Diet Review Part 2

Ok so where did I leave off on the diet train?  Oh yes thats right I had just finished the popcorn oil movement, AKA the Ali diet, and after week after week of loosing a pound gaining a pound it was time to try something much much more drastic.  My sister in law Shannon had ben doing the HCG diet and when I saw her I couldn’t believe how much she had lost, and never thought of her as over weight to begin with!  The change was phenomenal and to be honest I never ever would have considered this diet before in my life as I only knew of the shots they gave for it and there is no way I would ever be able to give myself a shot!  Well it turned out that things have changed for the HCG diet as now you can actually take drops under the tongue 3 times daily instead of taking a daily shot, to me, drops would be doable!  I must say I was skeptical about any diet that only allows you 500 calories a day, as I’m pretty sure that any diet where you ate only 500 calories would cause you to loose weight, but I wanted severe changes and I was going to do what it takes to get there!  

We shopped for the diet drops online, I had found some that were 40 dollars a bottle and the ones that Tom wanted me to get were the ones his sister ordered and they were 75 bucks a bottle.  Tom was convinced that the other drops would not work as good and we had seen that the ones she had worked.  So I bought us both a bottle for 75 bucks each.  This was also the weekend that we were going to Wyoming to hang curtain rods for my moms house and spend the weekend chilling with my mom and visiting family.  We went to visit my Aunt Melanie just after doing lunch with mom and Aunt D Ann, and came to found out she had been on the HCG diet and has lost alot of weight on it as well!  She informed me that the store down the street sells the HCG drops and they are only 20 dollars per bottle!  I was flabbergasted, and when I saw the bottle she had they were triple the size of the expensive bottles that we ordered online, and eventually more things did better on the larger cheaper bottle than the small expensive bottle.  

To start off on the HCG diet you have to start taking drops 3 times a day before you eat, and then you are supposed to pile in the greasiest fattening foods that you can find!  It was more food than I’ve ever eaten in a two day period I swear!  I made sure to eat at the training table for a big burger and cheese fries, followed by a oreo shake from Arctic Circle.  There were also stops at all the little fast food places for multiple $1 burgers shops for adding the bulk food in!  This went on for two days, the final night was our cheese tasting and wine paring class we took at Capotoes in Salt Lake.  I must say that this was a fine way to mark the last days you have until you get to eat NOTHING!  

For the morning half of the day it would consist of Coffee with 2 tablespoons of creamer, and 2 splendas.  The mornings were basically a liquid diet where all I could drink was Coffee, tea, water, or crystal light.  The only other people I can think of that do liquid diets are alcoholics.  

With lunch time round the corner!  Time to look forward to my lovely packed lunch!  Let see what were the regular menu items:

3 ounces of chicken (chicken spices make it bearable)

1 Roma Tomato  (balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper)

1 Apple Snack

Oh wow, that makes you so full just thinking about it, I’m sure, but next comes dinner!!

De-shelled shrimp just warmed up in the microwave no oils allowed

3 ounce salad of spinach, tomatoes and onions.

1 Apple Snack

2 melba (nasty burnt croutons) as a snack you could choose when you took them, I took them at night.  

Pretty thrilling right?  You can do a lean cut of red meat as well, same weight 3 1/2 ounces, or halibut, and cod, all the same weight.  

While eating like this I honestly had no energy what so ever! The one and only time I wet to the gym eating like this I nearly fainted after ever rep on any machine.  The energy was just zapped out of me!  I’d basically just head home from work, and where i’d be done with food for the day.  With the option of food being out of the question, I’d take a sleeping pill and go to bed because just sitting there I would need something to take my mind off food, and of course, sleeping really helps.  

The longer the diet went on the more I felt like I could stay on it longer.  When the weight-loss dropped to be less than 2 pounds a day, it got a little frustrating but I was so glad to still be loosing the weight that I wouldn't consider going off until the time was up.  

I did this hellacious diet for 45 days and I lost 50 pounds total.  Since then I’ve taken my measurements before the Cruise to Cabo, and since getting back from Cabo, I am just about completed with the Hip Hop Abs 4 week program and trust me I will do a review on this one!  I end the workout on Friday so if i can get the before and after shots done I may have it completed for next week as well as the YouTube videos you can find from them by going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz_wLWOE2Pg That should link you over to my first video blog.  This week I will be video blogging over either this diet, or the Hip Hop Abs program or both.  So stay tuned, the Video blog isnever the same as the writing blog.  And you get to see me live!  So for now, this is your Rated R Super Star Cole, and I’ll be back with more fun for you to enjoy!  (please note I had taken my ambien and tried to edit any messed up words or sentences,,, if there are any my apolagies had better dam well be accepted!