Thanksgiving: The 2nd Day of My HCG Diet

December 9, 2009 by Amelia Handley
Filed under Diets

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! My Thanksgiving went wonderfully even though I’m on the HCG Diet. But then I’m on the second day of my HCG diet which means that Thanksgiving was a loading day for me. I got to enjoy all the high calorie, fatty foods prevalent on Thanksgiving without messing up my dedication to follow the HCG protocol for weight loss.

I woke up and weighed myself (same as yesterday). Then I took my homeopathic HCG weight loss formula drops and my B-Total Sublingual drops. After waiting the required 15 minutes, I had cinnamon rolls for breakfast. And I didn’t even limit myself to one since it IS a loading day. I’m supposed to eat a LOT of fatty foods so cinnamon rolls were the perfect place to start.

I made an apple pie to take to our family dinner (and totally snacked on spiced apples during the process). Since it was Thanksgiving there was plenty of good “loading” foods around the house. So that was definitely not a problem. I made sure to take a break from “loading” for 15 minutes around 11 am so that I could take the HCG drops at 11:15 am. Then I made sure not to eat or drink anything for the next 15 minutes. Then I was good to go again.

When I was reading the booklet that came along with the HCG products I remember a list of common errors that decrease the amount of weight loss even if people think they are following the HCG protocol for weight loss. One of them was that people don’t load enough high calorie, high fat foods during the first two “loading” days. Evidently it leads to increased hunger, crankiness and headaches during the diet.

I want to avoid all hunger and headaches and crankiness if possible so I’m doing my best to take in enough fat during my first two days. I’m sure that I’ll have my rough days, but if loading more fat can increase the chances that I won’t have a lot of rough days I’m all for it!

So far the HCG protocol for weight loss seems like a piece of cake (or pie since it’s Thanksgiving). After I went to the big Thanksgiving dinner with my family and enjoyed all the traditional foods that we have every year I got home and took the weight loss formula again. Now I’m headed to bed and I’m trying not to think about the fact that tomorrow my big staple is going to be water and herbal tea. We’ll see how it goes!

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.