It Has Begun...

Today my HCG arrived and I've officially begun my HCG diet experience.  I'm psyched to be doing this!  The first two days of the protocol, Phase One, are for eating a lot of high fat foods to stock up the fat reserves so that hunger is not felt as one proceeds to Phase Two, which is the very low calorie (500 calories per day) main part of the HCG diet.  I'm way stuffed, and not really liking this Phase One part... looking forward to settling in on the very low calorie days starting Sunday evening or Monday morning.  But everything I've read stresses the importance of doing the high fat Phase One days.  People who skip them have a more difficult initial experience with Phase Two.

My starting weight is 239, I'm 5'8" and have a very large bone structure for a female. (My hands are larger than almost every female I've ever met, and most males as well.)  I'm intending to loose around 70 pounds.  That will require 2 or 3 cycles of the HCG diet.  After the 2 day high fat Round One, and the 23 - 40 day very low calorie Round 2, there is Round Three, where you begin to increase your calories again while still avoiding starches and sugars.  You are supposed to remain off HCG for as many days as you were on it, before doing another cycle, in order to keep your body from developing a tolerance to the effects of the HCG.