Current weight: 224.8
Breakfast: lots of coffee, apple
Lunch: 4 oz lean black pepper steak, 2 cups cucumber
Dinner: 4 oz garlic rosemary baked chicken, 2 cups lettuce, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert: Strawberry lemonade made with lemon juice, Stevia, and water
I'm trying to get more creative with the way I'm cooking things this week - I spent a good chunk of my afternoon making several different variations of chicken. I had 2 pieces that I butterflied open and put chopped garlic and dried rosemary inside, folded them back up, and baked them. Delish! I also have lemon pepper chicken, some with paprika and garlic powder, basil lemon chicken, and a lemon garlic chicken. Considering I don't have a lot of spices on hand and I can't really marinade stuff, it's been a pretty steep learning curve. But at least I'm having fun with it!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Day 5 - Holy Crap!
Current weight: 226.2
Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: 4 oz lean ground beef, 2 cups celery, 1 piece Melba toast
Dinner: 4 oz lean ground beef, 2 cups lettuce, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert: Strawberries w/Stevia
Not a particularly exciting menu today, but I had already cooked all of it so I saved on time. Not only am I not nearly as hungry today as I had been the past few days, but I have officially lost exactly 5 pounds! Talk about motivation. 5 pounds in 3 days? Heck yes. Made it a lot easier to resist the pizza temptation that was laid in front of me tonight :)
Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: 4 oz lean ground beef, 2 cups celery, 1 piece Melba toast
Dinner: 4 oz lean ground beef, 2 cups lettuce, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert: Strawberries w/Stevia
Not a particularly exciting menu today, but I had already cooked all of it so I saved on time. Not only am I not nearly as hungry today as I had been the past few days, but I have officially lost exactly 5 pounds! Talk about motivation. 5 pounds in 3 days? Heck yes. Made it a lot easier to resist the pizza temptation that was laid in front of me tonight :)
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Day 4 - Still hungry, but totally worth it.
Weight: 228.2
Breakfast: Apple
Lunch: 4 oz lean ground beef, 2 cups celery, 1 piece Melba toast
Dinner: 3.5 oz halibut, 2 cups cucumbers, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert: 6 strawberries with Stevia
Woke up this morning feeling kind of hungry, but I weighed myself first thing and it looks like the diet has already started working! I'm down 3 pounds. After ONE DAY of officially dieting. I'm sure some of it has to do with all the water I'm drinking, but whatever it is I'm tickled pink!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Day 3 - I'm hungry. Big surprise.
Starting weight: 231.2 lbs
Breakfast - Fuji Apple
Lunch - 4 oz. lean steak, 2 cups cucumbers, 1 piece Melba toast
Dinner - 4 oz lean ground beef, 1 cup lettuce and 1 cup cucumbers, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert - 6 strawberries
I've been hungry all day. I mean, it's a diet, so I knew I'd be feeling a few hunger pangs since I'm only eating 500 calories a day, but I was expecting them to be dulled by the X-30. Apparently it's still going to take some getting used to.
On this diet, the Very Low Calorie Diet, I can drink as much coffee and tea and water as I want, as long as I don't add sugar (other than Stevia) or flavoring. In fact, I have to drink 32 oz of water before lunch. I bought a big ol' water bottle and it's been glued to my hand. It also means I've had to get up and go to the bathroom every 10 minutes. As someone who doesn't particularly like drinking "just water", I expected this to be more of a challenge. And in the morning it was kind of rough - I felt like I was having to force myself to drink in the morning, but as the day wore on I found that I had picked up the habit, and what's more - I was getting thirsty! I'm not sure if it's because of the X-30 or just because it's so dang hot, but by the end of the day I was really thirsty. As a matter of fact, I'm about halfway through my 4th full bottle of water.
For a girl who loves carbs and cheese and all that good stuff, this is going to be rough. Here's a list of all the stuff I can't have:
Aside from being slightly hungry and still pretty thirsty, I feel pretty good today. I just took my starting measurements and I'm about to go take my "before" picture in my bra and underwear, something I'm not particularly looking forward to. I'm not going to post it until I have an "after" shot to put it next to (and make me feel a little bit better)! We'll see how tomorrow goes!
Breakfast - Fuji Apple
Lunch - 4 oz. lean steak, 2 cups cucumbers, 1 piece Melba toast
Dinner - 4 oz lean ground beef, 1 cup lettuce and 1 cup cucumbers, 1 piece Melba toast
Dessert - 6 strawberries
I've been hungry all day. I mean, it's a diet, so I knew I'd be feeling a few hunger pangs since I'm only eating 500 calories a day, but I was expecting them to be dulled by the X-30. Apparently it's still going to take some getting used to.
