Undersize Me... My Hcg Journey

Day 5
Weigh in: 123.4

I'm disappointed I'm only down .5lb since yesterday. I fear my "little cheats" are sabotaging my diet: stealing a corn chip while serving my children lunch, ignoring the canola oil ingredient in the baked green bean crisps, swiping a collard chip into the hummus... uggh...

I wonder how much these little transgressions really count; do they really make a difference? Would I have lost an extra .5 lb? Did my body kick up the ...

Weigh-in: 124
I have to say I'm thrilled with the results. If you can get through a little hunger, this diet will work. It's not so much training me how to reduce the number of evil foods as it is teaching me how to live without them completely. This doesn't mean I'll give up things like ice ceream, etc., forever, but it does make dessert and other bad carbs the exception rather than the rule. An older Japanese woman of my acquaintance told me that she and her family had fruit for sweets ...

June 27, 2011


Pre-load weight:127

Let me preface this by saying that I'm Italian. For those of you (if anyone is) reading this blog, who *are* Italian, you'll understand my obsession with food. Eat when you're tired, eat when you're bored, eat when you're sad, eat when you're pregnant and nauseous (then barf and eat again). I've loved food and had a love/hate relationship with it for most of my adult life. I usually eat really well: loads of organic, whole grain, ...

Something I didn't realize about loading is that, no matter how private you wish the bacchanalian event to be, if there are kids in the house, you will be found out...

"Wow! Brownies *and* ice cream *and* pizza *and* chicken Alfredo?!?!"

Really loud... Right in the middle of the supermarket.