The 8-hour diet

Hello, I'm back! Since the last time I blogged here, I actually gained all the weight back plus some more! Yup yup!  I am not proud of it. In fact, it upsets me a lot but then I already accepted it. Being polycystic is really hard especially because I just can't handle the effects of Metformin in my body. I don't like taking it and when I stopped that's when I gained all the weight back.

So, I read about this 8-hour diet and became very interested with it. I thought there's no harm in testing it out myself so I did. I started the 8-hour diet yesterday. I didn't read the book though but I just grasp the concept. You can practically eat normally for 8 hours and don't eat anything or drink anything with calories for the remaining 16 hours. I thought this is the right diet for me since I usually sleep for long hours and I don't mind waiting for my meal. I will not reveal my weight here but I'll just post updates on how much weight I lost. If I can lose weight with this I will try to do this for long-term.

This morning I felt really good. I don't feel bloated anymore which is a great thing. I've been feeling bloated most days especially when I get to drink too much water. It's summer here in my place and it gets really hot so I drink a lot of really cold fruit juices. Now I minimize that and just enjoy my very cold water.

For the first day on this diet I can feel that this is the easiest diet out there (if it works). I was told though that you shouldn't let your body be in starvation mode or fasting mode as it sets your body to stack in more weight as it won't release the fat. I think that's also the reason why it said that before you start your 8-hour routine you need to do a bit of exercise to activate the fat. I think that's their solution in telling the body that it needs to release the fat deposits. So I did a bit of dancing this morning and hope that it was enough to activate my fat cells.

Let's wait and see. I prefer to blog about this so I would actually motivate myself to keep on doing this (if it works) and once it works, I would recommend it to all my readers (if there are any).

Will start again soon ;)

Okay so I really felt bad about my decision to quit the last time. I am still able to maintain my weight though which is something I'm very happy about but I have decided to do my 2nd round of HCG the right way and I will start on Nov. 19 and 20 for phase 1 and VLCD on 21st. My bday is on the 20th so I want to enjoy eating on that day before I start the VLCD. I hope I will be more prepared this time. Will do my best not to ever cheat on this diet and hopefully it will work out great for me.

I quit. LOL

Today I am officially quitting my round 2 of HCG. I feel hungry during the day and I am not losing any weight for several days and I am still on my first week. I don't think this would still help me lose weight so might as well try to lose the weight on my own. I can do the protocol but without seeing results is just so disappointing.

Round 2 Day 6 Phase 2

I had a bad day yesterday. I wasn't able to stay away from temptations and slowly I ate foods that are not included in the protocol. I gained half a pound this morning and I am very disappointed in myself. But, I am going to do it right today. I know I'll end up cheating again in this round but I won't hate myself for it. Disappointed, yes! But that's part of it. I am human. As long as I don't eat have like a full meal of cheat food and just a few tastes here and there, I know I can get back on track. But, I will do my best not to cheat. I told my husband too about my desire to lose 20 pounds and stick to this protocol for 30 days. We both decided that I don't need to do that so I might just stick to 21 days instead.I hope to lose at least 10 pounds before the end and I'll lose the remaining pounds on my own. This decision came to me when I checked my chart from last round. After 21 days, I only lost like 2 pounds and I don't think it's worth it anymore.

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I just want to share about my lunch today. As I said in some early blog posts I don't like the taste of cabbage. In fact, I hate it. But I came up with an idea on how I can easily eat the cabbage. I chopped it really fine and mixed it to my 100g of super lean ground beef and added 1 egg white. I added seasoning of salt and pepper and about a teaspoon of oyster sauce. I've been adding oyster sauce while on this diet and doesn't cause me any problem at all as long as I don't put more than a teaspoon on it. I then made it into a round shape and cooked it. It tastes soooo good! I didn't taste the cabbag in it at all. Just like one big giant burger patty! woohoo!

Round 2 Day 5 of Phase 2

Woke up today to a 1 pound weight loss. Not bad. Hope tomorrow I'd shed another pound. I measured my waist and I'm back to 32 inches once again so that's a 1 inch loss overnight. Yipee! ;)

The last days I've been eating practically the same foods all the time. For my meat it's super lean beef for lunch and chicken for dinner. For my vegetables, it's water spinach for lunch and the awful cabbage for dinner. I wanted to eat lettuce but gosh its price is so expensive right now most probably because of the typhoons that struck the country recently. I guess I'll add fish in my menu today for afternoon meal and probably will try to make a burger patty mixed with finely chopped cabbage for my dinner. I'm really trying to chop my cabbage as finely as possible so I can eat it. If it's too big it makes me want to puke. I really hate cabbage!

R2D4P2

Finally! I'm back to my last day weigh in from Round 1. So excited 'coz tomorrow will be the start of my actual weight loss. So far I lost 5 pounds since the end of Phase 1. I gained 3 pounds in phase 1 and maintained 2 pounds from last weigh in so that's a total of 5 pounds and it took 4 VLCD days to get rid of that! I am somehow a bit disappointed about it but hey, that's great results. What more should I ask for, right? I just hope I can still lose 20 pounds though. I'd still push for it. If not on phase 2, I'll finish it up on phase 3. I'm excited to check my weight tomorrow morning! :)

R2D3P2

So I finished 2 days of phase 2. In phase 1 I gained 3 pounds in total and my weigh in this morning I have lost a total of 3 pounds so I'm back to my original weight at the start of Round 2. I dunno why but I am feeling a bit disappointed about it when I really shouldn't be since 3 pounds is a good number for just 2 days. Maybe it's because I'm so excited to lose weight from my last weight in round 1 that I can't wait any longer. But, I think in the next 2 days I'd be able to start losing below my last VLCD weight from round 1 so I am excited about that. I am back to the +2 weight which is my maintained weight and I'm looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in again. I'll post again tomorrow if the weight result is exciting. If not, I'll post the next day. ;)