This Journey

I decided to start a blog to track my progress for a few reasons. 1) it's part of the protocol that I keep track somehow, 2) this diet seems scary, so I'm kind of a guinea pig of sorts for others and 3) so my friends can laugh at me for putting myself through this.

On Saturday I start two gorging days where I take the HCG injection (yes, I said injection), then eat as much fatty foods as I can fit into 2 days without making myself sick. That sounded fun until I went to the grocery store and felt totally overwhelmed filling up the cart with total junk. I don't do this usually. I've trained my brain pretty well to stay away from that stuff for the most part. I felt bad buying it. But then again, this is such a small part of the diet that I'm sure that I can get through it, especially when we go to the lunch buffet at my favorite Indian restaurant for my anniversary. But it's an important part of the diet. My body will be able to use up that stored fat for the next few days until the HCG kicks in to keep me from feeling hungry.
Whoa is me. :)


Today I'm preparing for the hard part of the diet. The shots and the first six weeks. I have to mix and prefill the needles and preportion my food. My diet will be very limited for the next six weeks. Then it will ease up for six weeks after that.

I should probably tell you the purpose of this diet. From what I've read, I'm retraining my metabolism (via my hypothalamus gland) to keep my body at a certain weight. This should last my whole life. I should be able to eat as much as I want as long as it's REAL food, not processed food, without gaining any weight. My body should match that of those skinny bitches that can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound. When I take the HCG, my body will become super sensitive to anything that I put into it, meaning, if I put lotion with any nutritional oil onto my body, it could stall my loss or I could even gain. So, it's so important that I don't cheat at all. It's to difficult a diet to do over and over. So I take the shots for 6 weeks with a diet that only consists of 500 calories. I won't feel hungry at all after the first few days. But those first few days might be tough. I'm praying big time to get through it. My body will be using about 1500 calories a day in stored fat that would never be touched otherwise, to stay healthy. These reserves are not the first ones released when dieting diet and exercise alone. Then after I'm done with the shots come the very important retraining days. As I SLOWLY reintroduce starches and sugars back into my diet, my metabolism will learn to process them efficiently. I have enough weight to lose that I will have to do this diet twice. I'm hoping to do the second round in January.

No matter how freaky you think this is, please wish me luck. And don't worry, if things aren't going well, I'll stop.