Big Fat Loser 4 - apologies to the tomatoes and the Cosmos makes a joke
Friday, October 23rd 2009 @ 5:02 PM 
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Last week I thought that tomatoes were one of the main causes of my weight loss slowing down. Well I haven't had a single one this week and I seem to have almost ground to a halt. Some days I've lost less than half a kilo, on others not a sausage (to use a totally inappropriate metaphor).
I'm not panicking, although I must admit that my resolve starts to waver a bit if I don't see the results. That's one of the supposed benefits of the hCG diet - you can almost SEE the weight melting off you, they say. Well this week I have been a really good boy - I haven't cheated at all. 500 calories precisely every day and yet I've lost less than 2kg since last Sunday.
But 2kg is better than nothing. I'm still losing SOME weight, and am at the lowest weight I've been for several years now. What I guess is happening is that the hCG is re-organising the furniture as it were. Moving fat around and stacking it somewhere while it deals with more immediate problems like water retention and bloating and stuff like that.
For those who don't know much about the hCG diet, here's my quick summary:
It was developed by an English doctor called Dr Simeons who used it successfully in his clinics during the sixties and seventies. More recently it was "rediscovered" by Kevin Trudeau who developed it a little further and published a book "The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You To Know About". (Whatever you might think of Mr Trudeau, we owe him a great debt of gratitude for bringing Dr Simeons' Protocol back into the public arena.)
How it works is this:
Every day, by injection, or sublingually, a certain amount of hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) is taken, along with a very strict 500 calorie diet. There is a list of allowable foods, which cannot be modified. No oils are allowed on the skin and no drinks other than tea, coffee and plain water, of which 2 litres should be drunk each day.
After the first couple of days, there are no cravings or hunger pangs. The hCG is supposed to release abnormal fatty deposits (not the good structural fat) and the body supplements its low-calorie diet by consuming the fats.
It's required that you weigh yourself every day. I'm a bit fortunate in that we have a Wii (a computer games machine) attached to my TV and use a programme called WiiFit to weigh myself (on the balance board) and track the results. Makes it a bit more fun.
Do that for up to 40 days and then go on to the next phase, where more foods are introduced. Then you live happily and healthily ever after.
The Universe makes a joke.
I've also been struggling this week both with constipation (hey - thanks to all those who gave advice!) and also with the thought that I might have unresolved issues I need to address to allow myself to release the weight, particularly from around my solar plexus area. Some stuff has certainly come up and I've been dealing with it, but sometimes I miss the subtle things.
So the Universe chose that time to send me an incredibly unsubtle lesson full of symbolism by blocking the drains leading from our house. It took 5 days before it was cleared (turned out it was roots in the pipes). There was certainly some stuff that came up that I had to deal with. I came to the realisation that I too was full of old sh*t that was being blocked by some root causes - and I've been trying to get to the bottom of it since.
Nice one, Cosmos.
