Everyone always talks about how great HCG is, but they don't tell you how much we suffer; well I decided to do say how i felt every day through out this diet.
DAY 1 (154 lbs): Omg! I'm going to inject my self! this is crazy, now i know why I'm not a heroin addict or something like that. I hate needles! hate them.
DAY 1 (154 lbs): Omg! I'm going to inject my self! this is crazy, now i know why I'm not a heroin addict or something like that. I hate needles! hate them.
This one was a tiny tiny needle, but I'm still afraid. So I Shot myself with 4 clicks (on my autopen) and there I go. I have to eat anything and everything that I want (this has not been a problem for me in the past); It's thanksgiving day (Nov 22nd, 2012), I picked the best day to start this diet. I ate everything and then some!
DAY 2 (153.5 lbs): Same deal, inject myself and eat everything I've ever wanted. I was not even hungry and I was eating it, just because I knew I was not going to have anything for the next 60 days! wow! 60 days with out anything sweet, or bread? or rice! Holy crap I better eat the crumbs.
DAY 3 (151 lbs): The diet starts, no breakfast! only tea or Coffee, What ever I ate so much these past couple of days that I'm sure there is still food in my stomach. Lunch, 125grs of whatever meat I need that day plus the vegetables plus water! is not that bad. Well it's ok, when you still have family on thanksgiving break eating all kinds of crap in front of you and offering them to you; and they don't even know your on a diet.
DAY 4 (150.5 lbs): Everyone is going home from the holidays! thank god, all I want is to do my diet and not have temptations everywhere. I'm feeling good, I mean not great (great would be having a little bit of that bourbon apple pie that i made for Thanksgiving). I think I'm a little moody. It might be my period, not sure. But I have to do this is only the 4th day, and I want to look good for the holidays and for the rest of my life. Plus my mother is coming, and she's always talking about my weight! I mean I love her to death, but geeeez! would it kill her not to be so judgmental with that? (maybe it would hehehehe). Also I don't want to be a diabetic, and lately my sugar has been high. I bet you if they did blood work right now they would not be able to measure my sugar! they won't even be able to find it hahahahaha.
You can have sugar, Stevia, with this diet. But I don't really like the taste so I avoid it.
DAY 5 (149 lbs): It's a work day...ohhh nooo the office, there is always cookies and sweets and everything that I shouldn't have there, Maybe i should call in sick, after all being fat is a sickness hehehehe. Anyways, same drill, no breakfast (which i thought it was the most important meal of the day), Then lunch, then go home and make dinner! I made it through the work day. And by now I'm already 5lbs less ! I do feel great about that! I honestly do =)
DAY 6 (147.50 lbs): Today I'm a little more bitter! It's my mother in law's birthday and I know there is going to be a cake...I made it! and it's one of my favorites! Vanilla Rum Cake!. I go about my day like how I would normally do and then the night comes, I'm starving by 6pm I go home and cook my food; dinner is at 7pm. I'm waiting for everyone to get to the house, So we can eat and sing happy birthday and I can go to bed. I have been noticing that like by 9pm I'm supper tired and want to go to sleep. Anyways everyone was late...and I was truly starving! but I wanted to wait for everyone to eat, So I had nuts and olives! crap!!!! I think I cheated! (I read that it was allowed somewhere online, but I called my doctor and they said no nuts! they were not so sure about the olives but for sure no nuts!).
DAY 7 (147.50 lbs): I weighed myself this morning (like every morning ) I didn't loose anything! FUCK! it must have been those god damn olives and nuts! I feel sad, you know?.
On another note, the worst part about being on a Diet, is telling everyone that you are in it! OMG is like "oh have some of this pasta, have a drink, have some cookies, have some bread..." and you say " no thank you" and then it goes like this: Why, are you on a diet? really? which diet? Oh no, that doesn't sound healthy. But why are you doing it this way? Who's your doctor? Are you sure about this? all you need is to exercise more ...and then the face!, like, they don't approve. Ohhh stop it!
