Coming off HCG

The past few days- I love the fast start. I get to eat meat and raw veggies all day long. I feel so stuffed. I love meat and the veggies are awesome. I love eating veggies, but in the normal day to day I usually forget to eat them and end up snacking on junk to make up for it. When I eat tons of veggies I do not ever want the junk, and then a couple fruits makes the day a lot easier. I am amazed at how full I felt from eating a big salad the first day off of the HCG diet. Just the amount of food make my stomach hurt, ok so I should have stopped half way through the salad but it was stinking good I didn’t want to. I have been better at listening to my body the past few days and have not felt as sick.

It is amazing to me what our bodies will tell us if we just listen. I usually sit down to eat and just eat so fast that by the time my body says I am full I have eaten tons of food that has not even reached my stomach yet. It is helping me to slow down and enjoy my food a little more. I did cheat a little and snuck a little piece of cake for desert the other night, but I figured that is better than depriving myself and ending up eating a whole cake later. I feel good, I am excited to do my final bio this week to see what my body has done from the HCG and a few days of fast start. I will keep you posted on my ongoing journey to keep the weight I have lost off, and to get down to my body fat percentage goal.

Day 25

Ok that is better. No shot today, but I was down 2 lbs from yesterday. So that puts me right at 29 lbs down. Not too shabby for 24 days of dieting. I feel good and I really am getting excited to have eggs. I miss eggs and strange cravings, like broccoli, who craves broccoli. I just miss eating lots of raw veggies, I am excited to go back to the Traditional Absolute Program. I am happy I did this, I mean how else could I have dropped nearly 30 lbs in just over 3 weeks. I hope that by eating the 500 cal today I might be down another lb tomorrow. That would be awesome, but I don’t want to get my hopes up in case it doesn’t happen. I am so happy to be down my clothes are falling off of me and I just feel like everything works better. I sleep better, I walk better, I am not as tired during the day at work. Things are great and I am excited to keep going to get down to my goal weight!!

Day 24

Up a pound what in the world?!? Ok I am not going to freak out but that is not what I wanted to see. I expect to hit plateaus but not go up. This is weird. I guess I maybe didn’t drink enough water yesterday. I weighed in today. I was only down a total of 4 lbs from last week. So that brings my total up to 27 lbs but it should have been 29 if I would have lost a lb today. Today was the last shot so just a couple days of 500 cal and then I am going on a fast start. I look forward to having more healthy food in me to work out more and start to run more. I feel great that I am down so much but I wanted more. I guess I am just getting greedy now. I am really happy but frustrated at the same time that I went up a lb today.

Day 23

Basketball was great, and I was down a lb today so things have been good. I am getting a little tired of eating this way but at the same time it feels so good to lose weight. It is not that I am hungry at all, it I more that I just miss food. I didn’t realize how much I really am tied to food. I know I need to eat to live, but it seems that I live to eat. It has been hard to be social. Everyone wants to go to dinner or meet up for treats, and that all sounds fun, but I just do not want to chance that someone at the restaurant does not give me exactly what I have ordered. I like knowing that my food has been prepared exactly how I wanted it. Well I have some extra hcg so I will take another shot tomorrow.

Day 22

So the rest of the day yesterday was good. Got all of my water in and I was down some. Tonight I am planning to play some basketball so I better drink lots of water and what not. I am a little discouraged by the slow down but I am still moving in the right direction. It was just so nice the first while to see 2-3 sometimes more lbs a day. I know it all balances out and I will still be down quite a bit from where I started.

Day 21

It is early Monday, so I may report more on today in tomorrow’s post. I was only down .2 of a lb. I am guessing this is because I did not get all of my water in. Well I did but I kinda drank it all later at night so I was not consistent. I notice I do not lose as well if I do not drink all of my water throughout the day. I will do better today since I am at work and it is easier to remember to drink all day long and not just down a ton of water at the end of the day. That’s all for now. I will let ya know how things are going tomorrow.

Day 20

Well I am having a good day. Sundays are harder for me since I usually just sit around and eat all day on a normal Sunday. Popcorn, and cookies, a huge dinner. So I have been a little on edge today. I am not hungry just wanting. I guess this is why I am heavy in the first place. I let my wants of food supersede my need for food. Once I ate my meals I was not so bad, but still just wanted a treat. I guess I should have made my strawberry lemonade again that would have fixed it. Oh well. I am having a hard time getting all of my water in today. It is hard to remember to drink as often as I do during the week at work. I will work on it.