On this diet, the Very Low Calorie Diet, I can drink as much coffee and tea and water as I want, as long as I don't add sugar (other than Stevia) or flavoring. In fact, I have to drink 32 oz of water before lunch. I bought a big ol' water bottle and it's been glued to my hand. It also means I've had to get up and go to the bathroom every 10 minutes. As someone who doesn't particularly like drinking "just water", I expected this to be more of a challenge. And in the morning it was kind of rough - I felt like I was having to force myself to drink in the morning, but as the day wore on I found that I had picked up the habit, and what's more - I was getting thirsty! I'm not sure if it's because of the X-30 or just because it's so dang hot, but by the end of the day I was really thirsty. As a matter of fact, I'm about halfway through my 4th full bottle of water.
For a girl who loves carbs and cheese and all that good stuff, this is going to be rough. Here's a list of all the stuff I can't have:
- Oil
- Butter
- Sugar
- Milk (I'm allowed 1 Tablespoon a day)
Aside from being slightly hungry and still pretty thirsty, I feel pretty good today. I just took my starting measurements and I'm about to go take my "before" picture in my bra and underwear, something I'm not particularly looking forward to. I'm not going to post it until I have an "after" shot to put it next to (and make me feel a little bit better)! We'll see how tomorrow goes!
Days 1 and 2 - In the beginning
This is meant to be a chronicle of my efforts to lose weight using HCG Plantinum X-30 from GNC. It's entirely possible that no one will read this blog, but I'm hoping it will serve first and foremost as a way to keep me accountable, so I'm going to be brutally honest. I'm going to tell you when I cheat on my diet, I'm going to tell you about every single pound I gain or lose.
As a girl who has struggled with her weight (at least emotionally) throughout her adult life, you might think I've tried everything. Well, I haven't. I'm a wimp, and sometimes I have very little self control, so I haven't ever been able to do a strictly self-enforced diet and/or exercise program. There have been times in my life when I have naturally been more active, and I have been slightly lighter during those times, but overall I've always been a bit of a bigger girl. In high school it was just being curvy - I swear I got boobs before half my class - but lately it's moved over into the "getting fat" area of things. I have good days and bad days; some days I'm totally confident in how I look and feel and other days... not so much. But after reaching a point where the bad days far outweighed the good, I had decided something needed to happen. In a classic case of mother-daughter telepathy, my mom called me a few days ago and asked me if I would be interested in doing the HCG program - she had a friend on it who had success, and (sweet!) she'd be willing to buy my first month's supply! My boyfriend's mom had done HCG and lost weight, in my opinion more than she strictly had to, and listening to her talk about it right when she started kind of turned me off. 500 calories a day? Yeah, right. I'll admit I was kind of intrigued because she seemed to drop the weight really quickly, but not enough to outweigh what I perceived to be the "unhealthiness" of the diet.
So when Mom called me, at first I was really skeptical. I went to GNC's website and looked at all the customer reviews, and tried to do some additional research about side effects and the like. The first thing I noticed was that everyone kept talking about how X-30 had no actual HCG hormone. I'm not really sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but we'll see. I guess taking hormones in general kind of weirds me out, so I'm fine with it. Most of the people on GNC's website were raving about how much weight they had lost, and of course there were a few who said it didn't work for them and it was a waste of money (all with atrocious grammar and spelling, of course). I talked it over with Matt, and it sounded like he was a little nervous about it but he knew I was unhappy and he made me promise that I'd be careful, but he also said he'd help me in whatever way he could.
I decided to go ahead with it, and the X-30 came in the mail when I was at work on Tuesday of this week. Technically I should have started my two binge days on Wednesday, but I was a little impatient so I decided to start that day. It meant I only took the drops once that day, and I'm hoping that means everything will still work out. We ordered Pizza Hut pasta and breadsticks for dinner, and I had Mountain Dew - my last for a long, long time.
