Ok. So I had a(nother) baby (Nov. 2nd)
(That's big brother with our newborn pixie)
I started 'officially' trying to diet Dec 1st
(I'd gained about 60 lbs but by Dec I'd dropped 10 lbs and was down to 180.)
Aaaaaand 2 months of dieting ala Jorge Cruise later...
By Feb 1st I'd only lost 5.4 lbs.
(you can see my progress
here)
So, basically that's 5 1/2 lbs in 62 days.
That's less than 1 lb per week.
That's less than 1/2 a lb per week! That stinks!!!
At that rate it would take me MORE than a YEAR to lose the 50 lbs I need to shed!!!
Ok, now let's compare that to following Dr Simeons Pounds & Inches Protocol:
I 'officially' started his protocol on Feb 11th (with the homeopathic version of HCG in a spray).
Today is Feb 17th.
I have followed his protocol for 1 week so far and shed 6.2 lbs. thus far.
So in
7 days I lost
MORE than I lost in 62 days of constant dieting? Hmmm.
What this says to me, is:
a) I wasn't following Jorge Cruise's plan properly somehow?
or
b) Jorge Cruise's plan can work if you are not breastfeeding?
or
c) Jorge Cruise's plan does not work for me.
I dunno. His plan worked for my mom, she shed a pound a day for 20 days. (Then she lost interest.)
But me, maybe breastfeeding made me too hungry to eat small enough portions? Or maybe my overall daily calorie intake was just simply too high? (but he says you don't need to count cals!) - I was eating full fat cottage cheese, and creamy sauces on my veggies - low carb, but maybe too high in calories? Funny thing is, as an exclusively breastfeeding mom, I'm supposed to be burning 500+ cals daily just by feeding my baby, so you'd think I be buffered and able to eat high cal as long as I
avoided sugars and starches, which I DID! Ugh. Oh well. It's a mystery to me, maybe someday I'll understand more about how hormones and weight gain/loss works. For now, I am just
SO HAPPY that I had Dr Simeon's Pounds & Inches and HhCG in my back pocket and that I decided to get back on protocol!!!!
On a side note, baby is nursing fine,she's not fussing, lot's of wet and poopy diapers, and I still occasionally leak therefore I think my milk supply is fine, - all fine - and she has moved on to size 3-6 mos clothes - and best of all I'm noticeably less hungry(!). Hardly hungry at all except a bit at mealtimes (which is exactly how it should be, right?!) Thanks to the HhCG spray. Normally I'm quite hungry and was snacking 2x daily (Jorge Cruise sanctified snacks like a cheese stick), but now, on the spray, I eat my 2 meals and I'm good. Wowzers. Seriously, ask any breastfeeding mom about hunger and she'll tell you she's pretty hungry all the time. But we're not hungry on the spray, why? Well I believe it's because on the spray, your bloodstream is flooded with the formerly stored calories that have now been released from your fat cells. An average of 2500 to 3500 calories per day. So your bodily needs are satisfied plus you are eating an additional 500 cals, so your tummy is satisfied. And, as a nursing mom, I'd like to posit the theory that I am asking my body to release
even more calories - to nourish my HhCG 'baby'
as well as make milk for my real baby. I think this may be true, because I have lost an average of one pound per day on protocol, but the average for women is 1/2 a lb per day. (For women. Men average a pound a day on protocol, the mean bastards! hahaha)
Whatever the science is behind it all, it works. Wow am I happy it works too!
If you'd like to join me in shedding weight quickly and healthfully, email me for a link to the product I'm using, or you can buy a very similar-though not exact-spray from Suzanne at Protocol2Health -who's link is posted on the right under 'Order your HCG Spray'.
Stay tuned, I'm gonna keep on blogging and shedding! That's my promise to you AND to myself.
.JPG)