HCG Therapy for Weight Loss: Day 20

By Amelia Handley

I feel like making up a sing songy chant: Day 20 on my 25 day HCG therapy for weight loss program...Day 20 on my 25 day HCG therapy for weight loss program! I am aware that after the 25 days I still have more work to do. I have to stick to the maintenance diet requirements (for 26 days). But they're nowhere near as stringent as the low calorie diet portion.

So even though I have to do additional time on the maintenance diet after my 25 days on the low calorie diet are completed I'm really, really excited to say that I'm on my 20th day of the HCG diet. Now that I've gotten all my excitement out I've got just a tad bit of bad news. I didn't lose any weight today. But I'm still feeling fabulous considering that my jeans barely fit and I need to run out and buy a new belt. You've gotta' love that!

I took my B-Total and then took my first dose of HCG. I took my other two doses of HCG as I normally do; right before lunch and right before dinner. I've become really accustomed to the schedule of not eating/drinking for 15 minutes before I take it and then not eating or drinking anything for 15 minutes afterwards. I thought I'd hate that and mess it up all the time, but it wasn't as difficult as I imagined.

I went to the store and bought a blender today so that I could try some of the smoothie recipes in the HCG Diet Direct cookbook. They sound so good that I couldn't stand to ignore them any longer. I decided to start with the Orange Slush. It was fabulous along with the grilled chicken and asparagus I had for lunch. I grabbed some Melba Toasts as an after thought, but the slush was so yummy that I didn't even feel like I needed them. I decided that my kids would think it was a fabulous breakfast and to give it a try ASAP.

For dinner I had baby spinach (the way it is presented in the HCG Diet Direct cookbook) with Melba Toasts and more grilled chicken. I remembered before I had chicken twice in a row that I'm supposed to have different proteins for lunch and dinner, but I did it anyway. I guess I was feeling a tad lazy and didn't want to cook knowing I had leftover chicken in the fridge.

The kids were already in bed when I remembered that I was due a serving of fruit. I decided to go for another Orange Slush. Of course the blender made so much noise that the kids ended up in the kitchen. So we all had some. And they DO want it for breakfast in the morning! They thought it was fabulous. - 17269

About the Author:

Amelia Handley studied exercise science in college with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she's found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.