TOPS Rally 2010

Round 2 Load day 1

Hello All!!
Well today was my first day of my 2 day load. Here was my day....
Woke up 5am
used the bathroom
took my shot
took measurements
took before photos
ate breakfast:
3eggs 2oz steak, 2Tbl sour cream, 1 slice swiss cheese, veggies, 1 tall glass of milk.
snacking before lunch... butterfinger, snickers mini, keebler snack crackers, home made zucchini bread.
Lunch: PBJ sandwich, chips
snacking: more butterfingers, snickers, keebler elf crap... toast with butter
Dinner: OMG!!!! yes i had dinner to.... Red Lobster rolls rolls ohh and rolls... shrimp scampi, breaded shrimp, Parmesan shrimp, shrimp alfredo, mashed potatoes, cesar salad, and for the kicker.. split a dessert of ice cream and choc chip cookie... Yup i wanna throw up!!!

Tomorrow I continue in my journey to eat as much fat and carbs as i can toss back with out tossing my cookies so to speak!!! Tomorrow not going to hit the sugars as much as I will the fat n carbs. I do not want the sugar crash that i had last time. Hated the headache from it. I know im doing it right but ohh my it sure dont feel good!! Im sure my pants will be sweat pants tomorrow.. :(  But ohh how good it will feel come saturday when I see the scale plummet and I feel good again!!!

A friend of mine who is doing this is doing GREAT. I will not mention her name with out permission. She is swearing by drinking her green tea. I will be adding that with more frequency this go round.
I will get photos of some of my stuff tomorrow...
Happy Eating...
Dea

Sharing where to get HCG for the best price!!

I forgot to share where I am now getting my HCG. I had been going to the Advance HCG Diet Center in Kennewick. After joining a few HCG forums I found one forum where the ladies have used a website to order and dose on their own.

www.alldaychemist.com  They have an awesome price and I got my order in 7 days!!! Here is a direct link to the cost savings... https://www.alldaychemist.com/1288-corion-5000-iu.html  Iv had been paying $40 week/$160 month. I ordered off of this site and it is a straight $25 shipping and still cost me only under $100!!!! For a 40 injection round totaled up to $264!! That is on top of the $190 orientation fee. Everything that I got in orientation You can find on the web!! Things I learn along the way.  You can also use this as sublingual drops.

Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. I might not have every answer but I can find someone who will and pass that information onto you.
Huggs n Health
Dea

Update Phase 3

Ok well it's been 9 days since I last posted. I started Phase 3 9/22/10. Eating so much after eating so little was for sure a change. I had my husband help me work up a plan for how I should be eating so I do not have a huge gain. In P3 (phase3) you are not to gain or loose more than 2 pounds either way. If you gain over 2 pounds you possibly can be gaining back fat. If you loose more than 2 pounds you can be loosing "normal fats". Normal fats we want. They help cushion our organs and such. Abnormal is where we want to loose.. belly fat, hips, thighs, arms... etc. I will not be doing measurements untill I start on my next round October 13th. So far though I have lost 17 total inches. I measure my neck, left arm, fullest part of bust, under bust, natural waist, hips, left thigh, calf, ankle. My neck, calf and ankle have not had much change. if any at all.

Now moving on to how P3 has been going. My calories are at 1500 cal day. There have been 2 weigh ins where I was out of my 2 pound over leeway. 1 day was because I made some coconut flour cookies and had about 7 of them between the dough and the cookies I ate. OOOPS!!! But hey this was my first cheat ever on this plan. So I know it was stuff that was NOT bad for me just to much of it. The following day it all came back off and I was doing fine again. My second out of leeway experience was a very hot day traveling with a group of off roaders. My fingers and feet swelled in the heat and I didnt drink enough water to keep things flushed. (LOL flushed and water LOL)

My weight has been a normal fluctuation over the last several days. I am on day 8 of the 21 day phase. I am feeling really good! I ordered some clothing items online and when they came in yesterday 2 of them are to big already. I will be sending them back for a smaller size!! How exciting is that???
Here are a few progress photos. The first one was taken July 18th, 10~ the next was taken 9-3-10 ~ the last was taken 9-11-10. I think it shows most in my face but it sure feels good to go to the store and buy size 14 jeans and a size 12 dress again!!!

 I will do my best to post more often. I started working again and have been busy a few days a week with that and other things going on around here. I started at 215 pounds and am at 188.4 now. I am seeing a lot of progress and know when going into my next round it will be even better!!!
Huggs n Health to all!!
Dea

New Phase

Ok in my first really long winded blog of explanation I told you I am doing the HCG protocol. Sunday Brian and I sat down and read and re~read the Pounds & Inches book that Dr. Simeons published regarding the protocol. I will be following the protocol as it was written. I am subscribed to a wonderful blog on yahoo and the ladies and men there are very helpful! After reading P&I I do have a better understanding of the protocol! I had lost 26.6 pounds in 37 days and then I feel I built up the immunity to the HCG as described in the book. The book describes Immunity in a few different ways. The ways I experienced Immunity was feeling very hungry and my weight plateaued  several days.  The remedy for this is taking a 3-6 week break. Of course there is a way to do this and if you are interested I would suggest googling Pounds and Inches by Dr. Simeons. I had my last injection of HCG on Sunday and am now in the 72 hour phase of staying on the VLCD (very low calorie diet) days. Wednesday I will be going onto a 1500 cal day plan for 21 days and then start a Round 2 of 40 injections. This may sound like a lot of work and I wont lie.. It is. But How many other things have any of us tried that did not work?? This is something I have been able to stick to with faithfulness. I have not had any cheat days at all!! I am proud that I am succeeding as well as I have been. I will say yes it was hard watching someone eat a piece of cake or a cookie at times. But NOT having that cookie is worth more to me than the cheat of having it and gaining back what I have worked so hard to lose!

