Ok, this is weird...

As I mentioned previously, I have been doing hcg sublingually for awhile (using Gloria's recipe from the hcg dieters yahoo group) since my travelling schedule was making it difficult for me to be strict w/ the diet. I figured the sublingual would not cause me to build immunity to the hcg based upon other peoples' experiences, and didn't want to stop using it yet.

My thought was that this has enabled me to eat pretty much whatever and as much as I wanted and still maintain within a few pounds of my last posted injection weight. Now I'm not sure. I think it could be possible that my hypothalmus has already been reset at around that weight and maybe that is why I have been able to eat like a pig and not really gain weight back.

Yesterday morning was my first day back in town for a week (I have to leave again this afternoon). I weighed myself yesterday morning, and the weight was 238.2. I ran out of the sublingual I had mixed, so I decided to mix up a vial for injection at a dose of 175 units per injection, and took that in the morning.

I planned on doing the VLCD yesterday, and stuck to it until last night. A friend wanted to go out, and so I said screw it and decided to go to a sports bar. I thought I'd have maybe a couple of beers and that's it - no loss expected, but no major damage done based on my prior experience. I weighed myself before I went out, and was down to 236.5 - so I had already lost 1.7 pounds just during the day and was pretty happy.

Well, we went out and I ended up having about 3 1/2 'tall' Miller Lite drafts. I also had some chicken nachos, hot wings and potato skins. So, I was sure that this morning I would be back up around the 238 mark again - no big deal. Well, I weighed myself this morning and I was at 235.8. So that makes a 2.4 pound loss in 1 day with a fresh mixture of hcg and injecting, and eating well off the VLCD plan. I'm assuming that if I had stuck to it for the entire day and only ate the 500 cals and the allowed foods my loss would have been very big!

So, today I will do the 175 units of hcg again and stick to the VLCD - I will be busy and then on the road, with only myself, so it should be easy to do. This kind of re-motivates me, and my plan is to stick to the VLCD again and see what the results are.

I know I'm not following the Simeons plan as strictly as I should, and that some people consider this almost sacreligious and are very adamant that you must follow the plan to the letter. While this is true if you want the fastest and best results, my experience at least is that you can 'fall off the wagon' and get back on and pick right back up where you left off. This may not be the case for everyone though - I have seen some posts from others where even a slight deviation from the diet part of the plan has set them back several pounds and it has taken them several days of VLCD to get back on track. But for me, luckily, this has not been the case.

Do I wish I had stuck to it more strictly? Sure. I know if I had that I would probably be down around 220 by now if not a bit lower. But for the way my lifestyle has been lately, this has worked fine for me and has been acceptable success. I am still very satisfied with my results, and know that the weight loss will continue and pick up in speed as I get back in the groove of things again. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones...