Hi Diane, thanks for asking. I just finished my first "round" of hcg injections 2 days ago. Today is my last day of the very low calorie diet of 500 calories a day. I never took appetite suppressants and most of the time I wasn't hungry because the hcg feeds your body with your own abnormal fat reserves. So, I was really living off between 3000-4000 calories a day, mostly from my own fat reserves. The only time I felt any hunger was usually late at night, when I was used to eating from having worked nights for so many years. It was a habitual hunger, to a "make you feel weak if you don't eat" hunger. There was one other time when I was extremely tempted to eat, but it was utterly emotional hunger. I went through a mini-crisis with my job and wanted to go drink or eat myself to oblivion. I didn't. I was too motivated to be successful with the diet. You can say that the diet saved me! Well, at least for those couple of days. I didn't eat 3 meals a day, just tea for breakfast and I didn't feel deprived. When I ate lunch and dinner, I felt extremely satiated too. I discovered new ways to eat healthy food, like celery. It is REALLY good sautéed with chicken or shrimp!
Tomorrow, I start Phase 3 of the diet. No more HCG, and no more counting calories. But I can't eat starch or sugar. Basically, it's the induction phase of the Atkins plan. I've done that before and I am very familiar with how to eat that way. I am actually looking forward to it. I eat this diet for 3 weeks. Then, I incorporate (slowly) starches and sugars. Though, I doubt I will ever eat sucrose or fructose again having learned about how dangerous it is to my health. Once I've reset my hypothalmus with these 4 phases, I can go back and do another round of hcg and lose more. I lost a total of 11.6 lbs on this round. My goal is to lose a total of 25 lbs.
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Hi Diane, thanks for asking. I just finished my first "round" of hcg injections 2 days ago. Today is my last day of the very low calorie diet of 500 calories a day. I never took appetite suppressants and most of the time I wasn't hungry because the hcg feeds your body with your own abnormal fat reserves. So, I was really living off between 3000-4000 calories a day, mostly from my own fat reserves. The only time I felt any hunger was usually late at night, when I was used to eating from having worked nights for so many years. It was a habitual hunger, to a "make you feel weak if you don't eat" hunger. There was one other time when I was extremely tempted to eat, but it was utterly emotional hunger. I went through a mini-crisis with my job and wanted to go drink or eat myself to oblivion. I didn't. I was too motivated to be successful with the diet. You can say that the diet saved me! Well, at least for those couple of days. I didn't eat 3 meals a day, just tea for breakfast and I didn't feel deprived. When I ate lunch and dinner, I felt extremely satiated too. I discovered new ways to eat healthy food, like celery. It is REALLY good sautéed with chicken or shrimp!
Tomorrow, I start Phase 3 of the diet. No more HCG, and no more counting calories. But I can't eat starch or sugar. Basically, it's the induction phase of the Atkins plan. I've done that before and I am very familiar with how to eat that way. I am actually looking forward to it. I eat this diet for 3 weeks. Then, I incorporate (slowly) starches and sugars. Though, I doubt I will ever eat sucrose or fructose again having learned about how dangerous it is to my health. Once I've reset my hypothalmus with these 4 phases, I can go back and do another round of hcg and lose more. I lost a total of 11.6 lbs on this round. My goal is to lose a total of 25 lbs.
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