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This product was one I used as a backup for energy and hunger:
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I've also discovered some useful things for phase 3, the three weeks during which I learn to maintain my weight and also "come off" the hcG with a diet that is still limited from sugar and starch.
What I've learned is that there are some very creative people out there. I hadn't spent much time on food blogs before, but now! There's a wealth of info about how to bake without sugar or flour - who would have guessed?
It started because a friend told me about "oopsie rolls" which are "bread" made of cream cheese and eggs. Pretty cool!!
http://www.food.com/recipe/cleochatras-oopsie-rolls-292261
Basically:
1 egg for 1 ounce of cold cream cheese. I started with 4 of each, just in case they didn't work out.
Preheat oven to 350, grease your baking sheet
Separate the whites from the yolks
Beat the cream cheese into yolks, let them wait while you beat the heck out of the whites. if you have it, add a teaspoon of cream of tartar to stiffen them.
Once the egg whites are stiff enough that they form peaks, add in the yolk+cream cheese mixture, folding in so you don't crush the stiffened whites.
Spoon onto the cookie sheet
Bake for 30 minutes.
Let rest, then remove and cool. They can be refrigerated, toasted, frozen -
If you want to add salt or artificial sweetener, mix it
into the yolks - yeah, you can make them sweet or savory here. Some
people add herbs to theirs, I might try some cinnamon next time I make
them.
Most people use these for hamburger buns because when you pour them into circles, that's basically what they form. One clever lady has bought individual shaped pans so she can have hot dog buns. I didn't have a cookie sheet (don't ask) so I used a long, skinny loaf pan for half of my batter and it came out like...I don't know - like bread really, though not tall sliceable bread. I think it might if I had filled the pan higher and actually used cream of tartar. After 4 months of not a single slice of bread, one's imagination is very good...My next foray will be with coconut flour and protein powder. SO curious!
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Whatever Dr. Oz.....
My wonderful father is one of the most health conscious men you'll ever meet. He knows all about every new health craze and concern as it comes up. He takes his vitamins every day, eats his vegetables - and he worries about me, because he loves me. I'm lucky.
Today he sent me this link
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos
This is what I wrote to him after watching as much as I could take of Dr. Oz:
*My* experience with it, and understanding of it is different than the guys that want to scare everyone.
Yes, absolutely, a 500 calorie a day diet without this kind of supplementation would send your body into starvation mode and you would experience organs shutting down. This isn't just 500 calories a day though - it's also your fat stores, and your body *doesn't* go into starvation mode and start hoarding calories as it would if the hcG weren't releasing that fat to be available to your body to burn.
Their professional witness says the drops have no active ingredient in them, I simply can't agree.
Throughout my life I have struggled with blood sugar - having to eat at very regular intervals, and had to be really careful what I ate, balancing protein and carbs really carefully. During the diet I didn't have blood sugar dives like I was accustomed to. My boyfriend even noticed this and commented how nice it was that my energy levels seemed to be better than usual.
I will say that I was really careful to eat a lot of dark green leafy vegetables and ALWAYS organic. I've heard that organic food has 100s of times more nutritional value than non-organic and I suspect the people that have the headaches and faintness weren't eating organic, and may have been eating just lettuce, not raw kale as I was. They also might not have had very good eating habits before they started the diet - if you had an addiction to fast food and then went on this diet I bet it would be really hard.
Dr. Oz is so....reactive.... that I couldn't listen to the whole thing, so I don't know what long-term concerns he has.
As they said, the doctor that came up with this did so in the 1960s, so I doubt it would still be a going concern if it were killing people.
What I loved about hcG is that I was able to get to my target weight in under a year - my feet and knees feel better, my skin still fits me - but I don't know that this would be ideal for everyone.
The first round I did with it was harder than the second one. The first time I did it I had a few dreams about eating cookies. I don't anymore. It's kind of like when I was vegetarian - it feels like a choice now, not a deprivation. I no longer think "I can't have that." I think "I don't eat that."
In addition I think I'm over my sugar and wheat addiction at last, and that is really nice. I'm going to do my best to stay away from them even after my three weeks of "phase 3."
A very good friend of mine lost about the same amount of weight as I did, but she did it with Weight Watchers and running - and it took her a year, one long slog. I tried Weight Watchers a couple times - it's hard and didn't really work for me! This wasn't always easy, but it did work (in 4 months,) and I feel good. Being lighter feels wonderful. Exercising is easier, walking up my 4 flights of stairs to our apartment is easier...the list goes on.
Today he sent me this link
http://www.doctoroz.com/videos
This is what I wrote to him after watching as much as I could take of Dr. Oz:
*My* experience with it, and understanding of it is different than the guys that want to scare everyone.
Yes, absolutely, a 500 calorie a day diet without this kind of supplementation would send your body into starvation mode and you would experience organs shutting down. This isn't just 500 calories a day though - it's also your fat stores, and your body *doesn't* go into starvation mode and start hoarding calories as it would if the hcG weren't releasing that fat to be available to your body to burn.
Their professional witness says the drops have no active ingredient in them, I simply can't agree.
