HCG Day 1 Cont

So, I woke up this morning knowing what had to be done. I had to get on the scale. My two days of over-indulging were over (who are we kidding, I didn't get to looking the way I look now by just two days of over-indulging) My love for food goes back a long way. When I was little (I grew up in the south) my grandfather would take the 3 of us kids to the curb store and ask the clerk behind the counter for 3 brown bags then gave them to us to fill with whatever we wanted. Up and down the candy aisle I would go filling my sack with kit-kats, twix, snickers, big league bubble gum, reese's peanut butter cups, whatchamacallit's, rolo's and whatever else fancied me. It was like Halloween on crack. Childhood obesity wasn't an issue back then. In fact, I was super skinny and my family said they thought I looked like an Ethopian child. (God, those were some good days.) My grandparents were always trying to get me to eat. Sure, we had vegetables with our meals but they were all cooked in bacon grease and cooked for so long there was no trace of any nutrients left. I think I was 12 years old before I learned gravy wasn't a beverage. But I never had a weight problem as a child although that is where I formed my eating habits. Nope, my issue with weight started after high school. Although I don't think I have ever had a healthy body image even when I was skinny. Now I look at pictures and think "gosh, if only I could be such-n-such weight I would be so happy. So in my quest to fight the fat, I got on the scale...2?? lbs (gasp in horror) I followed my VLC (very low calorie) diet all day. I had an apple for breakfast, 1 slice of melba toast & 1 orange for snack and 100 grams of shrimp over a bed of lettuce with Wishbone spray dressing for lunch. It was the most un-satisfying meal I believe I've ever had. For dinner I get to have 100 grams of hamburger over 1 cup of spinach. Yay me!

HCG Day 1

My BFF, April was in town visiting me over the weekend and really helped me through my 2 days of gorging myself. Really, it is a huge success already because I did not go into cardiac arrest or a diabetic coma. So, officially I have started the very low calorie portion of the diet today. Let me back up...the diet consists of 2 days of gorging then 3 weeks of a very low calorie diet all the while injecting myself with 125 units of HCG directly into the fat of my stomach. I have a little brown bag in the fridge with 21 syringes inside and yes, I am aware I must look like a heroin addict. Let me also just say when it calls for a "very low calorie" diet; they ain't lyin. We are talking 500 calories a day. That is it. I can consume 500 calories by just one stop at Starbucks. Now, they are telling me I have to spread that out over the entire day. Holiday-who-be-whaty?. Now you may be thinking who the hell would do this to themselves? I know it is ridiculous. I have those same thoughts...the skepticism, the doubt, the who knows what I am injecting into my body but all of that is outweighed by the hope that exists inside me that one day I may actually reach my ideal weight. Now, I may have to be on the HCG for 2 more years to do that but that is something I might be willing to do. Although I am only on day one. Nevermind that, I will revisit that when/if the time comes. For now, I'm going to keep on fighting the fat.

Fight the Fat

I have decided once again to try and lose weight. I know what you're thinking because it is the same thing the voice inside my head is saying. My inner voice says, "Bitch, please...haven't we done this enough already? What are you going to put me through next?" (My inner voice is kinda mean) Well, since I've done Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, Atkins, South Beach, the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Beverly Hills Fruit Diet, worked out with a personal trainer and tried to be bullemic (I've got the whole binge part down but just can't bring myself to purge)it seems like the next thing I should do is the newest fad...the HCG diet. What is the HCG diet you may ask? Well, basically, it is a natural hormone that is secreted during pregnancy to ensure nutrition is present for the fetus to grow. During times of starvation or very low calorie diets, when the body has HCG flowing within it, the body mobilizes the abnormal deposits of fat for nutrition which makes you lose weight. I thought if I keep an online journal it will 1. help me stay motivated and 2. keep me and the one person who might actually read this...entertained. (Thanks, April)
I am not a blogger and have never really even read a blog before. This will be a first for me. If you are looking for a blog that is deep in thought or thought provoking then you might want to skip ahead because this is not that kind. This is just one fat girls quest to fight the fat.

The HCG begins with 2 days of "loading." The best part of the entire diet. Loading is a nice way of saying "gorge yourself." In fact in the directions given by the doctor it says for breakfast to have a cream cheese bagel with bacon and sausage and a ham and cheese omelet then stop by your favorite dough-nut shop for a mid morning snack. Then for lunch it's off to your favorite fast food restaurant. Ice cream, oreos, butter with bread, cheesecake, alfredo pasta and the list goes on and on. In my head, I'm singing "Heaven, I'm in heaven." Honestly it sounds like the 2 best days of my life. Oh, the 2 best days of my life was the day I married my husband & when my children were born. But really, that is 3 days and to be honest these 2 days of loading might out-rank those other 3 days. I'm just sayin... I love food, ok? Don't judge.