Phase 3 day 8

I had a very sinful day yesterday. Like I said I ate some bread in the morning but didn't tell you how many. I ate 4 pieces of bread with different flavors because hubby bought some as I told him I wanted to try eating some bread. I ate one piece each. I used to want to cry every time I eat bread because it's just the best thing in the world but yesterday I was like, okay so that's the bread I was crying to eat the past month but I wasn't going crazy about it.

In the afternoon I saw some "yema" in the fridge. Yema is condensed milk cooked and turned into candy like caramel and it tasted so good. I was fond of that when I was a kid. I had one piece and I felt like I was hearing angels singing! LOL I certainly enjoyed it. Guess I'm still fond of sweets but I will not eat sweets again for the next 2 weeks. I was feeling guilty the whole time after I ate that.

For dinner, it was the first meal I had for a while that I really really enjoyed. I talked to my husband about my lack of interest on food and he sure helped me out a lot. He cooked sizzling chicken with gravy for dinner and a piece of egg. It tasted soooo good and I can eat that any day on phase 3 because it is okay on phase 3. He said he'll cook that more often for me since I enjoyed it a lot.

So, I woke up today and I gained half a pound. Not bad. I will maintain this weight as much as I can. But, I also decided to just let it be. I will eat until I am well satisfied with what I put in my mouth but I won't try to worry about what the scale tells me. After phase 3 I will have to slow down on carbs and sugar forever! It really can make us gain weight overnight.

Phase 3 day 7

I dropped 1 1/2 pounds since yesterday. That's just crazy! I ate a lot yesterday and I'm sure I went over the 1,000 calorie mark for the first time and I plan on maintaining it that way. I don't know why I'm still losing weight. If this continues then I won't do another round of HCG since I'm near my weight goal. I think I can do it on my own already afterwards. I don't have the same interest on food now. I guess it's the Metformin that's causing me to lose weight. I need my metformin but I cut my dosage to half and just take 1 tablet a day instead of 2 before I was on HCG. I can't skip my medication, I don't want my PCOS to go crazy on me again. I just need to be more cautious about my weight this time and make sure that I am eating right and not starving myself. Goodness, I've been pushing food in my mouth the past few days already and I am already happy with what I am eating. I just have to make sure I don't go crazy on carbs again. Maybe just a piece of bread every now and then would be fine. In fact, I'll do a bit of cheat today. I'll eat one piece of bread to see if I will gain weight tomorrow or not. I know, it's wrong. I just want to try.

--- So I ate some bread this morning. Much to my surprise, I don't like eating bread anymore too. I will not eat anything against the protocol ever again. I know it was wrong that I tried to compensate my weight loss on phase 3 by eating something that is forbidden but I guess what really made me eat the bread is because I just want to eat something that would make me happy for a change. But, my appetite for bread is just not there anymore. I just don't like eating anything! =( That's not a very good side effect of the HCG diet for me and I know it won't be the same case to everyone else. My sisters who were on the HCG diet are quite happy eating foods on phase 3 and after, so I wonder why the heck I lost my appetite completely! I just wish phase 3 will be over. I was much happier on phase 2 which is really weird.

day 2 of my HCG diet phase 1

So I'm now starting the 2nd day of the HCG diet phase 1 or the loading phase. I have gained almost 2 pounds today and I expect to gain more for tomorrow's start of my phase 2. I ate a lot yesterday as I added 2 ice cream drumsticks, some bread and 1 pack of junk food. Weird 'coz I didn't feel like I was full though I ate a lot already. Not sure if that's part of the HCG effect on me but I'm very enthusiastic about this.

Today I plan on eating more fatty and sweet foods in preparation for the "real HCG diet" phase 2. I notice I'm not enjoying my food since yesterday and I'm not excited to eat some more today. LOL Will update once again tomorrow on the start of the real deal.

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I noticed yesterday I kept on sleeping. I thought I was just sleepy. But today I still kept on sleeping and I wake up for an hour then I head back to bed. This had been my problem with PCOS, extreme exhaustion, and now that I stopped taking Metformin (since yesterday) it's back and it's really bad. But, I won't give up on this. Excited to start with the phase 2 tomorrow.

My Quest for Weight Loss

I've been suffering from PCOS or Polycystic ovarian syndrome for more than 6 years. Actually, I don't know when I had PCOS but I noticed I've been gaining a lot of weight since 2004. I used to be very skinny. Was about 120-125 pounds most of my life and I am 5'7 1/2". My maximum weight was 200 pounds but that was on the day that I was going to give birth. It was a miracle how I was able to get pregnant. After many disappointing days of seeing the pregnancy test result as negative, finally I was able to conceive. It was a horrible pregnancy though, we almost died due to severe preeclampsia but we managed to survive it together thanks to a lot of prayers from people who loves us. After I gave birth and had my daughter's baptism, I was ready to do something about my weight because I was about 190 pounds back then.

