4 days in and down 10 lbs!!
Here are my stats after 4 VLCD days (today is day 5)
Start weight: 250.8
Weight 4.22.08: 240.8
Loss: 10lbs
Emotion: Astounded
For some reason, I kept thinking that I'd be that one person who would have a difficult time with this diet, that my chemical make-up would just prevent it from really working. Apparently, this is not so! I already have proof from my last round that I could lose 30-plus pounds in 6 weeks, but the weight I lost then I had gained rather quickly in the late-summer through the holidays, so I rationalized that what is easily put on comes off easily. However, I'm almost back down to the weight I'd been holding at for about 4 years (prior to the weight gain that preceded my discovery of HCG) and still losing quite well, so I just have to accept the fact that I am normal (relatively speaking) and that this is going to work, it's going to carry me all the way down to 200 and below, a weight range I haven't been at since 2000. It's an unbelievably wonderful feeling. In my typical OCD fashion, I make chart after chart of projections of how much I will lose by what date, and I am determined not to mess up the "Phase 3" like I did last time. That 200 bar is way too close to thwart myself now. Too close! I'm still 40lbs away, but it feels like nothing, oddly.
I've decided to go ahead and do a full 40-injection round, instead of the short ones. I think it makes better sense with my schedule for now, there's only one travel blip that I may have to deal with next month.
FOOD SNIFFER
I am very hungry, almost all the time, but I do not feel at all the urge to cheat. Okay, so I took a deep inhale of one of my roommate's Oreo cookies last night (something I wouldn't even eat anyway!) and that quite satisfied me. Smelling food is kind of fun. Some might view it as self-inflicted torture, but isn't the aroma of good food part of the fun of eating? One can imagine the textures and tastes just through the olfactory sense. And isn't smell the sense most closely linked to memory? We can enter a whole world through our noses! Last round I became addicted to watching cooking videos online, I especially love Mark Bittman's "Minimalist" video segment in the New York Times online. I would draw up menus and recipes for Phase 3 friendly meals, and that occupied my mind without feeling the need to eat. The results are just too good and too immediate to let a little temptation get in the way. Scented candles have also become a small fetish of mine, my boudoir is now filled with them, each one for a different mood or season; they are relaxing and take my mind off of wanting to eat. I highly recommend the Method brand soy candles, and for a splurge, Henri Bendel and L'Occitane. Bath and Body Works carries really fun scents too.
Speaking of scents, the lilacs are out, I think it's time to fill my room with those. Heaven.
NAYSAYERS
For the most part, the people in my life that I have chosen to tell about this diet (friends, absolutely NOT my family) have been positive. I run in a crowd of singers and artists and slightly crazy people anyway, so the idea of injecting oneself and eating only 500 cal a day is not as shocking as it might be to most people. I feel so strongly about this Protocol that I know I'd be in danger of becoming some kind of HCG Evangelist, so I hold back. If someone wants to come to me I am happy to give them all the help and counsel they need, but I'm not pushing my discovery on anyone. Maybe when I lose a bit more, folks will come out of the woodwork! So far, I have two friends who are interested. This Protocol is not for the faint of heart, but the payoff is so worth it!
Start weight: 250.8
Weight 4.22.08: 240.8
Loss: 10lbs
Emotion: Astounded
For some reason, I kept thinking that I'd be that one person who would have a difficult time with this diet, that my chemical make-up would just prevent it from really working. Apparently, this is not so! I already have proof from my last round that I could lose 30-plus pounds in 6 weeks, but the weight I lost then I had gained rather quickly in the late-summer through the holidays, so I rationalized that what is easily put on comes off easily. However, I'm almost back down to the weight I'd been holding at for about 4 years (prior to the weight gain that preceded my discovery of HCG) and still losing quite well, so I just have to accept the fact that I am normal (relatively speaking) and that this is going to work, it's going to carry me all the way down to 200 and below, a weight range I haven't been at since 2000. It's an unbelievably wonderful feeling. In my typical OCD fashion, I make chart after chart of projections of how much I will lose by what date, and I am determined not to mess up the "Phase 3" like I did last time. That 200 bar is way too close to thwart myself now. Too close! I'm still 40lbs away, but it feels like nothing, oddly.
I've decided to go ahead and do a full 40-injection round, instead of the short ones. I think it makes better sense with my schedule for now, there's only one travel blip that I may have to deal with next month.
FOOD SNIFFER
I am very hungry, almost all the time, but I do not feel at all the urge to cheat. Okay, so I took a deep inhale of one of my roommate's Oreo cookies last night (something I wouldn't even eat anyway!) and that quite satisfied me. Smelling food is kind of fun. Some might view it as self-inflicted torture, but isn't the aroma of good food part of the fun of eating? One can imagine the textures and tastes just through the olfactory sense. And isn't smell the sense most closely linked to memory? We can enter a whole world through our noses! Last round I became addicted to watching cooking videos online, I especially love Mark Bittman's "Minimalist" video segment in the New York Times online. I would draw up menus and recipes for Phase 3 friendly meals, and that occupied my mind without feeling the need to eat. The results are just too good and too immediate to let a little temptation get in the way. Scented candles have also become a small fetish of mine, my boudoir is now filled with them, each one for a different mood or season; they are relaxing and take my mind off of wanting to eat. I highly recommend the Method brand soy candles, and for a splurge, Henri Bendel and L'Occitane. Bath and Body Works carries really fun scents too.
Speaking of scents, the lilacs are out, I think it's time to fill my room with those. Heaven.
NAYSAYERS
For the most part, the people in my life that I have chosen to tell about this diet (friends, absolutely NOT my family) have been positive. I run in a crowd of singers and artists and slightly crazy people anyway, so the idea of injecting oneself and eating only 500 cal a day is not as shocking as it might be to most people. I feel so strongly about this Protocol that I know I'd be in danger of becoming some kind of HCG Evangelist, so I hold back. If someone wants to come to me I am happy to give them all the help and counsel they need, but I'm not pushing my discovery on anyone. Maybe when I lose a bit more, folks will come out of the woodwork! So far, I have two friends who are interested. This Protocol is not for the faint of heart, but the payoff is so worth it!
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