VLCD ~ Day 6

Weigh in today........  175.5!!  Woo hoo!

Tried to log in and write last night, but this blog wasn't working for some reason.  So, today is day 6 and we are going strong.  Doug is down 9 lbs and I am down 7 lbs (after loading weight).  I tried a couple of the new recipes that I made and I LOVE the taco meat on lettuce with 1 melba toast crumbled on top (taco salad baby :)

I would write more tonite, but to be honest, I am exhausted.  I have been riding my exercise bike for 2 15min. spurts (not overdoing it) for the last 2 nights and I'll be damned if it ain't helping me sleep at night.

I will try and write more tomorrow....

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VLCD ~ Day 4

Weighed in at 176.5 today.

Another day, another pound gone!  Woo hoo!  I am definitely excited to see the scale moving.  It's day four and I have lost 4lbs in 4 days.  Doug has lost 6lbs in 4 days.  Men!  Always losing more/easier than women :-p

Anyhow, I searched the sites for recipes again tonite, I'm just positive that I will get sick of regularly seasoned chicken and burgers.  So tonite, we cooked up a ton of food!  Doug likes his stuff pretty plain, but I did pull up a recipe for "fried (actually baked) nuggets".  I made those and also seasoned up some regular nuggets and popped them in the oven for him.  I also made taco meat :)  It's always been a fav of mine.  I figure I'll throw it over lettuce, or dice up some tomatoes and mix it all together.  Then I made blackened chicken, caribbean chicken and found a recipe for a "mock shake n bake".  Oh yeah, got a recipe for meatballs too!  So we cooked it up, seperated it, froze some, refrigerated the rest.  I'm looking forward to a little something different.  I'll post back and let you know thumbs up or thumbs down.

As for now, it's 10:49pm, I am exhausted and gonna go chill on the couch with my man <3

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Day 3 of the VLCD

Woo hoo!  Weighed in today at 177.5 lbs!

On day two I weighed in at 180.5, so I'm down 3lbs in 3 days of the VLCD.  Sorry I didn't get to blogging yesterday.  We had spent entire day in the car.  My son lives with his dad in Louisiana and I had him for Christmas/New Year's.  We had to meet his daddy 1/2 way yesterday, which makes for a 9 + hour drive...ugh!  But, on a good note, we did excellent in keeping on protocol. :)  We packed up our lunch in advance.  Doug had steak and I had chicken (cold) which wasn't bad at all.  We also brought radishes and ate those too.  It wasn't bad at all.  I even thought ahead and packed a lunch for my daughter, so there was NO temptation to stop along the way.  We did good, if I do say so myself.

So we made it through today as well.  Let me start by saying that last night was a rough one for me.  The sleep was not good.  I found that I was aching all over and I tossed and turned most of the night.  At around 2:30am I decided to take a tylenol pm and that did the trick.  I was out til 8:45am.  I have decided to switch my vitamins around and take them in the evening.  I am hoping that the potassium at night will kill some of the cramps I seem to be having.

Today for lunch was cold chicken, on 1 1/2 cups of lettuce, with lemon juice drizzled on top as my "dressing".  Doug had a burger and lettuce.  For supper I had a burger (on the Foreman grill) with 2 tomatos sliced thin.  I upped my veggie tonite to stop the late night cravings.  We shall see....

Also, we are used to having something sweet on occasion, so we picked up some sugar free lifesavers.  We count the calories as part of the diet, so hopefully they won't screw anything up.

Lets hope for some good numbers tomorrow! 

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Day 1 of the VLCD

Weight this a.m.:  182.5 lbs (2lbs heavier after loading)

R1/P2/VLCD1 ~ Starting Jan. 1, 2011


Welcome to 2011! I had spent my last two days loading up (on food as well as spirits for the holiday ) I felt pretty much sick to my stomach from loading for 2 days. It was even hard having drinks last night!

I decided I should explain a few of the abbreviations people use while on this diet. 

R1 - means round one.  This is my 1st time on the hcg diet, so this would be my round one.

P2 - means phase 2.  Phase 1 is the loading days, Phase 2 is the 500 calorie diet, and Phase 3 is the maintenance.

VLCD - means Very Low Calorie Diet.  you would then add which day you are one, mine being VLCD1 (day one).

