maintain maintain maintain

That is the game.  Well I wish I could lose but at least I've been able to stay within the same 1 lb range after I stopped taking the drops.  I have found that I don't eat as much as I did before going on the Hcg and I am able to resist many sugars and starches.  I allow myself one cheat per day and it hasn't seemed to affect me too much.  I seem to stay full longer than I did when I would eat a smaller amount like I do now.  My life is pretty busy right now with learning new tasks at work and making holiday plans but when I do find that its time to eat, I'm not crazy ravenous like I would've been by that point before going on the diet.  Now if I could just add a little exercise to it and I could start to lose again!

Happy holidays!

I'm off the drops for now with plans to start again at the beginning of the new year.  Holidays are just too hard on diets.  Good news though, aside from my slight set back of gaining 3 lbs right after I got off the drops, I'm still losing a small amount of weight per day.  I try to keep my portions small and to distract myself with non food activities and water.  I think it was just yesterday that I screamed at the top of my brain, "I'm not hungry!" and it seemed to work.  Hopefully I can keep doing that.  Turkey day is coming up next week and I'm in charge of pie.  I'm thinking sweet potato, blueberry and perhaps lemon meringue.  Funny thing is, if I make the sweets I don't eat as much.  Someone else's cooking always tastes better so maybe this is a good plan of action.

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new foods!

So I notice that I usually write only when I'm having a rough time of it and not when things are going good.  The first couple of days this week I cheated a lot and so I didn't lose anything.  Luckily I didn't really gain either.  Yesterday I decided to try a salad at Wendys.  Their Apple Chicken Pecan didn't seem too bad and it was all approved foods except for the pecans, dressing, bleu cheese and dried cranberries.  Luckily the dressing and pecans come on the side so all I had to pick off was the bleu cheese.  Admittedly I didn't pick off the cranberries so that I would have a little more flavor.  It was so delicious!  It was nice to have fresh greens.  Somehow restaurant salads always taste better than when I make it.  I finally started feeling better yesterday as well and so I am grateful for that.  I think its because my cold finally broke and I'm not feeling yucky because of that so I can focus more on my diet now. 
Today is payday so I'm going to get some more groceries.  I'm excited to have some more variety in my meals!  I'm looking most forward to shrimp, meatballs and making radish chips.  Only a week and a half left of this phase!

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