Day 17

Weight: 164.8

I wouldn't believe me if you told me 18 days ago that I would be 164 soon. I literally haven't seen numbers like this since high school, give or take a pound or two. It makes me feel GREAT to know that I'm on the downside of the 160's, but it also makes me sad to look in the mirror and still see how heavy I am and was at this weight for most of my life.

I was really hoping to see 159 by this coming weekend, and I might if I keep going at this rate. And my overall goal of 145 for this round is not that far away either. I've decided that after this round of Phase 2 I'm going to do my Phase 3 and then try to lose more weight on my own without HCG over the summer. If I've gained weight back or still have more to lose, I'm going to start the diet again when school starts up this fall and hopefully just do a 23 day round. There are no other spans of time over the summer that I can really do the diet without it conflicting with some event that would either make it irresistable to cheat or impossible to stick to protocol.

I have a friend coming back home from a semester in Hawaii in about a month or two and I hope to wow her with my transformation. And I'm going to meet my in-laws for the first time this August and I really want to look and feel my best. Not to mention I'll be meeting my in-laws in South Carolina where there are beaches!

But as I sit here eating my breakfast of strawberries, I'm thinking that we have come a long way so far on this diet. It's not quite halfway over yet, but we're definitely into it. Things should be fairly easy during the weeks as school winds down, but weekends are still the hardest times. I also loooove to snack on things while I'm studying for Finals so I'm going to miss that this year. I'm so excited that we only have two more weeks of classes! But I've got about a million things to do. Plus we're moving into a new apartment sometime this week and have nothing packed. It's going to be an interesting week, and I'd better not waste time. My period is going to start in a day or two so I'm curious to see how that's going to affect all this as well.