confuzzled P3D21

So I have been pretty bad lately but have had some interesting results.. After my steak day and 0.8 gain I ate clean P3 for breakfast and lunch but dinner was 2 white Russians and wings in like a Guinness glaze. Wake up to a -0.6 loss.. how can that be? The next day I had an egg white and cheese omelet for breakfast, work was crazy I inhaled my salad around 3:30pm, dinner didn't come until 10:45pm in the form of Denny's buffalo chicken strips covered in delicious ranch. Next day 0 on the scale.

Monday I went off the deep end, grilled cheese sandwich with a couple of potato chips, dinner was a quesadilla with chicken and cheese covered with salsa, sour cream, and guacamole. Then we went to a frozen yogurt places where you can pile on fresh fruit and all sorts of toppings. I had plain all natural frozen yogurt loaded with mango, kiwi, and other yummy fruits. I knew I was going to be in for a correction day but I woke up and -1.8!!!

What does this mean? Today is 3 weeks of P3. Am I stabilized? Does my body like higher fat?

Poutty face

So I fell way off the wagon.. I can not drink and eat responsibly! Yes Cindarella, feel free to kick my ass into shape now! lol I was 2.2 over LDW, only 0.2 over the acceptable limit but enough to make me panic! I decided to try a steak day... I guess I should have remembered that I was sensitive to beef in P2 because the next day I gained 0.8 :( Does any one have a suggestion for a good correction day not involving beef... egg day?

Happy Birthday Steph!

+0.4 Yesterday for breakfast I had my smoothie again.  Lunch was another egg white and mozzarella omelet. Dinner I had Chipotle.. which was so amazing I love their guacamole! I just got the salad with chicken, lettuce, salsa, sour cream, cheese, and guacamole. I am thinking these things may be ok in moderation.. which makes me really happy because it was delicious!

This has been a really crazy week for having plans and eating out, tonight is my friends 21 first birthday so I will be out again but it is the same bar I was at Tuesday so I know the salad is safe and so is rum and diet coke! I really like that I don't crave carbs.. I don't really feel too restricted since I can happily eat a lot of the things I like. The only thing I really want to add when I get to P4 is sushi!!

P3 Day 15

-1 again! Back under LDW by 0.6!! I am kind surprised since I was not a model P3 citizen yesterday. I had Guinness beef stew out at a restaurant where I tried to dodge all the potatoes and carrots in it, but it was also topped with mashed potatoes so as hard as I tried I am sure some ended up in my mouth. My lunch was an egg white omelet with 2 slices of mozzarella and spinach cooked with 1tbs of butter.

I did body pump again.. if any off you have this offered at your gym I highly recommend this! I didnt even feel like passing out at the end this time and my legs still functioned afterwards! Then dinner I had plans to go out with a friend so I ordered  rum and diet coke and had a big cobb salad with turkey, cheese, eggs, and ranch. When I got home I threw in a string cheese. Very happy to know diet coke and rum are safe for me and I dont have to feel guilty every time I want to go out and have a drink.

2 weeks of P3 down!

-1 happy dance!!  I was starting to get really nervous with a couple days of consistent gains. I cant believe it has been 2 weeks of P3 and I am 1 pound over LDW. For breakfast I made a smoothie with frozen strawberries, frozen peaches, cream, coconut milk, flax seeds, and chai seeds. Lunch was chicken meatballs covered in homemade marinara sauce and 2 slices of mozzarella. OMG melty cheese.. so good! I really like ground chicken because it sticks together without any type of binding agent. I was a little nervous but I had one scoop of no sugar added ice cream out with friends, it was vanilla with pomegranate and blackberries. Dinner was a big salad with more chicken meatballs and caeser dressing. Looking back on it I am wondering if the turkey sausage I had been having was helping with the gains?

I was so thrilled Friday night! I went shopping with friends and returned my size 10 capri's for a size 8 at American eagle! Then we went to dinner at Applebees...  I was thinking ok salad it is.. but they had skinny mojitos- my drink of choice, with sugar free syrup! For dinner I got a steak and shrimp with steamed veggies from there 500 calorie menu.. I am sure the steak was marinated in something bad for me since I was up +0.5 the next day but it was so nice to eat pretty much guilt free! I have mostly heard that if the gain is less then a pound it is more fluctuation rather then a sensitivity to something but I am not sure.


