Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 18

Today I woke up and weighed myself, and I'm at the same number on the scale. Again. Well I figured I would do a little research before I started to get upset. I found tons of other people just like me who lose, then stall for a few days, then lose, then stall for another few days and so on. Apparently this is all very common. I also read a lot of people saying that sometimes when you get to a certain weight that you've been at before, your body remembers this, and you can stall for up to 2 weeks! Well I hope this doesn't happen to me for that long, but the last time I lost a bunch of weight while doing WW, I believe I was right around the weight that I am now. I feel pretty confident that this is all what's going on and that soon it will pass and I will continue to lose. On the other hand though, I still feel like I am losing inches! My bra is super loose, my old clothes fit again and when I look in the mirror, I just seem a bit smaller. So all in all I feel pretty positive about the diet so far.

Another thing I thought I would consider, is that I might just be eating a few too many calories. I'm not positive of this, but I decided to start counting the calories in my food items, just to be sure that I'm not going over and that this is the culprit. So from now on I am going to count the calories in every meal/snack.

This morning I had a green tea.

For lunch I decided to make an omelet instead of having a meat serving. So I made a Tomato Basil omelet. I'm not a huge fan of tomatoes, but I thought I would try this out anyways. It was good, but a little too much tomato to egg ratio for myself. If you like tomatoes though, you will probably love this!

Tomato Basil Omelet

I mixed 1 egg with 3 liquid egg whites. Added 1/4 tsp of dried basil, garlic powder, salt and pepper. I poured it on my pan and put 1 whole cut up tomato on one side of the egg mixture, covered it and cooked on medium heat for a few minutes.

I tried to flip one side onto the other, but it was a bit difficult. My pan is rather large, which made a thin egg layer, and even though it is non-stick, it still stuck to the pan. So I just kind of flipped it over and cooked it a few more minutes with the lid on. It came out looking like this.

I sprinkled it with a bit more salt and pepper and ate it with 150g of cut up strawberries and a melba toast. It was all quite filling. My Lunch came out to a total of 218 calories.

For dinner I used a 100g packet of taco meat(beef) that I made up the other day, warmed it up and sprinkled it over my lettuce. I squeezed a piece of lemon and sprinkled it with salt and pepper. It was delicious as always. The total calories for my dinner was 182 calories.

I had an apple(72 calories) in the evening as a snack. With that, my dinner and my lunch, my total calories for the day is 472 calories. So I didn't go over today, which is great. Hopefully I can stick with that.

~Jenn