AM weight--201.2 pounds
So my birthday was sort of a plunge. I drank and ate stuff that I shouldn't have. It put me up a few pounds for a few days. Today is my first day where I have lost past my lowest weight last week (Friday morn). I am a little dissappointed in myself for cheating but really can't be that upset about it. I had a blast for my birthday. All told I am 14.4 pounds down in 18 days. Not bad at all considering there were two days in there that were a total bust diet-wise.
Since Monday of this week I have managed to get on my elliptical trainer for about 15 minutes every morning. It has helped because I have lost up to 2.5 pounds in a day this week....Cool.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Dosing day 14, vlc day 12 (July 9)
Am weight 201.8
I stalled today with no weight loss between yesterday morning and this morning. I was actually hungry yesterday so I ate a little extra protein. I was worried that I was losing muscle and heading into starvation. Yesterday was the first day that I felt any hunger at all. Today back to normal with no hunger at all. I ate at about 2 pm--chicken and onions with balsamic vinegar and orange slices and melba toast. Not sure what I will do about dinner but thinking about shrimp with hot wing sauce and celery or green beans.
A note on the celery, etc. I know what the protocol says about veggies and I know what is acceptable during the HCG dosing phase. But I have also read Atkins and South Beach and Sugar busters, and so on and so on. The difference in calories and fiber, etc is not big enough to matter for green beans and celery to be okay. I figure as long as I continue to lose regularly and as long as I keep the VLC under 500 cals like it says in the protocol I should be fine.
Another interesting factoid I found out today. With the sublingual, especially the homeopathic version, I can dose as long as I want until immunity hits. So the 40 days I was planning on may extend into more as long as immunity doesn't hit sooner. Interesting....since I have around 50 pounds total to lose (14 lost already) I can lose it all in one round of HCG.....SWEET!
I have already decided that HCG is new new miracle. Looking at being thin the rest of my life is amazing. The way I see it HCG is always an option when I have put on 15 or so pounds. Hopefully that won't happen once I have lost it but we all get lazy sometimes and having a "quick fix" means a lot.
I stalled today with no weight loss between yesterday morning and this morning. I was actually hungry yesterday so I ate a little extra protein. I was worried that I was losing muscle and heading into starvation. Yesterday was the first day that I felt any hunger at all. Today back to normal with no hunger at all. I ate at about 2 pm--chicken and onions with balsamic vinegar and orange slices and melba toast. Not sure what I will do about dinner but thinking about shrimp with hot wing sauce and celery or green beans.
A note on the celery, etc. I know what the protocol says about veggies and I know what is acceptable during the HCG dosing phase. But I have also read Atkins and South Beach and Sugar busters, and so on and so on. The difference in calories and fiber, etc is not big enough to matter for green beans and celery to be okay. I figure as long as I continue to lose regularly and as long as I keep the VLC under 500 cals like it says in the protocol I should be fine.
Another interesting factoid I found out today. With the sublingual, especially the homeopathic version, I can dose as long as I want until immunity hits. So the 40 days I was planning on may extend into more as long as immunity doesn't hit sooner. Interesting....since I have around 50 pounds total to lose (14 lost already) I can lose it all in one round of HCG.....SWEET!
I have already decided that HCG is new new miracle. Looking at being thin the rest of my life is amazing. The way I see it HCG is always an option when I have put on 15 or so pounds. Hopefully that won't happen once I have lost it but we all get lazy sometimes and having a "quick fix" means a lot.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Dosing day 10, VLC day 8 (Sunday, Jul 5, 2009)
AM weight = 204.5
Total loss = 10.1 lbs
I went out on Friday night with friends and I managed not to have any alcohol but I was so hungry by the time we sat down at Denny's (at 2:30 am) that I did share some nachos. I was up two pounds on Saturday morning but I weighed at 7:30 and had only slept for a few hours. By today I was down to 204.5 lbs. This makes a total loss of just over 10 pounds in 10 dosing days. Cool. I went to my parents' place for the holiday and eating there was difficult. I managed to stay on protocol yesterday but had a four inch piece of corn on the cob with lunch and the only protein served was pork ribs so I had one. We'll see what the extra does to my loss tomorrow morning I guess. Dinner tonight is tilapia baked over onions and zucchini, an orange and a toast. I am hoping the fish is so low fat that it compensates for the rib. Crossing my fingers!! lol
Total loss = 10.1 lbs
I went out on Friday night with friends and I managed not to have any alcohol but I was so hungry by the time we sat down at Denny's (at 2:30 am) that I did share some nachos. I was up two pounds on Saturday morning but I weighed at 7:30 and had only slept for a few hours. By today I was down to 204.5 lbs. This makes a total loss of just over 10 pounds in 10 dosing days. Cool. I went to my parents' place for the holiday and eating there was difficult. I managed to stay on protocol yesterday but had a four inch piece of corn on the cob with lunch and the only protein served was pork ribs so I had one. We'll see what the extra does to my loss tomorrow morning I guess. Dinner tonight is tilapia baked over onions and zucchini, an orange and a toast. I am hoping the fish is so low fat that it compensates for the rib. Crossing my fingers!! lol
Friday, July 3, 2009
July 3rd--dosing day 8 (day 5 of vlc)
AM weight = 205.0 lbs
Total loss = 9.6 lbs
I must say I am amazed. I lost as much in one week with this program than I did in the first two weeks of atkins years ago. That one week also included my two feeding days in the beginning of the protocol, so really I am looking at nearly 10 pounds gone in only 5 days. Damn!!
