More daunting mistakes!
I’m incredibly embarrassed about my mistakes. It really is no rocket science to follow the recipes and the protocol but, sure enough, the Math/Science nit wit in me made the following mistakes:
1. mis-measured the doses and mix because I was reading the rubber topper at the wrong end, meaning I was under-dosing. I used the top of the rubber topper in the syringes as a guide. When in reality, I should’ve used the bottom end of the rubber stopper. Pretty logical. But hey, I’m not a genius.
2. This one is probably even more lame. Because I hate to add and multiply, I just assumed (out of sheer laziness) that I was only allowed to eat 1 oz. of vegetable per meal. Jules told me specifically to count the calories of each meal. But more Math? I thought to myself. So I just said, “well, a serving is an oz. so one serving must be what I ought to eat.” Surely, that one serving of vegetable at the measly one ounce was making me extremely hungry! I go back now to look at my notes and I was only consuming less than 300 calories each day!!! omg! No wonder I was super grouchy and grumpy. I blew up on my kids a couple of times for no other reason than lack of patience. GUILT!
It was not until I went on vacation with Jules this week that I realized my mistakes. So now that I’m back on the proper protocol, I’ve lost 9.2 lb.s since starting it! And sure enough, this is the week I’ve seen the most amount of weight loss! I’ve lost on average of 1 lb. a day!!!
And now that I’m doing the protocol properly, I feel pretty darn good compared to my misery the 1st week. I can definitely do this!!!
6th Day on Protocol
So my life is pretty hectic, or should I say chaotic. I’m not as disciplined as some of my favorite bloggers who keep track of their daily progress via Vblog or blog. So I’m just summarize my first week on the protocol.
I started the protocol this Monday. It is now Saturday.
The first two days of loading were more difficult than I anticipated because I felt bloated, nasty, unhealthy while I ate high fat foods such as ribs, prime rib, jambalaya, and salami. The food addict in me was totally expecting 2 days of complete food ecstasy. But it was not quite like that. By the end of the 2nd day, I was very conscious of my “fat” around the belly, under my chin and even my feet. My toes were beyond swollen they were ready to pop!
Then the first few days of th VLCD (very low calorie diet) were not exactly a walk in the park either. Not being able to eat what I wanted was a tremendous challenge. Eating in small portions felt…well, like downright deprivation. And it is deprivation, even though in theory, this protocol should have helped stave off the hunger as the HCG ought to be burning my stored fat to offset the lack of calories in my daily intake. It was more of a mental / psychological struggle than anything else. By day 5, which was yesterday, my taste buds were going crazy! All I wanted was some seasoning to my food. Thank goodness for Trocomare! Throughout the day, I’d crave for taste and texture.
Today, day 6, was extraordinarily difficult. After a lengthy car ride, I came home with the kids and tried to nap. Actually, my daughter was telling me a story and I inadvertently fell asleep until she woke me up with, “did you hear what I said?” Suddenly, hunger pains were so overwhelming, I rushed to the kitchen and ate about 8 crowns of steamed broccoli, knowing it’s a “no, no” on this protocol as it is NOT one of the prescribed vegetables.
Fortunately, I broke my amber bottle containing the HCG on the way home from our little trip. After consulting my best friend, Jules (you may have seen her Vblogs), I decided to up my dose from 125 IU’s to 166 IU’s, following the Releana dosing. So I mixed the HCG tonight and took my first higher dose. I feel okay. Not much of a change with the except that my stomach is not terribly upset right now. For the past week, I have gotten stomach upsets and nausea by 8 p.m. and it’d last until wee hours of the night, causing difficulty to sleep. Right now, I feel hungry. Or is it craving? Or is that empty stomach feeling? Not sure. But I don’t feel icky. So we’ll see.
Ciao!
Make sure you don’t make the same mistake!
Okay. So I have officially been on the protocol for five days now. And I will go back and blog my week’s journey. But before I do that, I wanted to give the following suggestion:
Get accustom to eating specific, portioned meals every day. And begin to cut down your portions to the healthy size, not our usual over-sized portions. I know we don’t have to go on a diet before doing the protocol but I find that because I was really reckless in the way I snacked here and there, eat morsels of food as I cook and finish off kids’ plates, doing the VLCD (very low calorie diet) portion of the protocol has been a challenge, more so mentally and habitually rather than physically. So if I can turn back the clock, I’d start eating smaller portions and begin to count my calories at least 14 days before I start the protocol. I suppose this is sort of similar to Kevin Trudeau’s phase 1 in his book. And I attempted to do as much as I could prescribed in his book. But alas! I don’t have the iron will nor the lifestyle to contend with all of those changes in one month. If I had to choose one thing to change, it’d be to eat less and watch what I put in my mouth rather than just picking up whatever appeals to me around the kitchen, whenever I want.
I have not be able to blog about my first week because we moved to a new house this past Sunday and we have not had any internet access. But my bff, Jules, has a great VBlog!
It’s a toss up now, between her and Mamacloc!
