I confess, I stopped my HCG diet after day 13 instead of day 20. Basically my husband made a comment last weekend that he thought my face looked sallow and that I was losing too much weight. I cheerfully decided to ignore him since I’ve weighed 5 pounds less than I did that day for long periods in the past five years. However, yesterday at the end of my annual well woman’s exam my doctor pronounced me very healthy, but also suggested that it would be best if I didn’t lose any more weight. Her I listen to. So…The good news is that I’ve lost 11.6 pounds and I fit back into all of my skinny clothes. The bad news is that I still have a small gut and some love handles going – my doctor says those are pregnancy war wounds. Her opinion is that I can try working out to get rid of them (tried that in the past), but most likely its either tummy tuck (an option husband has ruled out) or live with them. Oh well – there are worse things than giving up bikinis at age 44.
So today I started the 2nd phase of the HCG diet which is basically the same as the first only no HCG drops. I stick with this diet for today and tomorrow and then I’m on to the maintenance phase which I’m really looking forward to since it allows for a glass of wine at night – yippee! All in all I’d say the diet hasn’t been that bad. No migraines, apparently I’m in good health, and I’m down 11.6 pounds plus I learned to cook a few new dishes.
I’ll keep you posted on how the rest of phase 2 goes and then phase 3 as well.