Then on Wednesday I continued on the eat whatever you want plan and surprisingly enough I found myself not being very hungry. For breakfast I swung by Burger King and got a Sausage, Egg & cheese biscuit with hash browns and a vanilla iced coffee (again, things I wouldn't get to have during phase I of my diet), and I took the drops 15 minutes before I ate. The drops actually taste good, although the first time I took them (you have to hold them under your tongue for 3-5 minutes) I wrote down that they felt like pure grain alcohol (not that I've ever had it, but it was definitely reminiscent of a strong shot). Well, they are. 20% by volume, in fact. I suppose that's an easy way to get the active ingredient into your bloodstream faster, but yeesh! They have a sweet, minty taste so swallowing what's leftover isn't bad at all. I ate breakfast at about 7:30, and normally I would be getting hungry for lunch at around 10:00, and eating at 10:30 or 11. 10:00 rolled around and I was still really full, so I decided to wait. 11 came and went, then 12, and I was just starting to feel not full, and nowhere near hungry yet. I went and got a Chipotle bowl for lunch at about 12:30, with tortilla chips and lots of sour cream and cheese and rice (all things I can no longer have) and I kind of had to force myself to eat it all. I'm a huge Chipotle fan, so it was weird to find their food almost unappealing because of how not hungry I was. I didn't really eat a proper meal, but I did have some B&J cookie dough ice cream and wine. It kind of felt like my last meal on death row - picking the things I wanted most no matter if they went together or not. I measured out my meat and vegetables and packed everything up for Thursday at work, and went to bed a little tipsy and very apprehensive.
As a girl who has struggled with her weight (at least emotionally) throughout her adult life, you might think I've tried everything. Well, I haven't. I'm a wimp, and sometimes I have very little self control, so I haven't ever been able to do a strictly self-enforced diet and/or exercise program. There have been times in my life when I have naturally been more active, and I have been slightly lighter during those times, but overall I've always been a bit of a bigger girl. In high school it was just being curvy - I swear I got boobs before half my class - but lately it's moved over into the "getting fat" area of things. I have good days and bad days; some days I'm totally confident in how I look and feel and other days... not so much. But after reaching a point where the bad days far outweighed the good, I had decided something needed to happen. In a classic case of mother-daughter telepathy, my mom called me a few days ago and asked me if I would be interested in doing the HCG program - she had a friend on it who had success, and (sweet!) she'd be willing to buy my first month's supply! My boyfriend's mom had done HCG and lost weight, in my opinion more than she strictly had to, and listening to her talk about it right when she started kind of turned me off. 500 calories a day? Yeah, right. I'll admit I was kind of intrigued because she seemed to drop the weight really quickly, but not enough to outweigh what I perceived to be the "unhealthiness" of the diet.
So when Mom called me, at first I was really skeptical. I went to GNC's website and looked at all the customer reviews, and tried to do some additional research about side effects and the like. The first thing I noticed was that everyone kept talking about how X-30 had no actual HCG hormone. I'm not really sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but we'll see. I guess taking hormones in general kind of weirds me out, so I'm fine with it. Most of the people on GNC's website were raving about how much weight they had lost, and of course there were a few who said it didn't work for them and it was a waste of money (all with atrocious grammar and spelling, of course). I talked it over with Matt, and it sounded like he was a little nervous about it but he knew I was unhappy and he made me promise that I'd be careful, but he also said he'd help me in whatever way he could.
I decided to go ahead with it, and the X-30 came in the mail when I was at work on Tuesday of this week. Technically I should have started my two binge days on Wednesday, but I was a little impatient so I decided to start that day. It meant I only took the drops once that day, and I'm hoping that means everything will still work out. We ordered Pizza Hut pasta and breadsticks for dinner, and I had Mountain Dew - my last for a long, long time.
Then on Wednesday I continued on the eat whatever you want plan and surprisingly enough I found myself not being very hungry. For breakfast I swung by Burger King and got a Sausage, Egg & cheese biscuit with hash browns and a vanilla iced coffee (again, things I wouldn't get to have during phase I of my diet), and I took the drops 15 minutes before I ate. The drops actually taste good, although the first time I took them (you have to hold them under your tongue for 3-5 minutes) I wrote down that they felt like pure grain alcohol (not that I've ever had it, but it was definitely reminiscent of a strong shot). Well, they are. 20% by volume, in fact. I suppose that's an easy way to get the active ingredient into your bloodstream faster, but yeesh! They have a sweet, minty taste so swallowing what's leftover isn't bad at all. I ate breakfast at about 7:30, and normally I would be getting hungry for lunch at around 10:00, and eating at 10:30 or 11. 10:00 rolled around and I was still really full, so I decided to wait. 11 came and went, then 12, and I was just starting to feel not full, and nowhere near hungry yet. I went and got a Chipotle bowl for lunch at about 12:30, with tortilla chips and lots of sour cream and cheese and rice (all things I can no longer have) and I kind of had to force myself to eat it all. I'm a huge Chipotle fan, so it was weird to find their food almost unappealing because of how not hungry I was. I didn't really eat a proper meal, but I did have some B&J cookie dough ice cream and wine. It kind of felt like my last meal on death row - picking the things I wanted most no matter if they went together or not. I measured out my meat and vegetables and packed everything up for Thursday at work, and went to bed a little tipsy and very apprehensive.
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