Throughout my life I have struggled with blood sugar - having to eat at very regular intervals, and had to be really careful what I ate, balancing protein and carbs really carefully. During the diet I didn't have blood sugar dives like I was accustomed to. My boyfriend even noticed this and commented how nice it was that my energy levels seemed to be better than usual.
I will say that I was really careful to eat a lot of dark green leafy vegetables and ALWAYS organic. I've heard that organic food has 100s of times more nutritional value than non-organic and I suspect the people that have the headaches and faintness weren't eating organic, and may have been eating just lettuce, not raw kale as I was. They also might not have had very good eating habits before they started the diet - if you had an addiction to fast food and then went on this diet I bet it would be really hard.
Dr. Oz is so....reactive.... that I couldn't listen to the whole thing, so I don't know what long-term concerns he has.
As they said, the doctor that came up with this did so in the 1960s, so I doubt it would still be a going concern if it were killing people.
What I loved about hcG is that I was able to get to my target weight in under a year - my feet and knees feel better, my skin still fits me - but I don't know that this would be ideal for everyone.
The first round I did with it was harder than the second one. The first time I did it I had a few dreams about eating cookies. I don't anymore. It's kind of like when I was vegetarian - it feels like a choice now, not a deprivation. I no longer think "I can't have that." I think "I don't eat that."
In addition I think I'm over my sugar and wheat addiction at last, and that is really nice. I'm going to do my best to stay away from them even after my three weeks of "phase 3."
A very good friend of mine lost about the same amount of weight as I did, but she did it with Weight Watchers and running - and it took her a year, one long slog. I tried Weight Watchers a couple times - it's hard and didn't really work for me! This wasn't always easy, but it did work (in 4 months,) and I feel good. Being lighter feels wonderful. Exercising is easier, walking up my 4 flights of stairs to our apartment is easier...the list goes on.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Today I actually dipped half a pound below my goal weight.
It's pretty exciting and unbelievable. It has made me look a little more thoughtfully at what worked and didn't work during the protocol because I had some major stalls along the way. It's surprising to me as well that my body is still releasing fat even though I'm now at 20.8% body fat according to my fancy new scale. I had thought that the HcG would stop working once I got close to goal....though maybe it means my personal idea of a good goal weight isn't as low as my body might be willing to comfortably go...hard to say. I'm happy to see my collar bones.
One of the things that has seemed to help my progress is getting back to taking my miracle vitamins.
https://www.nuskin.com/content/nuskin/en_US/products/pharmanex/nutritionals/lifepak/01003486.html
and
https://www.nuskin.com/content/nuskin/en_US/products/pharmanex/ageloc_vitality/01103866.html
I had stopped taking them fearing that they might have some hidden fat and I couldn't bear the idea of slowing my progress. I had my hair cut a couple weeks ago and my friend and hairdresser and the woman who turned me on to these amazing vitamins noticed that my hair had thinned and wasn't looking as shiny as usual. She asked if I was still taking my vits and I admitted that I had stopped. She recommended highly that I get back to it, and I'm glad I did. My energy has improved and my hair is looking better...and I think it may have something to do with the weight coming off at a better rate.
It's now 3 months and 10 days since I began with hcG and I've dropped 35 lbs....what ought to have taken me a year to release with Weight Watchers or some other healthy approach.
If you decide to get those vitamins, be a darling and let me know...I get credit for the referrals (not for hcG though :)
I'll post some before and after photos soon. I tried on my jeans two days ago and nearly fell over. I can put both my arms into the waist and legs with my body and I don't need to unbutton the fly!!
It's pretty exciting and unbelievable. It has made me look a little more thoughtfully at what worked and didn't work during the protocol because I had some major stalls along the way. It's surprising to me as well that my body is still releasing fat even though I'm now at 20.8% body fat according to my fancy new scale. I had thought that the HcG would stop working once I got close to goal....though maybe it means my personal idea of a good goal weight isn't as low as my body might be willing to comfortably go...hard to say. I'm happy to see my collar bones.
One of the things that has seemed to help my progress is getting back to taking my miracle vitamins.
https://www.nuskin.com/content/nuskin/en_US/products/pharmanex/nutritionals/lifepak/01003486.html
and
https://www.nuskin.com/content/nuskin/en_US/products/pharmanex/ageloc_vitality/01103866.html
I had stopped taking them fearing that they might have some hidden fat and I couldn't bear the idea of slowing my progress. I had my hair cut a couple weeks ago and my friend and hairdresser and the woman who turned me on to these amazing vitamins noticed that my hair had thinned and wasn't looking as shiny as usual. She asked if I was still taking my vits and I admitted that I had stopped. She recommended highly that I get back to it, and I'm glad I did. My energy has improved and my hair is looking better...and I think it may have something to do with the weight coming off at a better rate.
It's now 3 months and 10 days since I began with hcG and I've dropped 35 lbs....what ought to have taken me a year to release with Weight Watchers or some other healthy approach.
If you decide to get those vitamins, be a darling and let me know...I get credit for the referrals (not for hcG though :)
I'll post some before and after photos soon. I tried on my jeans two days ago and nearly fell over. I can put both my arms into the waist and legs with my body and I don't need to unbutton the fly!!
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