Alright…in a lot of the diet reviews I read about the HCG diet it would mention that you just need to stay home. This part of the diet reviews is absolutely true. You’ll know why by the end of today’s article. It’s day 12 for me on my HCG diet. Just as a recap in case you’re just joining in…I chose to do the 25 day homeopathic HCG diet. I’m doing it through HCG Diet Direct. I bullied a friend into being my HCG diet buddy. Her name’s Lisa. And we’ve got a side bet to see who can lose the most weight. I want to win.
But I’m starting to doubt myself. I just might not win this one. But then I’ve lost a substantial amount of weight so I’m happy with that. I just need to pay attention and avoid the obvious pit falls!
I’ll start at the beginning. I got up and weighed myself like normal. (I’ve only forgotten once so far which I think is really impressive). I was down a pound since yesterday. That puts me at 160. So my total weight loss on the program so far is 11 pounds. That’s pretty dang good, right?
So I keep telling myself that the weight loss is going to inspire me to want to lose more. And it does! But there are certain times when I have a real problem sticking to the approved food list. We’ve already identified one as the Mall Food Court. It’s evil. I won’t go back. At least not until I’m not on a 500 calorie per day diet.
Today I identified another problem location: family parties. I went to my niece’s birthday party. I took my HCG in the morning. I took my B-Total. I took my HCG again before I left for the party. It was supposed to be a barbeque lunch. So we didn’t eat before we left. But as sometimes happens at family parties there were delays; barbeque lunch because barbeque dinner and I was STARVING!
That in itself is a problem. But the other problem was that they barbequed sausage and turkey legs (neither of which are okay for the HCG diet). They also had potato salad (a big unh-uh) and Caesar Salad (can there BE a more fattening green salad) and cake. I don’t know why I assumed they’d have some grilled chicken. So long story short. I had a turkey leg. I had some potato salad. And I had some Caesar Salad. I did stay away from the cake. But that’s such a small victory in comparison to the other concessions I made. I’m dreading getting on the scale tomorrow. I do not want to go up. I want to lose more weight than Lisa so she has to buy me a pair of jeans…I feel like I should get online and add to the number of diet reviews that points out this particular issue. But I guess I’ll wait until the diet is complete so I can leave a review with all information disclosed at once.
Amelia Handley studied exercise science at university with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With she’s found a that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.