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!