It's almost the end of the day and I can't wait to go home, today a client brought not 1 but 2 boxes of freaking KK Doughnuts! and double dipped in glazed. There are still some in the office, I hear them calling me...I WILL NOT!
DAY 8 (147 lbs) : I loss 1/2 today! what the hell, I'm a little discouraged but I ate 3 fruits yesterday instead of 2. This is hard I'm telling you. The good thing is that I am loosing (not like day 7) I am already tired of coffee and tea. I think I'm going to buy flavored coffee and I have some flavored tea at home.
I feel great after I eat until like 3 hrs later then I'm like "I'm hungry!!!!". Where the hell do people get that "I didn't feel hungry at all". Maybe I'm not doing it right, isn't this hormone suppose to suppress your appetite? The good thing is that I have not had any migraine!
Surprisingly I wasn't Staaaaaaarving when i got home, that's a first. I Think I'm going for a walk.
DAY 9 (146 lbs): As you can see I've lost 8Lbs in 9 days! (It would have been 9, but day 6 ruined me!) Anyways....today is the best day ever (and it's only the morning) this girl at work said "You look skinny, but like super skinny!" I was like ahhhhhhhhhhhh! thank you !!!! That there just made my day.
I don't feel as hungry right now, I'm drinking my coffee with TRUE VIA, I tried all of them, Stevia on the Raw, Pure Via and some other one that I can't recall, honestly this is the least nasty one. I try to avoid it, but today I felt like having something sweet in the morning. I also bought flavored coffee (Starbucks Caramel), I needed some change on that bitter black coffee.
No but really everyone noticed! today. Everyone! I'm wearing some jeans that used.
It was a bad day at the office; there was doughnuts and not 1 but 2 red velvet cakes, I just wanted to run out of there! I didn't eat anything thank God and this trembling will power.
DAY 10 (145.5 lbs): Why is this damn scale not telling me I lost a pound and a half! Seriously If I'm starving myself why is it not saying that!? It's super slow. Today I'm going over to Naples, FL. To celebrate my In law's birthdays (they are close in dates so we are celebrating them together) at a restaurant - of course. We get to the place, and it's a sea food restaurant. I for sure was going to get some Lobster! (don't worry, no butter, no sauce and of course baked!) I got this gigantic Lobster tail, and I only ate a little bit of it, I had to guesstimate how much 125grs was. I also had a salad, Lettuce, tomatoes onions and balsamic Vinegar on the side. I ate that salad like it was chocolate cake I tell you. I also had Iced unsweetened tea.
DAY 11 (145 lbs): I forgot my needle! I have my autopen, but I forgot the needles!!!!!! Grrrrrrr Im such an idiot! and They don't have a scale! grrrrrr I have to travel with food, needles and my scale now!
This morning all I wanted to do was eat everything that everyone else had for brunch. I had an apple. I feel like my will power is weakening by the minute ( but then I think ok tomorrow is another pound or half of it anyways). Also I'm super bitter all the time! I hate being this person; my poor husband not only deals with me that time of the month but now is for 2 months like this...Anyways I read online that it's ok if you don't inject yourself in the morning; do it as soon as you can and that if you forget for that day DO NOT DOUBLE THE DOSE THE NEXT DAY. So when I got home I hurried up and got my needles and poke myself and jumped on the scale =(. I Ate my dinner, and now I'm going to bed...
I was suppose to be in bed...but what ever...anyways i just weighed myself and I am at 142! what!!!!!? Is this true? I have to wait in the morning and see!!!!! OMG! I'm in the low 40's! I Im this (putting my thumb and my index finger close) close to being in the high 30's I can't wait for tomorrow.
