Day 9: Waiting for My HCG Diet Kit
Lisa and I are still awaiting the delivery of our HCG and the HCG diet protocol that comes along with it from HCG Diet Direct. While we've been waiting we've been looking around for info online and we've found a few sticky topics that get talked about a lot. And they're going to be a bit rough if they're actually true. We're treating them as rumors at this point; nothing's set in stone until we get the HCG diet protocol booklet from HCG Diet Direct. Then we'll have to really deal with the trouble areas.
But for history's sake I thought I'd dedicate my daily article for today to the problems I foresee. I'm definitely going to have a big issue of diet soda isn't allowed. I figured it might be since it's zero calorie, but I've heard some say that you can't have it. I'm also going to really dislike it if I'm limited to just one kind of berry (the strawberry is great, but there are so many other yummy options out there to choose from). And I also heard that there is no approved ground meat. That seems difficult to me since there are really lean ground meat options out there. And lastly...what's this I hear about no substitutions?
Really? No diet soda? No Crystal Light? That's going to be tough for me. I mean...if it's true. I'm still hoping this one will fall on the rumor side of the scale. If it's actually listed in the HCG diet protocol handbook I'll have to deal, but until that point I'm going to be planning on using it to tide me over as I refrain from having Cheetos or chocolate cake.
Next I need to bemoan the removal of berries from the hcg diet protocol. I thought they were included, but we've found several comments from dieters online that suggest the only berry allowed is the strawberry. Could that be correct? There are so many wonderful berries out there to choose from and we're to stick strictly to the strawberry? I'm very disappointed in this possibility. (I'm still kind of hoping that it's not quite true...just give me my pipe dreams. They'll be blown out of the water soon enough).
The no ground meat thing won't really be an option until I get to the monthly barbeque gathering my brother hosts. He's going to be pretty bugged when I just have salad. But I suppose I can just tell him I'm sick and he might just let it go. Or maybe I'm wrong and ground meat is an option; there are all those really lean varieties available now.
The substitution thing just might kill me; I mean the rumor that there ARE no substitutions. I thought I'd be able to save a serving of fruit to eat late at night when I'm still up and I'm starving. But if not...maybe I'll just have to learn to go to bed at a decent hour. It will be rough, but I think I can do it.
Basically...I guess I just need to suck it up and wait it out. When the instruction booklet arrives I'll study it from front to back and learn the rules and then follow them; mostly because I think it would be awesome to lose 25 to 50 pounds in 25 days and also because if I follow the rules perfectly that means my dieting buddy, Lisa, will owe me a brand new pair of jeans. I'm thinking I want a new pair of Big Stars.
Amelia Handley studied exercise science at university 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.
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