Tomorrow is the big Saturday morning weigh-in and it will be anticlimactic for sure. This week has been a big time struggle with two days where I actually gained weight. 

My work life was a little crazy with a mad dash to the Western Suburbs of Chicago and back on Monday (about 8 hours in the car.) I made pretty good road food choice with Panda Express. Beef and Broccoli and steam vegetables. 170 total calories but, I’m sure there was sugar and other shit I’m not supposed to have in there. 

Then, I spent two day on set with a production crew filming a new television commercial. The feature of which was a chef in an amazing restaurant making the best smelling stuff ever. I limited myself to one pumpkin stuffed ravioli. Lunch that day wasn’t great. I eat tomatoes, cucumbers and vegetable beef soup. I shouldn’t have really had the soup and then I think I had too much of it. The next morning I was up half a pound. Probably sodium.

I was spot on yesterday and up .4 today. I have no idea why but, it is what it is no matter how many times I cleared the scale and checked again. 

Today, I’m rocking it - I’m way under calories, not hungry, and drinking my water. 

We’ll see what the scale says in the morning but, I’ll be lucky to hit 2.5 lbs for the week and that f’in sucks. 

This week was full of temptations. It was really pretty difficult to abstain from all the goodness. The toughest of all was a red velvet roll. It looked amazing. But, I didn’t even smell it. Nor did I touch the cake at the retirement party, or the great looking snacks at poker night last night. 

I was really afraid that I might have hit this week 4 wall that I’ve heard about. On Monday I actually gained .1 and that was a bummer. But, in the end it all worked out and my loss was -6.9. So, I’m averaging right around 7 pounds a week and that is totally worth skipping the cake.  

Yesterday was a real train wreck (work really gets in my way of loosing weight) but, it all worked out o.k. as I adjusted my dinner to accommodate mistakes earlier in the day. I guess that’s what people who don’t struggle with their weight do all the time, right?

So, I lost another pound this morning making my total loss for the week -6.8! That totally rocks and justifies the effort. My grand total for the past three weeks is -29.5! 

I’ve decided to change the title of my blog as I think about life beyond HCG. It’s a good program and I’m dedicated to it but, I’ve got a long journey of low calorie eating ahead of me.

After thinking about it, I’ve landed on Collar Bones Wanted. When I find’em it will be a pretty good day.

Today’s HCG adventure though was a disaster. I had a business lunch at a Japanese Hibachi restaurant and there was virtually nothing for me for lunch. So, I ended up eating Japanese Noodle Soup. I’m guessing it was around 200 calories and hopefully won’t mess me up too much. 

Today marks two weeks on the HCG diet. This week was good but, the days weren’t as dramatic as week one (to be expected, I guess.) This morning I was down -2 and that was the best single day overall. That put me at -8.4 for the week and -23.4 total. 

I’m stubborn about a couple of things that might end up biting me in the ass. I still use Splenda and can’t think of a rational reason why to stop. Also, to me the “magic” is all about eating 500 calories. I don’t believe the list of veggies is as complete as it should be. What could be harmful with some mushrooms or zucchini?

Today I wore a shirt my daughter didn’t know that I had because she doesn’t remember ever seeing me wear it. Last week I tried it on and it was too tight this week it fits perfect. I also wore a pair of jeans one size smaller. It was a good day! 

This morning’s loss was pretty good at -1.2 but, today I don’t feel like any progress has been made today. Actually, I FEEL like I’m heavier than ever. I know it’s not true but, I don’t think it’s possible that I lost anything today even though I didn’t really each much. I guess I’ll see in the morning. 

So, this morning I ate an egg white for breakfast and it completely changed my day. I had more concentration, more focus, no hunger - it was terrific. I hope this doesn’t somehow biff up my progress.

I was only down 1/2 a pound this morning which is my smallest amount so far but, I was expecting it after a 2.8 pound loss the day before. Besides, who can complain with loosing 18 pounds in about 9 days?