Baaah!

Apparently I'm not as awesome of a blogger as I thought I was. Well I'm back at it. I sort of have to be. I started a new weight-loss plan: HCG.

The HCG diet, in a nutshell, is where you eat 500 calories a day and take the HCG hormone. The idea behind it is that the HCG "frees up" the abnormal fat reserves, thus allowing your body to feed off of its fat reserves rather than food. You are apparently supposed to not be hungry, though I'm STARVING! Sounds a bit cannibalistic and hokie to me, but I'm going with it since I know that 500 calories a day will make you lose weight, HCG or not. I am on day 3. The first two days are "loading" days, where you eat as much fattening food as you can fit down your esophagus. Today is my first 500 calorie day. I hear the first week is rough, but after that the HCG has fully kicked in and you feel full.

So today here's my food plan. Note that I have already had my breakfast and lunch, so it's up to me to get the rest of the day right:

Breakfast:

Grapefruit, fresh, pink and red, California and Arizona, 0.5 fruit (3-3/4" dia) 46 12 0 1

Breakfast TOTALS: 46 12 0 1

Lunch:

Spinach, fresh, 56 grams 13 2 0 2 Melba Toast, 1 piece (3-3/4" x 1-3/4" x 1/8") 20 4 0 1 Orange Roughy (fish), 100 grams 89 0 1 19

Lunch TOTALS: 121 6 1 21

Dinner:

Beef, top sirloin, 100 grams 202 0 8 30 Spinach, fresh, 50 grams 12 2 0 1 Apple, Gala (medium), 1 serving 80 22 0 0 Melba Toast, 1 piece (3-3/4" x 1-3/4" x 1/8") 20 4 0 1

Dinner TOTALS: 313 28 8 32

Snack:

Celery, raw, 100 grams 16 4 0 1

Snack TOTALS: 16 4 0 1

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		CALORIES	CARBS	FAT	PROTEIN
		496	49	10	55
		500