Maintenance and Stabilization

The maintenance portion of this diet is designed to maintain the weight on your LAST injection day. During maintenance, you can eat anything except starch and sugar. It's basically the "protein" diet except that you can have carbs, just not starch. Maintenance is to last for 3-6 weeks after your last injection. During maintenance, you are not supposed to gain or lose over 2lbs from the LIW (last inj weight). If you go over the 2 lbs (even by .2) you are to do what Dr. S called a "steak day". On this day, you drink lots of water, skipping breakfast and lunch and then at dinner time you eat a HUGE steak and either and apple or tomato ( I would have to break this up into lunch and dinner or I would have to be scraped off the floor). This is supposed to reset your weight to the previous day and then you can start back with the maintenance plan. After 3 weeks you can begin adding starch and sugar but still abiding by the 2lb rule and doing a steak day anytime you are over that 2 lbs. So far, I have not done the maintenance the way it should be done, HENCE the weight gain! By doing this maintenance your body is supposed to basically get "stuck" at this weight so that in reality you should be able to eat whatever you want, which is why this is called the CURE to obesity! I have always just done the 3 weeks of maintenance and then started right back with gorge days and vlcd since I am not "done" yet. This time I am committing to do the steak days when necessary!

Ok, so back to while I am on my TOM. Instead of starving AND having immense pain, I am just going to add ounces to the veg. and meat for a couple of days and then after it's over, I will go right back on the vlcd and injections. Hopefully this will allow me to maintain over those days and not be miserable! I feel like since this diet was invented in the 50's I can test variations. haha! I am also only going to be on maintenance for about a week before I go right back on injections. I am going to KY for SYTYCD and I have planned it out so that I am gorging while I am there AND I am trying to fit in 3 rounds before Disney! And let me go ahead and tell you that I WILL eat at Disney, but plan to inject those 4 days so that I can consider those days "gorge" days. You can gorge up to a week. So, while I may gain a little more than I would on the normal 2 gorge days, I will still be indulging myself within the legal limits of the diet! :)

So, I hope that this makes sense. It really does help so much to be able to put it out there.....it helps me with my planning! :)

Thanks for reading!!!