{"id":1199,"date":"2012-06-26T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2012-06-26T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T17:09:06","slug":"r1p2d23-last-injection-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/ponder\/my-so-called-life\/hcg\/r1p2d23-last-injection-day\/1199\/","title":{"rendered":"R1P2D23 – Last injection day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Starting weight: 298.0
\nToday\u2019s Weight: 287.0
\nToday\u2019s change: -1.6
\nNet change: -11<\/p>\n

VLCD day 23.<\/p>\n

I’m conflicted. <\/p>\n

First as previously mentioned today is my last injection day. Which means according to the manual that for the next 3-6 weeks I should keep my weight within +\/- 2 lbs of my last injection weight (LIW). BUT that seems silly since I’m fairly confident that I will lose more at least over the next three days.. and possibly even during the next 3-6 weeks.<\/p>\n

Do I stick to the plan? or throw caution to the wind and go back to healthy eating and dieting? Frankly I’m leaning towards the second option.<\/p>\n

The plan is to do 3 more days of VLCD to taper off the HCG in my system and then do 1 celebration dinner (my birthday dinner on Saturday) and then do 3-6 weeks of “no starch, no sugar”. I will do a correction day if my weight goes above 2 lbs gained over either LIW or the average for the last 5 days.<\/p>\n

Learnings:
\n – I am again forcefully reminded that my portions have gotten too big. I think the 4oz single servings are a good thing and I plan to continue portioning out my proteins before I freeze them.
\n – I made a few recipes that I plan to make again. Specifically the Tomato and Cucumber salad, Moroccan Meatballs, Lemon\/Orange spiced shrimp and the Chicken Puttanesca. Other people have warned me that after the diet I won’t want to eat those foods because they’ll remind me of the diet.. but well those recipes were pretty tasty.. and I plan to keep making them regardless of what I’m reminded about.
\n – I like the regimental feel of the meals. It was easy to create a meal when I knew I had to pick a portion of protein, a portion of fruit, a portion of vegetables and a grassini. I think I’ll keep doing this type of thing for my lunches.. and try to maintain something like that for dinners.
\n – I hated going without breakfast. I cannot wait for breakfast on Saturday.
\n – If I do this again I now know that I can only have daytrips on the calendar during the VLCD portion. I cannot handle cooking meals which I can’t eat.<\/p>\n

I don’t yet know if I’ll be doing another round. At a minimum that round would not be able to happen until after Pennsic and I’d have to find a stretch of at least 4 weeks with no camping events (good luck with that). I guess it depends on how I do on weight loss between now and then.<\/p>\n

I do feel that this has helped me kick start another losing streak. I just need to keep it up through West An-Tir War and Pennsic and I’ll be golden.<\/p>\n

B: Coffee, Creamer, sweet-n-low
\nL: 1\/2 Chicken puttanesca
\nL2: 1\/2 Chicken puttanesca, apple, grassini
\nD: ??? probably meatballs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starting weight: 298.0 Today\u2019s Weight: 287.0 Today\u2019s change: -1.6 Net change: -11 VLCD day 23. I’m conflicted. First as previously mentioned today is my last injection day. Which means according to the manual that for the next 3-6 weeks I should keep my weight within +\/- 2 lbs of my last injection weight (LIW). BUT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":[],"wprm-recipe-roundup-description":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hcg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}