The hCG Diet: Day 4

I'm not going to lie. Last night was rough. I thought i was going to cave when the kids asked for some cheesy poofs and I portioned out a bag for each of them. Wiping the cheese dust from my fingers was incredibly hard. I wanted to cry. I went to bed early.

I had stomach pains, and just felt like crapola. I was for all intents and purposes, done with this maniacal diet.

Then I woke up this morning. Weighed myself. Lost 3lbs. And wasn't hungry.

Is it working? I don't know, but I do think I can stick in a bit longer and see what happens. Starvation does work.

I know. 3 lbs. could just be water weight + starvation + the extra stuff the diet has you put on the first 2 days. Let's wait and see what happens in the next few days.

Weight: 330.2

The hCG Diet: Day 3 (Lunch)

So, I just had lunch. Which consisted of 3oz of ground beef, and grilled onions. Yum. Yeah.. no. This diet sucks! But i'm going to keep with it and see if it changes over the next few days. I figure I can do ANYTHING for 21 days. And if I lose 21 lbs in that time, i'll be back to pre-quit-workout days, and will have no excuse not to start working out again.

Well.. i'm sure I'll think of something. Now to eat my orange.

The hCG Diet: Day 3

Two load up days are now used up and gone. The happy fun days I call them. Now on to the starvation days.

Weigh in: 333.2
Energy: Good. Alert.

So far today, I have been drinking my coffee with stevia. I have 2 pieces of fruit with me at work. An orange, and an Apple. For lunch, I will go into Ruggbys where Chris works and have them make me 3oz of beef with onions. Then tonight for dinner I will have myself 3oz of chicken that has already been cooked.

Then I will curl up under a desk somewhere and try not to think about food. I'm joking (I hope). I'll let you know later how i'm doing with the lack of food. I have billions of fat cells for my body to live on, so I'm not worried about starvation. Just passing out and peeing on myself. That worries me more.

Ok! So.. day 3... HERE I COME!!

The hCG Diet: Day 2 (Breakfast)

So, I woke up this morning, and I've gained 2 lbs so far. I'm up to 334. Not the best on a new diet. Hopefully I'll drop that fast when I start reducing calories, and I also told Chris about my idea for the blog/podcast, and she thinks I'm insane, and she's worried about my health. Well, I'm worried about my health too, so drastic measures time! 10 drops before my breakfast of another fiber bar and water.

Looking forward to my last real lunch with work buddies. I might push for 5 guys for my last burger and fries for 30 days.

Wish me luck!

The hCG Diet

I'm starting with the worst of the lot, in my opinion. Any of these diets that have you taking some weird concoction send up red flags to me immediately. Then after reading more about it and seeing gems like, "If you are not losing weight fast enough, quit exercising"

Anyways, I heard Dr. OZ did a show on it, so I went and watched it:
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/weight-loss-controversy-hcg-diet-pt-1

Originally I had thought people were saying he was endorsing this diet, but after watching it for myself, i see that's not actually the case. He's endorsing more studies on it. He actually says not to use the homeopathic drops, which is the method I'm using. But he does say, if you find a doctor doing the injections, that you could give it a try.

Well, I'm not going to inject myself at this point, and I think a lot of folks are in the same category. I'd rather waste the $29-45 and try the drops. Regardless of whether it's a placebo effect or not.

So, what is the hCG diet for those that have not heard of it.

Basically, you take 10 drops, 3x a day of the hCG solution. Or a single injection daily.

For the 1st 2 days of the diet, you load up on fats for some reason or other that is supposed to help jumpstart the weight loss. The skeptic in me says, this is the part that makes the restriction of calories seem not so bad, and throwing on the extra weight at the start, makes it that much easier to take off weight before it's settled into fat stores.

After this, we will restrict our calories to 500 a day. That's right. 500. Which the hCG drops are supposed to help suppress appetite for. My meals will consist of Coffee (plain) for breakfast, a fruit & veg + 3.5 oz of lean protein for lunch and for dinner.

So, will I be hungry? Will I lose weight? Will i lose hair or sanity? Stay tuned to find out!

Day 1: My load up day.

I started off at 332 lbs. Up 17 from my eat smart life style.

I had a fiber bar and water for breakfast. Then for lunch I went to the chinese buffett and loaded up. For dinner, I had a burger with some potato skins.

Goal of loading up on fat, on day 1. Success!

Eat Dumb for 30 days

Ok, so I'm doing something new. I know it will probably upset some people who read this blog and listen to the podcast, but I need a change up. I should probably go ahead and apologize to Hunter too, because I know he's going to not like this too much.

Anyways, my new plan is to try different diets, and exercise plans. The new fads, the things that are out there, and see what they are like. Now, I don't know if this is the healthy way to do it, because I know that yo-yo dieting isn't the best on your body. But I'm going to go one month on, and one month off. On the off months I am going to follow the Eat Smart for Life way. Watching what I eat and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.

