HMR Diet - First Week Complete

Well the first week of the HMR No Decision diet (liquid fast) is complete.  According to the hospital scale I've lost 9 pounds in 6 days.  I would say that's pretty good. Has it been more difficult than the Healthy Solutions where I could eat?  Yes.  Has it really been all that difficult?  Definitely no.  One of the ladies in the class was upset that she only lost 2 pounds and I do understand her frustration.  She too had done the Healthy Solutions prior and was losing more weight than she lost this week.  I'm sure she will have a better number next week.  We also picked up 1 new person and another transferred from a different class.

My goal for this week is to increase my intake of shakes.  I'm going to be shooting for 7-8 in a day to hopefully boost my metabolism a bit.  Today I'm on pace for 8.  It will  help me though because usually each day around 4-5 pm I start to get a little hungry so having a double there will help.  In all honesty I haven't been hungry at all today.  Another thing I'm going to try to do is an extra 5-10 mins of exercise when I work out. 

Using the HMR logic for how many calories I burned using my target weight and a medium effort level I burned 2205 calories for the week.  Using my real numbers I was at 2835 calories burned.  Later tonight I'm going to try to use my "diet math" to see if my pounds lost matches up.  I'm guessing I lost more than the math will indicate.  I had 36 meal replacements over 6 days.  Three of those were the oatmeal cereals at 210 calories each.  With that said my caloric intake for those 6 days is 3930 calories.  So if you take that and subtract how many calories I burned just through exercise I would have netted between 1095 and 1725 calories... for 6 days.  Crazy.  Oh yeah, my dizziness isn't as bad today so maybe things are getting better.