26 Dec 09 It’s Day 12…The Half Way Mark on My HCG Diet

Alright…in a lot of the diet reviews I read about the HCG diet it would mention that you just need to stay home. This part of the diet reviews is absolutely true. You’ll know why by the end of today’s article. It’s day 12 for me on my HCG diet. Just as a recap in case you’re just joining in…I chose to do the 25 day homeopathic HCG diet. I’m doing it through HCG Diet Direct. I bullied a friend into being my HCG diet buddy. Her name’s Lisa. And we’ve got a side bet to see who can lose the most weight. I want to win.

But I might not! I just had to say it once and now I’m going to go back to acting as if I’m totally going to win hands down. I’ve lost a ton of weight. I’m doing fine and I’m identifying pitfalls as they come so that I can avoid them.

I’ll start at the beginning. I got up and weighed myself like normal. (I’ve only forgotten once so far which I think is really impressive). I was down a pound since yesterday. That puts me at 160. So my total weight loss on the program so far is 11 pounds. That’s pretty dang good, right?

So I keep telling myself that the weight loss is going to inspire me to want to lose more. And it does! But there are certain times when I have a real problem sticking to the approved food list. We’ve already identified one as the Mall Food Court. It’s evil. I won’t go back. At least not until I’m not on a 500 calorie per day diet.

Today I identified another problem location: family parties. I went to my niece’s birthday party. I took my HCG in the morning. I took my B-Total. I took my HCG again before I left for the party. It was supposed to be a barbeque lunch. So we didn’t eat before we left. But as sometimes happens at family parties there were delays; barbeque lunch because barbeque dinner and I was STARVING!

Apparently I don’t do starving well. I already knew that, but this was worse because once dinner was served (FINALLY!) I noticed that we were having sausage, turkey legs, potato salad and Caesar salad. All very yummy, of course…but where the heck was the HCG approved grilled chicken? I assumed at a barbeque that grilled chicken would be a mainstay. Now I know not to make assumptions. Needless to say my choices at dinner were semi-unavoidable, but altogether NOT HCG approved. I did pass when they offered me birthday cake, though. And I’ll end on that positive note for the day.

Amelia Handley studied exercise science at university with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.

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