Days 1 and 2

I'm 34 years old and a married mama of 5. I've been a little overweight (145-150, 5'6") since my 3rd child was born in 2006. I got a mirena IUD after an ectopic pregnancy in 2009 and my weight has been steadily climbing since. I got on a scale a couple of weeks ago and weighed in at a whopping 170lbs and decided to do try something drastic to get back on track. I'm doing the HCG diet and blogging about it here.

Day 1

For some reason I scheduled the appointment for a Saturday morning at 11 am. An appointment that required me to fast. An appointment that took 2 hours! I was dehydrated and the blood draw took several pokes. No coffee until 1 pm. I had some shopping to do and met Rebecca for pizza at Moon River. I had a pretty bad headache from the late caffeine and went to about midnight.

I weighed in at 165.5 at the office but was pretty dehydrated. When I unpacked the store-bought scale last night I weighed in at 170. Different scales? Rehydration? Late in the day? Who knows!

Took my first shot at the office. Also had my first B12 shot there. First loading day: Not so much loading. May have to do 4. Haven't decided. ?

Day 2 am

My husband is a saint. He got up with the little ones again today. My head is killing me! Wonder if my head still hurts from the lack of caffeine yesterday morning? Weighed on the store-bought scale this morning. 168. It's a loading day! Not hungry! Michael gave me my shot at about 11 am. Didn't hurt at all. I let it get to room temp for about an hour first. I think this makes all the difference in the world!

pm

Felt like shit most of the day. Wondering now if it's because I have been taking a supplement for energy called xyng. I stopped taking that on Friday. I really felt pretty good while taking it. Had a lot of caffeine in it and some stuff for mental clarity. Well, the best way I can describe how I have felt these past two days is LACK of mental clarity and inability to follow through with any thought process. NOT good if you live in THIS life! Wondering now if I should start it back up or just pump up the caffeine? Think I will ponder it until morning and see if things improve.

Took the kids to Golden Corral for our very first adventure there this afternoon. They had an absolute blast! It was fun. I get overwhelmed in places like that, though. The plan was for me to eat some high fat stuff since we don't generally keep these items in our house. I got a steak, baked potato and a big salad. after 2 bites of the steak, most of the potato and the whole salad (cuz that's how I roll) I was stuffed! And, really uncomfortable. I'm feeling mostly better 5.5 hours later. I feel like I'm not eating enough. It was stressed to me several times to eat to capacity all the fatty foods I could get my hands on for the 3 days leading up to the diet or I would starve the first week. I am terrified! Time will tell. I have one more day......