Day 23: Last day of Phase Two of the hCG Diet

Just wrapping up Phase two of my hCG diet program on day 23. This morning when I got on the scale I weighed 131.2 pounds. So I lost another 0.4 or almost a half a pound. So I am down a total of 17.8 pounds!  So it's just so exciting. I'm getting so close to that 20 pound mark.

So this morning I was really happy with that weight loss because I was a little worried about what the number is was going to be considering I accidentally ate a couple of bites of an unapproved food last night. So I'm glad to see that I didn't gain a pound with that. I'm still doing my morning exercises that really help start off my day stay right, pardon me. You know just doing the walking and then a couple of a little things that should help me tone.  I know I'm not supposed to overdo it because I would be starving for lunch otherwise.
 
So, I haven't had any bread today and I didn't have really any yesterday I don't think either; maybe one serving instead of two. Just trying' to loose those last couple of pounds here since today is the last day that I'm doing the drops.  But it doesn't bug me that I didn't get the bread because my stomach has shrunk so much that I really don't crave it that much anymore. 

So after today I just have the three days of the 500 calories and then the maintenance period will start. I am excited to start eating some different foods, but it's important to keep at the 500 calorie limit for the next three days so I don't put on that weight again.  I should continue to lose for the next few days and then level off a bit.

Well I think that's all for now. Just we'll have to wait and see how the next couple of days go with hCG drops. See if I'm ravenously hungry or if I really does stay in here to stand for those three days. So hope things are going well for you. Yah, this is the end of my journey as far as the drops go and I know they have helped me to keep from craving a lot of foods.

I really wanna keep hearing from you and know what kind of experiences you've had.  I'm loving the comments and questions that I'm getting through my cute little blog.  So please don't stop emailing me because just even though my journey is ending, if yours is just starting, if you have questions I would love to talk to you. So I can answer hopefully any question that you throw at me and help guide you somewhere so you can get you the information you need for weight loss success.

Day 22: Continued hCG Weight Loss

This wraps up my 22nd day on the hCG drops program. This morning when I weighed myself I was down to 131.6 pounds. So I lost 0.4 pounds and am excited with the continued progress. So total I have lost 17.4 pounds. So, I'm really happy with that number I love that I keep losing even though I'm getting right close to being done.

Tomorrow is actually my last day of the drops and then I have those 3 days of continuing the 500 calories without the drops. Just to make sure everything is, all the hCG is out of your system once you really start your normal diet. There are just 21 days that you spend on the phase two where you take the hCG drops and limit your calories to 500. Three weeks is not that bad to be honest.

So, things are going well I'm still doing my morning exercise. So still enjoying that I think that's really helping on my days off when I can do that help burn a few more calories.

So today for lunch I didn’t have any bread or Melba toast. I actually ended up having a piece of banana bread for lunch. So, I kind of skipped on the bread so I could have it, have the banana bread instead. And then tonight for dinner I actually ended up making myself a hamburger and it was so good. I used lettuce for both buns. So top and bottom kind of like the Atkins style or so I've heard since I've never tried that diet. Regardless it was a really good meal! And then I put on two really small slices of tomatoes. So, with that, since that was about half a serving of vegetables. So I did half a serving of asparagus for my other portion of my vegetable and it was great too.

Definitely I’m going to make that meal again. I used extra lean ground beef just so I can make sure that there’s no extra fat in there. That I’m getting just the beef and I’m making sure I can still lose some good weight.

So I hope things are going well for you. Were getting close we only have 4 more days left on this diet! So, and then we’ll start our maintenance period so you take care and have a good night and I will write more tomorrow

Day 21: hCG Diet Breakthrough

So today I completed my 21st day on the HCG diet program.  Three weeks down and just a couple of days to go! So this morning let me weigh myself. I weighed 132 and no ounces. So I lost a whopping 1.2 pounds in just a day! I'm way excited for that.

It was so good to get on that scale this morning and see that number. So now I've lost a total of 17 lbs which it feels so great just continuing to see excellent results and I'm loving it. So things are going well I was feeling really good today. So I did my work out again. So I did you know walked around the block for about twenty, thirty minutes a few even that and then I also did some crunches and leg lifts. I added the leg lifts to start getting some toning going in my legs. So hopefully that will help for now; get some good weight loss tomorrow.

Tonight for dinner I actually went to the store and bought some fresh salsa that had less than one gram of sugar per serving. And because the protocol does say you can have salsa that is what I tried for dinner tonight with my chicken.  The ingredients in the salsa looked great and is approved by Dr. Simeon and  is on his approved hCG diet list.

So that was excellent. I put that on my chicken and I used my Melba toast a kind of like chips. So it was really good hopefully it won't affect my weight loss. I probably had a little too much just because I also had creamed the regular serving of cream beans with it, so we'll just see how that goes.

But one of the things that I wanted to talk about today was I did read in the protocol tonight that you can have eggs. That they do sometimes substitute eggs for some meat. And what I read on the original protocol was, if you do one egg one whole egg then you must add three additional egg whites! So I've never done that ratio before. So let me try that tomorrow for lunch.

If I experience a decent amount of weight loss tomorrow, I'll do hard boiled eggs for lunch and then the regular fruits and veggies. After watching how that goes, hope things are going well for you and if you need any help or want to talk, just reach out to me with the comment tool below!

Day 20: An hCG Plateau?

I've made it through day 20 of my hCG diet drops program. And so this morning when I weighed myself, I weighed a hundred and thirty three point two. So the exact same weight as yesterday so no weight loss. But I’m still at the total of 15.8 so I guess no weight loss is better than a gain so we’ll look it on the positive side of that.

So I’m just a little disappointed I guess I just  don’t understand that why all of a sudden I've plateaued. It's been about five days since I've moved down in weight. Maybe now just been kind of fluctuating here; and between like 133.4 and 133.2. So, a little frustrating with that but I guess not too bad.

