Decision

This is about doing a diet that is rather bizarre - but it works so I decided about 4 weeks ago to try it.

It's called the HCG diet and uses a hormone called Human Chorionic Gaonadotropin and a 500 calorie a day protocol. 500 calories? Good grief! Then I read about the diet and what this HCG does and I felt more comfortable about it. Then I started hearing about people dropping 20 pounds in a couple of weeks. Now, I'm not obese, I just need to lose the 20+ pounds from around my middle. They just won't go, no matter what I do.

So I thought - OK I will give this a go.

First thing to do was to decide whether to "shoot up" or take it sublingually and I chose the latter. I just can't see myself and the needles every day. And then I ordered and had to wait three weeks for my little ampoules to get here. I bought a needle kit too, on the off chance I might decide to do it but nah...

The stuff arrived yesterday from India in a plain brown wrapper - I bet Scott the mailman wondered what was in there. And last night I mixed up my batch with gin (the alcohol dilutes and emulsifies) and sublingual B-12.

This is very odd - for the first two days you have to gorge yourself - so I have been eating ice cream, candy. chips and a very rich casserole all day and feel disgustingly full. But apparently you have to store up this excess fat for the first couple of days before you start losing. I weighed in this morning, took before pix (which I will NOT post) and measured myself.

This will be my journey to a leaner me.