Well, today is a brand new day, and we have started day one of our 500 cal. diet. We woke up this morning and took our drops the same as we have been doing for the last two days. Then we took our "pill cocktail", which consists of a daily vitamin, B-12 and for me potassium (I am prone to leg cramps, and have read that it can be a side effect of the hcg diet) and today we added 2 tylenol for the New Year's Day headache we each have!
Neither one of us cares for tea or coffee, so it's been strickly water for us both. We did have our apple this morning, and lunch was 3.5oz of steak (seasoned) and 3.5 oz of radishes on the side. My problem is, I don't care for steak! So I didn't finish my last two bites of it... Then, due to the wonderful hangover from the previous days festivities, we both napped (as a matter of fact, I can still here him snoring from the couch ) I woke up and I don't feel hungry, which is good.

Dinner: 3.5 oz of chicken and I think it will be either lettuce, or celery. I haven't quite decided. I just took my evening dose of drops and will see if I can hold out closer to 6:00pm for supper so I don't spend the rest of my night starving.  So far so good today, but I don't really consider it a good judgement day cuz I'm hungover and not in my normal way today.

I hope I see a change in the scale tomorrow!  That would be encouraging :)

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HCG Day 1 ~ Binge Day

Weigh in this morning:  180.5lbs

Mornin', it's day one.  We took our 1st dosage this morning.  It was .57ml, approximately 20 drops.  It had a taste to it, but it wasn't a horrible one.  The hardest part was waiting 15 minutes to have something to drink.  We had cocktails last nite and I was mighty dehydrated this morning.

Doug cooked up some gravy and biscuits and a pound of bacon.  I had two pieces of toast, minus a 1/2 cuz my son, Jordan, stole a piece :)  Then I helped myself to 4 small krispy kreme doughnuts.  Not sure what else I will have today, but I will make sure it's nice and fatty!  I'll try and check in tonite and let you know how the stuffing of my face goes today.

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Ok, it is now 7:40pm and I have literally stuffed my face all day long.  I am having a beer and having a really hard time even getting it down.  Doug and I took our drops 2 more times today, once at 1:15pm and again at 5:15pm.  For lunch I had cookies and milk, which I munched on throughout the day.  I also had Doug deep fry me some tater tots..yum.  I think I threw down a few mini snickers too.  For supper, it was spaghetti with marinara sauce, loaded with parmesean cheese and two parmesean cheese rolls.  I'm serious when I say, I am so full I feel sick.

We had a couple friends from work stop over today.  Doug and I have been on PTO since the day before Christmas Eve.  We were telling them about the diet and Sherry had heard of it.  I think she said her hairdresser was on it and lost a ton of weight.  That was pretty motivating and exciting to hear!  My other friend didn't seem as excited for me.  I had been telling her a few weeks ago about the girls I knew who had done it, and when I was talking about it, I was telling her how crazy I thought it was.  And now look at me, three weeks later I'm doing it!!  Like I said, I was very skeptical about it.

Anyhow, gonna get back to the couch.  I'm so glad I don't have to go to work, I feel gross.....  Can't wait to see this excess weight gone!

Two days before we start.

Weighed in at 180.6 this morning.

Ok, we have 2 days till we start the HCG diet.  Doug and I were going to shop at Whole Foods, but since we had two kids in tow who weren't being the most cooperative, we did our shopping at Ingles.  Our grocery items were pretty interesting and divided.  We had food for the kids, then food for our binging days and then food (if that's what you wanna call it) for the other 47 days of the diet. 

The binging day food was fun to shop for.  We have biscuits, cuz Doug makes excellent biscuits and gravy.  That is a perfect "fatty" food to stuff up on.  Oh, I even had him pull out a pound of bacon to make the gravy with (and to eat of course!)  We got some Krispy Kreme doughnuts.  I've never had them, so what a better time to try them out?  Oh and I got 2 blocks of cheese.  Mmmmm, I love cheese and crackers!  I'm going to snack on those as well.  We bought fixins for a stew;  meat, potatoes, corn and green beans.  I plan on having some pasta of some sort, so I bought some garlic parmesean rolls to go with that.  I also would like to have some sloppy joe's too.  They suggest eating every four hours, so I'll do my best :) 

The 500 calorie food shopping was pretty eye opening.  We brought the list of approved foods of which between both Doug and I, we whittled it down to the following:

oranges, apples, tomatoes, lettuce, celery, radishes, organic chicken, tri tip steak, 93% fat free ground beef, fish and 2 cases of bottled water.

