Well, I made it!

Sort of. This morning I woke up STARVING!!! I debated what to do. I haven't woken up very hungry since I started this diet. I started wondering if the HCG had left my system already. I'm going off of the yourhcg blog, which says it takes 2 complete days after the last day of drops before you can eat regularly on the 3rd day, but I didn't get my drops through them. I got them from Amazon, so maybe the solution is different, and doesn't take as long? I was still wary, so I called Susan to talk it out with her, and discussed me eating breakfast. I didn't think I'd make it to lunch time without eating. It felt like my body was digesting itself lol. I ended up deciding, with Susan's help, to eat 2/3 of the normal amount of food I would have eaten for lunch and dinner combined, and eating that for breakfast, so that each meal was 2/3 of the amount I would have eaten. For breakfast for the kids, I had made scrambled eggs with cheese and sandwich meat (smoked turkey), and put it on toast for the Luke as a sandwich. I measured out approximately 100 grams, and ate that (I can have cheese and turkey on phase 3).

For Lunch, around 1, (I had been pretty hungry for about an hour before I was able to eat and had been guzzling water trying to keep myself from being too hungry) I ate a steak, celery (allowed on phase 2) and applesauce. I was still hungry, so I ate the biggest strawberry I'd ever seen! It was about half the size of my fist!! After the strawberry I was fine. We went to what we have named "The Pumpkin Shoot" which is when we take a ton of pumpkins up into the mountain and exercise our 2nd amendment rights :D. We got home around 3, and I was already hungry again. By 4 I was feeling ravenous. I worried about eating more calories than I was supposed to, so I went and weighed myself, feeling nervous about the extra food I'd eaten (I haven't eaten breakfast in just over 3 weeks!). Lo and behold, my weight was holding steady at 139.0 (My weight again this morning). So, this leads me to believe that if the HCG isn't completely out of my system, it's mostly out.

So I decided to eat something. I chose eggs, because they're available on both phase 2 and 3. I have been craving egg salad the past couple of days, so I checked the list. Mayonnaise wasn't on the list of allowed foods, but the list says that it is not a complete list. SO I went online and checked for sugar content. Turns out that I can have all of the ingredients in mayonnaise except sugar, which is less than 1 gram per tablespoon. So I decided it would be okay, after going to my little scale to figure out just how much 1 gram of sugar was. It's teeny!!! So I put 1 tablespoon in a bowl, boiled 3 eggs, and used 2 to make the egg salad. The total sugar content for it was less than 3 grams total (eggs each have approximately 1 gram of natural sugar in them). I have really been savoring every bite. I used to just eat it all up really fast, but I am taking little bites, really moving them around in my mouth, tasting, chewing, and thoroughly enjoying it :)

What I'm going to do every day, to be sure that I'm successful, is weigh myself before every meal. I will use my weight to determine how much I should eat for that meal. If I've gained a little since breakfast, I'll have a smaller lunch. If I've lost since breakfast, I'll have a larger lunch. Same goes for Dinner. I think this is the way to make sure that I don't overeat or under eat, making sure that my weight is properly stable.

I'll right, I'm going to go finish enjoying my very delicious egg salad. Happy November, everyone!