Rewind (Part 2)- this is long...
Very excited and a little scared to do something wrong, I started my first injection day on Tuesday, March 4th. I had everything I needed in my hcg kit at my fingertips. Following the mixing instructions from hcgsupplies.com made the mixing process easy.
The first two days of an HCG injection cycle are used to "load" the body with calories as well as to bring the HCG level to a therapeutic level in the body. A friend shared that she had seen many dieters going for Krispy Kremes and McDonald's to load their bodies. Knowing the disadvantage to loading in such a way, I went for a pound of no nitrate, organic bacon (it's good to be Gentile), crispy nuts, whole raw milk, and raw cream. I also purchased a large juicy grassfed ribeye for more protein. The raw cream had 1600 calories in one pint alone!
According to Dr. Simeon's manuscript, over a long course of HCG dieting, the body comes close to protein deficiency so protein load seemed important to me. Also, fat has so many calories that I knew I'd get a good load using the healthy fats I chose. I loved trying to GAIN weight for a change-LOL- for my 2 loading days. I was opposed to loading using junk and sugar because I did not want to feed unfriendly intestinal yeast/bacteria which would cause sweet cravings once I went onto the Very Low Calorie Diet or VLCD.
Over my two day course of loading, 3.4 pounds found their way onto me, and I felt as full as a tick as we say in the South. My friend who had successfully lost 27 pounds her first round through a doctor's clinic about 100 miles away, incidentally loaded the same days.
I spoke with her on load day 2, and she commented that they only had Pirate Booty Snack, sort of like organic Cheetos, as junk food to load, and she was having difficulty loading. Through a third party so may not be accurate, she has reported hunger during her first several days on HCG which could be due to an less than stellar load!
Although, I was worried about hunger, my first day on the VLCD, very low calorie diet, was a breeze. I started my VLCD 1 with 16 ounces of clean water followed shortly after with a 16 ounce cup of organic green tea sweetened with 4 drops of Stevita stevia. For the boy's breakfast, I made almond flour banana waffles, but had little to no desire to eat any. The difficult part was adding the honey which is always messy and usually, I'll do a little clean up with a swipe of my finger which finds its way between my lips! So, I was left to run rinse off the precious honey down the drain. I tried to talk one of the kids to de-honey my finger, but they looked like "yuck, Mom."
So, here I am cooking delicious healthy food, drinking tea; experiencing no hunger. Where were the feelings of deprivation, the need to white knuckle through by telling myself- this food won't help you reach your goal, Joy? All my training I had had through my "lifetime membership" in the popular weight loss system meetings were not necessary to get me through. Albeit, I had nagging doubts due to that programming that I might not be doing what my body needed with HCG. The antidote to those doubts was reading testimonials of dozens of people losing their weight, keeping it off, and getting healthy using HCG.
Although, I had read so many people posting huge losses during their first week- some up to 15 pounds in their first week, and had hoped for the same performance for myself, I lost at MY pace which has been about a pound/day. On day 12 of injections, I awoke to only a .2 pound loss, felt a bit discouraged, but was reminded by a close friend about my average which did perk me up. Rereading Dr. Simeon's booklet allowed me to see that losses tend to average to a bit less than a pound/day, and I am hopeful this will be the case for me. What a huge departure from my previous weight loss experiences!
During my losing times with the other program, it took months to lose 20 or 30 pounds, and a 1 pound loss in a week was a happy thing. A 7 pound loss in a week would have been met with disapproval and concern by the program supervisors.
Tomorrow- last Rewind, and we can get up to the day to day tidbits of my HCG journey. I have so many tips that I have learned from a very special ebook from a super special friend, and I cannot wait to point you to the ebook as a necessary resource.
The first two days of an HCG injection cycle are used to "load" the body with calories as well as to bring the HCG level to a therapeutic level in the body. A friend shared that she had seen many dieters going for Krispy Kremes and McDonald's to load their bodies. Knowing the disadvantage to loading in such a way, I went for a pound of no nitrate, organic bacon (it's good to be Gentile), crispy nuts, whole raw milk, and raw cream. I also purchased a large juicy grassfed ribeye for more protein. The raw cream had 1600 calories in one pint alone!
According to Dr. Simeon's manuscript, over a long course of HCG dieting, the body comes close to protein deficiency so protein load seemed important to me. Also, fat has so many calories that I knew I'd get a good load using the healthy fats I chose. I loved trying to GAIN weight for a change-LOL- for my 2 loading days. I was opposed to loading using junk and sugar because I did not want to feed unfriendly intestinal yeast/bacteria which would cause sweet cravings once I went onto the Very Low Calorie Diet or VLCD.
Over my two day course of loading, 3.4 pounds found their way onto me, and I felt as full as a tick as we say in the South. My friend who had successfully lost 27 pounds her first round through a doctor's clinic about 100 miles away, incidentally loaded the same days.
I spoke with her on load day 2, and she commented that they only had Pirate Booty Snack, sort of like organic Cheetos, as junk food to load, and she was having difficulty loading. Through a third party so may not be accurate, she has reported hunger during her first several days on HCG which could be due to an less than stellar load!
Although, I was worried about hunger, my first day on the VLCD, very low calorie diet, was a breeze. I started my VLCD 1 with 16 ounces of clean water followed shortly after with a 16 ounce cup of organic green tea sweetened with 4 drops of Stevita stevia. For the boy's breakfast, I made almond flour banana waffles, but had little to no desire to eat any. The difficult part was adding the honey which is always messy and usually, I'll do a little clean up with a swipe of my finger which finds its way between my lips! So, I was left to run rinse off the precious honey down the drain. I tried to talk one of the kids to de-honey my finger, but they looked like "yuck, Mom."
So, here I am cooking delicious healthy food, drinking tea; experiencing no hunger. Where were the feelings of deprivation, the need to white knuckle through by telling myself- this food won't help you reach your goal, Joy? All my training I had had through my "lifetime membership" in the popular weight loss system meetings were not necessary to get me through. Albeit, I had nagging doubts due to that programming that I might not be doing what my body needed with HCG. The antidote to those doubts was reading testimonials of dozens of people losing their weight, keeping it off, and getting healthy using HCG.
Although, I had read so many people posting huge losses during their first week- some up to 15 pounds in their first week, and had hoped for the same performance for myself, I lost at MY pace which has been about a pound/day. On day 12 of injections, I awoke to only a .2 pound loss, felt a bit discouraged, but was reminded by a close friend about my average which did perk me up. Rereading Dr. Simeon's booklet allowed me to see that losses tend to average to a bit less than a pound/day, and I am hopeful this will be the case for me. What a huge departure from my previous weight loss experiences!
During my losing times with the other program, it took months to lose 20 or 30 pounds, and a 1 pound loss in a week was a happy thing. A 7 pound loss in a week would have been met with disapproval and concern by the program supervisors.
Tomorrow- last Rewind, and we can get up to the day to day tidbits of my HCG journey. I have so many tips that I have learned from a very special ebook from a super special friend, and I cannot wait to point you to the ebook as a necessary resource.
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