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Today was Date Night and also the second and final day of the “Gorge Phase” of the HCG Diet.  To send me off on my merry way we celebrated my “last supper” with an enormous meal at our local Fuddrucker’s.

I loaded up with a half pound buger loaded to the gills with cheese, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, smothered in grilled onions and mushrooms and then drenched with (my personal favorite) honey mustard sauce.

I then proceeded to add a large side of fries to my order and, of course, had to wash it all down with a large soda (love their Fanta Grape out of the self-serve Coke machine where you can self-mix hundreds of combinations of personalized drinks!)

It was a great night out and I’m looking forward to seeing how the HCG diet will really work out.

p.s.  I gave my first shot of HCG to myself this morning (200 IUs).  Have never done so in my life so this was a first!

Will start doing all the pictures, weight and fat composition stats along with body measurements starting tomorrow to track my progress.

So, on Day 01 I went to Weighless MD and had my initial training on how to approach this diet.  I chose Weighless because they differentiated themselves in following the evidence-based, well-researched (e.g. peer viewed, double-blind, controlled (most variables at least) protocol of Dr. Sheri Emma based in New Jersey.  This was a much newer protocol than that of the original HCG protocol which had been developed by Dr. Albert T.W. Simeons in the 1950s.

Essentially, there are 4 phases to the HCG diet:

Phase 01 – Gorge for 2 days and begin HCG injections
Phase 02 – Injection phase coupled with protein heavy, calorie-restricted diet (between 500-1000 calories per day) for 6 weeks
Phase 03 – Stabilization phase for 3 weeks where you slowly increase calories, stop injections and basically get used to eating more
Phase 04 – Maintenance phase where you keep the calories off for life! (which many HCG dieters have done successfully!)

Well, I bit the bullet!  I am going to try the HCG diet and attempt to lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks.

I have lost 20 pounds before but I did it very slowly for 9 months at about about the rate of 0.5 lbs per week.

There was no magic formula here.  I simply followed some laws of physics around “calories in” vs. “calories out” and put myself at a net loss of about 1700 – 1800 calories per week and, voila!  Problem solved…goal achieved!  I had hit my target weight of 135 pounds and body fat percentage of 5.6%

In my never-ending quest to “quantify myself” I decided to bulk back up about 23 pounds to about 158 (tried to hit 160 but it was getting a bit uncomfortable trying to eat so much) and then cut it again.  This time, however, I was looking for a silver bullet.

If I’m right, this silver bullet is HCG – human chorionic gonadotropin.

So, stay tuned for more details starting tomorrow, June 1st, 2017!

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