Yesterday and the day before were both good days. Of course one of those days was the other gorge day and well, I did just that. I'm really good at those days. So on day two fo gorging I ate:
1 Chocolate/Chocolate donut from Dunford, yum!
1 Raspberry Fritter from Dunford
1 Coke, the real stuff
1 plate of artichoke pasta, another yum!
1 bowl of mint chip ice cream
1 plate of spicy rigatoni, spicy penne with sausage, lots of bread and some cheesy bread oh, and Dr. Pepper, the real stuff again.
1 more actually, I just ate the rest of the ice cream from the carton... didn't even bother putting it in a bowl, who needs to dirty more dishes anyway?!
I gained 6 pounds between the two days of gorging!?!?
Is this diet really meant to do that? I dunno, but it happened to me.
I can tell you that I felt so gross and imbalanced by the time I went to bed that I was happy to start the diet yesterday. So, I started and it went really well. I made a nice chicken, tomato and basil dish that hit the spot and then a chicken soup for dinner last night. I had apples for my fruit and those worked out pretty well. I wasn't all that hungry, probably because of all the pasta the night before. At any rate, it was a good first day... and I lost 3 pounds right out of the gate this morning. Not too bad for 4 days on the diet, but I still need to lose the other 3 pounds that I gained before I can say that I "lost" weight, right?
Anyway, today is a little bit more difficult with the hunger stuff. I've felt more hungry today so far than I did yesterday. But, I'll report more on that tomorrow.
Here's to the day... To good eats and more weight loss!
Still Going, and Strong
Starting It All Over Again!
I started on HCG yesterday, again! I am giving it another shot after the debacle that the time before this last time was when I tried it and gave myself 5x the proper dose. Yes, I did do it again before this time and after the "5x's" fiasco and I lost 18 pounds... then gained back 9 because, well lets face it: I have very little self control. I am a sucker for sweets and when I went on it this last time it was right before Thanksgiving and c'mon! Who can blame me for gaining 9 pounds back when there's pumpkin pie and Christmas everything?!
So, I'm trying it again and will be going for a 30 day stint, unless I feel really saucy after a few weeks and decide to extend another 13 days for the full 43 day stint. I am using the drops this time, not the shots, so there won't be any improper dosing going on, I hope. If I am trying to be sort of honest with myself I'd say that I need to lose 30 pounds to be where I am happy. And, if I'm being really honest with myself, I'd say that I need to lose 40 pounds. So, it depends on the day and time when it comes to being honest with myself.
Yesterday for my first binge day I ate:
- 2 slices of fat free bread (fat free, you say... well, I'll make up fo that!), with 8 Tablespoons of melted butter on top and a glass of 2% milk
- 1/2 a package of chips ahoy cookies with a glass of 2% milk
- 1 grilled cheese sandwich with a slice of colby/jack cheese, a slice of pepper jack cheese, 2 Tablespoons of butter AND a glass of 2% milk
- 1 bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream
- 2 plates of spaghetti with a tomato cream sauce with artichoke hearts (which I'll be posting on Zula's very soon)
- 1 more bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream with 2% milk and chocolate sauce, like a shake
HCG Log Day 10
It is official that I am cycling off of HCG. I screwed myself and still haven't lost any more weight. So, for those of you that are thinking about doing this diet, I will say a few things about it. If you do it right (and I know this because I've done it before and I lost 28 pounds) you can be successful. If you do it wrong, you are screwed. So, do it right and you won't fail. I really don't know what I was thinking about when I started and gave myself too much of the HCG. All I can figure is that I was a bit retarded at the time, but am better now.
I may try it again towards the end of the summer, but am not sure. I have to be off of it for 6 weeks because my body has become immune to the HCG and isn't doing what it should be doing now. And 6 weeks form now doesn't give me enough time to be on it again for 4 weeks before I go on my anniversary trip. So, its back to the drawing board for me. Actually I got these awesome running shoes a few weeks ago and have been wanting to start running. I haven't been able to being on HCG. Consuming only 500 calories a day doesn't provide the body with nearly enough calories to exercise... in fact if you do exercise while on HCG you will probably gain weight.
