PHASE 2 – PART DEUX
DAY 16


We’re in the 3rd week of this round. I compared my weight loss with the same time period last time, and I am actually ahead of what I did in May.


Jilly is down 15 pounds, I’m down 8 and Lane is down to a weight he said he hasn’t be at for so long, he can’t even remember the last time he saw this weight. Jill was really discouraged yesterday because her loss was coming in ounces, not pounds. Today is a different story; she dropped 2 pounds today and she is feeling GOOD! She said she was so hungry yesterday that by dinnertime she knew that the tiny portion was just NOT going to cut it. She doubled her fish portion and had a green salad. It took the hunger pangs away and she was able to get through the evening much better.


This brings up a good subject. There are just some days when your body is hungry all day. Lane struggles with this when his schedule gets interrupted. Last Saturday we were driving during lunch and didn’t end up eating lunch until 3 p.m., and he just couldn’t get over the ‘hungry’ all day. I gave him a large lunch [Cabbage chili], and he had his afternoon snack 2 hours later. He ate a large steak for dinner [way over the recommended 3.5 ounces] but he just couldn’t kick the ‘hungries’ the rest of the day.


Jill is on the go a lot, and ends up in town at lunch and dinner time quite often. Yesterday she discovered that Burger King has a great salad that fits in with Phase 2 perfectly. It is a large bowl of lettuce and they put the chicken and all the toppings in separate bags so you can put on only the sides you want to add. It is called the GARDEN SALAD, and is reasonably priced.


Bottom line today: 16 days in - - and we are all in a much better place than if we were not doing this. Jill would still be 15 pounds heavier, I’d still be 8 pounds heavier, and Lane would not have seen the miraculous number on the scale today.