I know. Crazy. Right? Well that's me. But honestly, I'm just not ready for the eat smart for life way oddly enough. I don't know why, but maybe this madness will trigger whatever is needed inside of me to do what I need to do.

So, this is the first post explaining what I'm going to be doing for the next year or so. Next post will be the start of it.

Friday is here!

What a good day! Weighed in this morning and was down nearly 2 lbs. Would have been happier with more, but net loss is progress, and as long as I keep losing, I'll be happy. And it's Friday! start of a brand new weekend.

I know this is a short post, and I've been neglecting the blog this week. I blame it on the rain, and I really have way to much work at the moment. Hopefully things will calm down in the future and I can get some better posts up. Not to mention, podcasts, and old posts that we need to get back on the site.

Have a Great weekend!

I am so tired

I have got to start going to bed earlier. I am so tired now at work. Maybe it's the lack of breakfast each morning. I usually just eat a breakfast bar and a crystal light drink mix.

Holy crap.. I just nodded off while writing this post. What is wrong with me!? I didn't stay up that late last night. I think i was in bed by 11 or so. Maybe asleep by 12. Up in the morning by 6:30/7 seems like a ton of sleep to me.

I know this has been a horrible post, but you know.. i'm really tired. I'm going to go get some coffee.

Doctor's Visit

I went to see the doctor yesterday. Stress related issues mostly. Going to see if Lexapro will normalize me a bit until all these NASA cuts and stuff settle down a bit. I'm not sure how that will affect my diet. I feel like I'm starving right now, but oh well. I've got to get some blood work done and see if that's all normal and I quit smoking again, so now, back to focusing on exercise and eating healthy.

I'll let you know how all this is affecting me and see if it helps or hurts, or does nothing.

Read for the weekend

It's been a long week, and it's going to be a long weekend, but I'm ready for it. Sammy is still sick, but I think the medicine the doctor gave us is helping some. She seemed up and alert and not coughing nearly as much as she has been the last 4 days. The lack of sleep IS doing a number on my eating. I caught myself eating some leftover chicken nuggets pretty late last night, and dinner was a hodge podge of raman and other things around the house, just because I didn't feel like cooking anything, or caring about what I was eatting.

I know. Wrong attitude, but you know how it is. There are just sometimes when I could give a flip about what I'm putting into my body. I'm trying to decrease the amount of times those are. Anyone have any tips on that?

Oh yeah, and you might have noticed, I'm trying to get away from a punctuation habit that was drilled into me when i was a kid. 2 spaces after a period. I just learned that writing on the interwebs has ruled that a no no now. Did you know that? Now it's only 1 space. It goes back to the reason for it in the first place. With the old printers it was hard to tell that a period was a period at times, so they left two spaces to help identify that. Now, you can read it easily, so there's no need, and it saves characters to leave out the 2nd one everytime. It's so hard to remember to do though. See.. I did it there. And it does look like you could sail a boat through that space. Oh well. I guess my post just lost some weight. Some empty spaces (calories).

Anyways -- Have an incredible weekend, and I'll see you on monday.

I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FING... ers.. um.. i mean - FEET!

So I'm feeling better about everything today. I started thinking today more about how it's not about losing weight, it's about just being. Being healthy. And I'm not. I'm eating fewer calories sure, but it's not the best calories. I'm not working out.

Today i did get a mile walk in. A bit forced, but the guys at work were going to the track and forced me to go. Now I didn't have the right shoes, which was stupid cause my feet are killing my from blisters now, but oh well. Atleast I walked.

Now, if I can get a walk in at work, and more at home, then heck. That's some good walking, then get my weight down and start running more. Seems like a good plan.

Ok, so that's good.

So, you might have noticed we've added a few things to the menu up top. We're working on getting the past information back on the site so it shows up under those pages. Please hang with us till then!

The last podcast

I just realize I formatted the last podcast wrong, so it might not have been showing up in iTunes and what not.  SORRY.  Try now.  

The Weekend Beat me

Ok, so the weekend beat me.  I'll live.   I had some fries.   I had a 5 guys burger and it was good.  I didn't keep track of anything, and my head is killing me.  I've had a headache for like 4 days now.  Maybe it's guilt, stress or whatever.

Anyways.   I'm going to keep track of stuff today, and even though It's my weekly lunch with friends, I'm going to try and get a soup of some sort.  Man, if we go to logan's like we normally do, those rolls are going to be calling my name.

And I swear.. the podcast soon.   Part of the stress has been busier at work, busier with the dead workers, and busier family life, so I hate to say the podcast had to take the backseat.   But soon!  I promise.  Maybe even tonight!