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elaine started off at 177.1 on P2D1. later that day I was at 174.2. on P2D2 is dropped to 170.1. today is P2D3. I am at 171.4.

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elaine i am back! today is load day 1. this is my third round, still using pharmaceutical releana sublingual pellets. some may question that i keep losing, then gaining then losing then gaining and keep coming back for more, but i really enjoy my rocknroll lifestyle when i can, and ALSO enjoy a period of discipline, better health and detoxifying with releana. back to the books! i have noticed that every

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elaine okay, today is r2p2vlcd31, yesterday was a full month on my own protocol with releana sublingual tablets. results: been stuck around a total of 15 lb weight loss for the last few days-to a week. time to change it up. i am happy with .5 loss a day, (who wouldnt be) but for the next week i am off hcg and going to P3, with a miniload on the last day of the P3week. i have read extensively about cycling and am going to try it, ill report back next week. for the moment, the plan is NOT ONE CARB, even my fruit for this week. so as a reminder to self: 3/30/2100 was my first full day off of hcg. 4/6/2011 will be my last day of p3 and the day of a miniload. then on 4-7...back on 30 P2days of the releana. for the last 30 days most of what i eat has been protein and fat, and well over 500 cals a day. the only benefit i can see to the releana is that i have experienced NO HUNGER! i know its the hcg, cos yesterday, at 36 hours without any releana, i was STARVED. have 3 little pork tenderloins and a piece of swiss cheese.

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elaine How in the heck it is NOW r2p2vlcd23 is beyond me, I cannot figure out how two days ago it was vlcd19. It just dont add up, but I have NEVER been good with numbers! okay, so let us say it is confirmed...I am at R2P2VLCD23! With a total of nearly 16 lbs gone. That means I have lost about .73 per day. Hmm. Maybe that is not as bad as I thought. I am still SLIGHTLY in ketosis. Okay, I am not gonna complain yet. But I am not eating one single carb tonight. I do not care if anyone says ketosis is not a part of this diet; for me it always has been. I have traditionally done well on Atkins, but it was not sustainable due to my love of potatoes. Which I am gonna try to get over this round, and do P3 correctly, IF I EVER GET THERE, sigh. One current observation is that I have not really been hungry, but I still eat little yummies (according to my protocol but no other) as I am cooking for the Hubster. So, no, I do NOT have a single French Fry, or Potato Chips, or Bread, or any kind of starchy carbo thang that HE has, but I have had plenty of beef (way more than I should), a glass of white wine or two or three, now and then (I am having a glass right now), Marie's bleu-cheese dressing (and I mean less than a tablespoon), fat-free half and half in my coffee, BUT not enough salads nor apples, which I know help ALOT, and I think after tonight, I will switch to fish, salad greens with no-calorie dressings and no tomatoes and stop on all dairy. ON THAT NOTE: I also have been having cheese (notably, I had FRIED mozzarella cheese sticks TWICE!) and, once a day now and then, a little deli peppered eye of round ( 2 slices) with a slice of Swiss. Very satisfying, but really, not necessary; its more like I am just bored and afraid I am going to GET hungry in the afternoon. So I can change that up too. I am also gonna lay off the Jay Robb Chocolate Smoothies with 4 strawberries in the morning. And just do 4 strawberries. I NEVER do Melba toast. No, No, No. Just makes an urge for more carbs. With anything else going on, I am always a BIG water drinker, and I do believe that this is one of the secrets to going off protocol. I drink a gallon of water a day (I weigh 166, I drink 128 oz of water daily). So, I am going to change things up (maybe, if I can, I am a weak sort of woman) and report back faithfully what happens. There are other online forums where irritated AND irritating people are either bashing anyone who goes off protocol or else subjecting some unsuspecting readers to their own experiments, and so I wish to do neither. I am grateful to the experts here that give great advice and with some searching I find what I need to know. I do not give advice. I want folks to think for themselves, the way I did, so you will learn for yourselves. Every BODY is different. Last round, in spring of 2010, I kind of shot off my mouth here. This round, a year later, the tale of the tape told me that I dont really have any reason to publicly talk about what I am doing. If you want to watch my daily report, I will report faithfully my screw-ups and results. I am not a medical researcher nor an expert. I cannot recommend anything I do, as I know one must search for the path for him or her self. But I will say this...do NOT go rogue until you have done at least one round to see for yourself if the official hCg protocol works. It is tough and it sucks, but I have seen it works for many folks for PERMANENT weight loss. And, if you cannot stick with the diet, then at the very least, you gotta give up the carbs, to break the habit and addiction. Replace carbs with meat and if you have to, the very satisfying cocoa crack made with coconut oil, and folks, that is your treat and your ONLY sweetie-treat. If you do well on Atkins, maybe you will do well on what I do. I would recommend the Calorie King book, to make the best choices for you. The way I do it, I can eat "out", I can have a Starbucks Skinny Vanilla Latte, I can have roasted chicken breast from the grocery store, I can eat at Wendy's, I can have a freaking glass of wine or two or three, even. My life cannot stop due to this diet. My life doesnt allow that, but for sure, I lose weight and certainly inches. And if I have to do it every spring, after eating the way I love the rest of the year, well, it is worth it to ME. So...yes...I am at vlcd23 with an average of .736 loss a day, BUT, and here is something very important WITH a gallon of water DAILY! Here is a reminder. If you want to drink white wine, fine, BUT...if you do NOT drink MORE water, than the wine, you will have a HUGE loss the next day. That is due to dehydration. In other words, it isnt REAL losses! Once you have replaced the water...right back up the lbs will come. Do not fool yourself into thinking drinking alcohol provides weight loss, for it doesnt. Looks like it, but it is not real. Maybe for that one moment, you can say, oh... I lost 5 LBS! Dont fool yourself. But to prove it to yourself, watch...on the day after a bender, you will eat like a hog, crave salt and fat, and drink water like crazy. Weigh yourself once an hour. Just this week, and this is no lie, I gained 12 lbs in one day. Granted...my scale is stupid, expensive and useless. But really. 12 lbs in one freaking day? No matter how wrong the scale is, drinking alcohol is NOT A GOOD IDEA on this diet. If nothing else it will ruin your ideas about your discipline and this diet and make you quit believing in yourself and undermine your efforts. Ok, thats it for the minnit! I see folks are watching, and I want to tell the truth here. And, I have. I will keep reporting. I must say, I wish I would be over with this NOW and maybe if I would have followed official protocol, maybe, MAYBE I would have lost more weight. Maybe not. But, MY way, I can lose weight, my own WEIGH...For the two-weeks of the beginning of this diet, I can eat Atkin's, which works for me; I can have a Rum and Diet Coke, or dry white wine, which works for me; I can have deli meat and swiss cheese, that works for me; I can have Jay Robb Shakes, 110 calories and 25g of protein, that works for me; I can even eat at Wendy's, Safeway Roasted Chickie, Starbucks, and go out in the world, and still maintain a loss of 3/4 lb a day. But now, I want to change things up...moving towards salad and baked cod (which I love!) And, I will report back, for at some point, I think to maintain losses, you MUST follow protocol. But my way, eases things in better. That is my belief.

