Yuck, up almost 4 lbs this morning! To be fare, I took advantage of my first load day. I had a Betos Arizona (carne asada, sour cream, potatoes and cheese) burrito AND shared carne asada fries with my hubby AND topped it all off with the moose track brownie swirl ice cream... Today is my last load day before I start the very low (500) calorie diet tomorrow. I go back and forth between wanting to start the diet now and wanting to eat every delicious, sugary, bad for me thing out there because I wont be able to for the next 2 months at least. I'm going to probably have a hard time leaving the sweets. A few other things I know I'm going to miss are cheese, sour cream, avocado, carbs, fresh bread, and I'm sure there are a ton more that I'm not noticing yet.
Last night's pictures really scared me. I took a front and side one in just a sports bra and panties that I'm not sharing here, at least not yet... maybe when I've reached my goal and no longer look like this. I really hope I manage to lose 30 lbs in the next month or so. People are supposed to have amazingly quick results with this but I'm still kinda skeptical.... that dress has a loooong way to zip up still and my arms look soooooo gross! Every time I'm tempted to cheat, I should just stare at those pictures for a bit...
I'm not going to lie, I was a bit discouraged by the number on the scale this morning but, hopefully those pounds will drop off fast once the HCG has built up in my system and I start phase 2.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Day 1 Round 1 Phase 1 of Homeopathic Oral HCG
Weighed in at 239.6 today when I got home from the airport. I'm down 6.6 pounds since last week! I'm not sure how that happened as I've been telling myself "oh, it's ok to have just one more, your diet starts next week."I'm thinking it my have been so soon after my TOM when I first weighed myself that I was still retaining water but oh well, I'll take it as a loss :D
So today I started taking the homeopathic drops. The protocol says to load for 2-3 days then I'll start on the very low calorie diet (or vlcd) I will probably stay on it for up to 40 days. I'm hoping to lose at least 30 lbs this time around. Then I will do the Phase 3 no carb diet for three weeks to stabilize my loss. Assuming all goes well, after that I may wait a few weeks and then start another round so that I can hopefully reach my goal of 180 lbs by the end of June. I won't be done though. That's more of a short term goal. I'm hoping by the end of the year I will be down to 140 OR where I feel comfortable, happy, and healthy!
I'm both nervous and excited to start the diet, even more nervous now that I realize this means it's time to post some before pictures... I guess I'll ad some tonight. I'm so lucky to have the support of friends and my wonderful husband. If he were against it, I don't know that I could manage it.
Ok, These are really yucky pictures. This is the dress I need to fit in for my brother's wedding in June....
So today I started taking the homeopathic drops. The protocol says to load for 2-3 days then I'll start on the very low calorie diet (or vlcd) I will probably stay on it for up to 40 days. I'm hoping to lose at least 30 lbs this time around. Then I will do the Phase 3 no carb diet for three weeks to stabilize my loss. Assuming all goes well, after that I may wait a few weeks and then start another round so that I can hopefully reach my goal of 180 lbs by the end of June. I won't be done though. That's more of a short term goal. I'm hoping by the end of the year I will be down to 140 OR where I feel comfortable, happy, and healthy!
I'm both nervous and excited to start the diet, even more nervous now that I realize this means it's time to post some before pictures... I guess I'll ad some tonight. I'm so lucky to have the support of friends and my wonderful husband. If he were against it, I don't know that I could manage it.
Ok, These are really yucky pictures. This is the dress I need to fit in for my brother's wedding in June....
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Beginning.
A few years ago a friend of mine from high school started posting facebook statuses about the AMAZING success she was having losing weight. I was always over weight through high school but this girl was at least my size. I figured what ever was working so wonderfully (and QUICKLY) for her might work for me so I asked what it was she was doing. I was expecting the usual, "healthy eating and exercise," but instead found out about the HCG diet.
