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I am currently 8-6 days into the hCG Protocol. This post is going to be a summary of the last week, with some “stats” thrown in so I can catch up. I will be updating the blog everyday in some aspect.
Day One and Day Two consists of what they call a loading days. Which is also when I started taking hCG drops. This prepares yourself for the very low calorie days that follow.
4/20 Day One
Weight: 336.4 (yikes I can’t believe I am sharing that number!)
Fasting Blood Glucose: 281
I did not record what exactly I ate that day. But it was plenty! As my blood sugars (through out the day) and weight gained will prove on Day two. Today was the first day that I felt free from the guilt of food. I was always putting myself down if I didn’t eat “perfectly healthy,” and then in turn eating more of the not so good stuff cause I figured I already messed up. Day after Day went like this. (I am sure I will touch on more of this realization at a later time.) Lets just say it was freeing!
4/21 Day Two
Weight: 339.0 (see told ya I did good on my first loading day)
Fasting Blood Glucose: 260
I did not record what I ate today either. Lets just say we had a birthday celebration at a Chinese Food (My all time Favorite) buffet! Milkshakes and hamburger later that day. Gotta love No Guilt Days!
4/22 Day Three VLCD #1 (V.L.C.D. stands for Very Low Calorie Day) 500 calories, 200grams of protein, 2 fruits, 2 veggies.
Weight: 337.8 (not sure how I lost a pound, but they say some people do)
FBG: Not taken this morning (I believe I just forgot, I have to record of it) I did take it that evening and it was my all time lowest at 155!
Today I cooked up a bunch of chicken and ground beef to last me several days. I used the George Forman to cook both. Cooked the chicken just as is, and I formed the beef into little patties. I measured everything raw, then bagged them up individually after they were cooked.
First Meal
Small Apple, Ground Beef Patty, and 1/2cup mashed up cauliflower. (Seasoned those up with spices)
Second Meal
Chicken, Mandarin Orange, uncooked Celery
For the most part today was pretty easy, much to my surprise. Mike’s Grandma and Aunt came up from California, so that was a nice distraction. I did feel hunger but it wasn’t intense. All in all, a good day!
4/23 Day Four VLCD #2
Weight: 332.6 (Yahoo minus 5.2 pounds)
FBG: 188 (I believe this has been my lowest ever fasting number!)
Today my meals were exactly the same. Made it easy that’s for sure. I will admit today was a hard day. I felt like I couldn’t do this, why am I doing this, I was having doubts. That was until I texted my dear friend, and she straightened me out! I was trying to find distractions during the day to keep my mind off of food, not because I was hungry, but because I needed something. (Hard to explain) The hardest day for sure!
4/24 Day Five VLCD #3
Weight: 330.2 (I am not 100% sure if I will continue to weigh in daily, but as of right now my curiosity is getting the best of me)
FBG: 164 (Now officially my lowest number ever, Loving this!)
Food=Same! Today Angelina spiked a fever and was sick. You could say I was distracted with her, but it was sort of the opposite, I wanted to turn to food to make myself feel better because she was sick. It was tough. No hunger, just craved the snacking. I will admit there was some snacking going on.
4/25 Day Six VLCD #4
Weight: 329.6
FBG: 189
I have decided not to list all the foods I eat. I am only going to share when I have something totally different, like I sub something for something else, or I make a recipe or something. Angelina still sick and I am getting more worried. I managed to make a new recipe tonight, it was a chicken soup made with broth celery and spices. (Sometime in the near future I plan on adding the recipes to the recipe page)  The soup was a nice change! I did have some crackers in the evening. Shouldn’t have, but it is what it is. Which it did reflect in my Fasting Blood Glucose the next morning.
4/26 Day Seven VCLD #5
Weight: 327.6 (I have lost over 10 pounds! 11.4 to be exact!)
FBG: 219 (See what those crackers did? Still way below my 250’s average before the protocol)
Today was pretty much a blur. Angelina still wasn’t feeling good, took her into the doctor. Don’t remember much other than I was feeling skinnier, which was exciting! I substituted 100grams of cottage cheese for one of my meat proteins today, was a nice change. I also made my delicious chicken celery soup! Love that stuff!
This has brought me up to speed. Today is Day Eight VCLD #6, which I will report on tomorrow!
I love how this protocol is going so far. Having a limited amount of food choices really takes the guessing out of the game. I can then focus more on the question “Am I hungry, genuinely hungry?” I have noticed that when I am hungry, and decide to eat, it takes very little food to make that sensation go away. Who knew?!
I am not sure how long I will stay on this phase, the VCLD’s. Three weeks is the minimum, 40days the maximum. We will see how it goes.
My apologizes that this post was so long, and sort of boring, I won’t lie. But I wanted to get everything documented.
I also wanted to say Thank you for all the warmth I felt after yesterdays blog post.
Much 
Mar
I have been leery about sharing this online. I am scared what people will think.
