P2 Simeon's Protocol Week of 5/21

[TiffanyM]

Is awesome. This is great.

[shelbyla]

Originally Posted by sunflowerintx

Awww, thank you! The thing I'm most thrilled with is seeing my collar bone!

That's the first thing I notice on myself too! Isn't it great?

Originally Posted by Kari M.

I am back for R2! My LDW last round was 227.0 and today on R2D1 i was 231.4.

Welcome back!

Originally Posted by cocoapeanut

It's amazing how this diet kind of forces you to stare straight in the face of any food issues you may have. I've realized that while I may not be much of a stress or sad eater, I'm definitely a huge social eater - once other people are eating a ton of food, I stuff my face because I love food and I've automatically justified it to myself. Even if I get way too full! I'm trying to make sure that I learn to eat what I need and can stop eating, no matter how delicious it is. And that I don't need to eat just cause stuff tastes good!

This is me to a "T". I have gotten over a lot of emotional eating and drinking sort of by osmosis through this protocol but I STILL love food--how it tastes, eating with friends, etc. It's something that I really need to work on and I am going to focus specifically on in this P3.

Originally Posted by sunflowerintx

I've gone a bit rogue...I made some delicious chicken & celery soup & apparently my body likes celery! I am having that stuff again today....

Why is this rogue? I think celery is on the veggies list...

Originally Posted by sunflowerintx

Cocoa...



SMOKING HOT PIC!!!

TOTALLY agree, Cocoa! Wowsa! You're are looking amazing! You too, sunflower! I love the pics with your kiddles...

Originally Posted by TiffanyM

Is awesome. This is great.

Welcome Tiffany! Jump right in. Post away. Share share share! Seriously, we are all here for each other!

For anyone I missed, have a great LOSING day! Stay OP, drink your water, and WORK IT!!!!!

[TiffanyM]

Originally Posted by cocoapeanut

It's amazing how this diet kind of forces you to stare straight in the face of any food issues you may have. I've realized that while I may not be much of a stress or sad eater, I'm definitely a huge social eater - once other people are eating a ton of food, I stuff my face because I love food and I've automatically justified it to myself. Even if I get way too full! I'm trying to make sure that I learn to eat what I need and can stop eating, no matter how delicious it is. And that I don't need to eat just cause stuff tastes good!

This is me too.. I eat if I'm happy, I eat when I'm sad, eat eat eat.. And beer. Lordy I love beer. That is probably what I miss the most right now. I can't wait til my cravings are totally gone.

[shelbyla]

As for me, upped protein again yesterday and was down 0.5 today. This is an interesting experiment--to eat JUST enough to STS, but not enough to gain. So far I have been between 138 and 139 for 5 days now. I am hoping to keep... it ...right ...there... until at least Friday morning. I still haven't decided whether to make LDD Friday or Saturday. According to WLA 20 effective doses should be Saturday but I am stabilizing very nicely. Thoughts?

In other related stuff, I am a little weirded out by something... I can feel my shoulder blades sticking out. I think I really noticed it because when I lean back in my chair, they hit the back unless I really slump my shoulders forward. Believe me, I am not looking skeletal skinny (I posted pics in the low carb "Success Stories" areas, if you want to see) but this is kind of a new thing. Not bad...just strange. I think it may just be that I haven't been this thin in probably 20+ years so I need to get used to how my body feels at this weight.

Anyway, hope everyone is having a great day so far.

[shelbyla]

Originally Posted by TiffanyM

And beer. Lordy I love beer.

You and me both, kid! You and me both... All kinds. Dark, light, red, lagers, IPAs, browns, microbrews. Gah! And I can drink gallons of it and it is NOT calorie-free!

[cocoapeanut]

Originally Posted by TiffanyM

Is awesome. This is great.

Woohooooooo!! We're pretty cool

Originally Posted by shelbyla

This is me to a "T". I have gotten over a lot of emotional eating and drinking sort of by osmosis through this protocol but I STILL love food--how it tastes, eating with friends, etc. It's something that I really need to work on and I am going to focus specifically on in this P3.

Yup exactly, I still love food too! I plan on focusing on this in P3 as well. Oh PS, I'm going to be in LA for one day next week - haha! I have a job interview

Originally Posted by shelbyla

I still haven't decided whether to make LDD Friday or Saturday. According to WLA 20 effective doses should be Saturday but I am stabilizing very nicely. Thoughts?

