Men Are Looking At Me In The Grocery Store...

I have opted for the short version of the hcg diet because when Joe gets home next week I'm going to need to be able to eat something in front of him. So. I am currently in maintenance mode which goes for 3 weeks. Once I decided this I totally lost all control over the diet in general and started cheating like mad for the last three days of drops. So I didn't end up losing as much as I wanted...and now that maintenance has started it's become a lovely game of "what can I add back in to my diet and not gain weight from?" Mac and Cheese is not one of those things, just fyi.

What you really are just dying to know, I'm sure, is what I weigh right now: 153.8 as of this morning. That's 17.6 lbs down from when I started the diet. However on Monday I weighed 152.6 which was the lowest I got on the diet (18.8 lbs down). I think there's going to be some natural fluctuation as my body decides where it wants to end up right now, and I'm okay with that. I'm going back to the gym either tonight or tomorrow, realistically probably tomorrow...and I'm hoping that doing so will help regulate the weight.

Anyhow, that's my update. I didn't quite lose 20 lbs, but I'm going to do another short course at the start of the year to see if I have any more to lose. In the meantime I've had to buy all new pants in a size 8 because everything I owned was falling off and looked horrible. One of the new pairs I wore for a morning and then had to exchange for a 6 because it looked too baggy. Do you know when the last time I wore a size 6 was???? High School.

I remember why I loved shopping as a teenager...it was fun because everything looked so good! This shopping trip I had to whittle my options down to what were my absolute favorites instead of settling for something that looked good enough. I love my new body!