Day 49: That's Better!

Whew!  I was worried, but I'm back down to 0.2 pounds over my Last Injection Weight, so hopefully I'll start to stabilize now.  I had hoped to lose a little in between cycles, but I'll honestly be happy to stay where I am right now.  HS heard that it takes about a week to stabilize in Phase 3, so hopefully we're getting there.  Phase 3 is harder mentally because I don't have the instant gratification of watching the scale go down, but I got a little boost today when somebody commented on my weight loss.  She doesn't know that I've been taking HCG and I see her nearly every day, but this morning she said, "OK, it's really obvious you're losing weight.  I saw you in that shirt a couple weeks ago and it didn't hang on you like that!"  I smiled and said thanks, but I was jumping up and down inside.  I love those moments!


I found a weight- and calorie-tracking website that I like better than SparkPeople.com.  FitDay.com seems to have all of the tools (and I think there may even be more!) that SparkPeople does, but it's much neater, cleaner, and easier to navigate.  It does not have all of the articles and forums of SparkPeople, but I avoided those anyway because there was just too much happening on each page of the site that I'd end up getting distracted and forget to log my food or my weight.  I think I'm going to transition all of my historical data to FitDay so I can really see the charts moving down!  


It was nice tonight to have some pre-HCG food that fits in with Phase 3.  The Littles don't eat it, but HS and I love Anaheim Chiles stuffed with Chicken and Cheese.  I also dressed them up with spinach for the first time, and they tasted really good that way.  We were, of course, without rice tonight, but I didn't miss it.  The chile tasted so good, I was about to get up and get another when HS said, "I want another one because they taste good, but I'm really not hungry anymore so I guess I shouldn't."  Oh, yeah.  We're supposed to be breaking that habit, aren't we?  I'm trying!