Today is my last UNloading day of round 1. Its a bit early (30 days), but Im down over 10% of my starting body weight. Its a great feeling...and Im REALLY looking forward to P3 tomorrow. According to this
calculator, I have to eat 2600 calories per day to maintain over the next 6 weeks.
"When a patient has more than 15 pounds to lose the treatment takes longer but the maximum we give in a single course is 40 injections, nor do we as a rule allow patients to lose more than 34 lbs. (15 Kg.) at a time. The treatment is stopped when either 34lbs. have been lost (I had actually already lost 38lbs when I read this) or 40 injections have been given. The only exception we make is in the case of grotesquely obese patients who may be allowed to lose an additional 5-6 lbs. if this occurs before the 40 injections are up." ~ AWS
WEDNESDAY MENUS
Brunch = Farm eggs fried in unbreaded
onion rings , on top of grass-fed ground beef steaks w/ sliced mushrooms & Swiss cheese melted over the top + sliced tomatoes & a glass of milk
Dinner = Roast duck + Cheesy Cauliflower Rice + Spinach salad, wilted w/ sugar free bacon and topped w/ crumbled feta & sliced kalamata olives...and a glass of milk.
Then THURSDAY my grocery buying club order (from Azure Standard) arrives just in time for lunch. This month I ordered 28lbs of organic red potatoes, yellow onions & carrots (for the family), a full case of organic avocados (and lemons enough to process them for the freezer, to be used all summer) and 2 big jars of Italian marinated mushrooms. I ordered 5lbs of organic Spanish almonds just so I could make
Italian Almonds and a pound of almond meal to "bread" a few recipes. What Im looking forward to the MOST though is ...10lbs of unsalted butter and 20lbs of assorted raw organic cheeses (raw goats milk feta, ungrated Parmesan, Pepper jack, Mild white cheddar & cream cheese). Will be picking up 5 dozen farm eggs & 3 gallons of fresh Jersey milk that evening as well.
The garden is looking lovely. Couldnt do it without the family doing most of the physical labor. Potatoes, peas & radishes are all up. Garlic planted last fall looks beautiful. Planting corn this next weekend. Strawberries & purslane started this year. Almond tree is in full bloom and 5 of our 6 Paw-paw trees survived their first Oklahoma winter (very mild one).
So stabilization & maintenance it is.....until May 21st.