Phase 3
Day 7

Weight: 130.2

I never saw under 130 and did not reach my goal of 125. Regardless I'm still happy I lost the weight that I did lose. I did 47 days on this last round though I only injected 41 days. This is my 4rth or 5th round so I think I am not only getting tired of the strict guidelines of the protocol but I am building up an immunity. I did not lose my hair this round and it does appear I lost some muscle tone so I'm suspicious how much of the weight I did lose was pure starvation. The last couple of days of phase 2 I was bruising easily and not healing any little cuts or scrapes. I scratched my knuckle on concrete and it actually got infected! I hadn't had a cut get infected for years. HCG might not be an option for me anymore and I will just have to eat better and exercise.

My goal now is to stick to a paleo type diet and eventually I would like to significantly reduce the amount of animal protein in my diet though I'm not sure how to accomplish that since I'm intolerant to nuts. Finding no dairy, no nuts, no gluten food can really be a pain, add no sugar and no starches to that and it can quickly begin to strain my resolve.

I don't have the energy to go crazy with exercise yet. I still feel terribly winded even with moderate activity.

Today I did eat some carbs, gluten free pizza crust made with quinoa flour, low in carbohydrates compared to other and I piled on soy free and dairy free cheese, artichokes, kale, spinach,pepperoni. I managed not to eat the whole thing and ate half of it.

Keeping to proper eating times is difficult but have been trying to limit any food intake after 7pm. So far so good. I'm still taking dextrin for hunger control because I'm scared I will start binge eating if I get hungry.

So I take it day by day, we'll see how it goes.