Creeping Up

I feel like a right fool! I'm now 8lbs over my LIW, at 231lbs. Yesterday, while rehashing in my head everything that I've done wrong in Phase 3 thus far, I remembered something about NOT stopping the diet just as TOM arrives, of course far too late for me to do anything about it. My last VLCD day coincided with the start of my (late) period. Could it be that that is partly what is going on? That, combined with 3 days of careless eating. I'm back on track with eating only Simeons-approved foods for "Phase 3", and my weight, while not stabilizing yet, is creeping up more slowly. I hope to put a cap on the gain at 10lbs. That would still mean a 17lb loss over 3 weeks. Not too bad. I'm just itching to get back to Phase 2 in early June. One has much more control when one's options are more limited. And reading around, it does seem that short rounds are not as effective, especially when there is a lot of weight to lose. My next round may well be a full 40-injection/6-week round, as I did the first time.

So, phase 3 is most DEFINITELY the hardest part to this diet, and anyone entering into it should be fully aware that they should put as much, if not more effort into it as they do the low-cal part. The Lovely Susan H. has suggested I look into the Callahan/EFT techniques and I sheepishly admit, though those documents have been sitting in my HCG folder all these weeks, I have yet even to read them. Hopefully this will help. Plus, the massage I'm getting this afternoon to help relieve some of the stress I'm under. May 28 cannot come soon enough for me.