So this is my last week of injections... I've done nothing but cheat... had a few spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, some dark chocolate, a rice Krispy treat, and i know its just cheating myself but i've been starving THIS WHOLE ENTIRE DIET... the hunger NEVER went away for me... as i posted before, i was advised to inject every other day at first, then i figured out for myself that that is what caused the hunger, so i switched to every day... anyway, im down to my last 6 injections or so and im just so disappointed: in myself, in my doctor, and i need to know, do i go ahead and keep injecting(has my cheating ruined it?) and move on to phase 3 next week? or what do i do here? ugh thx

Even though you cheated, that is over. You must think of what is the best thing to do NOW. If you have been starving the whole diet, then something is wrong. Maybe your HCG has lost potency, or was never potent to begin with.

How many days have you done? What is your loss overall?

thx grammy, i think i'll do these last injections and do another round in 6


txnfoot..., i started Oct 24 - did one week every other day, then started every day, so however long that's been... too long to starve!
i've lost about 8-9 lbs... the scale goes up and down between 173 to 170 every day... ugh i started at like 182 or 184 depending on whose scale im lookin at...

Linda Lou, not sure how much im taking each day but she told me i could go every day if i wanted to so...

its so frustrating... i spent $600 on this with BIG hopes and im partly to blame for failing... ugh anyway, im just venting... sorry and thx for the input ladies...

this so frustrates me.... these clinics come up with things that have no research to back them- and it's the patients who suffer. sorry you had to deal with that. but at least you have us to coach you through the next round!

i'd be very careful what you eat on P3 and how you re-introduce foods. for those who have cheated a lot during P2, it seems to be harder to stabilize.

I've watched my mom go through this my whole life. From everywhere outside, you get the message that you're overweight because you're weak. If you just ate less, or just exercised more, or just ate different things, you would be fine. After hearing it long enough, from enough places, you start to believe it. I used to think the same thing. But I've dieted, and I've exercised, and I've done all the things I'm supposed to, and for the last 10 years, all it's done for me is got me 50 lbs. overweight and my metabolism so screwed up that I can't lose weight any more. I just can't. By eating the bare minimum of calories, I was able to just maintain. Every time my other half wanted to go out to a restaurant, I would gain half a little, and it wouldn't go away. This diet is the first thing I've done in 10 years that's worked, and I have high hopes that I can go back to the way I was when I was younger. I've always had pretty healthy food, but I was able to splurge now and then and it didn't make me gain weight. I started to gain weight when I got married, we bought a house, I worked longer hours, I traveled and ate in restaurants because I couldn't eat at home. It wasn't about choices, unless the choice was to throw away everything my life in order to keep a smaller waist. Sorry, but that's no choice.

I don't get a lot of grief over my weight. I carry it well, and I've never looked overweight. But I know I am - I see it in the mirror when I'm getting ready for work. And the women I see in the grocery store, the ones with the wide butt and a shopping cart with cookies and ice cream in it. Well, I used to think to myself "Yeah, I can see why you're wearing stretch pants." Now I think "I'll bet that's hard, having to keep that stuff around for her family and avoid the temptation it offers every day." Because I'm here, I know how hard that is, and I know what you can say to yourself when you happen to catch sight of yourself stepping in or out of the shower. It isn't pretty. But it's also not something to beat yourself up about, you get plenty of that from other places, don't do it to yourself.