End of Week 2 (Round 2, Phase 2, Day 14)

A very solid but not overwhelmingly impressive end to my second week back on the HCG plan, except for two things: 1) I am officially in the 180's and have been for two days in a row! 2) I have now lost 40 pounds since Halloween.
 

Day	Date	Weight	Daily Change	Total Loss: Round 2	Total Loss: Cumulative
LD 1	1/26/2011	199.6	-
LD 2	1/27/2011	203	3.4
1	1/28/2011	204.6	1.6
2	1/29/2011	200.2	-4.4
3	1/30/2011	198.8	-1.4	-1.4	30.8
4	1/31/2011	198.2	-0.6	-1.6	31.4
5	2/1/2011	197	-1.2	-2.4	32.6
6	2/2/2011	195.6	-1.4	-4.0	34
7	2/3/2011	194.2	-1.4	-5.4	35.4
Week 1: down 5.4 for the week (not counting load weight), 35.4 total
8	2/4/2011	193.6	-0.6	-6.0	-36
9	2/5/2011	193.2	-0.4	-6.4	-36.4
10	2/6/2011	192.6	-0.6	-7.0	-37
11	2/7/2011	193	0.4	-6.6	-36.6
12	2/8/2011	191.4	-1.6	-8.2	-38.2
13	2/9/2011	189.8	-1.6	-9.8	-38.8
14	2/10/2011	189.4	-0.4	-10.2	-40.2
Week 2: down 4.8 for the week, down 10.2 total in Round 2, down 39.2 overall

 
Today is my 35th birthday. I am realizing how much celebrating is done with food, because while I have made it through many other people's  birthdays without eating celebration food and have managed to have minimal resentment, almost everything I want to do today involves food. Special breakfast, special dinner, cake, ice cream, a movie with popcorn... 

But what I really want for my 35th birthday is just to lose a little more weight and be DONE with the shrinking and VLCD, so I am going to persevere through the temptation! The better I persevere, the more successful I'll be and the sooner this will be over. 

Someone brought peanut butter cookies to a meeting today, special for me on my birthday, and I didn't have any.

Crossing into the 180's has been very good for motivation, which continues to flag.I'm honestly still not sure if I will do this beyond 23 days. I'm trying just to let go and see what happens and see what I feel like.

For both my long training weeks this week, I have added eggs in the morning (~100 extra calories of protein to the existing 500 VLCD) and I have lost both times. I am still hungry and do not feel like I am performing at peak performance on these runs, but I am making it work for now.

So far, I'm not ready to give up on either the diet or the running.