As most of you know I have been on a weight loss journey for awhile now. After having my 4 kids I gained an insane amount of weight. Definitely no where near my 125 from high school and college years. After years of fad diets and times of giving up, I got serious and went extreme. I had been diagnosed with Type II diabetes (basically my fatness was killing me lol) and never had any energy. I realized that if I didn't pull it together, I wasn't going to see my kids grow up. I joined the YMCA and hired a personal trainer. (see previous post for details on this humorous adventure). After establishing a decent workout routine, i tackled the nutrition part of it. For me its much easier to follow a specific "diet" than just try to do it myself. A couple of people at our church had done the Hcg diet and had great success. www.mckimslim.com for before and after pictures of them. The first round that I did, I lost 25 lbs in 3 weeks. There is a maintenance phase that you are supposed to do after the low calorie phase but I skipped it and failed miserably. I gained it all back. That was completely my fault. Just a couple months ago I started it again. I lost 40 lbs. I have maintained that except for what I gained on vacation, I have 4 more to lose from that. I just started another round and am looking forward to the results. This is truly a change in lifestyle and not just a "diet". This method of weight loss tends to be very controversial. However, it has worked for me and I think having a heart attack and dying bc of being fat would be far more worse than anything that Hcg could possibly do. This diet was originally created in the early 1950s, by Dr. ATW Simeons, a British endocrinologist. Further history can be found here http://www.hcgdietcouncil.org/history-of-hcg-for-weight-loss. For me this is what a day-by-day looks like:
Days 1 & 2 : (Phase 1) Gorge. Eat anything you crave and as much of it as you want. This is to fill your fat cells and to help eliminate feeling extremely hungry for the first couple days. Don't worry about the weight gain as it will be lost in the first 24-48 hours of phase 2. During these two days you will begin taking your sublingual hcg drops. 10 drops under the tongue 3x a day.
Days 3+ (phase 2) You can do this phase for anywhere from 3 weeks to 40 days. I usually do 40 days. You run the risk of becoming immune to the drops by doing it that long but so far I havent encountered that problem. A normal day of eating looks like this:
Breakfast: Drops and an apple, orange, handful of strawberries or half a grapefruit (pick 1)
Snack: Lots of water
Lunch: Drops. 100 grams of meat and 1 cup of veggies.
Snack: Water
Dinner repeat lunch but do not have the same veggie
Snack: 1 fruit from the breakfast list.
This is a list of allowed foods:
FRUIT: one fruit per meal; do not mix
Apple: medium = 95
Grapefruit: ½ = 44
Orange: large = 86
Strawberries: 10 medium: = 40
STARCH:
Melba Toast: 1 = 20
Melba Snack: 2 = 24
Grissini Breadstick: 1 = 20
MEAT: 100 grams - 3 ½ ounces; all visible fat removed; weighed raw; cook with no oil or fat:
Chicken Breast: = 110
Ground Beef: 95% lean = 137
Steak: (round/sirloin tip) = 142
Crab: = 84
Halibut: 110
Cod = 110
Flounder: 91
Tilapia: 96
Lobster: = 90
Shrimp: = 106
Veal: = 112
VEGETABLES: measured raw; one vegetable per meal; do not mix
Asparagus
Beet-Greens
Cabbage
Celery
Chard
Cucumber
Fennel
Lettuce
Onion
Red Radishes
Spinach
Tomatoes
Following phase 2 is phase 3. This is a maintenance phase. Read here for more info
http://www.hcgfatloss.com/hcg-diet-phase-3.htm
This diet is hard. At times it hurts. You have to push yourself. The only way I have made it is through prayer and scripture. A good friend of mine recommended a book to me that really helped me see my un healthy eating habits in a new way. It is http://www.amazon.com/Love-Eat-Hate-Breaking-Destructive/dp/0736900136. Another good friend of mine sent me a list of scripture that she uses to help her and one that I repeat to myself over and over is John 14:15.
If you are thinking about starting this diet or looking for more details, contact me and I will get you some resources. Dont trust everything you read online and dont buy drops online. CONTACT me. I have a Chiropractor in town that sells the drops and can be trusted.
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