Thread: Hard to believe..but true

Due to my skepticism, I had to post my results for people questioning it and offer words of encouragement.

There are so many “miracle weight loss” products out there, and they all have great reviews, it’s difficult to believe anything you read, but HCG works!

I went into HCG a little skeptical, but I went in anyway. Luckily this isn’t a product that requires the power of belief to work. I finished off my 4th week on Monday at 198lbs, that’s a 36lb loss in 30 days.

Starting off at 234, my goal was about 180-190, then start my weight lifting regiment and build back up to 215 (my former fighting weight), only this 215 would be without the fat. With about 10-20lbs to reach my goal, I extend my shots out for 3 more weeks. Honestly, at this point, if I hit 189 I’d call it, and start hitting the gym.

I will say, being in week 5, it’s a LOT easier now than the beginning. I remember thinking “this is insane! I’ll never survive on so little food!”, but it’s not as hard as you think, if you find what I jokingly call my “grape cough medicine”.

Now I don’t mean literal grape cough medicine, what I mean is this; in life, some things are easy, some are not. I’m 44, and when I was a kid I HATED taking medication because it tasted like so horrible. Then they tried that “orange” flavor, I’m sure some of you remember that crap. Seriously, if you have oranges that taste like that, THROW THEM OUT! But now, I have 2 boys age 10, and now 12 (his birthday was yesterday). When my boys get sick, they like taking medication, it really tastes good! Grape being their favorite, and mine. Unless I’m spending the day in the hot sun hiking, I can’t drink plain water, in fact, before starting my diet, 960+ of my daily calories were from energy drinks. Truth is, I drank most my fat, and I knew it. So...how could I survive this diet that has NOTHING to drink except water? I struggled through the first 2 weeks with the diet, then I found my grape medicine, that one thing that made everything easier to bear, lemon and stevia. I drink the water bottle down to my label, add suntree lemon juice (zero fat, zero calories, zero sugar) and a wee bit of stevia extract (also zero fat, zero calories, and zero sugar) and BOOM zero everything lemonade. Except it’s positive in taste. I mix up 2 or 3 of these a day and suddenly I’m drink more than 80 ounces of water per day, easily.

With the other people in the house I can’t just go throwing everything out to resist temptation, and let’s be honest, even if it’s not in the house you think temptation is gone? NO! We live in a world of temptation, I’m surrounded by McDonald’s, Burger King, etc. the key for me wasn’t to hide away from the temptation, but more along the lines of replacing it with a suitable replacement. Funny thing is my diet is a big source of our jokes at my house now. I mentioned earlier that my sons birthday was yesterday, I got him a yummy ice cream cake, at least I can assume it was yummy by the mess on my younger sons face. But my son joked, “you can have something even better, more broccolli” (this is because I often joke that after my diet I’m going to start an anti broccoli campaign to end the worlds broccoli supply 😄 ).

My point of my rambling is this; it’s time to believe the hype, this stuff works. And it does get easier as you go, and I knew I could not win against temptation, the only way I survived was to replace it with something healthy.

Good luck everyone, I’ve seen it, I’m living it, you can do it too.