Tomorrow we begin week 4. My husbands has lost 25 lbs and I have lost 17 lbs. Yay us! It's funny (somewhat) everyone notices his loss and not many say anything about me looking different. And it's true. I can see (from my before pics) that I look different...but really I gain and lose weight evenly...but the scale and measurements don't lie...it is indeed going going gone! AND I started with 3 times more to lose!
So far this journey has been good...it's really more of a mental game. I have ended up cooking 2 meals...one for us and one for our children. Our eldest mentioned to me the other day that she would like to eat what we are eating so now I am trying that with adding some sort of carbs and fat. So far there haven't been any massive complaints. You do spend a lot more time cooking. BUT that is okey dokes with me. I am trying to double up recipies and have some stuff pre-cooked and stocked in the freezer because we are moving in a few weeks and we don't want to fall off the wagon so to speak. It's funny, making pasta I can't taste it to see if it's cooked, lick my finger to see how this or that tastes...it's an interesting challenge to ALWAYS be aware of what is going into your mouth. We both do those things without even thinking. It's just what you do! Well what we did...not right now. I often have to ask for help from the girls. We also have had guests over and we cook what we can eat (like we had a buffalo roast and asparagus) but then we added normal things for everyone...like yesterday I made chocolate chip cookies and and the girls and our guests had homemade ice cream sandwiches...the ice cream from Marble Slab...BUT we did not even have one taste or a desire really...it's a slippery slope and we are focused!
We have not been hungry (past the first week and a half). I think that hunger had more to do with our bodies coming off of sugar and carbs more than that we were hungry. Eating is a habit...a necessary habit but a habot none the less. People are funny. They always feel badly if we cannot eat something yummy. We tell them to enjoy freely! We are perfectly fine. If we start to feel hungry we know it's time for another round of drops and then it's all good :).
It's a precise science so you can't mess with it....or it can stop you from losing weight for up to 5 days! That's a massive amount of time when you are only on for 40 days. We both have hit plateaus (where you don't lose anything for a few days). THAT IS EXASPERATING! In fact this last week I only lost a few pounds THE WHOLE WEEK!
I ordered some cookbooks on-line for the low cal part that we are currently on. My challenge is to keep the food tasting good and not let it get BORING...thus the cookbook. So far the best cookbook that I could find that sticks very closely to what Dr. Simeon outlined is the HCG Diet Gourmet Cookbook. So far everything I've made from it has been very tasty and definitely not boring. Spices, my friend, are the key!
It's interesting how many people do this diet not really trying to change their eating habits but trying to get away with food that are less calories but don't really feed the body. We are really making a massive effort to change our ways completely! We have been trying to switch (as much as is possible) to organic. We read A LOT of labels. We've been educating ourselves and working really hard to not just make this about losing weight but about a lifestyle change. We don't want to do this again. We are going to be healthy people.
We have 2 and a bit weeks left on the low calorie part and then it's maintenance. I would like to AT LEAST hit the 25 lbs gone mark.
Yesterday my darling husband discovered that if you blend frozen strawberries, water, vanilla bean powder, and stevia together it makes a YUMMY shake! I have been enjoying this only I put dark chocolate stevia in mine mmmmmmmm.
We are excited about all of these changes.
So far this journey has been good...it's really more of a mental game. I have ended up cooking 2 meals...one for us and one for our children. Our eldest mentioned to me the other day that she would like to eat what we are eating so now I am trying that with adding some sort of carbs and fat. So far there haven't been any massive complaints. You do spend a lot more time cooking. BUT that is okey dokes with me. I am trying to double up recipies and have some stuff pre-cooked and stocked in the freezer because we are moving in a few weeks and we don't want to fall off the wagon so to speak. It's funny, making pasta I can't taste it to see if it's cooked, lick my finger to see how this or that tastes...it's an interesting challenge to ALWAYS be aware of what is going into your mouth. We both do those things without even thinking. It's just what you do! Well what we did...not right now. I often have to ask for help from the girls. We also have had guests over and we cook what we can eat (like we had a buffalo roast and asparagus) but then we added normal things for everyone...like yesterday I made chocolate chip cookies and and the girls and our guests had homemade ice cream sandwiches...the ice cream from Marble Slab...BUT we did not even have one taste or a desire really...it's a slippery slope and we are focused!
We have not been hungry (past the first week and a half). I think that hunger had more to do with our bodies coming off of sugar and carbs more than that we were hungry. Eating is a habit...a necessary habit but a habot none the less. People are funny. They always feel badly if we cannot eat something yummy. We tell them to enjoy freely! We are perfectly fine. If we start to feel hungry we know it's time for another round of drops and then it's all good :).
It's a precise science so you can't mess with it....or it can stop you from losing weight for up to 5 days! That's a massive amount of time when you are only on for 40 days. We both have hit plateaus (where you don't lose anything for a few days). THAT IS EXASPERATING! In fact this last week I only lost a few pounds THE WHOLE WEEK!
I ordered some cookbooks on-line for the low cal part that we are currently on. My challenge is to keep the food tasting good and not let it get BORING...thus the cookbook. So far the best cookbook that I could find that sticks very closely to what Dr. Simeon outlined is the HCG Diet Gourmet Cookbook. So far everything I've made from it has been very tasty and definitely not boring. Spices, my friend, are the key!
It's interesting how many people do this diet not really trying to change their eating habits but trying to get away with food that are less calories but don't really feed the body. We are really making a massive effort to change our ways completely! We have been trying to switch (as much as is possible) to organic. We read A LOT of labels. We've been educating ourselves and working really hard to not just make this about losing weight but about a lifestyle change. We don't want to do this again. We are going to be healthy people.
We have 2 and a bit weeks left on the low calorie part and then it's maintenance. I would like to AT LEAST hit the 25 lbs gone mark.
Yesterday my darling husband discovered that if you blend frozen strawberries, water, vanilla bean powder, and stevia together it makes a YUMMY shake! I have been enjoying this only I put dark chocolate stevia in mine mmmmmmmm.
We are excited about all of these changes.
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