12 Pounds 4 Days

As you may have read, I started my injections for load days on 5-25-07 and they went well. I had to do 4 days of loading vs. 3 because on Memorial Day I went to see Pirates of The Caribbean At Worlds End and the movie was good but long and I did not eat before going. HUGE mistake on my part and I would not recommend another person not eating breakfast and lunch and going to a 3 hour movie! AND I started my menses, which was even worst. I have a awful headache and hunger and I just could not start, so I did another load day. O, Well.

The injections were great, as injections go. The first day I had more fear and trepidation, which caused tension and pain, and there is something that happens to a person, psychologically, when they see themselves sticking a needle into their own flesh. It is a bit unnerving. On a pain scale of 1-10 with 10 being right up there with childbirth, I would have to say day 1 shot was 8 for me. Yes, I had a very fine needle 29 gauge ½’ Insulin syringe, but again with the tension, it didn’t matter. Days 2 and 3 were much better. More like a 2 or 1 so it is something I can tolerate for what hCG does long term.

So, on 5-29-07 I started my 500-calorie diet. I thought I would do better as I did Kimkins and that went fine, but I soon realized no breakfast was going to be an issue. On Kimkins, I had an egg omelet with shrimp or crabmeat or both every morning and it was great. Dr. Simeons original diet you do not eat breakfast. So I had a bad headache, hungry and no breakfast! By lunch, I was very grateful to eat. Until I saw, exactly what 100 grams of chicken looked liked! Think of a 5 year olds fist. That’s it. That is 100 grams of chicken. Okay I thought I could do this. Soon my hCG would kick in and I won’t feel hungry. Well dinner rolled around and this time I had crabmeat. I decided at that moment I would try to eat as much crabmeat as humanly possible as 100 grams of lump crabmeat looks like a meal for an adult!

5-30-07, 5:00 am, the next morning I still was hungry and I had a headache. When was the hCG effect supposed to kick in? I was praying it would be soon. I got on the scale after using the bathroom and to my surprise, 3 entire pounds GONE! Well, that was fantastic news. So from 5:30 until about 12:30 I rejoiced in my 3 pound lose eat my little happy meal lunch (a 5 year old fists of food and salad). I read about making the strawberries into a smoothie, with ice and water so I did that. Boy that was delicious and very decadent on 500 cals a day. So I made another for my after dinner treat. O dinner on this night was yet another disappointment. I purchased colossal shrimp. Do you know how many make up 100 grams? 4. That’s right 4 colossal shrimp = 100 grams. I was not happy! Again the mind. So next time I will get the tiny tiny shrimp to make it look like a huge amount on my plate.

5-31-07 5:15 am. Headache still raging on and down 3 more pounds!! Okay this hCG better start working or I am just doing Kimkins! This morning I decided to have an apple for breakfast, peeled of course. That seemed to abate my hunger a tad, but I had to take a nap to make it through to lunch as my head was killing me. I woke up at 1:00 and guess what? No hunger feelings and no headache! Now I can see myself doing this. I was even happier to have a 100 grams of chicken and salad for lunch! Dinner was crabmeat this time with asparagus.

My guess is I didn’t load enough on fat on my load days to keep the hunger feeling away. My fault!

6-1-07 4:45 am. No headache and down another 3 pounds! 9 pounds total in 3 diet days! Yeah Baby!

And today on 6-2-07 @ 6:00 am, total lost is 12 pounds! 12 pounds in 4 diet days! I know the weight lose will slow but IF I can lose like this for another day or 2 that would be FANTASTIC! Some people on our group list have lost 20 to 29 pounds during the first 2 week of their hCG diet. I would like to follow them.

My basic plan:

I spread my allowed foods thought the day so I am constantly eating something. I am a snacker so this is perfect.

I give myself my injection IM or SQ between 6:15 am and 7:15 am daily

I drink organic green tea and other non-organic teas by Celestial Seasonings . I’ve been drinking this tea since I was about 12 or 16 years old so I am not changing brands now.

I did not do any of the Kevin Trudeau cleanses or take any of the supplements he recommends. Matter of fact the only supplements I take are a multi vitamin and B-12 sublingual. The reason I bring this up is that people on the support list have complained that the diet is expensive if they go Trudeau’s route. I am saying you can get the same results without all that and make it more cost effective for you. My shots are costing me 1.67 per day.

Tips:

If you are buying your own hCG, buy it early as some places take forever and it may be confiscated.

If I was going to repurchase needles I would much rather have the smallest gauge and longest needle I could get rather in the insulin syringe. That would give me more choices for injection sites.