So, I'm kind of excited to start the running. Its getting warmer and the sun is out and I have running shoes and a jogger stroller... whats holding me back? Oh, that's right... HCG. So, this will be my last log on my failed attempt to be on HCG. I guess I should have done this log when I was on it the first time, but I think I was a little too embarrassed that I was doing it in the first place. I will be on the 500 calorie diet for another 3 days before the HCG is completely out of my system. Then should transition to a low-carb diet for 3 weeks before adding more calories and finding where my caloric intake should be, or my BMR. Anyway, I guess it made for a good couple weeks worth of blogging, if nothing else.
HCG Log - Days 8 and 9
Well, I've had a bit of a setback. I realized the night before last that I've been giving myself far too much HCG in my injections. So, I had a choice to do one of two things...
- Cycle off and wait 6 weeks to start again.
- Lower my dosage and see if in a week, I start losing again.
Other than the setback I've been really good with the diet. I even made Snickerdoodles yesterday for my hubby and daughter and didn't cheat. Yay me! But I will say this... With the higher dose of HCG I was a heck of a lot more hungry than I am with the lower dose. I know that sounds super strange, but its super true. The lower dose makes me less hungry. Strange.
HCG Log - Day 7
So, I forgot to give myself my injection/shot yesterday. I didn't remember that I'd forgot until about 6pm and by then it was waaay past the "buffer" period to have it. So, I stepped on the scale today and I'd gained 0.3 pounds. Kinda sucks, but its really my own fault for forgetting to have the shot. Otherwise the day went splendidly. I was super hungry yesterday and when I realized that I hadn't had the shot it made all the sense in the world as to why I was hungry. You see, the HCG acts as an appetite suppressant along with everything else that it does. So, I am writing on my mirror... DON'T FORGET YOUR SHOT! Then when I wake up in the morning I can give myself the shot and not forget again.
Day 6
I'm still going strong as of this morning. I lost another 2 pounds last night so, I'm down 5 pounds total, so far. I'm sure that the majority of the weight lost so far is water weight, but I don't really care... its five pounds!
I've discovered the importance of variety in this diet and so, for lunch today I made a soup. Here is the recipe:
4 oz. chicken breast
2 cups water
1 clove garlic, minced
1 chicken bouillon cube
celery serving for this meal
fresh ground pepper
fresh herbs of your choice, finely chopped
Boil chicken in water. When chicken is almost finished cooking, add bouillon, garlic, celery, and pepper. Cut up chicken into bite size pieces while in the pan. Stir in fresh herbs and serve.
Yield: 1 serving
Super easy and super yummy and filling too!
I was thinking about a few things that might help somebody that hasn't ever attempted this diet before and came up with a list.
- Drink, drink, drink as much water or tea as you can. The more fluid you intake the more weight you lose.
- Get enough sleep at night. The HCG isn't going to do its job if you aren't getting at least 6 hours of sleep. The more the better.
- Break up your meals throughout the day. I don't have breakfast, but have tea instead. I eat lunch, a snack, dinner and another snack. It helps with the "I'm starved" feeling if you eat a little bit all throughout the day.
- And this one I think is most important... find something to do with your time so you aren't thinking about how you are only eating 500 calories a day and all you really want is that brownie instead... REMEMBER 1 brownie = 3 POUNDS and three days to lose it again.
Day 4 and 5
So, I didn't even turn on my computer yesterday. I figure that I'm on it enough monday through Saturday, so it can take a break from me and me from it, for one day. The last two days have been good. I hit my 500 calories yesterday and when I woke up this morning and stepped on the scale I was down 3 pounds, you heard it right THREE POUNDS!!! YAY! It's working!
I discovered something that I wish I would have clued into the last time I did HCG and that is, tea. I have been having tea a couple/few times a day and it is just enough to break up that water intake nicely. It's almost like dessert water, if I add enough Truvia, which bytheway is the best sweetener out there. It is awesome.
I thought about posting what my start weight was and what the end weight will be, but then I thought... I'm posting up practically my blow by blow of this diet, they don't need to know what my start weight is... I hardly want to know what my start weight is. All I want to know is how much of that start weight is gone by the end of this 23 injection adventure. The End.
HCG Log -- Day 3
Today is off to a pretty good start. Last night I was just about done with consuming too many calories and was thankful that I could go to sleep and stop eating. Today so far all I've had is water. From this point on I take in 500 calories per day until the end of the 23 injections that I will have. The HCG helps as an appetite suppressant and in conjunction with the suppressing of the appetite, burns off the fat in your body. So you don't lose any muscle mass like you would on say, a low carb diet, where the weight you lose is overall weight and not just fat. On HCG its all fat... you gotta love that!
