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There are reasons I chose this path and it's really none of your business. I have weighed my options. I have made my decision.
Well good luck with that.
FYI - when you start a thread about this, it actually becomes everyone's business because you put it out there. Still, this is not a diet that I will every recommend to anyone. EVER.
There are reasons I chose this path and it's really none of your business. I have weighed my options. I have made my decision. I've also had 3 specialists recommend HCG to me and I am under a physician's care. Yes, an actual medical doctor and not some HCG clinic person as u mentioned.
I have to agree that when you post it on a public forum for all to see - then you have opened it up for public comment and discussion. Why would you be surprised that you got comments?
My only response was I certainly know the sister of an acquaintance several years ago who was in severe heart failure because of phen-phen combo. She was under an actual medical doctor's care to get that as well..........
Anything posted on a public forum is any and everbody's business. That's why it's public. So much good information is on this Health and Wellness thread. I love it here.
There are reasons why I chose the HCG diet and unless I choose to disclose the reasons here, I don't need to share it. That's what I meant by "it's none of your business". Every post about HCG the individual has been a critic and keeps posting the same thing over and over again. It's taking up usless space just as this post is doing and what I was trying to do was minimize someone posting the same thing over and over again. Obviously, no one cares and just posts whatever they want, as many times as they want. When I started this post, I even wrote if you're against this diet, I don't really care so instead of leaving someone alone, you choose to post judgmental comments so by all means, continue.
I can totally understand why you would not want to divulge WHY of all the other diet/health/exercise/fitness/weight loss programs that exist in the world, that you decided on HCG because really, it is one of the worst weight loss/diet programs ever. EVER!!!
You hear people who are in the know, saying the same negative things about HCG because quite frankly, many people out there (and here) have no clue about getting healthy and/or losing weight. You started this thread and said you'd provide updates on your progress. Im really looking forward to reading/hearing about your progress.
So I've been seeing that there are a lot of questions regarding this topic. I started the HCG shots this week and if anybody wants, I can update this page. A friend recommended this diet to me and she did great on it. She was under a physician's care during the entire process. She also got her husband to do it a few months later. He used the drops and not under a physician's care. Although he lost weight (who wouldn't?!), he did have headaches and was hungry a lot during the diet (which you are not supposed to be). He stuck with it and eventually his body adapted. I don't recommend or dissuade anyone from doing this diet but if you do it, please be under a physician's care.
During the diet, I'm actually eating pretty healthy. The foods I can eat are limited and I'm not a very good cook so I'm a little concerned how long it's going to take for me to get sick of eating the same things every day. Alas, I have no choice but to lose weight so this has a big influence on my will power.
Here's the scoop thus far:
Day 1 and 2. Ate all the fatty foods I wanted and started the injections. For me, it was actually pretty hard b'c the foods I crave are more exotic foods like mushrooms, noodles, rice - anything Asian. Don't get me wrong, I love a good burger but two days in a row? I really had to force it! Having a pint of ice cream every night though was nice. I gained like almost 7 lbs according to my scale on these two days. In hindsight, I should've planned these two days a little better that way I could've gotten more "good fats" in like nuts and avocados and the like.
Day 3. Start of 500 calories. The morning was the worst b'c I was soooo hungry. After lunch, I was full for about an hour and got hungry again. Same thing happened during dinner.
Day 4. Same as above.
Day 5. Hunger pains are getting better and the meals seem to be "lasting" longer as it take a while longer to get hungry. Many people have talked about getting headaches the first week b'c your body is "detoxing" from food or something like that. I have not had any headaches. My weight is 3.5 lbs less than Day 1 so I've lost all the weight I gained during the first two days and then some.
Breakfast consists of tea or coffee and I can have this in any quantity throughout the day. I can only use Stevia as a sweetener. Tried it for the first time yesterday and did not like it at all!! Tried it again today and it's slightly better.
Lunch and dinner consists of 100 grams of either veal, beef, chicken breast, white fish, lobster, crab or shrimp. Need to take out all the fat before cooking. I can also have one type of veggie (it's also very specific what types I can have - pretty much stuff that's low in carbs). One Melba toast is allowed but I can't have b'c of my braces and one fruit: apple, orange, handful of strawberries, or one-half grapefruit.
There are certain things I can put on the food for taste but so far I've only used salt, pepper and lemon. Like I said, I'm not a very advernturous cook nor am I very good at it!
I can't use any make-up or lotions with oils. Not a big deal for me except for the lotion part. My skin is sooooo DRY RIGHT NOW!! I weigh myself every morning and have been informed the more sedentary I am the better. That is not an option for me as I am going through physical therapy. Probably not the best time to start this diet but I don't do anything strenous so I'm not too worried about it.
Oh yeah, one last thing, I do inject myself. It doesn't hurt at all but every morning when I get it ready, it always takes me a while to poke myself with the needle. It's all mental, I know, but I hate needles. If you are afraid of needles, like me, it isn't easy but hopefully you can get past it!
If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them for you. However, if you are against the HCG diet and just want to bash it or judge or anything negative, quite frankly I don't care.
I have tried the HCG diet too in the past. I used the sublingual (under the tongue) instead of the shots as I am afraid of needles. I will tell you it does work, but you have to be very disciplined. There is no doubt that it is the most successful diet there is if you can follow through on it without cheating. Unfortunately for me, I ended up going on a huge binge a few weeks after being on the program. After that day I could no longer stick to the program. I ended up gaining all the weight right back.
That's the problem with all diets, especially these kinds - the fear of gaining it back by not having the discipline to eat well balanced meals. It's weird though, I don't even feel like having "junk food", just more food! Today is Day 10 and I figured by now I wouldn't be hungry anymore. My friend who was on it said after a week she never felt hungry but I still am! I'm also getting pretty tired of the food. Thank goodness for yesterday when I picked up a steak (I usually don't crave beef but wanted to change up the menu) and onions. That was like the best meal I've had thus far! It was quite a morale booster. I've lost 6 lbs (not too impressive for HCG) but if you count from the peak of the binge, it's 13 lbs. I have to go to the gym to work on my physical therapy exercises so I suspect the reason for my "slow" weight loss is because I'm gaining muscle mass. I can see the results when I look in the mirror though which I think helps mentally. I'm pretty strict with the plan and haven't veered off. I get pleasure from just "watching" my husband eat and he thinks I'm wacko!
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