Lisa and I are still awaiting the delivery of our HCG and the HCG diet protocol that comes along with it from HCG Diet Direct. While we’ve been waiting we’ve been looking around for info online and we’ve found a few sticky topics that get talked about a lot. And they’re going to be a bit rough if they’re actually true. We’re treating them as rumors at this point; nothing’s set in stone until we get the HCG diet protocol booklet from HCG Diet Direct. Then we’ll have to really deal with the trouble areas.
But I decided that it would be easier for me to stick to the rules if I went ahead and documented what I think of as a few of the “big issues”: Diet Soda, Crystal Light, Berries, Ground meat and substitutions.
So…no diet soda OR Crystal Light. That’s a rumor I heard going around online anyway. And I have to say I’m appalled. What will I do? I’ve decided to take a deep breath and hope for the best since I did run across some blogs that mentioned a diet soda for emergencies or a diet soda or two per day to help you avoid sugar. But I won’t be able to be sure if it’s allowed or not until that dang rule book arrives by mail. And I’m going to try my best to follow the correct HCG diet protocol because that’s how you lose the most weight.
And what about this rumor I hear about berries? I thought all berries were really quite good for you, but some comments I’ve read suggest that the strawberry is the only approved berry on the fruits list for the official HCG diet protocol. If so…I’m so sad. I really like berries: raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, AND strawberries. I’m keeping my fingers crossed they’re all approved until I read differently in the handbook.
The no ground meat thing won’t really be an option until I get to the monthly barbeque gathering my brother hosts. He’s going to be pretty bugged when I just have salad. But I suppose I can just tell him I’m sick and he might just let it go. Or maybe I’m wrong and ground meat is an option; there are all those really lean varieties available now.
The substitution thing just might kill me; I mean the rumor that there ARE no substitutions. I thought I’d be able to save a serving of fruit to eat late at night when I’m still up and I’m starving. But if not…maybe I’ll just have to learn to go to bed at a decent hour. It will be rough, but I think I can do it.
Basically…I guess I just need to suck it up and wait it out. When the instruction booklet arrives I’ll study it from front to back and learn the rules and then follow them; mostly because I think it would be awesome to lose 25 to 50 pounds in 25 days and also because if I follow the rules perfectly that means my dieting buddy, Lisa, will owe me a brand new pair of jeans. I’m thinking I want a new pair of Big Stars.
Amelia Handley studied exercise science in college with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.
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