Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 20

I am halfway!!!!!! I weighed myself this morning and I was down 2.8 lbs! Woohoo! What a great way to finish off the first half of P2. I took another picture of myself this morning. So here's my picture from day 1 and day 20:

I seriously hate this picture so much! I really never thought I looked THAT bad...until I saw the difference of day 20...

Yep. I hope to NEVER look like either of these two pictures. Ever. Again.

For breakfast I had green tea, and for lunch I ate some Chicken Teriyaki and an apple(but forgot to take a picture).

For dinner I had some chicken taco salad with about 65g of blueberries and a melba toast. My total calories for the day equaled pretty much exactly 500.

So all in all today was pretty great! I'm not going to say that I hope to be down tomorrow, because I know that it's probable that I won't lose anything. Oh well, today was a great scale day. I'll take it.

~jenn

Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 19

I woke up this morning without a loss. In fact I gained 0.2 pounds! Definitely annoying to say the least, but I'm OK with it. I guess. I mean I THINK I know what's going on. My body remembers being at this weight and it's going to take a bit for it to kick into gear so that I can start losing again. Like I said yesterday, I hope this doesn't last too long. I'm really hoping, because my goal is to lose another 10 pounds in the next 21 days. I think it's definitely manageable IF my body will just stop holding on to my fat!

For Breakfast I just had a green tea(I'm getting used to this not eating in the mornings thing)

For lunch I cooked up some chicken breast with some different spices and had it on top of lettuce. I squeezed some lemon over top and a little bit of my zero calorie Italian dressing. I'm really happy I found these dressings. I found them at walmart. They are by a company called Gyros. They have a few different zero everything dressings. So far I have tried the Italian and the Mediterranean. They are both pretty good. Especially for them being zero everything!

I had 150g of strawberries alongside my salad. Sweet and delicious.

For Dinner I felt like a change from what I've been eating, so I made up a recipe for chicken salad. It was delicious! I really loved it. It's the perfect summertime salad. I will absolutely make this again.
 

Chicken & Apple Salad

100g chicken breast

Onion powder

Salt 

Pepper

1 apple thinly sliced

100g celery thinly sliced

1 tsp grainy mustard

1 tsp zero calorie Italian dressing(Or water/lemon juice)

1 packet powdered stevia

Sprinkle chicken breast with onion powder, salt and pepper. Bake in a pan until done.(10-15 minutes)

Meanwhile, slice up your apple and celery and put it in a bowl. Mix together mustard, Italian dressing and stevia packet to make dressing. Slice up chicken and mix it in the bowl with apple and celery. Top with dressing, mix and enjoy!

~Jenn

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

Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 17

I weighed myself today and I was exactly the same as yesterday. Boo! Oh, well hopefully I will be down a bunch tomorrow!

I felt pretty good today.  I wasn't hungry at all when I woke up, so I just had some green tea. I ate an apple before lunch, while I was cooking up some meatballs up for dinner.

For lunch I had my yummy Teriyaki Chicken Stir Fry. I just can't get enough of this stuff!

for dinner I heated up some meatballs I had prepared earlier in the afternoon, with some asparagus. Super good!

I had a few strawberries in the evening, when I got home from shopping.

Easy Meatballs
(makes 5 portions of 6 meatballs each)

500g ground beef or chicken
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/2 - 1 tsp no calorie soy sauce
Herbs of your choice
Salt and pepper

Mix everything together with your fingers and make 30 small meatballs. cook in a non stick pan on med. to high heat with a lid on. Flip after 5 min or so. you may flip more than once if needed. I stored one portion in a bowl to eat for dinner and portioned the rest into freezer bags to eat for later meals. You can also leave the meatballs so that they aren't completely cooked through, as you will be reheating them before you eat them anyways and they will cook the rest of the way at this point.

~Jenn

Hcg Diet Phase 2 - Day 14 & 15

Today I decided to do an apple day. I woke up this morning and weighed myself as usual, and I was up 0.2 pounds. I was kinda sad, because yesterday was my daughters birthday party and there was a bunch of yummy food, that I could have eaten(but didn't). I was really good and ate only what I was supposed to(which was easy because I prepared for this ahead of time), yet I still gained weight! So that is why I decided to have an apple day.

Last night I went to bed WAY too late because my little one wanted to eat at 1am. She was upset for a while before that, which is why we hadn't gone to bed yet and she ended up waking me early this morning. So on days like this I ALWAYS have a cup of coffee, but I haven't been drinking coffee since I started this diet because I don't like black coffee. Well, today I had to have some, so I poured myself a little cup and measured out a tbsp of cream(half & half) instead of the tbsp. of milk we are allowed to drink. I have to say, despite the lack of sugar in my coffee, it was the best cup I've had in a long time! I really didn't think I could do coffee without sugar, but I may have to adopt this new way of drinking it with a bit of milk or cream. Yum!

Yesterday I didn't take pictures of any of my meals because I was super busy(having so much fun!). Today I just had coffee and 5 apples. Kind of boring(I'll tell you if it worked tomorrow)! Here are a few pictures anyhow.

 Here is the ladybug cake I baked and decorated for my girlies 4th birthday.

 Cutlery in flowers pots that I painted.

 Ladybugs on a ribbon.

 My little lady(and her brother)!

 Nom nom nom........

...And my glorious cup of coffee. How I've missed you:)

~Jenn