I loled at the shoulder blade thing, it IS kinda weird to get used to a new body! I remember when all of a sudden none of my rings fit anymore, it was almost SAD except not!

Not an expert, but I'd say you could do either day - if it was me I'd probably just decide on Friday whether or not to go another day. You're stabilizing already, so I doubt the one day will really affect your P3. Feel it out!

[shelbyla]

Originally Posted by cocoapeanut

Yup exactly, I still love food too! I plan on focusing on this in P3 as well. Oh PS, I'm going to be in LA for one day next week - haha! I have a job interview

Not an expert, but I'd say you could do either day - if it was me I'd probably just decide on Friday whether or not to go another day. You're stabilizing already, so I doubt the one day will really affect your P3. Feel it out!

Betcha money that you will be in LA one of the days that I am in Chicago... Too funny! Good luck on your interview!

Thanks for the advice. I may just do that.

[MagieDen]

Celery is on the Protocol List if not, I am really going rogue on some days.

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by MagieDen

Celery is on the Protocol List if not, I am really going rogue on some days.

Nope, you are right it IS on the list. I cannot stand it but I tried once on P2. If I cook it long enough to get the flavor out of it then the nutrients are gone too. But that soup was good!!! And I got some celery in me I think I cooked it for a good hour or longer.

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by cocoapeanut

It's amazing how this diet kind of forces you to stare straight in the face of any food issues you may have. I've realized that while I may not be much of a stress or sad eater, I'm definitely a huge social eater - once other people are eating a ton of food, I stuff my face because I love food and I've automatically justified it to myself. Even if I get way too full! I'm trying to make sure that I learn to eat what I need and can stop eating, no matter how delicious it is. And that I don't need to eat just cause stuff tastes good!

If you can focus on finding outlets other than food and making those your new habits, you'll be farther mentally than even Dr. Simeons himself would have taken you! I wish you all the best on your journey
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Cocoa

What a great post. This is me to a "T"!!! I eat anytime--stressed, emotional, celebration, because food is there, because it is time to eat, because it is free I literally eat for all the wrong reasons. I still feel that way on P2 and get angry because I cannot have stuff. That is what I need to work on. My DH supports me by saying, "you don't need to eat all that food" when they serve you all that food at restaurants. OR when going to a buffet and I get 3 or 4 heaping plates of food. I figure, why not? My DH "why stuff your face just because you can?" I think I should follow his rules I probably wouldn't be doing another round of P2 if I had. Oh, well. We are a work in progress!!

[dbunny]

Man, I can hardly keep up with y'alls posts!
Down 2! 8.5 in 2 days ~ gotta love the HCG

[shelbyla]

Originally Posted by dbunny

Man, I can hardly keep up with y'alls posts!
Down 2! 8.5 in 2 days ~ gotta love the HCG

Whoohoo! Rock it!

[Berta48]

Originally Posted by dawnyama

What a great post. This is me to a "T"!!! I eat anytime--stressed, emotional, celebration, because food is there, because it is time to eat, because it is free I literally eat for all the wrong reasons. I still feel that way on P2 and get angry because I cannot have stuff. That is what I need to work on. My DH supports me by saying, "you don't need to eat all that food" when they serve you all that food at restaurants. OR when going to a buffet and I get 3 or 4 heaping plates of food. I figure, why not? My DH "why stuff your face just because you can?" I think I should follow his rules I probably wouldn't be doing another round of P2 if I had. Oh, well. We are a work in progress!!

That's is how we use to be too.Especially at buffets. But we have changed ALOT!I can't eat as much as I use to now.But that was even before the HHCG.But I would not loose like I have with the HHCG either!

Just this morning I couldn't eat all my egg omolet.I started to... but then I said don't eat that you are full.... so I threw it away.

[dawnyama]

Originally Posted by Berta48

That's is how we use to be too.Especially at buffets. But we have changed ALOT!I can't eat as much as I use to now.But that was even before the HHCG.But I would not loose like I have with the HHCG either!

Just this morning I couldn't eat all my egg omolet.I started to... but then I said don't eat that you are full.... so I threw it away.

WooHoo!! You are learning!!

[sunflowerintx]

Dbunny, PLEASE share your loading menu with us! How much did you gain?

[umichrn]

Is this thread for anyone on phase 2 to join?
I a R1P2D21 - I have lost 10# and I am already seeing NSV - I believe I will continue out phase 2 until day day.
If I'm on the right place I look fwd to encouraging everyone as we take this journey.


Please let me know if I should be else where.