So I lived up to my blog name of being a college girl Saturday night! I brought vodka and sprite zero to a friends party but it has been so long since I have really drank, so after one drink in I was drinking whatever my bartender friend started handing me. Including drinks made with cheer wine (a really sweet syrup filled soda). By the end of the night I found myself eating chicken nuggets from McDonalds!  +0.6 the next day. Sunday I did a mostly high protein day: 4 turkey sausage links for breakfast, large latte with sugar free syrup, big salad for lunch with a grilled chicken breast, 3 hard boiled egg whites, and a sugar free black olive feta dressing. I had some black berries at work as well, didn't think about it at the time, but I probably should have skipped those. Dinner was egg whites with spinach and garlic cooked with one tbs butter. This morning weighed in at another +0.4 pounds. Did I do high protein right? I am only 0.6 away from having to do a correction This P3 thing is stressful! 

Finals stress

Yesterday I gained +0.4 I added a whole avocado to a salad and also made a Thai coconut curry with Thai kitchen curry paste, coconut milk, cream, chicken, and broccoli. I wasn't really sure if the gain was normal fluctuation or due to something I ate. I was surprised in my self it was pretty good!

I entered finals stress mode and lost some control yesterday.. All p3 eating though! I had lunch with friends at a coffee shop where I had a sun drenched veggie crepe with feta and a vanilla mint tea with creme. It was really good and I wish I would have eaten cleanly the rest of the day so I could know whether this is something i can have again or not. I had string cheese as a snack. I was procrastinating from studying so I made coconut cupcakes with chocolate "frosting."I will definitely need to work on that recipe- the original recipe uses agave so i had a hard time figuring out ho much Stevia that is.  I had about one and a half of the cupcakes.. they were really heavy. I was soo excited to make the coconut cupcakes but I guess I was thinking they would be like and fluffy like real cupcakes.. oh well I guess you have to make some sacrifices for beauty. I also made some cauliflower puree to finish up my thai curry- amazing! I over pureed it so it was more a mashed potato consistency but I was perfectly ok with that.

I had my very last final at 8am and I needed to do very well on it so all nighter it was! I am not a huge soda drinker but I had previously bought some Zevia so I decided to try the Dr. Pepper flavored on to help keep me up. I was ok not a bad substitute but I could be ok without it. All of this plus 1.5 hours of sleep and not enough water got me a +1.4 gain.. +0.8 over LDW. This is the first time I am over LDW and I am not happy about it! I know string cheese and the Zevia have been known to cause gains so I am not sure what the culprit is.. Hopefully a day of mostly clean eating will fix this. Sorry to taunt all you P2's you will get to P3 soon!

oww

Body pump  got its revenge.. you know its a great workout when you can barely walk the next day! -0.4 I was a little worried with the mystery cheese and possible water retention from my work out but I guess all is good. Breakfast was the previous mentioned sirloin with spinach and mystery cheese with roasted brussel sprouts. Pre-work out  snack was 3 links of chicken sausage and coconut milk with my dynamic greens. For dinner I had a large salad of spring mix lettuce, one tomato, a large grilled chicken breast, alfalfa sprouts, and caeser dressing. I forgot how much I love coconut! For dessert I mixed some unsweetened coconut flakes with some cream and wonder-cocoa.. perfection!  Calories were around 1880. Interested to see what the scale will say tomorrow, I added avocado today. The plan is to add all the ingredients back in so I can make a taco salad.. mmm sour cream!

Pump it up!

So I undid Mondays loss pretty quickly with chicken wings and coleslaw for dinner! Got up to my highest calories at 2090. I figured chicken wings were a decent option for a dinner out with friends, probably should have skipped the coleslaw. Today the scale said +1.4... thats ok I deserved it and I am still 0.8 under LDW. I added coconut milk in today and also so unidentifable white cheese... yeah. The grocery store had fresh sirloin wrapped around spinach and cheese on sale, I think it was feta? The deli department didn't label..

I also went to Body pump today.. Love! I never thought I would be the type to do body pump but it was a great feeling to survive that workout! I about fell down the stairs when I got home because my legs were so wobbly but that still counts as survival! I want to try to go twice a week and pick pilates back up.

I was considering trying to get a second HCG round in before my vacation the last week of June but I have decided to hold out on that. The only way to squeeze in a second round would be to cut this P3 to two weeks and then I would only be 1.5 weeks into P3 when I left for vacation. I would love to loose 10 more pounds before I put that bathing suit on but since this is my first round I dont want to screw up my stabilization by cutting it short and then going on vacation where I am sure cheats will be lurking everywhere!

P3 Day 5

-2.4 today! I think this is a recovery from almonds in combination with not really eating to much yesterday..I wasnt hungry and only ate about 980 calories... I know I need to work on gettin it up. I had 3 eggwhites with spinach and chicken sausage for breakfast, a large chicken breast over salad with tomato, and ceaser dressing  for lunch. By the time dinner rolled around I had some strawberries with chocolate sauce because thats all I was in the mood for. Good News is salad dressing and Chicken and sage sausage is safe.. it is yummy so that makes me smile!

