So my weight was 178.2 today. Nice and steady, even with some rice with dinner. Progressing a little starch back in has worked out just fine. And I did my first block of TTap's Instructional #2 last night. Crazy difficult, and I'm feeling it this morning!

For our first analysis, let's look at my weights and trend line for P2 to today, so you can get an idea of what stabilizing looks like on the scale, even with exercise added in.

Despite plateaus in losing and bouncing up and down a bit in maintenance, you can see the adjusted trend line is pretty smooth and I am maintaining well. Below are the specific weights of the past month of maintenance, so my progress and fluctuations become more apparent.

Some weights up, some weights down, generally very stable and I'd say maintenance has been quite successful, so far. And now for the surprising part. I missed my TTap on Friday and Saturday, and wasn't feeling too much pain this past week. Not insane muscle soreness or anything else. And yet let's take a look at my measurements this week as opposed to two weeks ago, when I began. The original figure is in parentheses.

Bust: 43 inches (was 46 in)

Pecs: 42 inches (was 43.5 in)

Ribs/Underbust: 34.5 inches (was 36 in)

Waist: 34 inches (was 36 in)

Abdomen: 42 inches (was 45 in)

Hips: 43 inches (was 47 in)

Upper Thigh r/l: 24/23.5 inches (was 24/24 in)

Lower Thigh r/l: 17.5/17.5 inches (was 17/17 in)

Calves r/l: 14.5/14.5 inches (was 15/15 in)

Upper Arms r/l: 13.5/13.5 inches (unchanged)

So I had a week of missing some exercise and not really feeling a workout, and yet I lost 15.5 inches off my body in two weeks, WOW! I don't think I look much smaller, but my butt has gone a bit higher, my back fat/bra bulges have smoothed, and overall I am a bit former and less jiggly. The scale tells a story of maintaining weight or seeing it bump up a bit, but the inches lost on the tape measure are what really matter and on those I am nothing but gobsmacked! Even the shirt I posed in for my last picture, the pink striped one that was a bit tight in the abdomen and breasts, fits amazingly now. I weigh about the same as when I wore it last, and yet the fit is probably half a size looser than last time, maybe more. The loss of my limbs, which were always quite trim, has been negligible. But my torso? Major shrinkage.

And THAT is the progress I have to report from two weeks of hard work with TTap. It is an excellent system and does exactly what it promises - trims, tightens, and energizes. And even though I am maintaining my weight loss right now, being able to still lose sizes without food restriction is excellent. I'm calling the TTap Bootcamp a smashing success for me. Now my goal is to do more Instructional #2 and alternate it with Instructional #1 and the floor exercises, so I'm not working hard every day of the week, but I am getting some exercise in frequently. And I look forward to more inches AND pounds coming off over the next few months. I want to see what more TTap can net me in my maintenance mode with food, and then we'll see what I can comfortably sustain when I do round two of the hCG.