DAY 12 (145 lbs): As you can read the 142 was probably a trick on my scale! what ever! I have to call and schedule an appointment for a check up for day 14...I'm sure that the doc is going to be ok eat less.....grrrrrrrr. Today was a normal day; that cake is still in the office calling my name, I'm just ignoring it. I seem to be having a bit more energy I think my body is getting use to this 500 calories per day. When I go out to a restaurant (like normal people do) and ask for my meals...waiters hate me! specially here in Miami! omg! it's like such an inconvenience to deal with me. They have this face, a "what ever fatty" when I'm explaining to them what I want, I feel like they are just gonna do what they want regardless if I tell them NO OIL at all.
DAY 13 (144 lbs): FINALLY!!!! 1 whole lbs! again that is....I still feel like I'm going slower than normal, but what ever. Today I'm wearing these black pants that gave me a camel toe for the longest time! the are loose! like really. and my gut is not as big...i still have it of course but not like the beer belly I had (not that i drank Beer). Speaking of alcohol! I need a drink! geeeeez even wine! I need something ! This is ridiculous (I'm just venting, I'm not going to actually have one). Can I drink on phase 2? or cheat? I will ask this tomorrow.
DAY 14 (143.5 Lbs) I had to go to the doctor today for a follow up; I wrote down all the questions that I had for him
- Can I eat Olives?
- Brown Sugar?
- Why Do I still get hungry?
- B12? Do I really need it?
- Balsamic Vinegar?
- Can I have Gum?
I get there and the receptionist noticed my weigh loss I was super happy.
So it's time to see him; He said How are you doing?! And I said! Horrible! hehehehe; I said I was ok, and explained to him how the firs like 8 days where complete misery! But now I don't feel hungry in the mornings almost at all.
I asked him why I was not loosing the weight so fast and then he said; Are you walking? I said NO. Are you taking the Magnesium Milk? I said NO.
DAY 15 (143 Lbs): It's time to measure my BMI again! when I started my BMI was 30.69% = Obese Class I, today I am 28.8% = I am Overweight! I mean it's nothing to be proud of but At least I'm not obese anymore! Yaaay for me hahhaha. I went shopping with y friends after work, that was a bit of a challenge, I was getting a bit hungry and I didn't have anything to eat. So I had to stop for an apple, and that kept me going until 9pm! when I got home, I didn't want to actually eat but in the book it says "DO NOT SKIP A MEAL" So I didn't.
DAY 16 (142 Lbs): I woke up this morning feeling adventurous! I wanted to wear something that I have not wore in 3-4 years, for work....I went to my closet I saw lots of things that I have not wore in a long time...then I picked this purple short sleeve, buttoned shirt from express, and I said to myself: Uhm....I don't think it's going to fit, not yet, I put it back and then I said: well let me just try. IT FITS! nooo way! it fits, and it buttons all the way up! and my fat arms fit too! so I'm wearing it! I look really good (not to be conceded or anything hehehe). I finally feel like I like to look myself in the mirror again =).
DAY 17 (141 Lbs): Today I will be going an art show very famous in Miami (It's called Art Basel) I had lunch before a left, packed a couple of fruits and left!; We walked around for a little while, then everyone was hungry, we decided to eat. My husband and I decided the get share a salad and they had a whole snapper stuffed with kale! It was delish! specially because the chef was kind enough to accommodate my HCG diet needs( we went to Crumb on Parchment in Miami, it looks like it's just a small bakery with only like quiches and cupcakes....well not they have a full menu! it's amazing. A bit pricey but come on, celebrity chef Michelle Bernstein is the owner). She made it with no oil and no cheese. The bad thing was that the Greek salad had feta cheese (which i did my best not to eat), oil (on the dressing) and chick peas....I ate some of it not a lot but still I ate it. I felt guilty the whole night, really.
DAY 18 (141.5 lbs): There it is; that damn oil on the salad, the feta cheese and the chick peas! they are haunting me! today I've been very very good so hopefully tomorrow I can go back to my 141 or less. I don't know how I'm going to deal with the holidays. I know it was a bad time to start a diet, but my health hasn't been that good and guest what my body is not going to know "Oh it's the holiday, lets give her a break!" fat has no breaks. Yesterday aside from the salad; I cheated bad! I had make a pumpkin cake for my husband (big mistake), he couldn't stop saying how yummy it was. I was in the kitchen all by myself and there it was, the cake! I pinched (it was a tiny piece) and ate it (it was really good).
