Saturday I slept in some and when I woke up I took my HCG, weighed myself and found that I hadn't gained or lost any weight since my previous weigh-in the day before, had some coffee and a piece of fruit. That was sort of late in the day, so I decided to skip lunch. I took some HCG around 4 or 5pm, just to be safe. We had some carrots in the refrigerator that were starting to grow again (seriously. Some of them were sprouting roots and where the green leaves had been, they were starting to grow back!). My sister said to throw them out but I said they could be used (even though I knew I couldn't eat them, as carrots are not one of the "approved" HCG vegetables) so I boiled them up and mashed them with a hand potato masher, I added some spices and stuff. Then I took some more HCG before dinner and I had my recommended amount of everything (not extra, which I debated about doing since I had skipped one meal). My family had rice, pork chops and the carrot soup I had made. I had a piece of chicken and some fresh baby spinach which I had microwaved and added garlic powder, curry powder and dijon mustard to. It was good. My family was impressed with my made up carrot soup. It seemed more like a lentil stew or something. I was pretty impressed with it too (I tried a couple spoonfuls of the broth) and I would have really liked to have had some of it. Oh, well. It was easy to make and I can make it again some other time. =)
Sunday I weighed myself and I had gained 4/10ths of a pound!! =( So depressing. I came to the conclusion that it was either because I had skipped a meal (probably that!) or because I'd had an apple, which I've read can effect some people differently, even though it is an "approved" HCG fruit. I really think it was the skipping of lunch though. I suppose it could have been the couple spoonfuls of carrot soup broth too... Later in the day I made some microwave dog biscuits that I found a recipe for on food.com. I changed things up a little in it. I'll maybe post the recipe sometime. Anyway, my dog and my Dad's dog didn't eat any of them but my sister's dog loves them. At least someone does. =( I tried to make them somewhat healthy and instead of adding salt, I added Bragg Liquid Aminos. I also added some flax seed meal. I gave some to my other sister for her to take home and give to her three dogs. I don't know if they liked them or not because she hasn't told me. They were easy to make though. The recipe called for them to be in the microwave for ten minutes but the first batch started smoking after 5 minutes and then the smoke detector went off. Needless to say, the first batch was ruined. The other batches came out fine. I put them in for 3 minutes and that seemed to be enough time.
Anyway, my Mom and Dad left Sunday to go to Canada to visit my Mom's brother. So my sister and I are here and fending for ourselves. =) Last night I had more chicken and spinach. That seems to be my "go-to" meal.
Today I weighed myself and I lose about 2 and a half pounds, so Yay!! I'm so glad!! I was getting worried - even though it was only one day of no gain/loss and one day of a small gain. I'm going to really try not to ever skip a meal again. =) For lunch today I grilled a piece of tilapia (fish) from Schwan's on the George Foreman grill. It was frozen and took only about 15 minutes. Easy peasy!! =) It was good too. I added some garlic powder and some curry powder to it. =) I also had my spinach staple with it.
Tonight I cut up three chicken breasts that my Mom got. I found out that one of those giant chicken breasts can be divided in half in order to equal 3.5oz (on average). So, I'll be having one of those pieces for dinner tonight. The others I put in individual snack-size ziplock bags and added spices to each one. Here's the spices (if you were wondering):
1. Bragg Liquid Aminos, Dijon Mustard, Curry Powder, Garlic Powder (you knew that would be in there!!)
2. Bragg Liquid Aminos, Miami Spice Chicken Seasoning
3. Grace's Jamaican Jerk Seasoning
4. Curry Powder, Garlic Powder
5. Bragg Liquid Aminos, Mrs. Dash
That leaves the other one for tonight which I've seasoned with Grace's Jamaican Jerk Seasoning and Garlic Powder and I'll grill it on the George Foreman Grill.
If you were also wondering, I still have my period. It's still pretty heavy. Definitely heavier than it has been in the past. It seems to be heavier during the day rather than at night. I also seem to have cramps every other day (on average) that hurt enough to require me to take some Advil. I wish that it would all just go away. Grrr.
