So I’ll get started on the HCG diet business next, but for now I thought I’d start off with a Happy Thanksgiving for you all! After experiencing your very own Thanksgiving Day you have to see my logic in making sure that Thanksgiving was one of the “loading” days for my HCG Diet. It fit in perfectly with the HCG protocol for weight loss. And I didn’t feel deprived on the food focused holiday. (Far from it…I was stuffed!)

I weighed myself this morning, but it was the same as yesterday; no change. I took my HCG drops according to the HCG protocol for weight loss and I took the B-Total Sublingual drops that are supposed to up my energy levels while on the diet. I started my 2nd day of loading off with a fabulous cinnamon roll. (Then I had another one…don’t shake your head at me. I’m SUPPOSED to be loading today). If you’re not sure what they mean by “fatty, high calorie foods” for the loading days…cinnamon rolls would be a great place to start.

I was assigned to bring an apple pie to the family gathering in the afternoon so I set about making one. Since I was supposed to be loading I ate as much of the spiced apples as I wanted while I cooked. And since there was plenty of family all around also cooking and preparing their own assigned dishes for the late lunch/early dinner there were plenty of high calorie, fatty foods for me to pick at all day. In the midst of my picking and eating I did make sure to take my HCG 2 more times (morning and evening) with the required no eating/drinking for 15 minutes before and after.

I was really glad that we started the HCG diet during Thanksgiving because one of the “common mistakes” pointed out by HCG Diet Direct is that dieters don’t load enough fat during the first two days. Apparently if you don’t take in enough fat during the first two days you could have problems with hunger, headaches and/or crankiness during the course of the diet.

Since I don’t like being hungry and being cranky makes me…cranky…I did my very best to successfully “load” during my loading days. And Thanksgiving just made it easier. I’m not saying that I won’t ever be cranky on the diet (I mean, come on we’re talking about limiting a person to 500 calories per day), but at least I’ll come by it honestly. It won’t be because I didn’t eat enough during the first two days of the diet.

Basically I’ve found the HCG protocol for weight loss easy so far; but loading is probably far easier than limiting myself to 500 calories so I’ve got to stop congratulating myself! Regardless…Happy Thanksgiving! And wish me luck starting the next phase tomorrow…

Amelia Handley studied exercise science at university with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself veering from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.

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