Thanks PB

[shelbyla]

Welcome umichrn! Yes, you are indeed in the right place for P2. How long a round are you planning? We're all here for each other, through thick and thin!

[Berta48]

Originally Posted by dawnyama

WooHoo!! You are learning!!

It's about time don't ya think

[vanna1970]

[QUOTE=Berta48;15675220]CONGRATULATIONS VANNA SO did you do the LDW? OR did you continue on? Evidentally you didn't go to PH3?
QUOTE]

Hey Berta,

We still haven't heard whether we will be heading down to NC or not, so I thought I'd better wait to get the official word. The longer I can stay in P2 the better. I'd like to lose as much as I can on this round. But as soon as I decide to get to P3, I'll be zipping right over your other thread!

[vanna1970]

Wow! I was down 1.5 this morning!!! What? After three weeks, I can lose 1.5 pounds overnight? Amazing!

Last night I came up with a really good dish. I chopped up 1 boiled egg and three boiled egg whites and mixed in 1 T. of Walden Farms Ranch dressing. It was such yummy egg salad! And I ate it on salted cucumber slices. Really good. It was also filling. I couldn't eat the whole thing. My husband ate what I couldn't and he really liked it too!

A side note on eggs - both times I ate them for dinner, I was down significantly the next morning. 1 pound the first time a few days ago, and 1.5 pounds this second time. There is something magical about those eggs, I'm thinking!

My mom is going to give me some cabbage today. I am thinking of what I could do with it. Maybe a nice chicken and cabbage soup? Sounds pretty tasty.

By the way, I wish I could post more here. I am a freelancer writer/editor/proofreader. I have so much work, but I can only get a little bit of concentration time each day because I have a four-year-old who is now out of preschool for the summer. Between her, my husband who is home all day, and my freelance stuff, my head spins a little with it all. But it's a good problem to have. All of these things/people are such good things in my life. If a little is good, a lot is great, right?!

But I do read every post and love keeping up with all of you.

Welcome new folks! Enjoy your HCG experience. I know I am!

[vanna1970]

Oh, another by the way... I am now in the 140s! I have not seen 149 since April of 2010. Two years ago!

So happy! Love HCG!!

Now I need a new avatar pic!

[MagieDen]

Originally Posted by vanna1970

Wow! I was down 1.5 this morning!!! What? After three weeks, I can lose 1.5 pounds overnight? Amazing!

Last night I came up with a really good dish. I chopped up 1 boiled egg and three boiled egg whites and mixed in 1 T. of Walden Farms Ranch dressing. It was such yummy egg salad! And I ate it on salted cucumber slices. Really good. It was also filling. I couldn't eat the whole thing. My husband ate what I couldn't and he really liked it too!

A side note on eggs - both times I ate them for dinner, I was down significantly the next morning. 1 pound the first time a few days ago, and 1.5 pounds this second time. There is something magical about those eggs, I'm thinking!

My mom is going to give me some cabbage today. I am thinking of what I could do with it. Maybe a nice chicken and cabbage soup? Sounds pretty tasty.

By the way, I wish I could post more here. I am a freelancer writer/editor/proofreader. I have so much work, but I can only get a little bit of concentration time each day because I have a four-year-old who is now out of preschool for the summer. Between her, my husband who is home all day, and my freelance stuff, my head spins a little with it all. But it's a good problem to have. All of these things/people are such good things in my life. If a little is good, a lot is great, right?!

But I do read every post and love keeping up with all of you.

Welcome new folks! Enjoy your HCG experience. I know I am!

I hear you on the egg front. It seems for me that when I have had eggs for dinner I have a good loss. I was doing LC before HCG and I always have had eggs and they seem to help me in releasing weight. I think it's the Incredible Edible Egg! Congratulations on your release.

[shelbyla]

Morning ladies! Happy new decade and whoohoo on the 1.5 down, Vanna!

I was down to my lowest this morning despite increasing protein AGAIN yesterday but a am still under 140 which is my cap. More protein today and we'll see where I am tomorrow to see if tomorrow is LDD or not. Tonight is yoga and I usually retain a little water from it but I'd rather have a higher LDD than a lower--and I am ALWAYS down on Saturday morning. That extra wiggle room makes all the difference! Conflicted as always...but happy at this weight for sure! (I keep thinking wistfully about 135, then I look at my boobs... )

Everyone have a great day!

[sunflowerintx]

New DECADE!!!!! Barely, but NEW DECADE!!!!

