And Another One Bites the Dust (pound, that is)

VLCD Day #20
Weight 5.07.08: 226.2
overnight loss of 1.6 lbs
Total loss this round 24.6lbs

The 220's are fast disappearing. I can feel myself ready to transition into Phase 3 and so part of me is willing the loss to keep this momentum so that 34lbs will come before 40 injections. Then again, another rebellious voice in my head is daring me to see just how much I will lose over the full course of 40 injections. At this rate, that could be well over 40lbs, if it keeps up. I'm waiting to hit a stall or a plateau, and if I get there and am losing less than .6 lbs per day for more than 3 or 4 days I may well end my round early. So far that doesn't seem to be happening, though every morning I stare at the number on the scale in disbelief, weigh myself 2 or 3 times to make sure I'm not still asleep. It really astonishes me, the difference between my first and second round in terms of consistent and dramatic weight loss. On day 20 last round I had lost 16.8lbs, this time I'm almost at 25! I'm convinced it is the injections that make the biggest difference (I did sublingual for the first 3.5 weeks of my first round). But it could also be that the last time I was just getting used to what foods worked for me and how my body reacted to different things. I was eating steak for a good 2 weeks before I tried eliminating it and started to see a pick up in my weight loss. But I had 7 days of gain in the last round, compared with 2 in this round, and 14 days where I lost less than a pound, compared with 3 this round. A very different protocol experience for me this second time. A much easier one at that. I'm also far more busy and active this time around, mostly in my day-to-day activities. I'm thinking I will end this round somewhere between the 17th and 25th of May, instead of going into early June.