Down Time and Real hcg Diet Injections

After returning from my trip, I came down with a nasty flu bug that was circulating our family.  We have 7 young children at home and 3 of those are school age.  After a week I discontinued the diet.  I felt like I didn't have the strength to fight this bug.  I have had a long HCG diet interruption. 

Additionally, I had become extremely hungry.  I assume because my drops were homeopathic and not real HCG.  I stayed off the diet during the Christmas holiday.  It took a couple of weeks, but I eventually overcame the sickness.  During this time I researched and came to the conclusion that I wanted the injectable HCG.  After all the goal is to exit this diet at my correct weight and in good health.  And to keep the weight off.

Even though I have eaten like a pig for the last few weeks, my weight has gone up, but not excessively.  I now weigh in at 182.  I received the HCG in the mail, but am waiting on the injection kit.  I'll start with loading days as soon as the kit arrives. (Can't wait!)

I am a little nervous about the injections.  I am sure I'll get used to it.

I need to leave for Palm Springs on the 12th of January.  I will do the diet up until the 13th, and then take a break for the few days ( ie, do a short hcg diet interruption) I will be there, resuming again when we return that Monday.

The real bummer is, I will have to reset goals for the third time.  I set original goals, then because I lost weight so quickly, I changed all my goals to be much more aggressive.  Because of the time off the diet I am back on track with my original goals.  When I start back up on the hcg, I will need to modify those goals again.

Since I don't know when my injection supplies will arrive.  It is hard to set a first goal.  I would like to be below 170, when I leave for Palm Springs.  That date is January 12th.

HCG Interruption

This morning's weight is 176.2!  Wow, how did that happen so fast?  Down 14.8 lbs, in around 13 days.  I just love it when I break the the 10 lb markers.  It sounds better to say, I weigh a hundred seventy-something, than 180-something.  I am looking forward to being in the 160's because I haven't been there in a few years.
Because of the recent trip to California, I researched HCG interruptions. Here is what I found.  If you are going to be traveling and the hcg diet interruption is less than 14 days, stop taking your HCG and stay on the 500 calorie diet for 3 days before you leave.  You can then eat a 800 to 1,000 calorie diet.  The best way to do this is to add back into your diet milk products and eggs, as well as more meats  You will still need to avoid sugars and starches.

Wednesday

I lost exactly 2 lbs yesterday.  Woo hoo!  I now weigh 179.2  and have lost 11.8 lbs.  I have been on the HCG Diet for a week and a half.

Finally Home after eating out on the HCG diet

Finally back home after a grueling road trip home.  I found it difficult to stay on the diet while at the seminar.  I will explain the difficulties shortly. 

First of all, I now weigh in at 181.2, for a total of 9.2 lbs lost. I did lose weight on the trip, just not at the rate that I had been losing.

I still think this type of travel is possible and should be easy.  We took chicken with raw cauliflower. The chicken was over cooked which made it very dry.  That combined with the dry cauliflower, made choking down the meal a very unpleasant experience.  Only enough food was taken for lunches.  We assumed that we could easily get a meat and salad while on the road.

We had our tea in the morning, then packed up our lunch and headed to the convention center.  We did not get out each day until well after 5 PM and then had meetings to attend before we could go to dinner.  Dinner was often a group activity in which we did not get to choose the restaurant.

I found it very difficult to swallow down much of the dry lunch.  Most days I ate very little of it.  The result was, that we were WAY too hungry by the time we finally got to dinner.  We felt weak and several times we ended up eating what we shouldn't have.

Still, I lost weight and the diet wasn't derailed.  I arrived home with a weight lose of 2 lbs.  I have been home for almost 24 hours and have lost another full pound!  Woohoo!

What will I do different next time?

I have another trip down to southern California in January.  These are the changes I will make.

• First of all, I plan on purchasing packaged lunch meats.  This should help keep them fresh and moist.  I will weigh and package them before we leave each morning.
• I will also take both lunch and dinner with me.  No more starving for the entire day, then loading on calories late at night.  I figure if I  eat my dinner, then if I have a meeting in a restaurant, I will not be so hungry.
• I will chose vegetables that will not go down dry, like cucumbers and tomatoes instead of cauliflower and broccoli.

I now weigh about ten pounds less than when I started.  I am looking forward to being about twenty pounds lighter at the next trip in early January.  I have another ACN international in June.  My goal is to be at my optimum weight by then.  That weight used to be 129, but I am older and carry less muscle.  I may need to weigh less.  I will let the mirror tell me when my weight is right.  Can't wait!

Eating on the Road

I'm at the ACN conference.  It was a long hard drive to get here.  I lost only half a pound.  I didn't drink enough water, and ate a couple of things that weren't quite right for the diet. I am glad I lost anything.  I think we are better prepared to eat today, because we have chicken done up in advance and baggies with our veggies and fruit.