Thread: November 2020 Loaders - New Beginnings

Finishing up load day 2 today and ready for VLCD tomorrow. I've done numerous rounds over past 10 years but had back to back medical issues for last 3 years, multiple surgeries and a back injury that put me on bedrest for months and steroid injections=WEIGHT GAIN! I finally feel healthy enough to embark on hcg again. Losing weight would dramatically improve my health further. I loaded pretty clean but found I do best on rounds with some clean carbs in load. Steaks in butter, gluten free chicken tenders, pine nuts, mac nuts, brie, olives, bulletproof collagen bars, coconut yogurt, apples, frozen cherries, bacon, sausage sticks. Supplement loaded too with multi vit, vitamin D/K2, collagen, biotin, B complex, elderberry, colostrum, minerals and green/red superfood complexes. Stuffed and ready to go

Thanks for the well wishes! I'm usually relieved to get load days over with and do pretty well first 3 weeks. But I start to really struggle about day 30. I think my past mistake was not adjusting dose properly at that point. I think I started too low, then adjusted down which made things worse. Starting at 175 this time and work my way down from there. I was never an over-eater and very health conscious/athletic my whole life. My weight gain started with onset of perimenopause and hypothyroidism at 40. Suddenly everything I did all my life to maintain my weight just stopped working, plus all the horrible thyroid symptoms. No matter how many miles I ran, how lo carb or how low calorie I tried, weight just kept piling on. Took 4 yrs of misery to get a proper hypothyroid Dx and meds adjusted. Hcg was the first and only thing that finally worked for weight loss at that point.

Happy November everyone,

I’m on my first VLCD. This is round 2 after a successful round 1 last January. I maintained most of my weight loss from the initial round until about September when I gave in to too many carbs in the fall and gained some back. I was planning to do another round at this time anyway and still lower than when I started earlier this year, but still want to lose about 20 pounds.

Last round I lost on average .5 per day. I am hoping to do a bit better this time, but .5 per day for 40 days would be just about right. So now I’m just trying to get through the first 3 days to kick all of the cravings to the curb.

Originally Posted by Leez

I've tried that and all the other remedies that work for other people, both herbal and BHRT. Sadly, none have worked for me. I'm giving micronized progesterone a try currently, but its not working either. I have one more variation to try--the time release form, and then I've exhausted all the options.

That is so hard!
My flashes are finally gone, but I think they'll be back as soon as my round is over