Everybody has them and I'm no different. Frequently with HCG, the Time of Month (TOM) can cause a setback. This morning, I was up 157.4 after being down to 156.6 yesterday. It can be pretty frustrating to work really hard to stick to a diet only to experience a setback, but I think that it's really important to keep the ultimate goal in mind and soldier on. My ultimate goal is 140 and it's so close that I can taste it!
This weekend, I had a wonderful conversation with a fellow mom on my son's baseball team. She said that she was going to try the HCG diet and expressed her frustration with other diets that she had tried that did not produce long-lasting results. I can totally relate. I only tried a million different diets and while I would lose 10 lbs in the short term, I would gain 15-20 after I stopped whatever I was doing. With this diet I know (after going on maintenance for 5 weeks without gaining any weight back) that this is long term change for me.
It can also be frustrating living in a house where nobody else had really had to live with weight issues. My husband, while SUPER supportive, has never had a weight problem. Sure, he gained weight with me through all of my pregnancies, but I think something happens to a woman's metabolism when she goes through a hormone trauma like childbirth. He understands my weight struggle like he understood post-partum depression. He could tell me what he thought I should do to snap out of it, but without understanding the changes that were going on in my body, that advice was futile.
So, while the setback this morning was frustrating, I am still keeping my eye on the prize and making sure that I do what it takes to reach that magic number of 140:-)
Maggie
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Why Gluttony is considered on of the 7 deadly sins!
Over Easter weekend, I had my gorge days. I would like to say that it was AWESOME but it really wasn't that great. Yeah, I had lots and lots and LOTS of food, but by the end of it, I had gained 6 lbs and felt like my eyeballs were filled with gravy. I was actually looking forward to getting back on the VLCD.
The first day weighing back in, I had gone from 160 lbs (where I left off after round one) and was up to 166. I was feeling it too. My skin was breaking out from all the oil that I had consumed. My pants were fitting tighter and I was not feeling as good about myself as I had been.
On the first day of the VLCD I went back down to 162. Good, but not good enough.
On the second day of the VLCD I was 160. My clothes were fitting again and I was feeling really good about myself. Especially since I had to attend a parent function at my child's school and my arch enemy (who we'll just call bologna ass because her ass looks like a day old piece of lukewarm bologna) had lost some weight too in the traditional way and I have to say that aside from her ugly face, matched only by her hateful personality, she didn't look horrible. Nothing like a little rivalry to keep you focused on your goals. Living well is still the best revenge.
On the third day, I was down to 157.8 lbs. I was starting to really feel hungry but since the results that I was seeing in the mirror as well as on the scale are worth it to me. I stuck with the diet.
Today, I weighed in at 157.0 lbs. I'm not as hungry today as I was yesterday and my clothes continue to fit me better and better. My problem with other weight loss programs is that I was working my butt off and seeing really slow results. I was hungry. I was exhausted from exercising and in order to stave off discouragement, I was only weighing myself once a week only to see that 5 days of starving myself and running till I thought I was going to throw up only produced a one lb weight loss and no visible change in appearance. Watching myself transform in a months time, having co-workers come up to me and tell me that they didn't recognize me and tell me how good I look, and fitting into clothes that have gone out of style because it's been THAT LONG since I was this thin is enough to keep me going.
Good luck to all who are doing this diet with me.
Love
Maggie
The first day weighing back in, I had gone from 160 lbs (where I left off after round one) and was up to 166. I was feeling it too. My skin was breaking out from all the oil that I had consumed. My pants were fitting tighter and I was not feeling as good about myself as I had been.
On the first day of the VLCD I went back down to 162. Good, but not good enough.
On the second day of the VLCD I was 160. My clothes were fitting again and I was feeling really good about myself. Especially since I had to attend a parent function at my child's school and my arch enemy (who we'll just call bologna ass because her ass looks like a day old piece of lukewarm bologna) had lost some weight too in the traditional way and I have to say that aside from her ugly face, matched only by her hateful personality, she didn't look horrible. Nothing like a little rivalry to keep you focused on your goals. Living well is still the best revenge.
On the third day, I was down to 157.8 lbs. I was starting to really feel hungry but since the results that I was seeing in the mirror as well as on the scale are worth it to me. I stuck with the diet.
Today, I weighed in at 157.0 lbs. I'm not as hungry today as I was yesterday and my clothes continue to fit me better and better. My problem with other weight loss programs is that I was working my butt off and seeing really slow results. I was hungry. I was exhausted from exercising and in order to stave off discouragement, I was only weighing myself once a week only to see that 5 days of starving myself and running till I thought I was going to throw up only produced a one lb weight loss and no visible change in appearance. Watching myself transform in a months time, having co-workers come up to me and tell me that they didn't recognize me and tell me how good I look, and fitting into clothes that have gone out of style because it's been THAT LONG since I was this thin is enough to keep me going.
Good luck to all who are doing this diet with me.
Love
Maggie
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