Doing the Diet Thing...

I've done loads of diets over the years.  I'll save you the boredom of going over all the ones I've been on.  But I'm now trying the HCG diet.  I know.  It's all the craze lately.  I'm just sick of being fat and I want to be a smaller version of myself.  Actually, I wouldn't mind being a smaller version of anyone but me...  but I'll get into that some other time.

I started my HCG Journey a few days ago...  I'm doing the homeopathic HCG drops.  I have to put 10-20 drops under my tongue and let them sit there for 15 minutes.  Then I have to wait 15-30 minutes before I can eat.  Or I can take the drops 15-20 minutes after I've finished eating.  Fun stuff here.  =)  It's alcohol based but to me it kind of tastes like flat diet Sprite.  Yum.

So, the first two days of the HCG diet, you "load".  In other words, you eat like a maniac and try to get as much food in you as you possibly can.  I managed to eat about 7'500 calories both days.  Seriously.  I was aiming for 10'000 but it didn't happen.  Maybe next time.  =)

The HCG diet I'm doing is more based on the one Kathleen Barnes talks about in her book "The Super Simple HCG Diet" which allows you to eat 700 calories per day, rather than the 500 calories that Dr. Simeon's (the originator of the HCG Diet) suggested.

I'm keeping track of the food I eat with an app on my iPod.  It was free.  It's one of those calorie counting app's.  They have a few HCG app's but most of them cost and I'm super cheap.  =)

Thursday the 6th of October was my first actual low-calorie day.  According to the calorie app, I ate 490 calories.  It was a hard day.  I was really unprepared for the diet and I didn't know what to do or what to eat.  I wasn't really hungry much but I wanted to eat because that has been the way I have been doing things.  I would sit in front of the computer and munch on stuff occasionally.  Anyway, I ended up just having broccoli for lunch.  And for dinner I had some chicken (about 150grams of it) and about 2 cups of canned tomatoes with tomato juice, so it was like a soup.

Friday the 7th, I ate 546 calories.  For lunch I had two small slices of turkey lunch meat (about 75grams of it) and a red bell pepper with some Bragg's Liquid Amino for flavoring (if you've never had it, it pretty much tastes like soy sauce.  It's really good, if you like soy sauce!  =)  For dinner we had fast food.  I got the Chicken Caesar Salad from McDonald's.  I painstakingly picked out all the little bits of cheese.  OK, most of the little bits of cheese.  Some of the bits were so small, I just couldn't get them and I ended up eating them.  I made my own dressing for the salad...  Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar and some stevia to sweeten it.  It tasted quite a bit like honey mustard dressing.  Then I took about half of the chicken out of the salad and put that half in the fridge for the next day.  All in all, the meal seemed to work out, considering it was fast food.  Then I ate a few stalks of celery because you can eat an unlimited amount of that.  I'm not a huge fan of celery, if I have a lot of it, it sort of starts making my tongue numb.  I don't know why but it does.  I had a slice of honeydew melon later.

Today, I made a soup for lunch with the chicken that was left-over from my salad last night.  I pulled it apart into small pieces and made sure to remove any fat that was visible.  I weighed it and it was about 50grams of chicken.  Then I cut up two small radishes and three stalks of celery and put them in the water with the chicken on the stove.  I added some of the Liquid Aminos to flavor it.  I added some random spices just to add more texture to the soup.  It was really good, if I do say so myself.  I was surprised that I did so well with it.  No recipe!!  About an hour after I ate it, I went diarrhea.  Big time diarrhea.  I refer to it as "Bummit" because it's kind of like vomiting from your bum.  This was total liquid bummit.  I'm not positive but I seriously wonder if it was my soup...  it was about the same consistency and color.  If you wanted to know that.  =)  I've never had a problem with my bowels.  When I was on HerbaLife once, I would expel my dinner within a few hours after eating.  It was weird.  I knew it was my dinner because I didn't eat corn a lot and so, when I did, I'd watch for the corn to come out.  I was at my sister's house once when it happened.  I had told them all about it and they didn't believe me.  So, when I went to the bathroom and saw the corn, I called her and her husband and my other sister up to the bathroom to see it.   They were surprised.  They believed me after that.  =)

You'll find that I talk about my bowels fairly regular.  I don't know why I do it but I do.  I guess I just like to share gross things with anyone who will listen (read).

We're having steak for dinner tonight.  I have to go measure out my meat and everything.  I'll get back to you later.  =)

I hate sharing my personal info but here it is:
Starting weight:  370.8 (I know!!  I'm not proud of this at all!!)
After Loading:  375.4 (suck it!!  I ate about 7500 calories on both of those days!!  Awesome!!  =)
FYI, when I record my loss, I'm recording it from my highest weight ("After Loading" weight) because I still had to lose that!!  =)