Day 13 - Down 1.2, Up 1.4

Jami: Down 1.2
Justin: Up 1.4

My Aha! moment has been achieved! Although yesterday was a bit of a cheat day for me, I still managed to lose over a pound. My mind says "You cheated a lot!" but my body is saying "Not really, and that hour long bike ride was just what you needed." So the Aha! part: ride the bike for an hour a day! It's not strenuous riding, but apparently it works. That must be the key ingredient I was missing up until now. Dually noted body, thanks. So what did I eat that was awful? 4 ounces of cheese (parmesan, apple smoked gouda, cotswold, and stilton), 10 Honey Nut covered Cheerios, 3 pieces dried salami, 2 pieces of summer sausage, a tiny pinch of bread, and a Nilla wafer cookie. What was good that I ate? My apple and 4 shrimp. The cheese alone was 400 calories, so I rode my bike for over an hour until it read 400 calories burned. All I can say is it must have worked. :)

Justin did a full blown cheat day and felt bad for doing so. At the end of the day he felt so bad he thought he would just go off the diet altogether. He'd go back to eating when he wanted and working out to negate the effects. Then this morning the scale only registered a 1.8 pound gain. He thought it would be more I guess. Well, his cheat day did him well mentally as he is not going off the diet. Yay! He's going to do the rest of our 3 week cycle as planned and if he or I or both are not where we want to be we will do phase 3 until our next shipment of HCG arrives. As counter intuitive as it may be, I think this morning was when Justin because a believer. Now if we can just get him walking one hour a day he'll be out of the 200s in no time.

One thing to note about cheating; it doesn't feel good in your stomach. My stomach actually hurt yesterday and not the normal hunger pangs either. Being bloated sucks. Now if only I could figure out if it were caused by the cheese or the other crap. I am really hoping the other crap is what did that since cheese is not banned in phase 3.

The other thing we learned yesterday is that YouTube videos of success stories are really motivating and help bring back little things you forget from the book. Particularly, Phase 3 will not be a free for all stuff your face marathon. We'll still need to stay under 1800 calories a day aside from avoiding carbs, sugars and chemicals. Good to know that I won't be able to eat an entire block of parmesan in one sitting. (Boo.)

Off to work, wishing the snow would go away forever...

Jami: 161.0; Total Weight Lost: 11.8
Justin: 207.8: Total Weight Lost: 7.0