HcG Information: Day 7, but not quite a week

Right-o. I'm down 8 pounds so far, which is quite nice. I'm already seeing the effects the weight loss has had on my health. I'm breathing a lot easier and I'm able to get up the stairs into the library or to the 3rd floor to my apartment without about dying from loss of breath. My clothes are starting to fit a little better as well! My aim is 20 pounds, but with how I feel each morning waking up, if it stopped here, I'd be fine.

One of the main criticisms about this diet is that it is just another "crash" diet. It certainly seems that way. Here I am taking this HCG (by the way, I'm doing that orally because needles scare the heck out of me) every day, 3 times a day and eating around 500 calories (it's supposed to be up to 500, but some days I miss a little). This sounds a lot like a crash diet to me too, which is why I didn't do it back in September when my mother did.

Now I REALLY wish I had. All of last semester I'd eat a sandwich from home, a bag of white popcorn, and a bag of skittles for lunch along with a diet coke. While the white popcorn was actually very healthy (had little sodium and was air popped), the skittles and diet coke killed me. I know I gained at least 10 pounds, which thankfully are almost off.

This diet is teaching me the discipline I never had. I didn't know how to walk away from bacon cheese burgers, pizza, fried foods galore, etc. Now I find that I can talk myself out of the greasy food. Healthy food tastes just as great and I end up feeling so much better afterward. I'm getting more in tune with my body, which is the number one teaching of the Inside Out Weight Loss program if you ever check it out. (http://renee.personallifemedia.com/)

Also, after you are done with the 20/28/40 day diet, you don't just go back to your normal routine and gain back everything you've lost, which is what usually happens with crash diets. You're not done yet. Then you go on a slightly looser in restrictions 1500 calorie diet for the same amount of time as you did the HCG. You still have to maintain discipline.

And they (ambiguous they) say it takes 6 weeks to produce or break a habit. Viola! After this program, you have developed a habit of cooking healthy foods with little to no fat and you're eating your veggies and fruits. For people like me who always struggled with the discipline, we're learning how to eat healthier and it's becoming a habit.

Ok, so my stakes are a bit higher. I have almost high blood pressure and I had been having trouble breathing after stairs. That and I'm getting married in May. I have a lot of reasons why this HAS to work for me, which is why I'm not letting myself fail. I don't know what it would be if you're say 150 and you want to just get to 120ish, the suggested healthy weight.

Happy long weekend and don't forget Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!