Get Your MIND Ready FIRST!!

Get your mind ready!!! I feel it’s one of the most important aspects, preparing your mind set for this journey!
Don’t let your mind play you down…you control your thoughts and actions…stay strong and keep your eye on the goal! I want to do all I can to help…myself and anyone that may run across this blog.

We have a battle in our mind, it’s the worst battlefield we come across…all day there are temptations EVERYWHERE and in the same note there are many things that bring us down to. Be ready for those little thoughts…boy, taco bell would be great right now….aaaww I wish I had chocolate…uuuuwww Chili’s…. But you know what…it’s not a never again situation. The end result is not that you can never have that again. It’s just for now.

Don’t let the radio, billboards, T.V., the annoying co-worker eating McD’s in front of you, make you fall or cheat. Just remember why you’re doing this.

I am doing this to lose weight YES…that is my #1 goal right now, but I am REALLY excited to FINALLY learn what are good foods and what are not….I really never have learned that stuff. I know later, I will be able to know how I can eat a small bit of ice cream or maybe a cheese burger (happy meal)..lol.

But I really really really want to succeed in this. I am tired of getting out of the shower and not even wanting to look at myself. I am tired of it being ssssooo long since I dared the dreaded swim suit, it’s not fair to me and it’s really not fair to my kids who just want me to go have fun with them, but I just shy away and kindly pass the offer, saying I have to work or go to the store…
Inside I am dying with pain…my kids who love me just as I am, they just want to play with me, but I can’t run further than a block without feeling pain and being out of breath, plus it’s means I am always…”IT”…lol cause I am the first to easily be caught in the game of TAG your it…. I want to look at myself and feel nice, good. I don’t have to be ‘skinny’ anymore…I just want to be pretty to ME, and to feel like I look good to my husband. I am blessed with an amazing husband…he supports me no matter what and has always let me find my own way in things. He sees me beautiful then and now…. Every day he tells me at least 2 times a day that I am beautiful….I want to see what he sees!

I don’t know about you, but I am done feeling this way. This letter to me (and whomever reads it) will be read and felt….your story may be different but there is still a area that you want to overcome within yourself, it’s why we are taking the HCG Diet journey!

I’m not a big variety eater…..I like simple…but as I go, I know that I’ll learn how to eat more of the items from the list…it’s just a start and a place to begin…go with what you ‘know’ and the let the rest follow later after you find your way…in about a week, it will begin to make more sense and you’ll see the new path unfold before your eyes….  That’s what I am telling myself 😉

But first you have to set your mind at the correct ‘settings’….because you will need good POSITIVE thoughts for the upcoming HCG Diet days.

I have read so many areas in forums as I looked for answers, what I found was a lot of negatives BEFORE people even started…I can’t stand the Stevia sweetener, I don’t want to eat cabbage, I am so tired of chicken…

My thought, don’t eat anymore chicken, stop using the sweetener and back away from the cabbage and find a path that works for you…. “I mean really… how well did ‘your’ plan for eating work out so far”….mine not so great…hence the upcoming journey with the HCG diet 😉

Getting honest with yourself FIRST is the key…how did I get here…hhhmmm me, me, me. No one forced me to eat that late night snack, listening to the little voice that said…”oh just this once won’t hurt’ or that small piece of pie that was SCREAMING my name…no one made me eat it…. Passing on going to the gym, for… oh I don’t know… 1,000,000 possible reasons…lol

The true problem was years of these subtle little things added up. I did this…me and me alone, yes I have had serious health problems that have played a big part…but the final answer to the question is…
“I never learned how to eat RIGHT.  I went on crazy diest and then crashed and burned after…because I still didn’t know good food from bad food. I gave up trying after in frustration, weight going up then down up then down…. I just eat what I wanted and didn’t understand the consequences to my actions”.

You know, way back when, there was no…Sweet & Low…Ben & Jerry’s….handy dandy microwaves, McDonalds, Taco Bell…

Personally, I hate fish…so I am not eating fish. I wish I could, but man it just grosses me out to think about it. I am also not so fond of Stevia sweetener (Yet…key word…YET), but then again I didn’t like ‘Sweet & Low’ at first.

I found that a little touch of Stevia in my coffee is better than none…lol…see progress already. First lesson was, Geesh, don’t use the whole package…yuck, bad plan… a little touch will do ya.

Before you start this diet, get the RIGHT mind set for success. This is a TOOL to help you not only to change your life, but to finally learn how to eat right and take your control back over food. I mean really… how bad is it that we get pushed around by a piece of apple pie…

Food is meant for …survival, energy & protein. Sure it’s nice when it taste great and yummy, but it wasn’t the reason that food was created. It was created to make us strong and healthy.

The foods on the ‘approved’ list are there to help you, to help you get healthier and give you a new start.  Use this HCG Diet as a TOOL not a CRUTCH or fast result cure….it’s not a ‘drive through – break through’ it’s a new beginning…How long did it take you to get to this point? It took me 40years. I totally understand, it is going to take time to reverse what I have done…but I KNOW I can do it and so can you !

We have all said the “If I Could Just….I Would Be Happy”
If I could just get this weight off, I would be happy…..If I could just get the new job, I would be happy….If I could just afford a newer car….If I could just…

Well now you can, right now you can!! so get excited and get HAPPY now and don’t wait until the end…because no matter how much we do or far we go…we could always just be happy ‘IF’….