A lot of people tease me for being fat. They say some mean things without really understanding what I am going through. They think I eat like a pig because I got so big when I used to be so skinny. They don't know how hard it is for me to lose weight as I don't really eat a lot. Well, i went out on a quest to try and lose weight. I've been on a diet of 1 cup of brown rice a day with mostly vegetables for my meals. I count my calories too and I use www.calorieking.com for my calorie count and I managed to keep my food intake at around 800 calories a day... for 5 months! And guess what? I lost 8 pounds in total. It was really heartbreaking for me because I know 1 pound is 3,500 calories and my body require at least 2,000 pounds a day. So why just 8 pounds? I really wondered why and I didn't know what to do.

Then I became very desperate. I wanted to try diet pills so I did my research and I came to the conclusion that Slimina is the best bet. I thought it was the safest diet pill out there but it actually almost killed me! No offense to those who take it or are selling it, but this is the truth. Slimina almost killed me after taking it for just a little over a month. It didn't help me lose weight actually but it was able to stabilize my weight a bit. But, I got into a breaking point. One day while I was busy writing my articles to meet my deadline, I felt something on my chest that I couldn't understand. Then I felt like I couldn't breathe as well as normal. Then after a few minutes the left side of my head became numb. I couldn't feel anything! I was a bit frantic but I know being scared won't do me any good so I called up my husband to drive me to the E.R. There, the doctor suspected I had a stroke! A stroke? At my age? I'm only 28! I was scared because it felt so real... like I was going to die then and there. I had my CT scan and they also checked my heart but everything came out normal. As I went home that night I had the worse kind of headache I ever experienced and no pain medication was able to help me. It was the worst experience ever. That time I didn't know it was Slimina that did it. I thought I was sick. The next day everything went back to normal and I was relieved. Then, a week later, I started experiencing something odd. (I already stopped taking Slimina on the day I had that attack as the doctor advised that it could be the cause) I notice that I have difficulty breathing after I had a nap and didn't understand why. I told my sister about it, I have a nurse sis and a doctor sis so they were able to help me out. They said that I should observe it more closely and so I did. I'm a little stubborn too so I didn't really think about it much. But one day while almost on the verge of sleeping, I noticed I can hear my heart beat. It was fast and I felt like the beat goes up to the topmost part of my skull. I texted my sister and she asked me to count my beats per minute and voila it reached 130! It stayed like that for 5 minutes then I started having difficulty breathing. So, I was rushed to the E.R. again and everything came out normal. My doctor told me that he also had a patient who took Slimina and was rushed to the E.R. That girl unfortunately had to stay in the ICU for days because she got into a coma. I'm so thankful I didn't reach that point but I kept on having arrhythmia for several weeks until all traces of Slimina was flushed away from my body. I will never try Slimina or any diet pills again.

I was 166 pounds 2 months before but then I went home to have my vacation and I gained 18 pounds in less than 3 weeks. that's 18 freaky pounds!!! That's just not possible, right? Well, if you have PCOS then you know how quickly we can gain that much weight. It was disheartening for me because I worked my * off to lose weight gradually but then I gained so much weight in just 3 weeks of normal eating. I didn't even enjoy my food so much :( My doctor told me that since I've been suffering from PCOS then I should take Metformin. So I've been taking Metformin for about a month now, 500 mg breakfast and 500 mg dinner. So far I lost some weight and reached 171 pounds. Then I gained 3 pounds but I don't feel bad about the 3 pound weight gain. Why? Because I super eat out during the time I gained the 3 pounds. I would normally be expecting a weight gain of 10-20 pounds with the way I was eating when I just gained the 3 pounds while I was on Metformin so I am now very happy with Metformin because it helped control my weight. Cheers to Metformin for PCOS women!

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I've been writing articles and one client of mine asked me to write tons of articles about the HCG diet. And that's how I was able to learn a lot about the HCG diet. I recommended it to my sis who also had a weight problem and she bought some HCG drops. She was on the 40 day HCG diet plan and she lost 25 pounds! My other sis got excited too and asked for 1 bottle of the HCG drops. She said she wants to lose 15 pounds and she's currently still on the 21 day HCG diet phase 2. For now, she's on her 6th or 7th day of the diet and she lost over 8 pounds already! So, with 2 of my sisters acting as my guinea pigs (no pun intended) I decided to give this a go too. And, I want to post all my experiences on this blog. For now, I am on my first day of the HCG diet phase 1 and my weight is 174 pounds.

Phase 1 is the loading phase so I need to eat a lot today and tomorrow. So far I had 1 slice of pizza, 12 oz of dark chocolate smoothie, fried chicken, bread, tuna, soda and I will eat some more later for dinner! hehe! I will be posting my pic later when I have the chance.

This will be the start of my weight loss journey with HCG oral drops and I am hoping to lose 25 pounds with the HCG diet but my total weight loss goal is to lose a total of 35 lbs. I have enough oral drops for 30 days so will be on a 30-day HCG phase 1-2. I also won't be taking my Metformin during my weight loss phase 1 and 2 but might take it during the phase 3 but I'll ask my doctor about that first. For now, drumrolls!

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So here's my photo. Hoping to look slimmer again. ;)