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Reply With QuoteWell good for you! And thanks for sharing that info here.People need it for sure!
Hello there,
Well, as you first rounders know HCG is tough! As you second, third, etc. rounders know HCG is tough but easier the longer you go or the more rounds you successfully complete! The one common truth is an unfair gain of 1-3 lbs is the frappin' worst!!! In this we're all the same..until....
...You join a very small and psychotic group, People Insane Enough to Quit Smoking Tobacco While On HCG! Yep, not the brightest, definitely the toughest but for sure the healthiest! Yea us! Of course there are many methods to quitting smoking, you have cold turkey, the patch, nicotine gum, hiring someone to slap you in the face each time you reach for a cigarette and electronic or E cigarettes. My weapon of choice is the latter of this buffet. I quit smoking after 6 years and switched to electronic cigarettes 3 weeks before starting this, my 3rd round of HCG, fully prepared for the black hole of deprivation I was about to encounter. Week 1 was 50% ahhhllllright, 50% KickTweetyBirdInTheFace difficult. Week 2 started awesome, I was floating on my little cloud of self-congratulation, conquering two of the most difficult things ever with little or no sissybaby tears...and then Wednesday came..I went up 2.5lbs! What?! Luckily I consistently keep track on this diet of everything that could cause a possible gain, internal/external, cooking normal food for my husband, etc. I realized that the new pack of e-cigarette cartridges where the only change and obviously the culprit.
Unfortunately, most e-cig companies make it VERY difficult to find the full list of ingredients. I had to call, email and send carrier pigeons to get this information and knew that I'd be a jerk to not share with my fellow psychotics. Many e-cigarettes are flavored with two of the worst enemies on P2, sugar and oil! Crazy!
I was using two different brands the first week and that didn't effect the scale, the new one did but as you all know guessing can lead to gaining with ANY ingredients, so I went to the companies and made sure what brands were safe and which weren't. I will continue to add to this list the more I learn (being that I can't consume any carbs I'm pigging out on facts...did you know the sun is the only star in our solar system? You're welcome.). BTW, "safe" means they offer oil/sugar free, like tobacco flavor, etc. Sweet flavors, even with the "safe" companies most likely have either or both villains so please, as with anything on HCG, check your labels!
SAFE E-CIG BRANDS:
PREMIUM
V2
UNSAFE E-CIG BRANDS:
MAYA
BLUE
That being said, CONGRATULATIONS ON QUITTING!!!!! I don't know you but I'm stoked for you! Welcome to a very small and elite club! You are LITERALLY now making yourself beautiful on the outside AND the inside! No butts about it...sorry, I had to!
Well good for you! And thanks for sharing that info here.
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Thank you Granny! All your responses are always so supportive and informative!
Good job on switching to the e-ciggs. My boyfriend did that almost a year ago. I don't think he'll be able to quit the nicotine any time soon though. We buy him the V2. It was interesting to find out that the liquids are so different! Thanks!
pre-load - 7/21/13 396.6
VLCD week 1 - 7/29/13 380.2 (-16.4)
VLCD week 2 - 8/5/13 374.8 (-5.4)
What an awesome post. Love your writing style and humor!
Congrats on your accomplishment, and thanks for sharing that info here. I'm sure few would have guessed there was carbs and fats in those cartridges, or that it would be ingested while inhaling vapor....(um, you weren't EATING them, were you?? LOL!)
Thank you so much and I'm stoked for you and your boyfriend! It's a hindrance to all involved.Originally Posted by KittyMommy98
Thank you very much! And incredibly shocking and super disappointing when you're trying so hard with everything! Had to share just so nobody else had the same experience on a much worse day and quit the diet, quit quitting or both! Ouch!
Funny side note: After I got this all figured out and got the fat/sugar free version I of course told my best friend. A few days later I was having a bitter diet day, or a BDD if you will (this site loves it's acronyms!). She was laughing at the strictness of the diet and how it's like "no Mr. Waiter, I can't have that flavored air, I'm on HCG". I immediately replied, "Dude, shut it! That really happened!"
Quitting is so hard. Sadly it took a week hospitalization for me to finally quit. So glad I did and congrats to you on the weightloss as well. :thumbup::beer:
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I'm so glad that it finally worked for you Bruise! I hope you are better and better! I will take that BeerBump with a tip of the hat to you!
Blessings all!
Wow, never thought Id find someone out there as crazy as me to quit smoking while on HCG. I quit smoking cigarettes on my first load day, I know, stupid right? But even weirder, I use a E-cig with alittle bit of Nicotine in it to help me ween. I tryed to get the V2 but Im canacian and it costs $50 to ship it here so I went with the Halo G6, I love it although I never would have thought the vapors could potentually be ruining my sucess on HCG. It might have something to do with the 6.5lb weight gain during loading??? Im only on VLCD1 and Im really upset about my huge weight gain during load, now Im worried that there is sugar and oil in my vapor e liquid and I wont lose the weight I have gained. Guess Ill have to do some research on the Halo G6 but atleast I found this thread to warn me before I got to far into my VLCD. I was checking it out because I wanted to see if Id have problems losing weight while quiting because quiting slows your metablism, hmmmmm!!!!
Cant seem to find anything on Halo G6 E liquid as for ingredients, OMG, I sure hope this doesnt mess up my weight loss, I will be very upset. But I dont thinking smoking again is the right thing to do either, hmmmm!!!
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