At that point I looked into it. I read up about it a little and lost interest once I read about the 500 calorie a day diet. It seemed overwhelming and impossible for me to be on a strict diet. To be fair, it probably wouldn't have worked for me back then. At the time, we were living off my husband's income of about $1200 a month alone and half of that was going to rent. There were a few times we had to stop by the food pantry to make it through the month. I couldn't be picky about what I ate. There was no way I could have the specific foods required by this diet to make it work. So the thought left my mind. I shrugged it off and didn't really think much about it after that.
My friend Amanda, has been thin and healthy since I met her about a year ago. I was shocked to find out that wasn't always the case. She is super active and a great inspiration and I just assumed that's how she'd always been. One day she mentioned that she had been close to 200 pounds not all that long ago. I don't think I ever really believed her until I saw the pictures on her blog though. Whilst perusing her blog about a month ago I came across something about HCG and remembered all the success my friend from high school had with it. I asked Amanda about it and she bombarded me with TONS of useful info including recipes, charts, the Pounds and Inches book and so much more. This gave me a whole bunch of new found confidence to try it out.
That very day I started scouring the internet for more info. It got very frustrating trying to sort through legitimate info and scams put out by companies trying to sell the HCG itself. Luckily, I stumbled across the forums at HCG diet info. If you are interested in trying the diet, or just want to find out some info from real people who have really done the diet, you simply MUST check them out.
So I decided I was going to try it! I'm still a tiny bit skeptical that the HCG will do anything but I guess we'll see. After tons of research I decided I was going to do the homeopathic HCG drops. These contain trace amount of the HCG hormone. You can also take Rx grade HCG oral drops or you can take injections once a day. I've also read about pills but have heard plenty of negative things about them . Walmart carried drops and pills that say HCG on the packaging but actually contain none of the hormone. It can be very confusing trying to buy the right one. I decided to go with Just Potent. They had tons of great reviews and showed the ingredients right on their site so I knew it should work.
I will be starting the diet on Monday after I get back from Disneyland this weekend and will be posting updates to my weight-loss on here.
At that point I looked into it. I read up about it a little and lost interest once I read about the 500 calorie a day diet. It seemed overwhelming and impossible for me to be on a strict diet. To be fair, it probably wouldn't have worked for me back then. At the time, we were living off my husband's income of about $1200 a month alone and half of that was going to rent. There were a few times we had to stop by the food pantry to make it through the month. I couldn't be picky about what I ate. There was no way I could have the specific foods required by this diet to make it work. So the thought left my mind. I shrugged it off and didn't really think much about it after that.
My friend Amanda, has been thin and healthy since I met her about a year ago. I was shocked to find out that wasn't always the case. She is super active and a great inspiration and I just assumed that's how she'd always been. One day she mentioned that she had been close to 200 pounds not all that long ago. I don't think I ever really believed her until I saw the pictures on her blog though. Whilst perusing her blog about a month ago I came across something about HCG and remembered all the success my friend from high school had with it. I asked Amanda about it and she bombarded me with TONS of useful info including recipes, charts, the Pounds and Inches book and so much more. This gave me a whole bunch of new found confidence to try it out.
That very day I started scouring the internet for more info. It got very frustrating trying to sort through legitimate info and scams put out by companies trying to sell the HCG itself. Luckily, I stumbled across the forums at HCG diet info. If you are interested in trying the diet, or just want to find out some info from real people who have really done the diet, you simply MUST check them out.
So I decided I was going to try it! I'm still a tiny bit skeptical that the HCG will do anything but I guess we'll see. After tons of research I decided I was going to do the homeopathic HCG drops. These contain trace amount of the HCG hormone. You can also take Rx grade HCG oral drops or you can take injections once a day. I've also read about pills but have heard plenty of negative things about them . Walmart carried drops and pills that say HCG on the packaging but actually contain none of the hormone. It can be very confusing trying to buy the right one. I decided to go with Just Potent. They had tons of great reviews and showed the ingredients right on their site so I knew it should work.
I will be starting the diet on Monday after I get back from Disneyland this weekend and will be posting updates to my weight-loss on here.
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