.)
Diced tomatoes (4.3 oz.)

After lunch snack: Strawberries (6 oz.)

Dinner: Broiled scallops (103g - I always cheat w/the scallops!)
Spinach from the can (7.4 oz.) - Can you say yuck? I will never do that again.

After dinner snack: Usually I eat strawberries at night but I'm only at 350+ calories right now so I will probably have apple slices tonight. It would take almost an entire container of strawberries to use up my last calories. So tonight's snack will be a little over 9 oz. of apple slices.

I can't even begin to explain how EXCITED I am. Why didn't someone tell me about hCG a long time ago? Why isn't this more mainstream?

Day 5 - (3rd day) VLCD

Weigh in: 149.2

Breakfast: Unsweetened green tea & water

Lunch: Grilled chicken (100g)
Steamed Cabbage (9.6 oz)

After lunch snack: Red Delicious Apple (6.6 oz.)

Dinner: Baked tilapia (100g)
Cucumbers (6.7 oz.)

After dinner snack: Because I've had way too many calories today, I will only be able to enjoy 4.5 oz. of strawberries tonight. :-( However, I'm stuffed from dinner so 4.5 oz. will probably be more than enough.

Today has been a regular day. I'm noticing that I'm definitely not hungry like I thought I'd be. I thought I had ordered some Life Caps but I realized that I never placed the order. Now, I really don't think I'll need them. If I find hunger being a problem, then I'll just order & pay rush shipping. If anyone is actually interested in ordering them, go to Winterfix. They're cheaper on this site & they have a 20% off sale going on right now. Use the code TETON20 when you check out.

I did about 50 crunches today. I'm going to try & do 50 more after my dinner digests. I would love to have a little ab definition when this is all said & done.

COULDN'T WAIT FOR THIS...

I usually do my daily post at the end of the day but I just couldn't wait to share this with those of you that are keeping up with my blog.

This too easy, I tell you. So every morning, the first thing I do is hop on the scale, jammies & all. So I was down to 150.2, which was still a loss of 1.6 from yesterday. But I took my shower, dried off & did my nude weight.

Are you ready for this?!?!?

149.2!!!!!!

This is motivation in itself. I really I haven't found it all that difficult to stay focused but this really puts things into perspective. Now I know that my weight loss will taper off at some point & I won't be losing this much every day. But this sure is a great start.

GO ME! GO ME!

Day 4 - (2nd day) VLCD

Weigh-in: 151.8
Whoo hoo, I'm losing finally. Should be back to my beginning weight by tomorrow - hopefully.

Breakfast: Water

Lunch: Broiled Scallops (102g - yeah I cheated a little. I didn't feel like trying to shave off 2 grams from one of my scallops.)
Steamed Asparagus (8.9 oz.)

After lunch snack: Grapefruit (7.9 oz.)

Dinner: Grilled chicken (99g) - I didn't know how this was going to taste since I wasn't able to spray my countertop grill with any non-stick spray. However, the lemon juice definitely helped with the flavor as well as the sticking.
Steamed Cabbage (8 oz.)

After dinner snack: I have enough calories left for 9 oz. of strawberries so that will be my snack later tonight.

I had a cont. ed. class this morning from 9-12:30. My intentions were to take my grapefruit so that I wouldn't be hungry before I got home for lunch. Well, I walked out & left the grapefruit. Thank God I wasn't starving.

I definitely think this diet is more mental than anything. Though people gasp when they hear 500 calories, it really is enough food.

Of course I'm hoping that the extra 2 grams won't make a big difference with my progress. I've added in the additional calories to make sure I remain under 500 in spite of.

Day 3 - (1st day) VLCD

Though disappointing, after all I ate yesterday, I'm not surprised that I gained another pound. My weigh in this morning was 153 even.

Breakfast: Unsweetened raspberry leaf tea & plenty of water

Lunch: Baked tilapia (100g) with diced tomatoes (6.6 oz.)
After Lunch Snack: Strawberries (6.5 oz.)

Dinner: Baked tilapia (100g) with a diced cucumber (10.5 oz.)
After Dinner Snack: Strawberries - since I have approx. 96 calories left from my 500, I will eat 10 oz. of strawberries for a snack tonight. Haven't had it yet - gonna wait until I get that late night hunger.

All & all today was a good day. It was as if I was embarking on a new journey so the fact that I'm eating almost nothing has not set in yet. I do know that I eat because I'm bored & I found myself wishing for some of the junk that I can't have that's in my kitchen. I've already had more than 1/2 gallon of water today & I will drink more as the night progresses - as well as some green tea. Can't wait to weigh in tomorrow morning.

Day 2 - LOADING

So I gained 1.4 pounds with the loading yesterday. Not really disappointed because my weigh-in was lower than it had been all week & my norm has been 153/154.

Breakfast: 5 slices of turkey bacon w/2 fried egg whites on 2 pieces of wheat bread
After Breakfast Snack: A huge bowl of vanilla ice cream w/a ton of sprinkles

Lunch: I didn't really have lunch once again. I nibbled on some leftover chicken strips & took a nap instead. I also munched on some BBQ chips.

Dinner: 2 fried pork chops; rice & gravy; cabbage
After Dinner Snack: Another huge bowl of vanilla ice cream loaded w/sprinkles.

I drank much more water today. At least around 1/2 of gallon. Tomorrow is the first day of the 500 calorie diet. Hmmm....

Day 1 - LOADING

The 1st two days of the diet are loading days. You're supposed to eat as much fat/calories as possible. I didn't eat as much as I would've liked to. Also, I'm having problems keeping the sublingual mix under my tongue for longer than 5 minutes. I have a support person that's also doing the diet - shout out to A. She told me I need to stop trying to talk while it's in my mouth. So hopefully I'll do better tomorrow.

Breakfast:
Munched on a few chicken nuggets with my kids, then I went to breakfast with my girlfriend. I had a waffle with whipped cream as an appetizer. Then I had an egg white omelette with shrimp, avacado, pico de gallo & spinach with a side of homestyle hashbrowns. I had ice water with lemon to drink.

After all of that food, I went shopping for a few hours & went home & fell asleep so I didn't have any lunch.

Dinner:
Mexican with the family. I had a t-bone steak with grilled peppers and onions, lots of chips & salsa & I ate a whole bowl of guacamole by myself - my family doesn't like it. I ate a little bit of the rice & refried beans on the side & all of my pico de gallo & my stepson's portion, too. I love pico de gallo. I also had a gigantic mango frozen margarita.

When I got home, I had a cup of jasmine green tea without any sweetener.

My water intake definitely could've been better today. Right now I'm so stuffed I can barely sit here & type this. Curious to know what my weigh-in will be tomorrow.