My Adventure from the beginning.

OK, I keep starting this and stopping it over and over. I feel vain talking about me. Don't get me wrong... I am very proud of what I have done and where I am going. Each new adventure I journey on takes me one step closer to where I plan on being in my life. So to see where I am going, it's always good to reflect on where I have been.

Stable, gain, loose, gain, loose, gain, loose.... and on and on!!
That explains a lot up till 1996. In January 1996 I joined a TOPS chapter in Richland, WA. I was in the neighborhood of 235 pounds. I kept going for a whopping 6 months!! WOW long time huh?? I gave up on myself and TOPS with many excuses. Family, kids, having little kids, no time, hated exercise. Oh and the ever so wonderful... "I Cant".

January 1997 I joined a different TOPS chapter and rededicated myself to starting over. I weighed in about the same again (lost it gained it back). I lost 49.75 pounds to reach my goal of 180 pounds. YAY!! I graduated as a KOPS and Chapter Queen of my chapter in May 1998 at SRD in Silverdale, WA.  I was so happy!! I had accomplished a goal!! I was walking up to 12 miles a day 6 and 7 days a week. No wonder why I had such a great weight loss in such a short amount of time. By October 1998 my progress started to slip. I went back to the thinking of  "Hey I lost my weight now I can have anything I want again." Well this might have been true if I had kept it in portion control. That is always easier said than done. Needless to say my walking slowed as I put on more pounds. Then in December 1998 I had a surgery that made it so I couldn't walk like that for about 8 weeks. Poof... kept eating like I was walking 12 miles a day. Again I gave up on myself with the "I Cant". Out of embarrassment I also quit going to TOPS.

I joined back to TOPS on and off but never really gaining momentum in the right direction. Stress with family and life became the key focus of my world. Eating a half to whole chocolate cake tossing the evidence in the garbage and burying it deep in the trash was nothing. The deeper I would go the more weight I would pack on. In 2000 I had another surgery which again was another set back. Again no exercise for a while and it was an easy excuse why I didn't have to.

2001 I helped to start a new TOPS chapter. My start weight was 275 pounds. I had gained back the almost 50 I lost and tacked on another 40+ pounds!!! This was devastating! I pushed through it and lost down to 230s and flat lined!! Shortly after things happened with in our chapter and I quit going.

Again back in and out of TOPS. Not getting below that 230 pounds. I had gained again up wards to 250ish pounds and finally reached a point that I had to do something to break the cycle.

November 2004 I started to focus on what my triggers were. I figured out a plan that I knew I could stick to which was the Diabetic Diet. It worked very well. I was able to get to 228-235 and stayed there for about 4 yrs. No matter how I exercised or ate right I could not break through to a lower weight.

In October 2009 I found a plan that worked so well. I went with doing a raw foods plan. I was eating about 80% raw foods. I went from that 230's to 202 by the end of December!!! YAY!!! I was feeling so good!! I couldn't believe how good it felt to be that close to being under 200 again!
January came and went. February came and went... entered into summer. We  moved which was a stress in itself.  I was back up to 215. I stayed Vegetarian, mostly Vegan all the way through it. I went to my Dr. In desperation and had a talk with him as to why if I was eating so healthy (other than the move pizza junk) why was I not able to get below the 200's?? He said I should seek out a nutritionist to work on that. I can say he was honest.. he couldn't give me the cure all I wanted but gave sound advise.

This leads me to present...

A friend of mine started telling me about a protocol she had been on 2 yrs ago and it worked so well for her. I blew it off thinking that just sounded crazy. Don't get me wrong.. I was very happy for her and said if she could wrap her mind around it then way to go and was happy she had lost the weight to her goal.
August of this year 2010, another friend of mine was loosing weight at a steady rate and I know she has had a hard time loosing her extra weight. I asked her what she was doing and she shared with me she was on a strict  protocol too. So my curiosity got the best of me and I started doing my research.

I decided that after 8 months of plateau doing all I could right it was time to do something else. I did not want to wait another 4 yrs to break a plateau.  We all ask the question of ourselves... "How bad do you want it?"

I made my appointment with the Advance HCG Clinic and started my protocol August 12, 2010. Today is September 18th and I am down to 188.6!! I started at 215 pounds and have lost 26.6 pounds now in the past 36 days.

I didn't post before now because I wanted to see for myself how this would work because I am a very cautious person when it comes to health. I have read positive and negative things about this protocol. I am finding the negative things were because people want to cheat and then do not understand why its not working.  I encourage anyone to try this. It is AMAZING!! I have friends who have had surgery (lap band, gastric bypass, stomach staple) I could not afford those methods. This is NOT an easy way out just like the surgeries are NOT an easy way out so some people would say. It is very strict. It does take patience, will power and determination. The way I feel now is so worth it.  So before anyone tells me to stop... or don't do it... please keep in mind... I am healthier now for having lost the weight than I was when I was almost 100 pounds heavier. 8 pounds from now I will have lost 100 pounds!!! For me that is a very big achievement!

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post. If you have any questions I will be happy to share more information with you.

Huggs
Dea