I know it's frustrating to stall, but ask him what other diet he could lose 31 lbs. in 20 days? He didn't gain the weight overnight, he's not going to lose it overnight - but hcg will let him lose it a whole lot faster than any other diet out there.

Brandeline- are you drinking all your water? I also remember someone saying their hand lotion upset the consecutive loss. Maybe up your drops? Even though I am raging jealous over his AMAZING weightloss (men), he should think about how quickly he dropped, if he keeps going he will continue to loose. I don't like the diet either and believe me, I have been eating melba toast every day! But it took me a lifetime to get here, even though my weight isn't that high we are the same. I do look forward to the day I can eat 'normally'. But that will be just it, normal and healthy. If he sticks it out for say a half or a year his payoff will be huge!
Keep up the good work.

Brande - you BOTH did an awesome job on your first round! Part of the reason I decided to do the 23 day round was because of the limited food. The recipes help A LOT, but still you do get tired of trying so hard on limited things! Enjoy the break, it may be just what both of you need right now. But encourage hubby to do another round with you. Maybe by January he will be ready to jump back in & lose another amazing amount of weight. During your P3 & P4 maybe you can work on gathering things to do round 2 with a little more sizzle to it - lots of recipes!!!! Plan ahead & work with what you found you guys like. It will make it easier! Good luck you guys have done great!!!

P.S. If I'm supposed to saty on 500 cal for the 3 days after, does it matter what kind of cals, as long as they're not starch?

Thanks Nutshell. The recipes did help a LOT, but not as much as I had really hoped for him. There were a lot more things I wanted to try, but he just doesn't like that many veggies so his list was even smaller than mine, and sometimes making two different meals is a big pain in the tush. I did get rather more used to chopping lots of things though, and spending more time cooking, instead of dumping out the contents of a box into a pan and shoving it in the oven. So I think that was a benefit overall. We won't be going back to processed and additive laden food I don't think. I've upgraded some of my small kitchen electrics over the last three weeks so I can keep doing this sort of cooking, (with BIGGER PORTIONS and FAAAAT!) much easier.

Getting prepared for the next round is a good idea! I was even thinking of maybe creating a better diet diary for next round so we could more closely track what we ate, and etc. The forms from Prinster's books are a good start, but don't really have enough space for notes for my liking. I may even try to just get all the meats beforehand and freeze them all in 100g portions for the whole thing, instead of a week at a time like I did this time. I do really wonder if trimming the fats with bare hands wasn't lessening my losses.

Pepper, I think the drops actually do stay in your system longer than 5 hours once you get going. We were hungry the first couple of days a little and had to take them a little more often, but yesterday was our last drop day and we're still on the 500 cal diet today and still haven't really even noticed being hungry. I definitely think it will take the three days to clear out the effects from our systems.

Some people go again in just three weeks, but I've heard that may not be the best results that way. We intend to do the whole 6 weeks between. (3 weeks no carbs/sugars, and then three weeks gradually put adjusting to them again.) I've also heard that the more rounds you do, the longer the space between rounds is supposed to be, but I don't know exactly why.