What a grueling diet! It works, my friends - you lose a pound a day IF you follow the diet exactly. Big IF! Food has been my everything for the last forty pounds - I blame it on giving up men and sex! Nonetheless, food has been my entertainment, my comfort, my delight, my release from depression or boredom - you name the discomfort and I'll replace it with food.
Weeeelllll . . . the HCG diet only allows 500 calorie a day of very specific foods - few of which I like. No breakfast - only tea or coffee with a tablespoon of milk. My lunch is 3.5 oz of lean beef and asparagus. At 3:30, I'm so hungry I start seeing gray, I'm weak and grouchy so I have my fruit - 1/2 grapefruit or a small orange. At 6:30 I have another 3.5 oz meat portion and more asparagus. In the meantime, water water water. When I get home at 10:00, I have a grissini stick and my second fruit allowance which I prefer to be a sliced apple; however the apples down here in Arizona are all cold storage and mushy - yuck! So I have another 1/2 grapefruit. Really tough on the weekends when I want a martini on Friday night and Eggs Benedict for Sunday Brunch!
Easter weekend I decided to forget the diet, had fewer than 5 cocktails, small portions of carbohydrates, some eggs, cauliflower with cheese- and I gained 8.5 pounds in two days! Took me all week to get four of those pounds off!
It is a mind over matter diet and that phrase is an understatement! So for all of my Cornfield Heiress Club members who are struggling with the HCG Diet, you're not alone! Hats off to the perfect women who wear basic beige and sensible shoes - surely this group has no trouble with the diet!
I find myself testing the limitations of the diet all the time. For example, I'll try a potato vodka martini in place of my evening fruit. It doesn't work! I purchased some cigars to stave off the nighttime cravings - that doesn't work either.Why do we sabotage ourselves so? Why can't this be solved with logic? Why can't the hole in the soul get full some happy way?
I got a prescription for Ambien so I could knock myself out at night- it made me eat in my sleep! One morning I woke up to find a martini glass on my bed stand filled with peanuts and maple syrup, for Godsake! And the vodka bottle had been pulled out of my cupboard and at least 1/2 cup was gone from the bottle. In my sleep I did this! I had a terrible headache that morning and could barely get out of bed.
I've decided to try a three week plan next round instead of six - maybe that will make it easier to stay on point - tackle only 10 pounds per session.
What are your experiences? Thoughts?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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