Day 17 - Up 1.0 and 2.2

Jami: Up 1.0
Justin: Up 2.2

We were totally expecting this today. Last night was amazing and bad all wrapped together. We did well all day but went overboard at dinner last night. It was the BEST food I have had all year! I did well with just water and coffee, then a single glass of red wine. Then we started in on the bread, the heavenly heavenly bread dipped in olive oil. Appetizers: Artichoke roasted in garlic olive oil and Zeste feta red pepper spread on pita bread. Dinner: We split an entree of Veal wrapped in ham and cheese and topped with grilled shrimp, garlic butter covered broccoli. Dessert: Filo dough pastry stuffed with orange custard and tirimisu soaked with Bailey's instead of Kahlua. Again, the best meal we have had all year. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you choose to see it, all that sugar made me super nauseous and I ended up losing all the dessert and half the entree. Of course guilt settled in, so I drank more than half a gallon of water and tea right before bed.

Oddly, I am not freaking out about this small gain. Here's why; logic (or what I think is logic) kicked in and I think I understand the chemistry of what happened and will happen in the next couple of days. Even though I cheated, it is not like my body changed gears and decided to store up excess fat overnight. I am a little bloated looking, but none of the fat I lost off my butt and thighs reappeared. Instead, I think that messing with the food/HCG chemistry simply told my body to store extra water. Justin and I have both noticed that the two days after cheat weight shows up, we tend to lose a couple pounds a day in order to get us right back to the pound a day average.

And with that in mind, we are both strictly back on the protocol. Even better, we ordered more needles last night (forgot alcohol wipes, but should be able to find those in a store) in order to continue the protocol until we run out of HCG. I think we have enough to last an additional week over our planned 23 days. Maybe that is the way to do it. Plan on the minimum and when you are overwhelmed with results and stop feeling hungry (about 5 days for us) then decide to go longer. Justin and I are very mentally prepared to go longer, especially since this was supposed to be our last week of round one. What's one more week? Also, Justin decided we need to do another round and we will be reordering soon. According to his official "what-you-should-weigh" website, we still have 15 - 25 pounds each to go. The HCG will tell us when we are done losing excess via an unshakable plateau. Then it'll be exercising time, woot woot.

So, even though it seems like a wasted day, we are sure our bodies will over compensate and even things out.

Jami: 160.4; Total Weight Lost: 12.4
Justin: 203.2: Total Weight Lost: 11.6