No nuts

Current single girl anthem? lol I was running errands on Friday after class and realized I had only had my apple that I inhaled on the drive to class. I needed a quick bite so I decided to try the Larabar I had bought at the health food store. I like Larabars because the only ingredients in this one was dates, almonds, and no sugar added cocoa. I was going to wait until next week to try adding almonds back but I was hungry and hadn't added a new food in that day yet. Dinner before work was shrimp scampi (left the wine out) and oven roasted asparagus. Around 5am I had more chicken tarragon salad that I topped with some sliced almonds for my "lunch" break at work. Calorie count for the day 1706.

Came home and took a nap- I never weigh before going to bed. +1.6 Ahh! So it is pretty safe to say no dates until P4 and maybe I will try almonds again later. I decided not to add any new food on Saturday in an attempt to get rid of that lovely addition the scale gave me. I should also mention TOM checked into town so that may have something to do with it. I had strawberries for breakfast, a smoothie for lunch (dynamic greens, cream, chai seeds, and flax seeds) and deviled eggs for dinner- 4 eggs and 1 hard boiled egg white. Calorie count 1733.

Woke up this morning and down -0.2! Hope this will continue, I am still 0.8 under my LDW. I am going to try adding Applegate farms chicken and sage sausage today.

Loving the P3!

I love that I can go out to a restaurant with my friends and find things on the menu to eat!! If I was worried I over did it on the calories the other day I really made sure to do it right yesterday, 1774! Breakfast was an apple and 2 hard boiled egg whites. For lunch I made my own mayonnaise and turned that into a tarragon chicken salad over some mixed greens-delish. I decided to add all my vitamin back in including my dynamic greens pack (antioxidant pack with 20 servings fruits and vegetables) the pack had a fruit punch flavor which is ok but not awesome... mixed with cream however... so much better! Yes I drank 1/2 a cup of heavy cream! Dinner was out with my friends for a ladies night I had a Romain salad with grilled buffalo chicken, red onions and shredded cheddar cheese. I wasn't planning on adding cheese back until next week.. but it was in tiny shreds and already mixed throughout the salad.. woops! I also had 2 glasses of Muscato white wine.. now red whine is a loud on P3 so this was not a big indiscretion. Woke up in the morning -0.2!

Well Hello P3!

So I officially started P3 (stabilization) yesterday, hopped on the scale and was -0.4! So 1.8 under my LDW (Last Dose Weight). I think I mentioned before the goal is to be 2 pound below or above your LDW, so I have a little wiggle room in case I end up being sensitive to a food and it causes a gain.

 I started out my day with 3 eggs made into an omlet with 1tbs butter, half an onion, and 1 vine ripened tomato-it was a funny time to remember I dont really like egg yolks :P So much food! I never cook with butter so this just felt like a cheat! I had an apple as a mid day snack, kinda made boo-boo as I realized it was 5:30 and I was going to be stuck on campus until 9:30pm. I got a sugar free latte as a study snack and because I was worried about not getting calories in. I figured this would be safe since I had cheated with these on p2 and not had a problem. Had another apple at 8pm right before my exam- gotta feed those brain cells! Got home and had dinner around 10pm 200g ground chicken turned into meatballs (no bread crumbs) pan fried with 1tbs butter and topped with Muir glen tomato sauce (added spices and Stevia). I decided to hard boil some eggs for tomorrow.. to make sure they were done I ate the white of one of them. I was worried about not getting enough food in but I think I overdid it! Approx 1216 calories..

My goal for stabilization should be around 1812.8 (LDWx11) This is more then I was eating when I wasn't dieting! The increase in calories is scary but the goal of P3 is to reset your hypothalamus to the highest set point possible. This was one of the main reasons I wanted to do this diet because I feel like my metabolism was so slow that I could eat 1000 calories a day and wouldn't loose anything. Some ladies on the forum get up to almost 3,000 and still show losses!

Yay -0.2 Guess I didnt do too bad yesterday. Its hard to get out of the P2 mind set, I feel like I cheated and I am going to be punished with a 3 days stall! lol Since I seemed fine with the eggs I think I will make some mayonnaise so I can have chicken tarragon salad. My friend (not to name any names.. KRISTEN!) calls me "hippie Dippy" now since I have become obsessed with my food processor and making my own condiments or what have you. When you can make it yourself and not have all those extra chemicals and crappy additives why not!! I think will also add cream in today.. Hmm what to add tomorrow?