Total Loss to Date: 23.9
Current Weight: 165.1
So all my bloggy peeps, I need your help. I lost .2 yesterday, which seems to be my average now (except for the epsom salt bath fluke) and have another 4 injections. I am thinking I would like to go into P3, but am expecting TOM any day and know I shouldn't end til 3 days after TOM...
Originally my plan was to switch to SL after I was done with my injections, and go as long as I could on this R1P2...until I reach immunity or my goal of 60 lbs 'released'. If I keep losing as slowly as I am now, it would take me many weeks to get to my goal. I am really nervous about regaining during P3 however.
So do I do P3 after my TOM, or keep going on P2?
For me, the pros of staying on P2 are:
Stable diet-easy to do
Stable small losses
Feel good on HCG
Probability that I would only need to do one P3
Cons of staying on P2
Only losing average of .2 per day
Potential of doing another round and losing significant amts again
Potential cons of going into P3
Could regain
Not being able to stabilize
Going crazy and right back into my food addiction
Having to spend more time planning meals, etc
Longer potential time on diet (ie doing 2 rounds with 2 p3s)
Pros of going into P3
Could start eating more
Could start exercising
Could treat my candida
Could stabilize really well and be refreshed to start another Rd
So help me out, what should I do? What did you do?
During my first round, I quit when the losses started slowing way down. However, I didn't have one very important pro--I didn't feel good on HCG. With my messed up thyroid, I was always hungry on HCG. 500 calories felt like 500 calories to me. I was starving.
ReplyDeleteEveryone worries about P3. It's not likely to be a problem as long as you stick with clean eating. Don't try to add everything back in at once. I tried to have everything I'd been craving--mainly peanut butter and cheese--all in the first few days of my first P3, and gained like crazy. During my second P3, I kept it clean, much like I'm eating now, and I stabilized beautifully.
Do what feels right to you, but if I were in your shoes, I'd move into P3 and do another round.