A member of our staff recently decided to give the HCG Diet a try. It is a diet where you inject yourself with a hormone (produced by pregnant women which will cause your body to burn an additional 2000 calories of fat a day (if followed EXACTLY). The diet works by resetting your hypothalamus to recognize your weight, after having lost some, as its new weight. Again this requires following a very specific eating plan, even after you're done with the diet. If you deviate from it IN ANY WAY, it does not work. This diet requires ALOT OF DISCIPLINE. If you can't do that, don't waste your money. Also, there are two forms, one is taken orally, the other is injected. Our staff member will be taking the injections.
My first day was meeting with the Deb at the Anti-Aging Institute of Arizona. She says she prefers to be the person who instructs people as to how to follow the diet because she is the most strict person at the office about it. She don't play when it comes to instructing patients using the HCG Diet. She goes over certain things about the diet, how to initially mix the dry HCG with the fluid (to "activate" it), what to eat, how to eat, what will cause the diet to not work. She also gives me her personal cellphone number so that I can call her if I have any questions. Most places with have you meet with someone at their office at certain intervals, but she says she prefers to have patients call, text or email her whenever they want. This method saves the patient money by not having to pay for office visits until they have finished their round of injections. They also gave me an wire-bound instruction book. I was instructed to start the diet only after having first read the instruction book, which explains how the diet works and what will cause it to not work. I did read it first and learned quite a bit about how the HCG works within the human body.
This morning I woke, passed urine, weighed myself and then mixed the two solutions and gave myself my first injection. This was all required as a morning routine when following the diet. The doctors office weighed me yesterday at 243. My scale shows 237, first thing in the morning (I think I like my scale better). I had to psych myself out to give myself the first injection since I'm not a really big fan of getting them and doing it myself wasn't exactly my idea of a good time, It took three false starts before I did it and was very happy with myself when the syringe was attached to a very fatty area of my abdomen. Now it was time to inject the liquid. Ugh. I knew I could do it. I gave the stopper (injector?) a push and felt the liquid burn a little. I waited a few seconds and tried some more and it burned a little less and the pushed the rest of it in. I can do this (every day).
For the first two days I am able to eat all the really fatty foods I want. The diet requires it to get that unneeded fat to start circulating in my blood stream so that it recognizes the fat it will be devouring. If this does not take place, it will take longer for fat loss to begin (about a week, if I read correctly). Monday I will begin the required eating plan, which includes almost no wheat, only five kinds of fruit and a few kinds of meat (organic is preferred) and about 5-10 kinds of vegetables. I can also have tea and coffee. I'm not a coffee drinker, so tea it is. I am also required to drink half my body weight in ounces of water or more every day.
Let the fun begin.
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