The other thing that constatly amazes me is the lack of hunger. I made pizza one night for everyone else while I had leftovers from the steak and salad we had the night before. I didn't craze the pizza or feel like I was punishing myself for not eating it. It was almost like I didn't even want it. There has been 2/3 of a box of double stuff oreos (left over from my feeding days) in the pantry for the whole week and I haven't given them a second look. That has NEVER happened in all of my years of dieting. Before when I was dieting I just couldn't bring food that was off-limits into my house at all. No temptation if it isn't in the house right?! I actually ate a piece of pepperoni off of my son's pizza after he was finished. It didn't even taste good to me. The salad and steak I made for myself tasted better. Wow.
To be fair to the diet and to my own habits I do have to confess this. Last night I thought I was hungry. The reason I say thought is because I am really not sure if it was physical hunger or just a feeling of emptiness that I didn't know how to assimilate and read as hunger. I ended up having an extra melba toast figuring it was the least damaging option in terms of adding extra food. I am not tracking calories other than weighing my protien servings. Sometimes I weigh them at 100 grams prior to cooking, but often I weigh them after because I am cooking a larger serving of meat or fish or whatever to feed everyone. The way I figure it, if the protein weighs 100 grams prior to cooking then it should weigh between 80 and 90 grams after depending on fat content. I know that a 3 oz piece of meat or chicken is the size of a deck of cards and tend to use that as a rule of thumb.
Total loss = 9.6 lbs
I must say I am amazed. I lost as much in one week with this program than I did in the first two weeks of atkins years ago. That one week also included my two feeding days in the beginning of the protocol, so really I am looking at nearly 10 pounds gone in only 5 days. Damn!!
The other thing that constatly amazes me is the lack of hunger. I made pizza one night for everyone else while I had leftovers from the steak and salad we had the night before. I didn't craze the pizza or feel like I was punishing myself for not eating it. It was almost like I didn't even want it. There has been 2/3 of a box of double stuff oreos (left over from my feeding days) in the pantry for the whole week and I haven't given them a second look. That has NEVER happened in all of my years of dieting. Before when I was dieting I just couldn't bring food that was off-limits into my house at all. No temptation if it isn't in the house right?! I actually ate a piece of pepperoni off of my son's pizza after he was finished. It didn't even taste good to me. The salad and steak I made for myself tasted better. Wow.
To be fair to the diet and to my own habits I do have to confess this. Last night I thought I was hungry. The reason I say thought is because I am really not sure if it was physical hunger or just a feeling of emptiness that I didn't know how to assimilate and read as hunger. I ended up having an extra melba toast figuring it was the least damaging option in terms of adding extra food. I am not tracking calories other than weighing my protien servings. Sometimes I weigh them at 100 grams prior to cooking, but often I weigh them after because I am cooking a larger serving of meat or fish or whatever to feed everyone. The way I figure it, if the protein weighs 100 grams prior to cooking then it should weigh between 80 and 90 grams after depending on fat content. I know that a 3 oz piece of meat or chicken is the size of a deck of cards and tend to use that as a rule of thumb.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Results on dosing day 4
2nd day of vlc diet
Weight-210.2--down another 2.2 pounds
Loss total = 4.4 pounds
Again and still shocking...no hunger...none...zero....zilch. Sometimes I feel like I have to force myself to eat. Lunch today was left over shrimp and green beans from last night's dinner and a sliced orange and a melba toast. Having beef for dinner....mmmmmm.
