Monica's R4P2 Day 23 - Nakia's R3P3 Day 6

Monica - R4P2 Day 23
R4 Starting weight: 170.6
Yesterday: 156.4
Today: 155.9 -.5
R4 Total -12.9 7.6%

Nakia - R3P3 Day 6
LIW 3/17/2009: 225.9 8.7%
Yesterday: 225.6
Today: 223.4 -2.2
2.5 Below LIW

Yesterday's menu (Monica):
B: coffee with 1 T half & half
S: 1/2 serving strawberries with truvia
L: chicken with garlic & herb Mrs Dash, steamed string beans with minced onions
S: 1/2 serving strawberries with truvia, 1 chocolate almond meringue
D: creole catfish, an apple
Lots of tea with truvia & water, TJs unsweetened green tea w/ truvia added

Yesterday's menu (Nakia)
Fitday menu
water & 4C Totally Lite 2 Go
5 chocolate almond meringues

Whew! I had a feeling Nakia was having some water retention issues. He was complaining of "feeling fat" so I told him to drink tons of water and cut down on the salt yesterday & VOILA! 2.2 lbs gone!

I wasn't sure I'd have a loss today because I ate pretty late at around 8:30 & I went and got maintenance done on my locs. I try to only do that once during phase 2 just in case they put oil in my hair. When I go, I take my brilliantine with me which Dr. S allows during P2. Even though I make them use that, I'm always afraid that I'll gain because they use so much. It's always an ordeal though because I have to explain that I'm on a "detox diet plan" & how I can't put any oil on my skin (Then I get the weird looks). I just don't want to go through all that more than once during my round, so I just let my hair go a little further than I normally would. If my locs weren't so new, I'd just have a friend retouch them for me, but I don't want someone inexperienced messing up the pattern of my locs so I just go to the salon. But I am SURE glad I went last night.... my hair feels MUCH better :)

It looks like giving up beef is really paying off. I've had some really great losses this week. This morning I got on the scale again and it said I had lost even more, but I decided to go with the first number. I'll see the rest of that loss tomorrow.

Tomorrow is going to be a challenge for me. My boss is buying lunch, and I get to choose where we get lunch from. I'm chosing chinese because that way I can get steamed chicken or shrimp and broccoli without sauce and have lunch with everyone else. I might even get steamed string beans.

Amie - DH=Dear Husband or Dumb husband (however you want to take it at the time... LOL)
I think he'll be fine... I'm pretty sure it was just an over taxed muscle in his chest from breathing heavily on the treadmill, but I KNOW he was showing off... HA!

M - Thanks :) I have just found P2 recipes from various sources and tweak them for my tastes. I also watch food network alot and I adapt things from there. P2 is restrictive, but I can work with it.

Biz - Wasn't that great! I smile everytime I watch it & you know smiling is good for you.

Angela - yeah, fitday is great. I used to use it for P2, but since I'm only eating 500 calories I find it easier to just calculate it on my nutrition scale. Now I use fitday to track my inches & weight lost on P2. I'll be using it more in P3... it gets more complicated to plan out meals for me then.