IN THE BEGINNING...

Like the rest of America, I want to lose weight but I'd prefer the quickest fix possible, sans surgery. Well maybe I shouldn't front. If I could afford to get all of my fat lipo-ed, I'd probably do just that. But since that isn't an option, hCG seems like the next best thing.

With this blog I will chronicle my weight loss & I try & keep the blog going at least 6 months to a year after I reach my goal weight just to track my progress in keeping the weight off.

For anyone interested in doing the hCG diet, the best thing I can tell you is to go to Yahoo & join the hCG Dieter's Group. However, I will forewarn you that there is soooo much information out there, it's exhausting.

With this introduction, I will give some information that I found helpful. I will actually start the diet tomorrow so I will post my first before picture on tomorrow with my beginning weight & measurements.

I've decided to go the sublingual route. I'd much rather ingest the hCG orally versus intravenously. For information on how to make the sublingual mix, check out this YouTube video by Mamaclok. She explains the whole process & she has some other interesting videos that explains the diet more in depth.

It was recommended in the beginning that I read Kevin Trudeau's book "The Weightloss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About." Well I ordered it & still haven't made it past page 29. Actually, I think it is very good information & if you have the time, by all means order it & read it. Make sure you get it from Half.com. I got mine on there for like 75 cents plus shipping.

Really the Yahoo Dieter's Group is more than enough information. They have the free manuscript of the doctor that originally developed this diet & most people follow his plan to the letter, just using Kevin Trudeau as supplemental information.

In case you're wondering what my weightloss story is, I'll share. Doesn't everyone have a story? Well almost all of my life I was skinny. When I graduated from high school almost 20 years ago, I was probably 100 pounds soaking wet. Up until I had my first child I was still buying children's clothes & wearing an adult size 0, some 2s.

6 years after high school I had my first child. I think at 9 months pregnant, I was barely 130 pounds. And right after I delivered, the weight just disappeared. So maybe I was 115 then. Just large enough that I was a full 2 and couldn't really wear children's clothes anymore.

Of course as I was aging, I was filling out as a woman. I moved here to GA 7 years ago. My child was 6 when we moved here just to give you an idea of time. I was just having to give all of my 2s away & moving into 4s. 2 years after moving here, I got married & I had on a size 4 when I got married. (I can't even get it over my hips now.) I was probably about 125 then.

After I got married, I had a bad case of the happy weight gain. I shot from 125 to 146 in a matter of 2 years. After we had been married for 2 years I had another child. Sad thing is I can't even blame my current weight situation on him. I was so very sick, I went from about 150 to 124 in a month's time. By the time I was 9 months pregnant, I still was only about 140.

So after I had him it was back to the happy weight gain. I went from 140 to 145 to 150 to 155 to 160. At my heaviest I was very close to 165. So I was steady riding the size train, until finally I landed at 12-14. My mom was giving me 14s that were too big for her & I could wear them. How disappointing was that.

If you can't tell by my weight loss ticker, I'm a shopaholic & when I was a size 0, 2, 4, even, shopping was so much fun. I could get all of these fabulous clothes for dirt cheap b/c no one wore the same size as me. I knew I needed to lose weight & decided to get serious after several events:

-See above - my mom giving me her too small clothes.
-Realizing that I was now bigger than I had been at 9 months pregnant with both children.
-Falling out of love with shopping.
-Going from a 7.5 to an 8 with my shoe size.
-The last straw was when my husband & I went to Puerto Rico for vacation. I had on a long dress & we walked around old San Juan all day long. I didn't know that as a member of the Thunder Thighs club, you need to wear Spanx or the likes when doing a lot of walking with a dress on. So after a day of walking, I had the worst rash ever. My thighs were red and swollen & I was in so much pain I could barely walk. Of course hubby thought it was funny but I felt so pathetic.

So, I found out about the hCG & here I am. Tomorrow will be my first day. I don't know how long I'm going to do it. 23 days is the min & 40 days is the max. I will guage my time by weight loss. My goal is to get down to 123 & float between 121 & 125. I will be updating daily to share what I'm eating, what I'm learning & most definitely my progress. It is my sincerest desire that I can inspire other women out there to take charge as well!