Water Fast - Day #7

Wednesday – Water Fast Day #7
9:30 AM
I broke my Dry Fast at about 4.5 days, not sure why – I was just bored I guess. As expected, my weight loss slowed down unfortunately. I went from an average of 1Kg per day to 300gr per day! 3 times slower than Dry Fasting. I hope I can resume Dry Fasting along the way, because after a while, even drinking water becomes annoying – while when Dry Fasting the only thing I want to do is drinking fresh water, I don’t even care about food! Human mind is fascinating, an escalation of needs and desires when we can’t have what we want.
Today I feel good energy wise, I planned to go swimming this afternoon; I prepared my gym bag and everything, I am actually excited to do it, I hope I will feel good after. I’m not hungry at all; my Ketosis is good at 80mg/dL, with a nice purple Ketostix. My tongue is becoming a bit more white-coated with the days, I guess is normal. Usually around Day 7/8 of a Fast I feel very well, and I do but I’m still so fat that I don’t feel comfortable with myself; I believe this is an issue for my motivation and my mood.
This morning I was getting ready to go to work and I tried a white shirt that used to fit me a bit large, well I wasn’t able to close the buttons so I gave up and wore something else. It is really depressing.
This weekend I want to try to Dry Fast again, since I’ll be working from Saturday 8AM to Sunday 6PM, I might be able to get distracted and not drink much water, or at all. To be honest I’m not drinking much anyway, yesterday I had my last sip at 4:30PM and resumed drinking this morning around 7AM when I woke up, but only because I felt thirsty a bit. If I drink too much I don’t feel very well, not sure why.

HCG Diet - VLCD #12 - Protein Powder for P2

Today is my VLCD  #12, the Diet is proceeding well, this morning the scale reported a promising loss and I'm now officially into the 61 Kg mark. Being over the 62Kg-s is motivating for me, although I know slowdowns and brief stalls are part of the Diet, nobody likes seeing unchanging-weight when having such a small amount of Calories.

I've to admit, today for lunch I might had way too much chicken, I had hard time to portion exactly gr on Sunday when I cooked in advance all my meat. I bought 3 packages of organic chicken breast at the supermarket and I wanted to grill and portion so I'd have ready for my salads for the whole week and more. I tried to give estimation on how many portions I will have with the amount bought, but then – since I removed lots of fat from it – I estimated a slightly smaller amount of portions. I don't think I was over that much, I'd say rather than 100gr of chicken breast I had maybe 120gr or 130gr. Cooked chicken has an extremely lower weight than the raw one, I have the proofs!

So now it's just after lunch and my stomach feels full, due to the large amount of spinach I had with the chicken too I guess, I should remind myself to be careful with my portions if I don't want to waste a week worth of HCG and hard work. I don't believe in the typical suggestion that lots of people give when dieting: "don't be hard on yourself if you cheat, it's ok", no it's not ok, I need to be disciplined, I was a compulsive eater for this reason, allowing myself to binge and thinking that would be better tomorrow….which never happened. That's the similar reason why people go to those boot-camp gym classes, to be yelled in their ears to push hard on exercise and never stop. We need strong directions on our weaknesses; well at least this is for me and might not apply to everyone.

I'm researching to buy some protein powder for my P2 Phase, I know it's not in Dr. Simeons protocol but I believe that if I find a non-fat protein blend I'd be ok with that. The reason why I want to buy Protein powder is because I know the importance for my body to have my Protein intake every day. Sometimes I find myself skipping a meal and that means skipping a Protein serving. The body gets in alarm-mode, hunting for food and it's not healthy for my metabolism and a healthy food-relationship.

I checked online which could be the best Protein Powder I could buy, and I found a brand name called Jay Robb, apparently it's a guy that makes some good tasting Protein powder with 0 Fat and very low in basically everything. I want to find it today after work, I might use it just once in a while but I thought it could be a very good habit even for my HCG P4-life Phase, learning on how to properly nourish your body is fundamental at the end.

Talking about protein I read a very interesting article about it, so true that when the body has the right amount of protein is content, that's why sometime is good having protein before bed, so you can sleep better, rather than being on alerting hunting-mode (explained the strong nap-desire after meals!).

Another thing I noticed affecting a lot my weight loss is the amount of water I have daily. If I don't drink more than 2L of water, I don't lose weight, I don't feel right either. When we lose weight we release lots of toxins that are stored in our fat cells, those toxins need to be eliminated from our system, or they will make us sick or with uncomfortable feelings. One proved way to help this elimination is drinking water, it helps a good kidney functioning so the liver (which is the main organ for the detoxification) is not busy doing double job!