I released .8 today putting me at 179.6!!! Between my cheats & my one break, I have been in the 180's FOREVER!!!! I'm taking a P3 break, did my last dose this morning and will do P3 Sat-Mon, back on the P2 wagon on Tuesday. I'm going out with a friend Saturday & we are having Mexican food. We agreed no chips at the table... I'll have a P3 meal & a couple of Diet Coke & vodkas.

I am going to a festival where I know my ex will be but I'm tired of hiding & not going anywhere. I'm looking forward to the music & seeing folks I know. I'm hoping he continues to leave me alone, I'm pretty sure he will. I haven't seen him since I threw him out in March.

Be blessed!!!

[tky72]

Good morning all! all newbies and for all the loses!!!


Down .8 this morning - YEA!

Plan:
Leftover steak
Oven roasted broccoli and grilled onions
Apple
Melba and LCC

Cheater alert - I was so hungry this morning - ravenously hungry and could feel my blood sugar dropping - have you ever been so hungry that your stomach talks to you all the way to work? I went through Starbucks line and grabbed a veggie artisan sandwich - I ate it then looked up the stats - this was me holy cow!!! 350 calories!!! I know what your thinking - bread, cheese what were you thinking. I was thinking I had the willpower not to eat the bread but....NOPE! I am doing so good and I know the scale will ding me for that tomorrow...BUT... eating this hot cheesy super yummy sandwich was almost like an out of body experience - it tasted so darn good. I have had this several times and it NEVER tasted this good. That will teach me to look and choose before I go somewhere.

Pizza party with DD tonight so I will eat before we go and pack another apple.

This is my friday so have a safe and great weekend everyone!!

[sunflowerintx]

tky, just get back on the wagon! I think that you made a huge discovery & it's a lesson most of us need to learn....plan your food!

It's my Friday too & I don't come back to work until Tuesday!

[yellowhair11]

Down .4 today - i have been doing this second round half assed but i know better half way into it ! Thought i could be clever and test it

Yesterday
lunch-ch. breast, cucumber, grapefruit
dinner-shrimp n cabbage, apple, grissini

[MagieDen]

Originally Posted by sunflowerintx

New DECADE!!!!! Barely, but NEW DECADE!!!!

I released .8 today putting me at 179.6!!! Between my cheats & my one break, I have been in the 180's FOREVER!!!! I'm taking a P3 break, did my last dose this morning and will do P3 Sat-Mon, back on the P2 wagon on Tuesday. I'm going out with a friend Saturday & we are having Mexican food. We agreed no chips at the table... I'll have a P3 meal & a couple of Diet Coke & vodkas.

I am going to a festival where I know my ex will be but I'm tired of hiding & not going anywhere. I'm looking forward to the music & seeing folks I know. I'm hoping he continues to leave me alone, I'm pretty sure he will. I haven't seen him since I threw him out in March.

Be blessed!!!

on making it into a new decade. Mexican food, we Hispanic's defintely need to be careful with this food. I am sure your ex will know that you are doing just fine without him by the way that you look. See you back on the p2 band wagon on Tuesday!

[sunflowerintx]

Originally Posted by MagieDen

on making it into a new decade. Mexican food, we Hispanic's defintely need to be careful with this food. I am sure your ex will know that you are doing just fine without him by the way that you look. See you back on the p2 band wagon on Tuesday!

MagieDen, I am half Hispanic....my mom is from El Salvador & I speak Spanish fluently. My kids are a nice little mix with Salvadorean, Caucasian & Mexican-American...LOL!

This isn't very nice of me, but I'm gonna say it anway... My ex-husband is almost 44, unemployed & living with his mother. He has chosen not to have contact with our children & is not paying child support either. He does, however, visit the bar 2 blocks from our home several times a week. The woman he is seeing (mooching off of) is, um.....very manly. I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures. In all honesty, I don't give a hoot what he does, but I do want some MONEY! Kids are not cheap!

Back to being nice...just needed to vent!

I'm still quite a ways from goal but I feel so much better & my diabetes is doing well too! My doctor is going to be SHOCKED when I see her again!

[shelbyla]

One other thing that I wanted to mention here -- this is truly turning into a re-shaping round for me. I am only about 2 pounds lower than where I ended my last round but I had gone out and bought new clothes at the time and those clothes are now really kind of hanging on me. I know that I have lost inches in weird places like my calves and wrists that I haven't lost in the past. Anyway, it's real--the re-shaping thing. I'll pop back into my hole now...I'm sure y'all are sick of me...