elaine r2p2vlcd19, total loss around 15 lbs (scale is crazed, cannot really tell exact losses). been very busy with the holiday (hubster is in an irish music band, so you can imagine). jay robb smoothie with strawberries, coffee, water, tea (hot and cold), filet mignon and roasted chicken breast for the last two days, once with a slice of reduced calorie/fat/sodium swiss cheese (not too interesting), once with a tablespoon of maries bleu cheese dressing. last night, had a full order (6) of cheese sticks with ranch dressing. i dont know why, but whatev er happened, it finally broke my stall!

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elaine r2vlcd17, stuck here at 13 lbs down, but not worried, cos it is very obvious i have lost a lot of my lil apple tummy and hip-top. back in my size 8 levis with a little room to spare. tried a new thang today, yerba mate chocolate tea, has nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, stevia, and its quite yummy! seems that mate makes me hungry, tho, so while it does improve my focus and foggy brain, decaf green tea does about the same without making me hungry. i changed things up a little bit today, coffee as usual, the tea, lots of water, but limiting foodies. 1/2 teeny slice of gourmet lite turkey breast with 1 teeny slice of baby swiss, wrapped up in a lettuce leaf with 1/4 of a tomato with 1/2 teaspoon of mustard is all i have had so far. i could have eaten 20 of these, they were so good, but stuck with just one. and i never did eat that sausage last night, just had a bite or two, didnt want any more, which is incredible. i am peeing like crazy too. i am perfectly aware its gonna get to be tough times (starting now, apparently) after the first two weeks of P2; the weight fell off so quickly; now, to be stuck for days at 13 lbs down is a drag and cuts into my average loss per day (wah!), but the body is adjusting and i just have to remember that i AM doing it and i WILL lose bad fat and inches; regardless of the time it takes, it is still much faster than i could do on my own, even with atkins and ketosis. i cannot complain that i have lost 13 lbs in 17 days. ive been researching calorie cycling, which as it turns out is "kinda" what i do...days of 500 cals, then days of higher cals and fat, then back to my protocol. i might be more stringent about this and actually experiment with it once i know more. i will say this round has been a little easier than round 1. took me a week to lose one lb on round 1, then lost 11 lbs in two days. jeesh, it was depressing that first week, but there were many reasons why it happened, which i see now after a year of research. i was smarter this time, for sure. better loading, more psychologically relaxed, plus the releana tabs are better for me in terms of killing hunger in general, and my protocol allowing more and different food is great. amazingly, i have had little urge for cheating or cocoa crack or sniffling about hubbys yummy food choices. may be cos its nearly 90 degrees here today, and i am not skinny enuf to wander around with my teeny clothes on (mirror agreed) has given me some more incentive to behave better today. also, i have lost ALL faith in my very expensive scale. as of today, since i appeared to be stuck, i moved the scale around and lo and behold, just like my LAST expensive scale, depending on where it sits on the floor (level or not) it shows a difference of up and down over 5 lbs within 2 minutes of weighing! so i really dont have any faith i have lost as much as i think, or heck, it could be more, who knows! so my plan to not be attached to the scale results in the morning is probably best. have i lost 10 lbs or 13 lbs or 15 lbs? im gonna work on not caring and stick more with the process rather than be so result oriented.

elaine r2p2vlcd16, down a total of 13.2 lbs. coffee, jay robb shake with strawberries for b'fast. gourmet lite (low sodium, 98% fat free and real) turkey breast slice with baby swiss for lunch. tonight i will have a salad with red onion, tomatoes, asian greens and fat free sugar free dressing, and an andouille (sp?) sausage with lotsa mustard. yum!

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