Thread: Starting this week!

Originally Posted by Dramamommy

Hello Everyone!

I am starting this week. I plan to Load on Friday and Saturday. I have the drops but also ordered the patch because I am worried about keeping up with the dosing. I am excited and nervous and hopefull. I have 60 pounds to lose so this will be my first but not my last round. I am planning on 2 or 3 rounds.

I plan to hit some stores this week and start making my plan to help with success. I know keep myself organized will be half the battle to be successful. I am worried about the low calorie. But have been lurking here long enough to see that after the first week hunger should not be much of an issue. I want to thank everyone in advance for sharing your HCG journies here. I have been reading daily for a month now and it has help inspire me to GO FOR IT...

Any advice or tips for this ROOKIE would be welcomed and appreciated.

For the first week at least I am writing out exactly what I can eat no exceptions to ensure COMMITTMENT.

So any meal suggestions also welcome!!!!

Awesome for you! Put aside your self-doubt- you can do this and you will do amazing!!!!!!!!! Make sure you check out the hhcg general thread- tons of support and advice on a daily basis from everyone there =)

If it helps, share your daily food journal in the forum- it will help to keep you accountable, and is also VERY useful for the times when you need some help- so others can look over things, and give guidance.

I have a few meal suggestions- my first and biggest rule I cannot stress enough is to BE PREPARED with your meals. Plan them ahead. This helps to stop you from giving into cravings. My first time on hcg I didn't plan- and I would make my family dinner- and then make my meal and by the time I got done making my families dinner- I was so stinken "hungry" I was always cheating. I took a different approach the 2nd round, and it's my "hcg golden rule". PREPARE!

What I did was this- I found eating apples made me have literal stomach growling hunger- so I stopped apples. I pretty much stuck with strawberries for my fruit because they were the easiest for me. I bought a ton of strawberries on sale at the grocery store. I went home- washed them and took the stems off. Then I divided them up into single 'serving' portions. Each single serving portion went into a small sandwhich bag- then I filled a big large freezer bag with the smaller bags inside. I did this with other recipes- I pre-cooked all of my meat in the correct portion sizes and froze the same way. I made big batches of hcg soups (there's a great recipe for tomato and veggie beef soup i LOVE- if you want I can send them to you). I froze everything in single servings and then threw them in the freezer. Then before I went to bed- I would go and "pull"- so I would take out 2 pieces of chicken, or a soup and a chicken and 2 fruits etc... then I would stick them in the refrigerator. One of my favorite meals was grilled chicken breasts shredded or cut on a nice big green salad with strawberries and a dash of balsamic vinegar (some say balsamic vinegar isn't on protocol- but I still used just a small splash on my salads) and then I would crunch up the melba toast as put it on like croutons. It was a perfect lunch for me. I loved that even if I was running out the door- I could grab a bag of strawberries/chicken and I was never caught out for the afternoon without food having to make the debate of "crap do i ride out the hunger and wait 2 more hours to eat at home- or do I stop and cheat- etc..). For me, this was an almost fool-proof method of not cheating.

Hi Dramamommy!
I am starting this week too - loading today and tomorrow, Round 2 for me. I did very well my first round but terrible on maintenance and ending up gaining back a lot of the weight I lost. The best advice I can give is when you have questions or are frustrated & down, get on this site. So many people here to help you!

Meal suggestions - I ate meat substitute (Quorn tenders & veggie burgers) and seafood the entire time I was on hcg. No meat. Quorn, Sunshine burgers, fish, shrimp and scallops were my protein of choice and I ate tomatoes, bok choy, asparagus and broccoli for my vegetables. I know broccoli isn't listed in Pounds & Inches but it worked very well for me. Apples & strawberries were my only fruits. I had a hard time giving up half and half in my coffee in the beginning, but I took the advice of so many and got the flavored stevia to add to my black coffee. That was a huge help for me.

Keep in touch. Since we're starting the same time, we can support one another.

Good luck!
Elizabeth

Hello ladies! My load days are this Saturday and Sunday and I am so excited. This is my second round, I did ok in Round 1 I did a lot of cheating which really slowed my losses and I just got back from a cruise so I'm about 5lbs over my ldw (ugh I know lol). I'm looking forward to cheat free round. I need to lose 30lbs so we'll see how it goes....and yes planning out meals is definitely the key to success !

My loading days are the 19th & 20th too! This is my first time doing HCG. I am doing drops and looking forward to seeing results.
Hope this round goes well for you.

Welcome all!!! Faithful how did your loading go? I'll be loading sat And Sunday and I'm so excited!! Gonna bookmark this page so we can share our progress. Bobbi how are you holding up after the burger?

Viimo - Loading is going well, but not as much fun as I would have anticipated
I feel stuffed, like my stomach is in my throat! I have been focusing on high fat foods and not necessarily huge quantities of food, even though I am managing to eat PLENTY! I have been focusing on nuts, avocados, cheese, whole yogurt, eggs, bacon and stuff like that. I have thrown in some choclate, ice cream, and tortilla chips just for good measure! Not tons of processed foods, carbs, or sugars. I hope these selections will make the first few VLC days easier... we'll see. I'm planning on making pan pizza for dinner with lots of olive oil, sausage, and cheese. OY!
Have fun getting "Loaded"!

Oooh your loading sounds perfect! My first go round I think I just stuffed my face with carbs and boy was I a mess the first week of VLCD. And yea loading is a rough process I am a true foodie and loading on HCG is the only time I hate food. But it's all truly worth it once thee lbs start to shed I hope ur VLCD tomorrow goes well