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I thought I should point out my favorite tool that is indispensable for me to achieve my ~800 calorie per day diet.

MyFitnessPal.

This app / website has, like, every food imaginable under the sun in it’s database with all the nutrition facts you need for what you are putting into your body.  Everything I need to know about total calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, sodium, etc. is contained there.  So, it’s actually quite easy for me to calculate the total calories I’m eating in a day and per meal.  Planning my meals ahead of time with the calculator really helps.  This way, if I’m forced to go out to eat (which I was “forced” to do at my daughter’s birthday party recently =) I can look up the menu of the restaurant ahead of time and know exactly what I need to order if I’m going to hit my goals.

Managing your weight is really as straight-forward (note that I didn’t say, “easy”) as “Calories Out vs Calories In” when you have a tool like MyFitnessPal!

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Switching from chicken this week to steak!  Gotta love my beef.  It’s John Soules fajita beef from Sam’s Club.

Very yummy.
Very easy.
Low fat (although more than the fajita chicken).

Still, it packs the protein I need and tastes quite good!

 

 

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My numbers continue to improve as weight is dropping along with body fat percentage.  After lifting hard yesterday, though, I decided not to go for an hour long cardio run this morning but scaled it back to a nice walk with the wife and the “puppy” (well, she’s not really a puppy at 3 years old but we still call her that because she is still as cute as when we got her at 8 weeks =)

The walk is good as I need to work on my cardio output.  If I can keep my heart at (180 – my age) and do this for an hour per day then I will lower my resting heart rate and improve my cardio output which, in turn, should help me manage the aging of my body!

I’m getting a little more bold.  Today I did eat half a salad from Subway since it fit the macros.  We’ll see what tomorrow’s numbers hold!

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Successfully ate out today at Panera Bread!  Had the Strawberry Poppyseed Salad with Chicken (half portion) and a cup of the Low-fat Vegetable Garden Soup with Pesto.  So yummy!

Lost 1.5 pounds today which sort of made up for not losing anything yesterday.  I believe it had something with me not going to the bathroom yesterday.  Anyways, trajectory is still good.

Also, I worked out and listed heavy but not trying to increase my lifts like I had been doing prior to starting the HCG Diet.

Here are my metrics for today:

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Today was a bit odd.  No weight loss and no fat loss.  In fact it went up slightly (0.1 lb and 0.1% respectively).  Nothing to worry about, though, since I had been warned that there are days when you lose nothing.  So, the key is to keep marching on along the six week journey.  The more telling metrics will occur when comparing weekly numbers.

Had my first follow-up with Weighless MD.  They weighed me, took my blood pressure, measured my body fat, talked with me about supplements I should consider (already taking most of what they recommended – multivitamin, fish oil, magnesium, Vitamin D…was just missing on the probiotic).  Overall, they thought I was making good progress since and was not experiencing deep hunger pangs (one of the key things I had wanted to test about HCG).

Here are my metrics for today:

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Today is Day 07 of my HCG Diet.  I am feeling great…not experiencing hunger pangs on such a low calorie diet (800 kcal vs. the 2200 kcals or so that I normally eat) and seeing the weight drop at about ~1 lb per day.

I’ve been tracking my blood pressure as well with my Omron blood pressure monitor.  All looks good there, too, so, at least from that standpoint, I’m staying pretty healthy.

Here are my metrics for today.

 

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So, the HCG Diet seems to be chugging along just fine as I head into Day 05 (of which only three days were really dieting down to the 800 kcal recommendation.)  Still, I don’t feel too much hunger and the numbers are showing some progress.  I’ve already gone from about 158 down to 152.3 as of this morning.

You can see the scale I use to keep track of many of my metrics.  My Garmin Index Smart Scale is pretty consistent and can provide:

• weight
• body fat %
• skeletal muscle %
• hydration %
• bone mass (weight)

Metrics for today are below:

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Today I went to Sam’s Club an bought some of these Premier Protein shakes in order to stock up on my protein choices during the HCG Diet.  I had been originally looking for vanilla since I had tried that flavor before and like it.  However, I noticed that there were a few other new flavors that were just “calling” out to me – Strawberries & Cream being one of them!  (Banana Cream is up next in about 2 weeks!)

We’ll see how things go with the shakes later.  I’m still trying to down my Bulletproof Tea with 6 tablespoons of Bone Collagen Protein in it.  I may have to dial it back a bit and drink this in 2 sittings.  As good as collagen protein mixes in hot tea, 6 tablespoons is pushing it.  Perhaps 3 and 3 will work better, one in the AM and one in the PM.

I miss my salmon but have substituted my old fish oil and krill oil supplements!

Anyways, here’s today’s metrics:

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Well, today I started Phase 02 of the HCG Diet.  This is the 6 week phase where I continue to inject myself with HCG in the mornings and then run on ~800 calorie daily diet of primarily protein.  You can see a picture I took of the needle.  At first I was scared but it turned out that I was just being a big baby since I barely felt the prick and there wasn’t much of an after-effect (just a small one).

 

 

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