Yes, that is all we will be consuming for the next 6 weeks.  Hard to imagine that one will not starve, but according to the protocol, the drops will do the work.

I am getting myself into the mindset for this.  I am excited.  I really am looking forward to wearing some of the clothes I have been "saving" for my skinny self again!

Ok, gonna sign out for now.  I'll try and blog again tomorrow :)

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HCG Diet

Ok, here's the deal. I know a few people who have tried this new "weight loss protocol". It is called the HCG diet. What it is in a nutshell:

You either have the HCG injected by a doctor/nurse practitioner, or you may choose to do the injections yourself, or, if you are a wussy like me, you can take drops under your tongue 3 times a day.

You follow a VERY strict 500 calorie diet.

You can lose approximately 30 lbs in 30 days.

Sounds crazy right? Well, if you know me, you know I have researched the hell out of this thing. I swear, I was totally skeptical and honestly said, "no freakin' way!" Well, here I am, after all the digging into this thing, I'm ready to give it a shot. I have been on just about EVERY diet imaginable throughout my teen/adult life. I have tried everything from starving myself, to Weight Watchers, and I am ready to try something new. I am hoping to blog my entire experience, because I have read a few people's blogs while they were on this diet and I was really drawn to it because it didn't seem impossible to do. I am a very strong willed person and really think this is something I can do. I am not going to do this alone. After much discussion with my boyfriend Doug, he has decided he will give it a shot too. At first, he too thought, no way, but he has now admitted that he is pretty excited!

If you would like to check it out, hcgcompletediet.com is the website I have decided to order from. I searched around and they appeared to be the most legit. I would personally suggest to anyone looking into doing this to read everything you possibly can on this diet before starting it. Here is an excellent site for a ton of info on it : http://hcgdietinfo.com/
It's not going to be easy from what I have read.

I am going to do 40 days and see what happens. According to the protocol, on day one and two you are supposed to start taking the drops (my dosage is 20 drops, I'm using the alcohol free hCG), then pretty much stuff your face with as much fatty foods as you can. You are building up the fat so that you have plenty to "live off of" for the duration of your diet. The drops trigger your body to release your stored fat (yeah, the crap I've been building up for years and years)! They say it is extremely important to follow the instructions and seriously pig the f*%k out on fatty foods. If you don't, you are more likely to be very hungry the 1st few days of the diet. So who am I to not follow orders? I'm totally looking forward to this part ;) I'm thinking I'm gonna hit Olive Garden for sure :)

Then for the duration of your diet, you must follow the following 500 calorie diet:


Breakfast:

Tea or coffee in any quantity without sugar. Only one tablespoonful of milk allowed in 24 hours. Saccharin or Stevia may be used.

Lunch:

1. 100 grams of veal, beef, chicken breast, fresh white fish, lobster, crab, or shrimp. All visible fat must be carefully removed before cooking, and the meat must be weighed raw. It must be boiled or grilled without additional fat. Salmon, eel, tuna, herring, dried or pickled fish are not allowed. The chicken breast must be removed from the bird.

2. One type of vegetable only to be chosen from the following: spinach, chard, chicory, beet-greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage.

3. One breadstick (grissino) or one Melba toast.

4. An apple, orange, or a handful of strawberries or one-half grapefruit.

Dinner :

The same four choices as lunch (above.)

Anyhow, our hCG came in today, so we are going to hit Whole Foods and do some shopping. They say the better you follow the protocol, the better results you will get. The one thing I really like about this thing is, if I don't follow the plan, it's not going to hurt me in any way, it's just going to not allow me to get the results I'm looking for.

We aren't starting until Thursday (Today is Sunday), but to give you an idea of where I am starting from, I am:

5' 8" tall

My weight as of this morning (and I weigh myself religiously each morning), I was 181.6 lbs.

My current jean/pant size is a 14.

My current top is a large.

Bra size is a 38 C.

If I get the results I am looking for, I was pretty happy when I weighed 155lbs, my jeans were a size 10 and my tops were a medium. So I ain't looking for much, but just enough :)
Doug says he would like to lose about 20lbs. When I get the chance, if he's up for sharing, I'll find out his info too.

Well, that's about it for today. I will try and post a little each day, and once we start the diet, I will post every day for sure.