DAY 19 (141.5 lbs) This is ridiculous! I'm stuck at 141 and also it's almost the 20th day! Fuck my life!!!! (ok ok ok i'll be calm about this) I mean that Doc was not lying when he said I will not loose weight if i cheated. I've been taking Magnesium Milk and it's been great for me....but maybe not today so much; maybe I took too much. I mean I've been pooping non stop like water! no cramps or anything but damn! all day? I guess I won't be taking this tonight.
DAY 20 (141 lbs) I lost .5 great!(sarcastic tone) uuuhggggg I'm so mad at myself really! Anyways I have not pooped today, maybe I'll try to take just 1 tbs of the magnesium milk. Also I have not been walking either (maybe that's why I haven't lost 20 lbs!) I'm super frustrated! It's not the best of days! whatever...
DAY 21 (140 lbs): Yaaaay 1 lb!. But I was suppose to be on 21 lbs already. What I'm I doing wrong? Anyways I can't wait for this to be done so that I have another 30 days of Maintenance diet. I was just telling my husband that I was bored of this diet already ( I think I heard his thoughts saying "PLEASE DON'T QUIT! PLEEEASE! - hehehehehe). But I won't quit that's for sure. I've come this far. I feel amazing! every time I want to wear something and it looks a lot better than 11lbs ago. The Holidays will be here in no time; this is going to be rough (today is Dec 12, 2012)
DAY 22 (138 lbs): And just like that i dropped 2lbs! Today my mother is coming I can't wait for her to see me (now because I don't look like a monster, hehehehe) This diet is not only physical but psychological! I mean my brain I feel like is changing and I hope to God that it stays like this. Now everything in my head is about the calories and what I put in my mouth.
Isn't that crazy? I don't want to be a freak about it; but yes I need to pick and choose what a "special occasion" is. Not every birthday is cake is special; Not every family dinner has to be eating everything plus dessert.
DAY 23 (138.5 lbs): I think I ate too late last night....I have not gone to the bathroom either so maybe is that. Today was a bad day! I had an office BBQ, that was not the problem; I ate the burger with no bun or sauce of course. But I ate a chocolate, toffee covered almond. 1 only one! I'm sure I will regret it tomorrow. I also had a Banana, I forgot to bring fruits today to work and my friend had a banana with her. It's better than cookies (anything is better than cookies right?). Grrrrr why did I do it? Why?. I'm scared that my brain is not going to be able to make that change, that I will be weak and just eat everything! Jeeeeezzzz!
DAY 24 (138 lbs): Yes I am regretting that freaking chocolate covered almond and Banana!
Today is a long as day! We are making "Hallacas" (it's a traditional Venezuelan Holiday Dish, It has a lot of corn meal, an amazing stew and much more delicious things that I cannot have) Anyways it's an all day thing. My hubby is taking care of me, while I cook the stuff for the Hallacas. the whole family gets together and we all work on this dish (look it up online). Also everyone is eating snacks here and there, and drinking while cooking.
I didn't try any of it and yet these are the best Hallacas that anyone has ever had (Venezuelan or not hehehehe). I'm very happy they came out perfect! My dad is going to be so proud. I'm proud that I didn't eat anything...oh wait I had some olives, but it's that really cheating ? (it is, no matter how you look at it right)
DAY 25 (138 lbs): Again 138! I'm stuck with this freaking number.