One big thing is I'm drinking all of my water and making sure I'm evenly drinking it throughout the day not just drowning it at night before I go to bed; to make sure you get on the full 2 liters.  So, we’ll have to see how it goes tomorrow when I weigh myself.  Maybe I need to increase my water to 3 liters a day.

This evening for dinner I had the Tilapia and it was excellent. I actually used lemon pepper seasoning, garlic powder and then half of lemon juice, the juice of half a lemon. It was really good. I just baked it and wrapped it in foil, you know kind of creating a little boat for it and kind of covered it to bake at 350 for 10 minutes and after that it was tender it was just flunky and falling apart so it was actually really great.

So, I'll keep trying that, you know keep the chicken in there. I'm actually getting, trying cut out steak completely for these last couple of days. Just been reading, that sometimes steak can help you add weight or keep you stagnant.  I've also read that dropping everything but steak sometimes helps too!  We might try both ways if my steak avoidance technique doesn't work. 

Tomorrow if I don't lose any weight I'm actually gonna do the "Apple day".  It was recommended in the original protocol so all you eat are six apples from lunch to lunch and you only drink water to quench your thirst. You don't try and get the full 2 liters anymore or anything like that so we'll see if that helps. 

I know a lot of people say when they’re plateauing, then they do that apple day and it really helps; kind of breakthrough and keep going. So, I mean since I only have like 7 days left I wanna loose those last couple of pounds, so I can put up with things for a few more days.   

Day 19: Success with my hCG Diet Recipes

Today I wrap up number 19 of my HCG drops program. This morning when I got on the scale I weighed 133.2. So back down to the weight where I started when I use the lotion so I lost 0.2 lbs. So I’m down to 15.8; so kind of getting close to the sixteen.  I wanted to reach twenty but hopefully I can still get there. I got about seven days left now a week.

So this morning I actually have a great story to tell. I had this pants this dress pants that I bought quite a while ago and, when I bought them they were kind of snug. You know and easily got tighter and tighter so I eventually just stopped wearing them because they have the side pockets and so it bulge it look terrible. They’re really high kind of empire waist pants dress pants and I put them on this morning and I thought to myself you know what let’s try it lets see if they fit.  And they totally fit. I mean there was even space. It was baggy so they weren’t tight. It was the best feeling ever! So even though I haven’t hit the 20 pound mark, I am so happy with the way that I’ve lost. It felt so good to be able to put those pants on and be like, “Oh they fit perfectly and they look great and they feel good”. I don’t feel like the buttons are gonna burst at any moment so it was really good to put those on this morning.

For lunch I had cottage cheese again and then just your regular fruits and veggies. That went really well and I always love the cottage cheese.

Tonight I actually went to the grocery store and got some white fish so that includes tilapia and cod.  I did I little bit of research on that; do kind of figure out what it was. And when I tried that over the next couple of days, see how that goes. The butcher was telling me you know try baking it in thin foils squeeze some lemon over it, give it some good like a lemon pepper seasoning or whatever your favorite seasoning is and cook it on 350 for about 10-15 minutes. But definitely no longer than 15 she said. So, we’ll see how that goes, I’m kind of excited to try it. I've also been using some hCG recipes from this Youtube channel that have worked well too.

I love fish but I’ve only ever had that you know smoldered in dressing and seasoning and oils and so you know like sautéed. So we’ll see how this goes. I’ve been excited for it. Other than that you know I’m hoping for good weight loss tomorrow morning since I was really careful on my diet today;  didn’t cheat anything. Made sure I got all of my water down, you know before tonight before I made the video so that I’m not just chugging it in the last minute before I go to bed. 

Looking forward to some real success tomorrow!  Keep on sending me your great questions and your awesome support.  You have been the best. 

Day 18: My hCG Challange by Fatlossbasics.com

Today I've completed the 18th day of the hCG diet program. So this morning when I weighed myself, I weighed a 133.4 so I gained 0.2 lbs but I still lost a total of 15.6 lbs so it’s still a good number.  I was really surprised to see that number this morning when I got on the scale because I didn't have any dieting errors. I stopped exactly to the original protocol, had no substitution or anything like that. So I'm a little disheartened.

One thing that I think may have really affected it which I found really surprising was I put lotion on my hands. I mean it was really a small amount just because I was starting or I already had some pretty big dry spots and one of them actually cracked and I was a little bit of bleeding so that's why I put some lotion on. And apparently lotion as they say, cosmetics is definitely out of the question well on most diet so that's the only thing I can think of as to why I would have gained of 0.2 lbs because truly, I mean I drink my water.  Maybe I should be drinking more water?

My dieting was perfect to no errors, no, nothing. So hopefully today with no lotion and again another perfect diet I will be able to make up for yesterday or for today's gain. Excuse me. So other than that I tried shrimp again tonight for dinner so it's been almost exactly a week.

Last Monday what I did was I had to get up early in the morning and I sautéed the shrimp you know just with their own oil and some seasoning and ever since I did that I was just, “Oh the smell of shrimp.” It was so hard to choke out that day so I figured alright let's try it again. This time I grilled it so I was outside, and the smell wasn't that strong but as I was eating, I’me lik, “Nope, unfortunately that one morning ruined me for shrimp.” Hopefully not for life because I really do like shrimp. But at least for sautéing and grilling it for now it hasn't been the best experience. 

This week hopefully tomorrow maybe the next day I'm gonna try going to the grocery store and finding that white fish that's on the original protocol and see if I can get some good recipes for, cooking white fish and using the protocol without using any extra fats or cooking oils that so I'd like you to know how that goes. 

 I am a little depressed with the weight gain today, but hopefully tomorrow goes better.