I have not had the headaches that are often attributed to the first few days of HCG dosing nor the weakness. My sleep is a little scattered and yesterday was the first day in probably two weeks that I didn't take a nap in the afternoon. My only real complaint is that I have a wierd soreness in my thighs. It is almost like the post-workout soreness caused by lactic acid build-up, except that I haven't worked out. Hmmm. I really can't think of anything I have done in the past few days that would have caused the muscle soreness. It isn't unbearable so I am not incredibly worried about it. But because I am the guinea pig for a number of my friends, I am noting whatever I can that may help them decide if this is a diet they could be successful on.
Weight-210.2--down another 2.2 pounds
Loss total = 4.4 pounds
Again and still shocking...no hunger...none...zero....zilch. Sometimes I feel like I have to force myself to eat. Lunch today was left over shrimp and green beans from last night's dinner and a sliced orange and a melba toast. Having beef for dinner....mmmmmm.
I have not had the headaches that are often attributed to the first few days of HCG dosing nor the weakness. My sleep is a little scattered and yesterday was the first day in probably two weeks that I didn't take a nap in the afternoon. My only real complaint is that I have a wierd soreness in my thighs. It is almost like the post-workout soreness caused by lactic acid build-up, except that I haven't worked out. Hmmm. I really can't think of anything I have done in the past few days that would have caused the muscle soreness. It isn't unbearable so I am not incredibly worried about it. But because I am the guinea pig for a number of my friends, I am noting whatever I can that may help them decide if this is a diet they could be successful on.
Results on dosing day 3
Morning Weight 212.4--a total loss of 2.2 pounds overnight.
I was worried I'd be hungry but soooo not. I enjoyed the meals I had but wasn't left feeling like I was starved or even restricted. I made tater tots for the kids (6 and 3 years old) and didn't even feel the urge to eat them myself. Dinner was shrimp in hot-wing sauce (sauce is 0 cals) and sautee'd green beans, and strawberries. Yummy!
I was worried I'd be hungry but soooo not. I enjoyed the meals I had but wasn't left feeling like I was starved or even restricted. I made tater tots for the kids (6 and 3 years old) and didn't even feel the urge to eat them myself. Dinner was shrimp in hot-wing sauce (sauce is 0 cals) and sautee'd green beans, and strawberries. Yummy!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Getting Started
I weigh too much. I have gone through an ugly marraige, an even uglier divorce and a 40 pound weight gain in the last three years. It is time to do something about it. I have been successful in the past with low carb diets, but lately I just can't seem to get motivated or stick to much that is organized or healthy in terms of food.
About a week ago a friend told me about the HCG diet plan. I researched it, read everything I could find online, and finally ordered sublingual HCG from Mediral (a compounding pharmacy). I started the HCG sublingually three times a day on Friday, June 26, 2009. The total daily dosage is 1.5 ml. I am not sure what that makes the total HCG dosage, but apparently it is enough. Friday and Saturday were 'loading' days and I ate whatever I wanted as often as I could.
Today, Sunday June 28, 2009 is my first 500 cal diet day. I woke up and weighed myself. 214.6 pounds. I am not happy about that number but at least it is a place to start. I find that so far today I am not hungry. I had two large glasses of iced coffee with stevia throughout the morning. For lunch I made tilapia with browned onions, my melba toast, and six strawberries. I felt like I was eating more because it was lunch time than because I needed to eat. Now I am sipping on iced tea with a lemon slice and stevia. Dinner will be baked chicken and green salad with my melba toast and I will have a strawberry smoothie made from berries, ice and water before bed.
I am excited about the diet and about the prospect of being fit and healthy for the first time in a number of years. I'll be posting my progress here from now on and those of you who are interested are welcome to comment.
Thanks! Katie
About a week ago a friend told me about the HCG diet plan. I researched it, read everything I could find online, and finally ordered sublingual HCG from Mediral (a compounding pharmacy). I started the HCG sublingually three times a day on Friday, June 26, 2009. The total daily dosage is 1.5 ml. I am not sure what that makes the total HCG dosage, but apparently it is enough. Friday and Saturday were 'loading' days and I ate whatever I wanted as often as I could.
Today, Sunday June 28, 2009 is my first 500 cal diet day. I woke up and weighed myself. 214.6 pounds. I am not happy about that number but at least it is a place to start. I find that so far today I am not hungry. I had two large glasses of iced coffee with stevia throughout the morning. For lunch I made tilapia with browned onions, my melba toast, and six strawberries. I felt like I was eating more because it was lunch time than because I needed to eat. Now I am sipping on iced tea with a lemon slice and stevia. Dinner will be baked chicken and green salad with my melba toast and I will have a strawberry smoothie made from berries, ice and water before bed.
I am excited about the diet and about the prospect of being fit and healthy for the first time in a number of years. I'll be posting my progress here from now on and those of you who are interested are welcome to comment.
Thanks! Katie
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