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HCG Diet Approved Foods & Calorie Counts

Found this at: HCG Diet Forum:
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Here is a list of the quantity and calories of each of the Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) foods.

From www.nutritiondata.com – USDA nutrition data base ~ all foods measured & weighed RAW

FRUIT: one fruit per meal; do not mix
Apple: medium ( 3″ dia. 182gr) = 95
Grapefruit: ½ = 44
Orange: large = 86
Strawberries: 10 medium: = 40

STARCH:
Melba Toast: 1 = 20
Melba Snack: 2 = 24
Grissini Breadstick: 1 = 20

MEAT: 100 grams – 3 ½ ounces; all visible fat removed; weighed raw; cook with no oil or fat:
Chicken Breast: = 110
Ground Beef: 95% lean = 137
Steak: (round/sirloin tip) = 142
Crab: = 84
Halibut: 110
Cod = 110
Flounder: 91
Tilapia: 96
Lobster: = 90
Shrimp: = 106
Veal: = 112

VEGETABLES: measured raw; one vegetable per meal; do not mix; ADJUST the serving sizes to fit your 500 calories per day!
Asparagus: 10 medium spears = 30
Beet-Greens: 3 cups = 24
Cabbage: 1 cup = 22
Celery: 2 cups = 32
Chard: 3 cups = 21
Cucumber: 300gr = 45 –  **My new Favorite Food** – 300gr is a Lot!”**
Fennel: 1 cup = 27
Lettuce: 3 cups green (approx: 100gr)= 15
Onion: ½ cup = 32
Red Radishes: 1 cup sliced = 19
Spinach: 3 cups = 21
Tomatoes: 1 medium = 22 1 cup = 27 – **1cup=149gr – this is a lot of tomato**

MILK: 1 Tablespoon whole milk = 9 calories

Simple ~ Sample ~ Example Of Loading Days HCG Diet?

You know when I started this HCG Diet, The loading days confused me a bit. Some  call it the ‘gorge’ days. But what exactly am I suppose to ‘gorge’ on. I heard…twinkies, oreo’s, ice cream, yogurt, eggs, nuts…etc.

Well, as I started asking around and dug deeper. I finally understood the BEST way on loading days. Think about this for a minute….YES twinkies sound GREAT with a big tub of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, brownies, candy bars, sugar sugar sugar…

BUT BE CAREFUL!!

The loading days are meant for adding ‘high fats’ but you want to add the RIGHT fats….not the ones high in Cabs & Sugar! I mean really, we are already trying to get OFF the carbs and sugar that got us here in the first place.

Of course eat the brownie or ice cream, but don’t make straight sugar and junk your only source. Make sure you are ‘preparing your body’ for the journey…

So keeping that in mind….go to your local Golden Corral or Western Sizzlin or your favorite buffet place…and dive into the buttery rolls we love so much…the salad with cheese and all the fixing (just not to much lettuce…hehehe & don’t forget ranch dressing…or blue cheese…yum yum.. enjoy!

No really, just go enjoy yourself…take time to stay awhile and eat all the stuff you like, the things you would otherwise try to pass on…it’s fun and it’s going to help you get through the upcoming weeks 😉

Here is my sample loading days and you take it from here…ok 😉

Breakfast:
Coffee with lots of creamer and sweetener
Greasy yummy fried egg sandwich with lots of bacon, cheese on white bread with mayo
large glass of milk and a croissant…. took me a bit to eat it all, but I got it down with pleasure 😉

Snack:
Strawberry high fat yogurt…the good stuff. Handful of almonds and a handful of walnuts !!! ( these 2 are really high in GOOD fats)  !!!!

Lunch:
here I come Mickey D (McDonalds) – Quarter Pounder…and yes you may super size my order kind young sir… not quite to full… so I’ll take a shake to go…hehehe

Mid Day Snack:
I love love love Doritos’s and sour cream…I know I know…Yuck huh….don’t say that till you try it…all my friends said the same, but they are believers now 😉
I ate the whole bag…no shame here…  😉

Dinner:
Large Meat Lovers Pizza with extra cheese and then covered in Parmesan cheese…more nuts and large milk…

Wine…wine..wine…oh I do love my wine…gotta get stocked up to hold me through 😉 I know it’s full of sugar, but that’s why it taste so good 😉

Before Bed:
Chocolate brownie large glass of milk and ice cream…

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Next morning… I woke up and thought…man I am ready to start the diet…I got a stomach ache…lol… but here we go again 😉

Day 2 Loading Day:
Coffee with lots of creamer and sweetener
Croissant with lots of butter and strawberry jam…ate 2
large milk…nuts and a brownie

Mid morning… high fat peach yogurt – brownie & ice cream

Lunch:
2 eggs…nuts handful of each…bread with butter and jam

Mid Day:
more nuts…olives…chips…cheese blocks (about 10pc approx: ½” inch in size) large glass of milk

Dinner:
chocolate with caramel candy bar…. Grilled cheese with lots of butter…more olives and nuts

After Dinner:

Wine, cheese blocks, olives nuts and another brownie