It is Sunday morning, meaning I started this diet one week ago today. I started my diet at 166 lbs. This morning, I weighed in at 155.6. I can’t argue with those results.
I have been told that losing 1-2 pounds a week is healthiest. This is because you are taking the time to learn new habits and you will then keep the weight off. Another reason for this is so you don’t have loose skin hanging around. If you lose weight slowly, your skin will adjust to fit its new mass. Well, I’ve lost 10 lbs in one week, actually I lost it in 5 days, because the first two days of this diet were all about loading up on fat.
Let’s talk about the side effects. There are a few of them, like the fact that I occasionally feel-well, lazy. If I can chose between getting up or staying seated I used to get up. At this point I don’t want to. I feel like I just want to stay seated as much as possible. This is okay because I do have a couple of good books to read. My three daughters have been taking turns being asked to refill my water or fetch me my phone. On that note I will say that once I am up, I am tending to get more productive work done. I am not the best housekeeper in the world, toys might stay on the floor until the next morning, clean clothes might wait in their basket until I am watching tv at night. Don’t get me started on dishes. Well, last night I stood up to greet my husband and girls when they got home from visiting family. I ended up cleaning the kitchen completely while I was up there. I think this might be because I am bored and don’t know what to do with myself since I can’t snack on anything.
At the same time, I feel restless. I actually feel like I am a little ADD, because I had the opportunity to sit and read a book last night. I not only started two different books, but I also jumped up without noticing my own actions, to take a shower. My brain is on active mode. I feel like I don’t quite know what to do with myself. I have found myself staying busy whenever I can. Like right now, I started writing this at 8am on a Sunday morning, a time when I would usually be snuggled in bed. When I woke up this morning I just didn’t want to lie around, I wanted to do something. This feels like the opposite of lazy I guess. I physically want to take a break, but mentally I want to be doing something.
Another side effect I just noticed last night as I suffered another bout of ADD and got out my nailpolish- I don’t usually paint my nails, because it will just chip off in two days- Was that my nails, which had been brittle and thin are actually thick and getting longer. They are honestly beautiful right now. I have not seen anything in any of the reveiws I read about this symptom. I don’t know if it is localized to me or not, but I do know that it is a change that has happened since last Friday, when I showed the short, broken stubs to my sister in law, the cosmetologist.
This particular side effect makes me happy, because I have heard in people who are depleted of nutrients, such as in anorexia, their hair and nails get worse, not better. I have compared this diet to anorexia, even though I am eating. This is because I am eating so little and abstaining from even healthy snacks not allowed by my diet. I am quickly finding that this comparison isn’t accurate, as apparently the fat I am “consuming” seems to be enough to keep me content.
Another side effect, and my favorite: You know how when you pinch certain parts of your belly or back and you can get quite a bit of fat in between your fingers? Well, I am noticing significantly smaller pinches every day. The me in the mirror is looking great. Since I have been working with a trainer to build muscle, I have been able to feel it under my fat layers but I have bnever been able to see it. This morning as I stood in front of the mirror I saw my abs. Even better, those arms I have been working so hard on are still solid. I was really afraid that with this diet I would lose muscle as my body struggled to find enough protein to survive. The hCG program says that your body will not feed on your muscle, but I didn’t really believe it. I mean, how on earth can this little bottle of drops tell your body to ONLY take the chubbles? I didn’t think it was possible, yet, as I stood in front of the mirror and flexed my bicep I saw it and felt it clearly. Not only is it not gone, but I can actually see it now. I found my muscles!
Finally, I kind of feel ashamed of this diet even now. I felt stupid initially for trying something that sounded “too good to be true,” and even now that I know it is working I have only told my mom and this blog how I am really losing the weight. Even my husband thinks I have just gone very strict on my diet. He wouldn’t notice the difference anyway, and would probably be upset that I paid so much for a miracle drug. That’s what I consider this, a miracle drug. My intention is to share this blog with some of my friends who are currently trying really hard to lose weight. But I don’t want to share it until after I have really been through it, after I have met my goal weigh and made it through six whole weeks. I will not promote something unless I am truly satisfied. For now I am astounded, my whole concept of weightloss and “too good to be true” has been altered.
I have tried hydroxycut, low calorie diets with exercise, the Atkins no carb diet, cleansing and detox, they all have worked for a short amount of time. None of them have worked so fast, and on each of them I regained any weight I lost within a month. The big difference between them and hCG is that the hCG is building a habit. I have heard that it takes 20 days to form or break a habit. That is, I think, why Dr. Simeon says it’s so important to stay on the VLCD for 21 days. The habits I am forming are to find other things to do when I am bored besides eat, to control portion sizes, to plan a well balanced meal with fruit, veggies, and lean proteins, and to view fruit as a dessert that you can look forward to as much as chocolate. yes folks, I am looking forward to my diced apple with cinnamon that I plan on having with lunch. I am looking forward to my cucumber with sea salt too.
This diet is getting easier and easier to stick to every day. Every time I see that scale drop again, every time I put on a smaller pair of pants, every time I pinch that one spot on my stomach that used to fill my hand, I remember why I am doing this. I think to myself, “is my stomach growling? am I really feeling hungry?” the answer is almost always no. Five more weeks to go, I got this.
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