Remember when I was talking about how I was working my butt off to lose weight at the club? Well I had lost like 16 pounds in like 5 months. Unfortunately...drum roll please...I gained about 9 back due to not exercising at all and eating a few to many sugary treats again. Soooo here I am again at 139 (and gaining) and my pants are shrinking. Ohhhhhh does it ever end???
I've decided to do something before I get back into the gym full time. I am going to try something called the HCG Diet for 40 days http://hcgdietinfo.com/. It sounds crazy at first glance but not only have I read hours of material and different testimonies (good and bad) but I have witnessed first hand what this diet is doing for people. My neighbor has lost I believe 46 pounds, 30 of it was in the first 40 day treatment. Not 30# in water or muscle but fat that stores itself in all those lovely places like hips, abs etc... This diet resets your metabolism and hopefully afterwards you eat healthy and exercise like you should and I intend to do so:) I have another neighbor on it as well and in the first week she could grab her once tight shrinking pants at the hips and pull them out and shake them. I saw one lady who last year looked like she was packn on the pounds like crazy in the lower body, this year I saw her and she weighed less than I did and looked like a completely new person. Incredible difference! They also have a lot of energy which I could desperately use:)
I start tomorrow and I cant wait, Ive been preparing mentally for this for weeks. Ive decided to post about in hopes it will help me be somewhat accountable and push me to keep going:) I will periodically post my happenings while on this diet. Yes, I am going to take pics every week to see if I look any different but I don't intend to post any unless I look totally cute and thin at the end of it all (haha). Even then it would be a strictly girls only link:)
Dont bother putting anything annoying such as "if you just eat healthy and excersise", or "you will just gain all the weight back and then some", or "it doesnt sound healthy". I have read all of it, good and bad, not to mention Ive said it all myself (ha)! I know very well that I can go back to stepping, biking, weightlifting and eating well when this is all said and done because Ive done it, and if I dont then I will be fat again, such is life. This diet has been around for like 50+ years with a lot of positive results and Im going to give it a very dedicated try:) I will keep ya posted!
That's interesting about no lotions with oil/fat...does it absorb into your skin and make you gain weight or something?! That sounds silly.
ReplyDeleteoh yeah... what is HCG?
ReplyDeleteGood luck! I'm tempted to try some of those guidelines even without the HCG!
So crazy that you would post this because I just heard someone discussing it yesterday and I thought it was totally interesting. Let me know how it works for you. I might have to look into it more in depth for myself :)
ReplyDeleteHey Wendy:) Actually I did not pay a lot of mind to the lotions and such because Im pretty careful about what I use anyways. The problem I see with lotions and makeup is that they have a lot of toxins that absorb through your skin (the largest organ of the body) which goes directly into bloodstream and causes your liver to work even harder that it already has to with all the toxic junk we eat. I guess what Im trying to say is these toxins are hard on the system and can also effect your hormones both of which will cause you to gain weight. Im not sure thats their take on it but its mine:) Wow Im out of breath:)
ReplyDeleteFor those of you that may of clicked on the previous link I had on this post...Most of that was the exact diet but I am not using the "drops" under the tongue as there is to many scams out there that I dont know which one would actually work...I am actually going through a doctor to do this and using daily injections not drops. So Im not endorsing drops that may or may not work:) But Im sure ya'll know that:)
ReplyDeleteMy best friend's husband and neighbors are doing this diet right now. He has lost a ton of weight, but he was well over 200 lbs to start with. I don't know if I could handle the injection part of it. You are very brave. And you will lose weight. The neighbor lost 8 lbs her first week and she didn't look like she needed to lose any weight at all.
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