Okay I lost the weight I put on with the ice cream plus some extra weight today. That’s a very good thing! I was totally worried that I’d ruined my diet forever and that I was going to gain it all back.
I just can’t gain it all back.
I’ve lost over 16 pounds in the last 17 days. I can’t even believe that. If I lose ten more, I will reach my goal for this round. It’s not my overall goal or anything, but it is the amount I’d like to see gone before I move on to phase 3 this time.
My doctor said she can change up my dosage if I’m feeling hungry, but it isn’t really hunger so much as it is boredom. This diet is hard to do if you don’t like fish, because there are so many ways you can cook up beef and chicken.
I sound defeated, but really I’m not. I looked at myself in my (new smaller sized) bra and panties earlier today, and I’m looking pretty hot! Go me!

Oh, today. Today is the day I found out what happens if you cheat on the HCG diet. It ain’t purty. I watched an entire day’s work disappear. Just like that… all for a stupid ice cream cone.
In my mid I thought it would be worth it. What I really thought was that there was no way I’d gain weight from one little cone, but I did. Almost an entire pound worth. Seriously, that’s insane
I am disappointed in myself, but even tonight when I went out to dinner with my husband I ordered a streak and asked for sliced tomatoes as my side dish. Here’s to hoping I can get back on track.
If you’re thinking about cheating on the HCG diet and you’ve somehow stumbled onto this blog post, I have one piece of advice for you:
Don’t cheat. Just don’t do it. It’s not worth it. You can eat that crap later.

Okay so you know how yesterday I was so wanting to cheat? Well, I didn’t and I was feeling good. Totally proud of myself to make it trough and all that good stuff. But then, oh then…

I was driving my daughter and her friend home from swim class… And they wanted ice cream. It was the last day of swim, and thy deserved a treat. I’d skipped my fruit earlier because I was so busy, and now here we were… In the drive thru line at dairy queen.

And I ordered three cones instead of two. What’s a girl to do…. I ate it. It was good. So good, but tomorrow we will find out the damage.

Gulp.

Well well. We knew the day would come when the scale would stop moving as much. I just wasn’t ready for it.
I’m trying to stay positive, but this diet is getting hard, and I just want to cheat. What would happen if I did? I can’t really find anything on the Internet about it, but I’m sort of getting there.
I need some serenity. Some sanity. Something. I just don’t want to cheat– but I sooo do!
This is harder than I thought it would be…

So, I’m just doing the baggy shirt thing for now, because I know eventually I wi be out of the plus size store.

Wow, could that really happen? Could I really be out of the plus size store? Well, I won’t believe it until I actually see it myself.

Still so sick. Ugh. More tomorrow.

Today I woke up early in the AM sick as sick can be. I’ve been coughing and had a sore throat for a few days, but then I added an ear infection on top of that. (I would like to point out that I am not one to make a big deal out of being sick, but since I am trying to tell the story of this hcg diet journey, I want to make sure I tell you guys both the good and the bad.)

So, I slept as well as I could, and headed to the doctor. Apparently they don’t mess around when you’re on the HCG diet, because I ended up with two shots in the butt (an antibiotic and a steroid) along with a round of antibiotics to start tomorrow. Wow.

So, today hasn’t been awesome… and to boot, I didn’t lose very much weight. Ugh.

I guess in diets there are both highs and lows– it’s just that with the HCG diet, because you lose so fast–the highs are very very high and the lows are very very low.

Okay, so you reach a point in this diet where you get a little sick of just eating your food plain. Well, that’s when it’s time to start spicing things up a bit! I did just that tonight, and every time I look at the picture of it, I want MORE! (Which is kind of a problem, this is the first time I’ve ever really been hungry on this diet… it was just. that. good!)

So, without further adue, I give you the recipe:

Phase 2 (VLCD) Chili

Ingredients:

• 3.5 oz Lean, Organic Ground Beef (I use Laura’s ground beef from Kroger it’s 96/4, and so far hasn’t affected my weight loss in any way.)
• 3.5 oz Organic Tomato (Your tomato might not be exactly this size, I had to cut mine in half
• Garlic (I use the already minced garlic, but the kind I bought doesn’t have any oil in it)
• Onion Powder
• Chili Powder
• Red Pepper Flakes
• Sea Salt
• Cumin
• Basil (not fresh– I just use the stuff from a spice jar)

Here’s the deal with all the spices– they’re to taste, but remember you aren’t cooking for your WHOLE family here. Just yourself– so be careful not to OVER-spice. Especially with the red pepper flakes, they get spicy QUICK!

Instructions:

Cook your beef, season it with all the spices while it’s browning. I don’t bother to drain it because it’s so low in fat that I can’t really get anything out anyway.

Peel and chop your tomato (I read somewhere that if you boil it first, then it’s easier to peel, but I didn’t do that. It wasn’t all that hard to peel raw.)

Drop your tomato into the pan along with about 1/2 cup of water and bring to a simmer. Let it simmer until you pretty much can’t stand how awesome it smells (about five minutes) and you have the best damn chili you’ve ever eaten (while on a 500 calorie a day diet).

Yes, yes it does taste as good as it looks.

The Juice of one Lemon. I read that in my notes and got to thinking– WOW, I can put a slice of lemon in each of my water glasses all day long. It will be refreshing and tangy. Then I remembered something… I remembered that I am fat because I’m all about overeating, how on earth is spreading my lemon out over the entire day a good idea?

Guess what? It’s not. The best idea is to use all of the juice in ONE glass at the end of the day for a tangy AMAZING lemonade.

Now that is cool, refreshing, everything I wanted from a lemonade and then some. And here’s the Recipe:

HCG Diet Lemonade Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 Organic Lemon
• Stevia Drops
• Filtered or Bottled Water
• Crushed Ice (Okay, you can use any ice, but crushed ice just makes it so fancy.)

Fill your cup about 1/4 full with crushed ice. Juice your lemon straight into the cup. (If you don’t have a juicer, I recommend getting a handheld juicer, just because you can control the amount of juice going into your cup.) Squirt two squirts of the Stevia Drops (fill the little dropper up about halfway) into the cup, and fill to the top with filtered water. Drink it with a straw, and enjoy the tastiness!

Anyway that’s all I have for today! See you tomorrow! Here’s to hoping I get to see a full pound drop off again!

You’re supposed to stop the HCG when you start your period, but keep doing the diet– apparently your body produces HCG while during menustruation, but I tried to skip and I got hell hungry. Normally when I start my period, I chow down on some Fritos, a hamburger, and pretty much anything that gives me that salty taste.

But, I am only eating 500 calories a day, and hamburgers are not on that menu. So, today is the day I got crafty. I bought some Braggs Amino Acid and I put it in my hamburger meat. It added a yummy extra taste, and I am not getting as bored with the food. I even tried a couple of recipes. Once I perfect them, I will share them here on the blog– because I am thinking variety is the key to this diet, and the only way to do that, really is with recipes.

I am also extra tired today, and I have a sore throat. Tomorrow, though– I go for my first doctor check-up. So I am hoping she says I am right on track and looking good.

What if she doesn’t? What if I am screwing up somehow? What if I gain weight tomorrow? Ugh, I better go to bed.