Think this is a quick fix,
Think this is unhealthy,
Think I can’t do this,
I am nervous that I won’t be able to explain myself well enough for people to understand. I wish I could say, “Screw It,” and not have these worries. I won’t pretend they aren’t there, but I am choosing to share this journey for myself to look back on. And maybe help others along the way. This WILL be much more than a weight loss plan, more than a life style change, it won’t be all gum drops and rainbows. A physical and more importantly emotional transformation. And in my heart I want to share it all.
That being said…
I have decided to heal my emotional eating by using the Mind Body hCG Protocol. I am taking the homeopathic hCG in drop form.
Close to a year ago, I knew a handful of people having great weight loss results while using hCG. I never, in a million years, thought I would ever think about do it myself. A quick run down of my dieting past.
10-11 years ago, (I can’t believe its been that long) I started taking Metabolife. Or an off brand, I can’t remember exactly. Around this time I also stopped eating. I can admit now that I had a food issue. (Never been able to say that before) I lost a lot of weight, that is until they pulled Metabolife from the shelves. Long story short, I started eating again, gained everything back and then some.
In the last couple of years I have tried really hard to diet on my own. Knowing that any over the counter, magical pill wasn’t the answer. At least not what the package states.
So when I first heard about hCG, I thought for sure it was yet another “diet pill,” scam with broken promises. Even going as far as being unhealthy with only 500 calories a day. I was very against it, ask anyone!
Then a dear friend of my introduced a book to me. Weight-Loss Apocalypse: Emotional Eating Rehab Through the Hcg Protocol by Robin Phipps Woodall. What a title right? My friend wanted me to read the book, not for the hCG side of it, but for the emotional eating aspect. Me an emotional eater? Nah, not me. I wasn’t eating out of depression, sadness, stress ect. But I gave the book a chance, and will be forever thankful that I did. The author explained Emotional Eating by saying eating with any emotion. Happiness, Sadness, Celebration, Boredom, in the end it boils down to
eating without hunger.
At that moment it hit me. I eat without hunger all the time. Never feeling true hunger. And I also fell into the opposite spectrum, eating way beyond the point of fullness. Did you know that you really don’t need much food to remove hunger?
I am not going to try to explain the scientific facts behind hCG and what it does hormonally. Just rest assure that this is not dangerous, when done correctly. If someone ate only 500 calories a day without the added help of hCG that would be unhealthy.
Following this protocol, its going to allow me to work through my emotional eating. Truly eating when I am hungry, and stopping when the hunger goes away. Even if I am at a celebration, even if I am bored, even if there is still food on my plate, I am done.
This is my introduction post. I will be adding additional posts to get caught up to where I am now. I have been on the protocol for a total of 7 days, and would like to report on the past week.
If you would like to follow me and watch how I transform my “addiction” with food, then please do. If you have questions, please ask them, and I will try my hardest to answer them. If you have concerns, voice them, but just know I am not here to debate anyone.
My goal first and foremost is to fix my relationship with food and cure my diabetes. If losing weight is a result from attaining those goals, then I will welcome it! 
Much Love
Mar
That’s what Angelina stated to me this morning.
“I bet you don’t remember the important thing I HAVE to do today?” –Said Angelina
*In my head* –No Angelina, I have no idea. It surely can’t be the thing that you have been talking non stop about since yesterday, no way its that!
*Actually said* ”Oh boy, hum, I just can’t remember, you better remind me!”
“Plant the trees, duh!”
“Oooohhh yeah, the seeds!”
“Yes can we do it NOW, please?” -7:30am
“Sure we can, why not?!” -as I sip my coffee
The Lorax movie, and I Hop have teamed up together in an effort to plant 3 million trees. Along with a child’s meal, they will give you a book mark with a packet of seeds hooked to it, to plant a tree…Anywhere YOU want to! 
Of course they played the commercial advertisement over and over again on the TV. And each time Angelina mentioned needing to go to I Hop to get her seeds. Mike and I could not remember the last time we went to a restaurant for breakfast, so why not?!
This past Sunday (April 1st) we went to I Hop, for food, and more importantly seeds, (As I am sure that’s how Angelina felt!) Apparently Sunday mornings at about 10:00am is a pretty popular time for breakfast. During our 25min wait, something prompted me to ask the hostess if there were still magic tree seeds available. Sadly she frowned and gave me the news they had ran out 2 days prior. 
Boy was I bummed. I knew how upset Angelina would be and debated whether to share the message now, or wait till after breakfast when the waiter was sure to deliver our bill without the seeds. Much to my surprise after I talked with Angelina, she replied with,
“Can we still eat here for breakfast?”
I chuckled and said, “Of course!”