I'm starting also to hate the flavor of chicken and fish and meat to tell you the truth...It all is tasteless to be honest at this point. I'm trying to be creative but there is so much you can "create" with such limits. On a nastier note, I Went to the bathroom and pooped, finally! I should weigh myself now (well I'm at work, I don't bring the scale to work hahahahaha)
DAY 26 (138 lbs): This is what happens when you cheat! you get punished, even though it's 500 calories. It's been 5 days on 138 lbs. I'm tired.....of this number. Maybe I should have an apple day. Today I tried the Hallacas that I made! shit they where the best! I guess I'll be on 138 forever. I'm a little frustrated with this diet. I love loosing weight but seriously this cannot be that great 500 calories a day and the shots; then what? The same food for another 30 days.....ewwww! I might seek a nutritionist as soon as I'm done with this.
DAY 27 (136 lbs!) FINALLY!!!!! 2 WHOLE LBS! thank you Jesus! I promise to be good today. I have a Christmas party tonight, I already ordered food, with nothing on it (booooring!) but it's ok. I'm at 136! 136! is a good number. I'm wearing these jeans and not only do they fit with out a giant muffin top on; but they are loose. This is a great feeling.
I'm starting to hate Christmas =(, all these cookies, cakes, etc! Hate them all! I cannot seem to get away from them!!!! They are following me everywhere I go. I feel so close to the end, and yet so far (It's only 3 more days, and then 3 more days after the last shot!). I am almost there...almost.
DAY 28 (135 lbs): Last night was good, no sauce on my meat....my veggies had a little bit of olive oil, and they came with potatoes...I had 2 bites! Tonight I have my office Christmas party...It's going to be a lot of fun! I wore this tiny dress (it was a size M) I didn't know if I really looked good; I'm a little in between sizes, somethings are to loose and others are somewhat tight. I was a bit frustrated I tried on like 10 different dresses to end up with the 1st one I picked....Everyone said I looked good, but they all know I am on a diet maybe they were being supportive, anyways I took the complement. I really did feel good and pretty =). I was supper bad! I had 1 and a half French Martini (something with Vodka and some juice) I was kinda of drunk. I haven't had a drop of alcohol.
Tomorrow we are leaving to DC on our anniversary =). It should be fun. I will stick to my diet as much as I can but I'm not going to lie I will try new things (in moderation).
DAY 29-30 (134 Lbs): These are my final days! I am happy with the results...but I hated this diet! I feel great that I made it and that i look good with what I wear. Now my goal is to maintain and start exercising!
The Honest to God truth is that I don't ever want to do this again. I hope that my brain has made a switch and that I won't gain the weight back.
I am a lot more self conscience of what I put in my mouth...and always think: Is it really worth it? Do I really need it? and then say No!
I would recommend this diet but only if you want to kind of jump start your metabolism! It's not something that I would do all the time. I was a bit angry all the time! and hated the fact that I could not eat not even olives!
You will have mood swings, I'm not sure if it's the Hormones or the lack of food.
It was great to see that number going down almost every day, I think it's worth the sacrifice; but know this: It does affect your social life =).
You will always have someone saying..."Ohh come on it's just one drink" or "a little piece won't kill you" WALK AWAY FROM THEM! hehehehe. Your true friends will understand. With this I will leave you as well with the information of the doctor that I did it with.
I didn't loose 30lbs in 30 days but I also cheated or didn't do exactly as it said. I had nuts, olives, a chocolate covered almond and a drink.
It has been over a month since I finished my diet. I was suppose to do this for 30 more days with out the injections, and it was more quantity of the same food. Honestly I don't think I could have.
I picked a very hard time to diet, but it was now or be unhealthy.
I was a size 6-8 (and I am short) and now I am a 2-4! I still want to loose 10-15 more pounds I want to be in the 120's, And I will, I changed my eating habits a lot.
I feel amazing! I want to wear everything I have not worn in such a long time and I get to do it =).
*sorry if i have spelling errors*
**i wrote this a while ago, it has been over 4 months and Im still a size 2-4!**
*sorry if i have spelling errors*
**i wrote this a while ago, it has been over 4 months and Im still a size 2-4!**
