17 Day Diet Cycle 1 Day 13

Weight - 138.8

Down 0.8 lbs.  I'm doing some clean days following the 17 Day Diet Cycle 1 for a few days.  As before I'm thinking it's a plan I could follow for an easy guide when I want to inch back down the scale.  After the comfort of a set menu with hcg Phase 2, it's easy to wander off track after moving to Phase 3 and Phase 4. 

Breakfast - (149 calories)
6 oz Fage 0% Greek Yogurt
70 g raspberries
splash of half & half in coffee 

Lunch - (365 calories)
200 g cooked chicken breast
115 g broccoli

Afternoon Snack - (24 calories)
80 g strawberries

Dinner - (323 calories)
160 g cooked chicken breast
190 g broccoli

Total Calories for the day 861
Daily Calorie Composition: 16% from carbs, 20% from fat and 64% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Day 107

Weight - 139.6

The rebound weight is back off.  Nice.  Eating two meals and including some fat today to get my calories well above 1,000.  Then I'm thinking I'll do 2 or 2.5 days of the lean eating of the 17 Day Diet to try to drop a bit more before the weekend.  My daughter-in-law is loading for her third round this weekend.  She's made the request for a couple of restaurants.  Oh Joy.

Lunch - (681 calories)
3 large eggs
70 g mushrooms
60 g onion
1 tbsp butter
minced garlic
4 Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage patties
2 tbsp Smuckers Sugar Free Syrup
4 tbsp half & half in several cups of coffee


Dinner - (413 calories)
200 g chicken breast
120 g romaine
80 g cucumber
80 g tomato
40 g onion
3 radishes
3 tbsp Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free White Italian Dressing

Total Calories for the day 1,094
Daily Calorie Composition: 13% from carbs, 51% from fat and 36% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Day 106

Weight - 141.0

A 1.4 pound bump.. could be rebound, could be pie.  I had planned two meals today, but didn't get lunch at a decent time so I turned it into a steak and salad sort of day.  I know I didn't get in enough calories.

Half n Half in Coffee during the day

Dinner - (666 calories)
260 g NY Steak
100 g romaine
100 g cucumber
40 g onion
3 large radishes
3 tbsp Kraft Fat Free Italian Dressing

Total Calories for the day 736
Daily Calorie Composition: 10% from carbs, 58% from fat and 32% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Day 105

Weight - 139.6

A nice 3.4 lb drop from my steak day.  Now I typically rebound a bit the next day so I'm eating a bit less today on purpose.  We revisited our Thanksgiving leftovers, but I manage to just have some turkey and a salad.  Well then there was the slice of Boston Creme Pie that I've been craving for two weeks.

Snacks while prepping - Veggie tray with some ranch dip
Glass of sweet white wine

Dinner - (636 calories)
3 oz turkey breast
1 dinner roll
garden salad with fat free Italian dressing
1 slice Boston Creme Pie

Total calories for the day 909
Daily Calorie Composition: 52% from carbs, 34% from fat and 14% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Day 104

Weight - 143.0

Holy cow.  I dropped 2.6 lbs from yesterday.  I'm astounded.  Really have been retaining fluid that is finally leaving and I also managed some output overnight.

Steak day today then I'll see which way I want to go with things tomorrow.

Dinner - (1,258 calories)
450 g Rib eye steak
150 g roma tomato
garlic butter

Total calories for the day 1,258
Daily Calorie Composition: 3% from carbs, 66% from fat and 31% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Thanksgiving Day After

Weight - 145.6

Only up .6 today?  I know what it means.  My body had retained a lot of fluid from what I ate on Wednesday.  During Thursday, some of that fluid left while I ate willynilly for Thanksgiving.  The net result was the .6 gain.

My plan was to eat one meal today with leftovers and do the steak day tomorrow.  Best laid plans.  With my recent cravings for Boston Creme Pie, I had purchased two cream filled donuts.  I ate them both today as well as a piece of pecan pie.  My reasoning behind it was "Get it all out of here now".  Yeah.. I know.. silly. 


Today's food in no particular order -

2 Creme Filled Donuts
1 piece of pecan pie
2 white chocolate macadamia nut cookies
2 dinner rolls
1 sandwich on whole wheat white bread with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and mayo

Total Calories for the day 1,883
Daily Calorie Composition: 51% from carbs, 36% from fat and 13% from protein.

R4 Phase 4 Thanksgiving

Weight - 145.0

Wow.  So no more eating cheesy tortillas and cereal at midnight before Thanksgiving.  Total ouch.  Well the plan is to eat today and Friday, do a steak day on Saturday, then reassess.   Originally we were to go to my parents' on the coast for today's meal and having a traditional Thanksgiving meal at home on Friday.  Instead we had to stay home and I did our Friday meal today. 

And I ate.  Boy did I eat.  As we started out of town everyone wanted Burger King Breakfast.  We stopped for that and then plans changed and we came back to the house for pain meds for my son.  We decided to wait a while and see how he was doing.  Then went to IHop for a bite because I'd been raving about the pumpkin pancakes.   After we got home the kids were talking about turkey so I ended up throwing dinner together and we ate that around 7.

Here's a list and a guesstimate on the calories.

Burger King Sausage Crossanwich (before we found out where weren't making the 2 hour drive).

Ihop Eggnog Pumpkin Pancakes, with 3 scrambled eggs (before we decided to have the turkey Thursday and not Friday)

Turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, hash brown casserole, broccoli rice au gratin, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, and a Boston Creme cupcake.

Total Calories for the day 2,178 estimated
Daily Calorie Composition: 43% from carbs, 44% from fat and 13% from protein.