Enjoying her Morning Cup of Joe (Hot Chocolate)
Once again Grandma came to the rescue and called another nearby I Hop, they had plenty left. In fact she was given 18 bookmarks, to be able to hand out to friends! Angelina was excited to pass them out at the H.O.M.E. program yesterday, giving each and everyone the instructions on how to plant them. Which was to soak the seeds for a whole day first before digging a tiny hole and watch them grow.
We started to soak ours yesterday, and Angelina knew the minute she woke up, she could do her important thing!
Mike and I decided that it would work better for us to start growing them in a Styrofoam cup inside first, then hopefully transport it outside after it sprouts. Here’s to hoping it works. Waiting is always the hardest part! I have lost count how many times Angelina has checked the cup to see if its growing yet, and its only been about 3 hrs. 
Will be fun to blog about how our Truffle Tree is growing!
Buddy wanted in on the action too!
I apologize that then blogs have been slacking lately. We have just been busy busy bees here. I promise they will get better!
Night Night
Today was Christmas in the Tripp house.
Mike has been trying to get me to want a new television, FOREVER! I never saw a purpose, especially since our T.V. still works.
Some of you might remember a post a couple of weeks ago. We were cleaning house, and I needed to get into my cedar chest, which our old hunk of junk t.v. sat on top of. Mike then took the perfect opportunity to entice me into getting a new, lighter, t.v. Maybe even mount it on the wall where I could access the cedar chest, WHENEVER I wanted to.
*Nice* was what I was thinking!
Well that day has come. Today we left the house, heading to Costco, and came home with a new T.V. Vizio, 47in for those that care. 
Mike’s first choice movie to watch tonight? Transformers 3!
Check out today’s pic of the day, Day 42 for the view from the couch!
I did not have to work tonight, so we decided to have a Fun Family Friday Night, Night. 
Angelina got to rent a movie, she choose Dolphin Tale. We just finished up watching that. We pulled the beds (just the mattress part) out into the living room, and we are “campin” out!
I gotta wrap this extremely short blog up fast, as they are waiting for me to join them for the second movie of the night. Real Steel!
Night Night Everyone!
Ok so last night was my first Zumba class, and it might be a stretch to say its my life. But its pretty amazing!
A friend from High school e-mailed me asking if I would want to join her in a class. There happened to be a deal on a groupon type website, and we both jumped at the chance. Huge savings and all!
Both of our schedules worked out so we could start last night.
For those of you who don’t know what Zumba is, it’s a dancing aerobics class. It doesn’t feel like a workout though, so that’s the cool part.
Not sure if every class is this way, but our class they turned down the lights and pumped up the music really loud. The instructor told us to just let loose and get in to it. That’s what we did. Sure I didn’t keep up with the beat, I went left when everyone else went right, but you know what? I was still sweating away and smiled the whole time!
I was a bit sore this morning, but after I got up and moved around, it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Definitely going back! In fact our package we bought is for 20 sessions, so 19 more to go!
If you ever get a chance to try it, I would highly recommend it. In fact I talked my sister into trying it, and quite possibly my sister in law too! *High Five*
…after the best workout!!!
Tonight was Zumba night, first time EVER! I had a blast, enough said!
Just got done taking a shower and I am off to bed. I am beat, but it’s a good feeling!!!
More tomorrow!
Night Folks!
My birthday was amazing! Such a wonderful, fun day! Whew I don’t think I have ever celebrated a whole weekends worth for my birthday. And I loved every minute of it! I can not say thank you enough to EVERYONE for making me feel so special!
Yesterday was spent with my Mom and Sister and Angelina, Down Town Seattle. First we went by REI, then to West Lake Mall, then to Pike Place Market. The weather was just gorgeous, could not have asked for a better day!
First Stop REI!!!
For my birthday my parents wanted to buy me a new pair of shoes. I bought myself a pair of Vibrams, 5 toed shoes during the summer. For those that do not know what there are, here is a link.
I have a pair of white ones, but have been wanting a black pair for work. Thanks to Mom and Dad, I now have a pair I can relax at work with. (Relax is sort of a stretch I guess, working retail and all.)
They are by far the most comfortable shoe EVER. They are meant to be the same as running around barefoot, but with protection on the bottom. When I was running several months back, I was running in my Vibrams! Yes they do cost a pretty penny, but totally worth it! (Yes I just said Totally!)
Angelina did get a new pair too. Her old ones were causing blisters, she feels pretty cool to have a pair also! Here we are in August getting our first pairs!
Here is Kelli and I down town Seattle. It was so bright outside!
The Famous Water Fountain, just outside West Lake Mall. You can walk through using a pathway, which you still get wet! Kelli and Angelina went through, not me or Mom.
 
Then the Famous Pike Place Market.
 
Then after being down town all day, we all went to Mom and Dads and had dinner. And of course Cake!
Nice expression Lina, thanks! 
And that was my 31st birthday!!!!
And I am taking the day/night off! No official blog tonight Folks. See you all tomorrow!
P.S. I had an amazing birthday, thanks to EVERYONE!!!!
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