So today was a good test of my willingness to make the HCG and Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) work. Today was my first day of being part time with work and the first day I stayed home as a result. It was a full day at home with my 4 year-old son, who of course in not on the diet, so the idea of snacks and more full, fun-filled meals was at the forefront most of the day.
His was waffles with fruit topping and a large glass of milk, my breakfast consisted of 2 large glasses of hot tea with Stevia. I never thought about missing dairy, but I do. His lunch was PB&J sandwich with juice and chips. My lunch was 3.5 oz of chicken, broccoli, Melba toast and an orange. Now for dinner, I chose to make my family the same thing that I made for myself which again was Chicken (3.5 oz for me), sautéed in spiced tea and orange slices. I included a cup of broccoli for me, but my family had Indian style rice with theirs.
The rice looked good, I'm not going to lie, and I really wanted some, but I was good. I passed up the rice, just as I passed up the PB&J and the waffles and fruit topping. It all looked wonderful and it made my mouth water to look at it and smell the smells, but I'm only into this diet 3 days, it would be bad to sabotage myself this early. Scratch that, early or late in the game, I will not sabotage myself!
I wonder when it is normal to start loosing weight with this diet? The protocol requires me to weigh myself every morning. Kind-of a keep yourself in check kind-of deal, and I have seen a drop already. I wonder if that is mainly the weight that I added while loading. I wasn't going to post my weight on here, but I think since this is a way to keep me accountable, along with a way to help others, I have changed my mind.
- On my initial visit with the medical practice (grant it I was weighed in jeans and a sweatshirt) I weighed in at 224 Lbs.
- On my first morning (before I started loading) I weighed in @ 222. I think this is a more accurate start weight.
- On the second morning of loading I weighed in @ 226.
- On the first morning of the VLCD (after 2 days of loading), I weighed in @ 226.6.
- Yesterday (day 2 of VLCD), I weighed in @ 223.
- This morning I weighed in @ 219.
From this point on, I will post my morning weight along side the "day such-and-such of a 42 day program" note at the top of each post. I think this will help, like I said, to keep me accountable and if this diet plan works as well as I hope it does, maybe the numbers will be an inspiration to others who may want to give it a shot.
I know that in my previous post I mentioned that I had a headache. It was a bad headache and yes, it made me question if this was a good idea for me given my already painful relationship with migraines, however, I am happy to report that with the use of 800mg of Advil, the headache resolved and has not returned.
One thing I am quickly learning is that lemons are invaluable on this diet. You drink so much water that you have to be able to change it up and lemons are the prefect cure. You can only have 1 lemon a day, but you will find that you can make that last. As I close in on a week on the diet, I am encouraged, and I still feel like I want to continue with it.
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