Welcome and great job as it appears you jumped in feet first, losing 12 pounds in 9 days! Just make sure your body and mind are ready for jump to stage 2, which it seems to be. I feel that many drop out during this transition and these stages, I feel, are more or less guidelines. I believe they should be flexible to ensure success so even if you did stage one, and week 3 was a hybrid week, it will help ease the transition. Best of luck and once again, great job!!!