Day 25

Weight: 180

OK, this just …. bites!

Body….hello!!….wrong direction!  Maybe it’s the antibiotics I had to start taking yesterday; my tummy has the old familiar bloat.  It’s amazing how much of a difference I can discern, having felt really good, and not bloated, the last 3 weeks.

I went to the doc for my follow up last night and he said that plateauing out with very little weight loss like I’ve been doing is normal.  As we’re talking, he didn’t quite believe that I was as hungry as I’ve told him I was.   Coming back to that topic after a few minutes I told him that I REALLY look forward to my meals, both of them.  He was looking dubious but then asked me what dosage of HCG I’m on (his PA wrote the scrip).  I told him 125ml of the cream and he said, “oh, the cream is usually used at 150-200ml, 125 is too low”.  Well, DUH!

It’s not like I didn’t tell somebody earlier!

It ticks me off, because not only have I been hungry, and now I’m wondering how my metabolism will be after this is all over, I feel like I’ve been wasting this last week, with such a small improvement, and TIME IS RUNNING OUT!….

Sure, I can do it again, but I don’t WANT to!  And I shouldn’t HAVE to, if the weight would just come off!!

You have to take a 6 week break after the last application of HCG before you can start again.  And during that time you stabilize at the weight you’ve gotten to, adding back a bit more food, oil and very few starches.  OK, fine.  But by that time it’s football season, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas.  I don’t want to be on a 500 calorie diet at that time!  I want to have the flexibility to make intelligent choices!!

So, the best I can hope for, using the HCG, is probably another 10-12 pounds or so, as I only have 14 applications left.  I am trying to get the dosage upped for these last 2 weeks.  If nothing else, maybe I won’t be coveting my husband’s sandwich as he’s packing his lunch.