Anyway, the diet today will be as follows:
Water until noon
Lunch: 4 oz. chicken, 1 melba toast, 1/2 cucumber
Snack: apple
Dinner: 4 oz. chicken, 1 melba toast, 6 asparagus spears
Snack: 1 cup strawberries
And of course water all day long. I will try to take in at least 2 liters of water per day, but if I take in more, that is great! The more water you take in, the more weight you lose. So, bring on the water!
HCG Log Stardate; Umm... Day 2
I guess that I should stop the Star Trek log. I figured it would start to confuse people, especially me. Anyway, it's day two and I am cruising along. I consumed 4340 calories yesterday and am currently up to 2019 with 3 more bowls of fettuccine waiting for me before the day is through. Now, I tried to get the excel spreadsheet on here, but I can't upload those kinds of files, just pictures... so that's a bummer. But know this; it is a fantastic spreadsheet that I created. It encompasses everything that I need to keep track of while on this diet.
Date
Day I'm currently on in the diet
Morning Weight
Meal Food Fluid Calories
Breakfast
Snack
Lunch
Snack
Dinner
Snack
Daily Total of Calories =
And its nicely formatted to give me the proper calculations. Can I just say that, I love excel!
HCG Log; stardate 3182010
DAY: 1
It's officially the beginning. I had my first injection this morning and promptly made the most fattening waffles in the history of the world. I literally had to gag down the last few bites. Here's a little list of the ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 Tablespoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, melted
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup milk
Mix all ingredients together and cook on a waffle iron until done, serve with syrup.
Yield: 4 Waffles (I ate 3)
Holy Moly! These were so buttery and yolky and I wouldn't ever make them again, unless I was on this diet and in this gorge phase. I think that they will do the trick just fine, though.
I still need to figure out the calorie count and once I do that I'll post it. I know that its a lot though, so I'm good for now. Also, I'm working on a spreadsheet that I can input all my information and numbers into, aka; food intake, weight, calories, etc.. Once I get that so I'm happy with it, I'll post that as well.
So, here's to the first day! We're off to the races!
HCG Log, stardate 3152010
This is the first official HCG post that I am writing to the internets about my journey to conquer this diet. I have the HCG in hand, well not exactly in my hand, its in the fridge. But, the point is that I am going to be starting this journey probably the day after tomorrow. I still need to get a few things before I'm going to feel completely confident about starting. So, the first phase of the diet is to binge eat for two days. I will take the HCG or more accurately, inject the HCG, and will also engage in binge eating of the most fattening foods I can find (or make). This sounds like it would be easy to do, but its not as easy as you might think it is. You need to eat until you are so full you think you just might throw up, and then eat some more. The point of this is to help the HCG locate the right kind of fat in your body to burn. The more fattening the food the more likely you will not be one of the following while on the diet...
- hungry; I know that this sounds weird, but its really true, the more you binge the first two days the less hungry you will feel the duration of the diet.
- starving, oh wait, that's the same as hungry
I'm excited to start and will let you know how I'm doing once I start oinking out for that first two days.
HCG, here I come.
It has been way too long wince I wrote and voiced my thoughts, actions, deeds, whatnot to the internets. It's about time I got to it again. I've been kinda busy with my cooking blog and in case you've missed it, I have a cooking blog that is called Zula's Cafe. It's named after my Nanny, who, in her own right was a fabulous southern cook. Now, I have only put southern recipes up there every once in a while. Come to think of it, I should really put more Southern recipes on my southern recipe blog, but for now... its just things that I like and make. Mostly lately its been things that I've never made before. I like it a lot. Its a complete and total creative release for me. I get to cook, write, and take pictures. The three things that I enjoy most nowadays... besides raising my kids and being a girlfriend to my husband.
Now... the real reason for this post is to put out there my confession. I am going to venture down the HCG road. Now, I know that many of you will poo-poo the idea of doing a drastic thing like HCG, but I have to tell you; I am going to NY with my husband for our 10 year anniversary in May/June and I don't want to be self conscience while we're there. So, I'm taking drastic measures. I am going to start this diet next week and it will last for a minimun of 30 days. I am going to be documenting my progress/frustrations/fears/successes all of the above on HERE! So, keep checking back, because it just might either inspire or instill fear in those of you that are looking into a diet like this one.